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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 05, 2000
John P. Cooke, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Garrison C. Fathman, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Jonathan B. Rothbard, Woodside, CA (US);
Shiro Uemura, Nara, JP;
Robert C. Robbins, Stanford, CA (US);
Murray H. Kown, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford, CA (US);
Abstract
Cardiovascular cell proliferation in a blood vessel subjected to trauma, such as angioplasty, vascular graft, anastomosis, or organ transplant, can be inhibited by contacting the vessel with a polymer consisting of from 6 to about 30 amino acid subunits, where at least 50% of the subunits are arginine, and the polymer contains at least six contiguous arginine subunits. Exemplary polymers for this purpose include arginine homopolymers 7 to 15 subunits in length.