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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2012
Applicant:
Gillian Clark, Devonport, NZ;
Inventor:
Ross G. Clark, Devonport, NZ;
Assignee:
Tercica, Inc., South San Francisco, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 38/30 (2006.01); A61K 38/28 (2006.01); A61K 38/31 (2006.01); A61K 38/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention provides a method comprising administering to a patient suffering from an endocrine disorder characterized by partial endogenous growth hormone activity or signaling an amount of insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) and an amount of growth hormone (GH) that in combination are effective to improve growth or metabolism in the patient, where the patient receives IGF-1 in a single daily administration and receives GH in a single daily administration, and where the single administrations are administered to the patient substantially contemporaneously each day.