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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2006
Filed:
Mar. 30, 1999
Applicants:
Meir Shinitzky, Kfar Shmaryahu, IL;
Michael Deckmann, Guebwiller, FR;
Inventors:
Meir Shinitzky, Kfar Shmaryahu, IL;
Michael Deckmann, Guebwiller, FR;
Assignee:
Yeda Research and Development Co. Ltd., Rehovot, IL;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 38/04 (2006.01); C07K 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The invention concerns peptides which bind antibodies that are found in elevated levels in body fluids of schizophrenic patients and are found at a lower level or not found at all in body fluids of non-schizophrenic individuals. Using a computerized program, the antigenic epitope of the peptides of the invention is predicted as having a core of hydrophobic amino acids which is surrounded by positively charged amino acids. The peptides of the invention are useful in the diagnosis of schizophrenia in an individual.