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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. 11, 2000
Filed:
May. 15, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Terje Espevik, Trondheim, NO;
Gudmund Skjang.k-Br.ae butted.k, Trondheim, NO;
Assignee:
FMC Biopolymer AS, Drammen, NO;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K / ; C08B / ; C07H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
514 44 ; 514 23 ; 514 42 ; 514 43 ; 514 53 ; 514 54 ; 536-111 ; 536 221 ; 536 231 ; 5361231 ;
Abstract
The cytokine stimulating effects of immune- stimulating polysaccharides and bacterial nucleic acids, and of lower molecular weight fragments thereof, is potentiated by coupling the immune-stimulating bioactive substance to the surface of a substrate, which is preferably in particulate form.