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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 1998
Filed:
Jun. 06, 1995
Ronda Schreiber, Ramona, CA (US);
James Polarek, Aptos, CA (US);
La Jolla Cancer Research Foundation, La Jolla, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides methods for reducing or inhibiting wound contraction in a subject having a wound comprising administering to the subject a pharmaceutical composition comprising a peptide or a polypeptide. The invention provides, for example, a method of reducing or inhibiting wound contraction comprising the administration of a pharmaceutical composition comprising a peptide having more than three consecutive basic amino acids. The invention also provides a method of reducing or inhibiting wound contraction comprising the administration of a pharmaceutical composition comprising a peptide containing the sequence arginine-glycine-aspartic acid and a basic amino acid sequence or a pharmaceutical composition comprising a peptide containing therein a sequence of six consecutive amino acid residues of which at least about four of the six amino acid residues are basic amino acid residues. The invention also provides a method of reducing or inhibiting wound contraction comprising the administration of a pharmaceutical composition comprising decorin.