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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 24, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 13, 2009
Robert E. Hurst, Oklahoma City, OK (US);
Michael A. Ihnat, Tuttle, OK (US);
Robert E. Hurst, Oklahoma City, OK (US);
Michael A. Ihnat, Tuttle, OK (US);
The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK (US);
Abstract
In vitro and in vivo methods for identifying compounds capable of targeting suppressed cancer cells such as micrometastatic cells. The in vitro method includes the steps of comparing the response to a test compound of cancer cells grown on a suppressing cell support matrix which causes suppression of a malignant phenotype in a growing cancer cell and on a non-suppressing cell support matrix. The in vivo method includes a step of co-injecting labeled cancer cells with a malignant-phenotype suppressing matrix into a test animal to produce suppressed micrometastatic cells therein.