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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.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2008

Filed:

Mar. 10, 2005
Applicants:

Patrick L. Iversen, Corvallis, OR (US);

Hemant K. Roy, Highland Park, IL (US);

Richard K. Bestwick, Corvallis, OR (US);

Inventors:

Patrick L. Iversen, Corvallis, OR (US);

Hemant K. Roy, Highland Park, IL (US);

Richard K. Bestwick, Corvallis, OR (US);

Assignee:

AVI BioPharma, Inc., Corvallis, OR (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 31/70 (2006.01); C07H 21/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method and composition for treating colorectal cancer is disclosed. The method involves administering to a subject, a therapeutically effective amount of a morpholino antisense compound (i) having a nuclease-resistant backbone, (ii) capable of uptake by target cancer cells in the subject, (iii) containing between 10-40 nucleotide bases, and (iv) having a base sequence effective to hybridize to a region of processed or preprocessed human SNAIL RNA transcript.


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