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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:
Mar. 02, 2004
Filed:
May. 18, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Mark D. Scott, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Assignee:
Albany Medical College, Albany, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 3/174 ; C12N 1/08 ; C12N 7/00 ; C12N 5/06 ; C12N 5/08 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 3/174 ; C12N 1/08 ; C12N 7/00 ; C12N 5/06 ; C12N 5/08 ;
Abstract
A chemo-physiological structure and method for forming the chemo-physiological structure. In a first embodiment, a cell of an animal is provided. The cell has a membrane surface and a viral receptor coupled to the membrane surface. A linker molecule having a covalently attached polymer is covalently bonded to the membrane surface, the viral receptor, or both. The polymer prevents an extracellular virus from bonding to the viral receptor. In a second embodiment, a linker molecule having a covalently attached polymer is covalently bonded to a capsid of a virus, which prevents the virus from bonding to a viral receptor of an adjacent or nearby animal cell.