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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:
Feb. 23, 2010

Filed:

Oct. 09, 2007
Applicants:

Maren Watkins, Salt Lake City, UT (US);

Baldomero M. Olivera, Salt Lake City, UT (US);

David R. Hillyard, Salt Lake City, UT (US);

J. Michael Mcintosh, Salt Lake City, UT (US);

Robert M. Jones, Salt Lake City, UT (US);

Inventors:

Maren Watkins, Salt Lake City, UT (US);

Baldomero M. Olivera, Salt Lake City, UT (US);

David R. Hillyard, Salt Lake City, UT (US);

J. Michael McIntosh, Salt Lake City, UT (US);

Robert M. Jones, Salt Lake City, UT (US);

Assignees:

The University of Utah Research Foundation, Salt Lake City, UT (US);

Cognetix, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 38/10 (2006.01); A61K 38/17 (2006.01); C07K 7/08 (2006.01); C07K 14/435 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

The invention relates to relatively short peptides (termed α-conotoxins herein), about 10-30 residues in length, which are naturally available in minute amounts in the venom of the cone snails or analogous to the naturally available peptides, and which preferably include two disulfide bonds.


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