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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2011
Filed:
May. 05, 2006
Applicants:
Sang-mo Kang, San Francisco, CA (US);
Lewis L. Lanier, San Francisco, CA (US);
Inventors:
Sang-Mo Kang, San Francisco, CA (US);
Lewis L. Lanier, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 39/40 (2006.01); A61K 35/28 (2006.01); A01N 25/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention relates to methods and compositions for treating and/or preventing autoimmune and/or inflammatory disease. In particular, the present invention provides therapeutics for impairing the expansion and function of autoreactive T cells, NK cells and/or NKT cells, by modulating NKG2D.