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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2011
Filed:
May. 12, 2004
Deborah Lee Zimmerman, Oakland, CA (US);
Rhonda Hansen, San Rafael, CA (US);
Jill Winter, Richmond, CA (US);
Christoph Reinhard, Indiana, CA (US);
Shuling Fang, Castro Valley, CA (US);
Deborah Lee Zimmerman, Oakland, CA (US);
Rhonda Hansen, San Rafael, CA (US);
Jill Winter, Richmond, CA (US);
Christoph Reinhard, Indiana, CA (US);
Shuling Fang, Castro Valley, CA (US);
Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Inc., Emeryville, CA (US);
Abstract
The invention provides, inter alia, models of bone metastasis, methods for identifying agents that modulate skeletal related events and metastasis, methods for modulating skeletal related events and metastases, and methods for detecting skeletal related events and metastases. The methods and models generally comprise co-culturing cancer cells and host cells and comparing biological markers from such co-cultured cells to control cells.