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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:
Jun. 17, 1997
Filed:
Mar. 01, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
Joseph M McCune, III, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
The Board of Trustees for the Leland Stanford Junior University, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
800-2 ; 800D / ; 623 11 ; 424-92 ; 424553 ; 424578 ; 424579 ; 424 937 ; 424577 ; 424549 ; 424582 ; 424580 ;
Abstract
Xenogeneic tissue is introduced into an immunocompromised host for interacting with agents and using such interaction for evaluating efficacy of drugs and vaccines, producing xenogeneic monoclonal antibodies, evaluating the effect of the various agents on specific tissues and the like. Particularly, drugs can be evaluated for their efficacy against a wide variety of pathogens which infect xenogeneic tissue, agents can be evaluated for their effect on the xenogeneic immune system and monoclonal antibodies to a predetermined epitope may be produced.