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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 22, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 25, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
David M Brown, St. Louis, MO (US);
Tze-Chein Wun, St. Louis, MO (US);
Roger K Khouri, St. Louis, MO (US);
Assignee:
Washington University, St. Louis, MO (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
514 12 ; 514-8 ;
Abstract
A method is disclosed for inhibiting intimal hyperplasia in a warm-blooded mammal which comprises administering topically at the site and time of a vascular injury induced by arterial intervention in said mammal a small but inhibitorily effective amount of tissue factor pathway inhibitor (TFPI) sufficient to inhibit said intimal hyperplasia.