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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:
Jul. 22, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 26, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Margaret E Smith, Birmingham, GB;
Assignee:
The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, GB;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01N 2/500 ; C07K 1/600 ; C07K 5/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A01N 2/500 ; C07K 1/600 ; C07K 5/00 ;
Abstract
An active &bgr;-endorphin fragment or an analog of such a fragment is provided to a patient for alleviating the effect of muscle-wasting disease and for inhibiting or reducing leakage of an enzyme from a living muscle. The &bgr;-endorphin fragment is selected from &bgr;-endorphin (30, 31), &bgr;-endorphin (29-31), &bgr;-endorphin (28-31) and stabilized analogs thereof.