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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.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2004

Filed:

Jan. 22, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:

Geeta Saxena, Vancouver, CA;

Christopher R. Tudan, Vancouver, CA;

Hassan Salari, Delta, CA;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 3/1122 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 3/1122 ;
Abstract

The invention provides therapeutic and biological uses of chemokine-receptor-binding compounds including uses in the treatment of disease states mediated by chemokines. The relevant chemokines may for example be monocyte chemoattractant protein-one (MCP-1) or interleukin-8 (IL-8), and the relevant chemokine receptors may for example be corresponding chemokine receptors (CCR-2, CCR-4, CXCR-1, and CXCR-2). In one aspect, the invention provides for the use of phenanthrene-9,10-dione in the treatment of multiple sclerosis.


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