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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2006
Filed:
Jan. 10, 2002
Applicant:
Frederic Triebel, Versailles, FR;
Inventor:
Frederic Triebel, Versailles, FR;
Assignees:
Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejif, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 5/06 (2006.01); C12N 5/22 (2006.01); A61K 35/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention concerns a use of a MHC class II ligand, such as CD4 and LAG-3, for the manufacture of a medicament for preventing or treating pathological conditions involving an antigen specific immune response, as well as the use of LAG-3 in cancer-immunotherapy. The invention also concerns a pharmaceutical composition comprising an effective amount of an antigen able to induce an antigen-specific immune response together with an effective amount of a MHC class II ligand wherein said MHC class II ligand is present as an adjuvant-like agent.