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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. 19, 1998
Filed:
Jun. 07, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Edward P Amento, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Eugene A Bauer, Los Altos, CA (US);
Assignee:
Connetics Corporation, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K / ; C07K / ; C07K / ; C07K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
514 12 ; 514 21 ; 530324 ;
Abstract
Depression, particularly disease- and medical treatment-related depression, and especially postpartum depression, is treated by the administration of a therapeutically effective amount of relaxin. A treatment regimen and dosage form for gradual withdrawal from relaxin therapy is also disclosed.