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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 1997
Filed:
Jun. 07, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Frank G Oppenheim, Chestnut Hill, MA (US);
Tao Xu, Newton, MA (US);
F Donald Roberts, Dover, MA (US);
Assignees:
Periodontix, Inc., , DE (US);
The Trustees of Boston University, , MA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K / ; A61K / ; C07K / ; C07K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
514 12 ; 514 12 ; 514 13 ; 514 14 ; 514 15 ; 530324 ; 530325 ; 530326 ; 530327 ; 435 641 ; 4352573 ; 4353201 ;
Abstract
Histatin-based peptides representing defined portions of the amino acid sequences of naturally occurring human histatins and methods for treatment of fungal or bacterial infection are described. These histatin-based peptides represent the active anti-fungal and anti-bacterial region of naturally occurring human histatins.