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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 16, 2008
Applicant:
Stephen Donovan, Capistrano Beach, CA (US);
Inventor:
Stephen Donovan, Capistrano Beach, CA (US);
Assignee:
Allergan, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 39/08 (2006.01); C07K 14/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Agents for treating pain, methods for producing the agents and methods for treating pain by administration to a patient of a therapeutically effective amount of the agent. The agent can include a clostridial neurotoxin, or a component or fragment or derivative thereof, attached to a targeting moiety, wherein the targeting moiety is selected from a group consisting of transmission compounds which can be released from neurons upon the transmission of pain signals by the neurons, and compounds substantially similar to the transmission compounds.