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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:
Jul. 28, 1998
Filed:
Jun. 22, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Mu-En Lee, Newton, MA (US);
Chung-Ming Hsieh, Cambridge, MA (US);
Assignee:
President and Fellows of Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12P / ; C12N / ; C12N / ; C07H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435 691 ; 435 701 ; 4353201 ; 435325 ; 536 231 ;
Abstract
An aortic-preferentially-expressed gene-1 (APEG-1) polypeptide, DNA sequences encoding and controlling the transcription of APEG-1, methods of diagnosing vascular injury, and methods of inhibiting vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation by increasing the level of APEG-1 at the site of vascular injury.