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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2001
Sabine Mueller, San Francisco, CA (US);
Thorsten Melcher, San Francisco, CA (US);
Daniel J. Chin, Foster City, CA (US);
AGY Therapeutics, Inc., South San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to the use of proteins which are differentially expressed in primary brain tumor tissues, as compared to normal brain tissues, as biomolecular targets for brain tumor treatment therapies. Specifically, the present invention relates to the use of immunotherapeutic and immunoimaging agents that specifically bind to human protein tyrosine phosphatase-zeta (PTP&zgr;) for the treatment and visualization of brain tumors in patients. The present invention also provides compounds and pharmaceutically acceptable compositions for administration in the methods of the invention.