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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. 08, 2006
Filed:
Aug. 13, 2002
Applicants:
Lan BO Chen, Lexington, MA (US);
Meiru Dai, Malden, MA (US);
Hidefumi Sasaki, Nagoya, JP;
Daniel Auclair, Asland, MA (US);
Inventors:
Lan Bo Chen, Lexington, MA (US);
Meiru Dai, Malden, MA (US);
Hidefumi Sasaki, Nagoya, JP;
Daniel Auclair, Asland, MA (US);
Assignee:
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc., Boston, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07K 16/18 (2006.01); C07K 16/30 (2006.01); C12N 5/20 (2006.01); C12P 21/08 (2006.01); G01N 33/574 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The invention includes novel human periostin polypeptides and DNAs encoding them. Also embraced by the invention are human periostin specific antibodies, diagnostic assays for metastasis of breast cancer to bone, and preeclempsia.