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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2004
Bernhard Fleckenstein, Wiesenthau, DE;
Jens Christian Albrecht, Fuerth, DE;
Frank Neipel, Uttenreuth, DE;
Alvin Friedman-kien, New York, NY (US);
Yao Qi Huang, New York, NY (US);
Bernhard Fleckenstein, Wiesenthau, DE;
Jens Christian Albrecht, Fuerth, DE;
Frank Neipel, Uttenreuth, DE;
Alvin Friedman-Kien, New York, NY (US);
Yao Qi Huang, New York, NY (US);
New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY (US);
BehringDiagnostics GmbH, Marburg, DE;
Abstract
The present invention relates to viral interleukin-6 (v-IL-6), which can be obtained by recombinant expression of the DNA of human herpesvirus type 8 (HHV-8), and which may be used in diagnosis and treatment of human diseases such as kaposi sarcoma, Castleman's disease, multiple myeloma, kidney cell carcinoma, mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis or B cell lymphoma.