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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2007
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2002
Ruxandra Draghia-akli, Houston, TX (US);
Robert H. Carpenter, Bastrop, TX (US);
Douglas R. Kern, The Woodlands, TX (US);
Robert J. Schwartz, Houston, TX (US);
Glen King, Rosharon, TX (US);
Kevin Hahn, Missouri City, TX (US);
Malcolm K. Brenner, Bellaire, TX (US);
Ruxandra Draghia-Akli, Houston, TX (US);
Robert H. Carpenter, Bastrop, TX (US);
Douglas R. Kern, The Woodlands, TX (US);
Robert J. Schwartz, Houston, TX (US);
Glen King, Rosharon, TX (US);
Kevin Hahn, Missouri City, TX (US);
Malcolm K. Brenner, Bellaire, TX (US);
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX (US);
ADViSYS, Inc., The Woodlands, TX (US);
Abstract
The present invention pertains to compositions and methods for plasmid-mediated supplementation. The compositions and method are useful for retarding the growth of the tumor, and retarding cachexia, wasting, anemia and other effects that are commonly associated in cancer bearing animals. Overall, the embodiments of the invention can be accomplished by delivering an effective amount of a nucleic acid expression construct that encodes a GHRH or functional biological equivalent thereof into a tissue of an animal and allowing expression of the encoded. gene in the animal. For example, when such a nucleic acid sequence is delivered into the specific cells of the tissue specific constitutive expression is achieved.