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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. 25, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 22, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Novartis Corporation, Basel, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 3/818 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 3/818 ;
Abstract
The invention concerns TGF-&bgr; in a crystalline form which shows no adsorption or less adsorption to the walls of vials than the soluted TGF-&bgr; and which is more stable towards oxidative agents than the soluted form. TGF-&bgr; crystals of the invention can be used for structure determination and for drug design and for the production of a slow release pharmaceutical preparation.