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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:
Dec. 30, 1997
Filed:
Jun. 05, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Michael Kriegler, San Francisco, CA (US);
Carl Perez, Berkeley, CA (US);
Assignee:
Chiron Corporation, Emeryville, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K / ; C07K / ; C07K / ; C07K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
4241451 ; 4241301 ; 4241411 ; 4241581 ; 4241331 ; 4241341 ; 5303871 ; 5303873 ; 5303881 ; 53038823 ; 53038824 ; 53038885 ; 435325 ; 435328 ; 435335 ; 435336 ; 4353441 ;
Abstract
Cleavage site blocking antibody that binds to prohormones, preferable Tumor Necrosis Factor, thereby preventing the formation of prohormone fragment(s) by proteolysis of the prohormone, and uses of the antibody including prophylactic and therapeutic methods to treat disease, and diagnostic assays for determining the amount of the prohormone and prohormone fragments present in a patients body.