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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 17, 2009
Atul Varadhachary, Houston, TX (US);
Federica Pericle, Houston, TX (US);
Atul Varadhachary, Houston, TX (US);
Federica Pericle, Houston, TX (US);
Agennix Incorporated, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to methods of using lactoferrin (LF) to treat, prevent or reduce the incidence of organ transplant rejection and graft-versus-host-disease. More particularly, the present invention relates to methods of reducing an immune response against miss-matched transplanted organs such as kidney, heart, lung, liver, pancreas and stem cells by administering a composition of lactoferrin to the recipient patients. In addition, this invention relates to the treatment of bone marrow transplant (BMT) donors with lactoferrin to attenuate the development of graft-versus-host-disease in the recipients. Moreover, this invention relates to the treatment of xenograft organ donors with lactoferrin to attenuate the development of graft rejection in the recipients.