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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:
Apr. 20, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 03, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N / ; A01N / ; A01N / ; C07K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
4353201 ; 514-2 ; 514 44 ; 530350 ; 530402 ;
Abstract
A tissue-specific, suitably liver specific vector for gene therapy of a diseased host, wherein a therapeutic gene is coupled to a promoter chemically, enzymatically, or over an antibody, packaged in a polypeptide coat, and coupled to a component of a preselected virus of the tissue to be treated, and when the tissue is liver tissue, then the virus is hepatitis B virus.