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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 24, 1998
Sanjay Kumar, King of Prussia, PA (US);
SmithKline Beecham Corporation, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Abstract
p38beta2 polypeptides and polynucleotides and methods for producing such polypeptides by recombinant techniques are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods for utilizing p38beta2 polypeptides and polynucleotides in the design of protocols for the treatment of central nervous system disorder such as senile dementia of the Alzheimer's type (SDAT), multiple sclerosis, cerebral malaria, stroke, head trauma and spinal cord injury; cardiovascular diseases such as restenosis and atherosclerosis; inflammatory diseases such as Adult Respiratory Disease Syndrome (ARDS), Rheumatoid arthritis, Osteoarthritis, Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), psoriasis, dermatitis, asthma; and other such diseases or conditions associated with dysregulated or excess cytokines such as osteporosis, sepsis due to surgical or traumatic incident, chronic renal failure, AIDs, cachexia and autoimmune conditions such as lupus erthyromatosis, host graft rejection and graft versus host disease, among others, and diagnostic assays for such conditions.