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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2003
Filed:
Feb. 27, 1997
Thomas M. Jessell, New York, NY (US);
Jane Dodd, New York, NY (US);
Henk Roelink, Seattle, WA (US);
Thomas Edlund, Umea, SE;
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
This invention provides an isolated nucleic acid molecule encoding a vhh-1 protein, an isolated protein which is a vhh-1 protein, vectors comprising an isolated nucleic acid molecule encoding a vhh-1 protein, mamunalian cells comprising such vectors, antibodies directed to a vhh-1 protein, nucleic acid probes useful for detecting a nucleic acid molecule encoding a vhh-1 protein, pharmaceutical compositions related to the vhh-1 proteins, nonhuman transgenic animals which express a normal or a mutant vhh-1 protein. This invention further provides methods for inducing differentiation of floor plate cell, motor neuron, generating ventral neurons and treatments for alleviating abnormalities associated with the vhh-1 protein.