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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2006
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2002
Applicant:
Ta-yuan Chang, Hanover, NH (US);
Inventor:
Ta-Yuan Chang, Hanover, NH (US);
Assignee:
Trustees of Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/00 (2006.01); C12Q 1/60 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention provides a high-throughput screening assay to identify test agents as cholesterol inhibitors via mutant NCP1 mammalian cells. Also provided are cholesterol inhibiting agents identified in accordance with this assay and methods for using such agents to inhibit cholesterol accumulation in cells.