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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:
Sep. 12, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 07, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Mary K Crow, New York, NY (US);
Radha Krishna Vakkalanka, New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N / ; G01N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435-71 ; 436501 ; 436506 ; 436536 ;
Abstract
The present invention provides diagnostic methods for determining the severity of disease or disease activity in patients suffering from autoimmune, inflammatory, malignant, vascular, or viral diseases, which involves measuring the level of CD40 ligand (CD40L) in the patient's serum or other body fluid.