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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:
Nov. 25, 2003
Filed:
Jul. 30, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Dominic P. Behan, San Diego, CA (US);
Derek T. Chalmers, Solana Beach, CA (US);
Chen W. Liaw, San Diego, CA (US);
I Lin-Lin, San Diego, CA (US);
Kevin P. Lowitz, San Diego, CA (US);
Ruoping Chen, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 1/500 ; C12N 1/663 ; C07H 2/104 ; G01N 3/353 ; C07K 1/400 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 1/500 ; C12N 1/663 ; C07H 2/104 ; G01N 3/353 ; C07K 1/400 ;
Abstract
Disclosed herein are techniques for directly identifying candidate compounds as agonists, partial agonists and/or, most preferably, inverse agonists, to endogenous, constitutively activated orphan G protein-coupled receptors. Such directly identified compounds can be utilized, most preferably, in pharmaceutical compositions