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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. 05, 1998
Filed:
Jul. 19, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Kenneth H Grabstein, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Michael B Widmer, Seattle, WA (US);
Assignee:
Immunex Corporation, Seattle, WA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
424 852 ; 514-2 ; 514-8 ; 514 12 ; 514885 ; 4242781 ; 530351 ;
Abstract
Methods of enhancing a mammal's immune response to a vaccine antigen are disclosed. Interleukin-15 can be used as a vaccine adjuvant to enhance or potentiate the immune response to a vaccine. Compositions comprising an immunogenic amount of vaccine antigen and an immunogenicity-augmenting amount of IL-15 are also provided by the invention. IL-15 can be used alone in the invention or in concurrent or sequential combination with additional vaccine adjuvants.