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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:
Aug. 17, 2004
Filed:
Feb. 27, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
John G. Flanagan, Newton, MA (US);
Hwai-Jong Cheng, Boston, MA (US);
Assignee:
President and Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07K 1/400 ; C12N 1/512 ; C12N 1/563 ; C12N 5/00 ; G01N 3/353 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C07K 1/400 ; C12N 1/512 ; C12N 1/563 ; C12N 5/00 ; G01N 3/353 ;
Abstract
The present invention relates to the discovery of a novel EPH receptor ligand, referred to hereinafter as “Elf-1”, which protein has apparently broad involvement in the formation and maintenance of ordered spatial arrangements of differentiated tissues in vertebrates, and can be used to generate and/or maintain an array of different vertebrate tissue both in vitro and in vivo.