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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.

Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2003

Filed:

Apr. 24, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:

Kakuji Torigoe, Okayama, JP;

Takanori Okura, Okayama, JP;

Masashi Kurimoto, Okayama, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07H 2/104 ; C12N 1/500 ; C12N 1/563 ; G01N 3/000 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C07H 2/104 ; C12N 1/500 ; C12N 1/563 ; G01N 3/000 ;
Abstract

Disclosed are a polypeptide (including that in soluble form) as receptor for a novel cytokine, i.e., interleukin-18, a DNA encoding the polypeptide, and the uses of the polypeptide including pharmaceutical and neutralizer to interleukin-18. Pharmaceuticals with the polypeptide is useful to treat and prevent autoimmune and allergic disease because it suppresses and regulates excessive immunoreaction.


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