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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 1998
Filed:
Nov. 17, 1994
Peter Besmer, New York, NY (US);
Jochen Buck, New York, NY (US);
Malcolm AS. Moore, New York, NY (US);
Karl Nocka, Harvard, MA (US);
Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A pharmaceutical composition which comprises the c-kit ligand (KL) purified by applicants or produced by applicants' recombinant methods in combination with other hematopoietic factors and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier is provided as well as methods of treating patients which comprise administering to the patient the pharmaceutical composition of this invention. This invention provides combination therapies using c-kit ligand (KL) and a purified c-kit ligand (KL) polypeptide, or a soluble fragment thereof and other hematopoietic factors. It also provides methods and compositions for ex-vivo use of KL alone or in combination therapy. A mutated KL antagonist is also described. Such an antagonist may also be a small molecule. Antisense nucleic acids to KL as therapeutics are also described. Lastly, compositions and methods are described that take advantage of the role of KL in germ cells, mast cells and melanocytes.