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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2013
Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Inc., Emeryville, CA (US);
Martha J. Whitehouse, San Francisco, CA (US);
W. Michael Kavanaugh, Marin, CA (US);
Novartis Vaccines and Dignostics, Inc., Emeryville, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention is directed to a method for treating a human patient for coronary artery disease, comprising administering into at least one coronary vessel of said patient a safe and angiogenically effective dose of a recombinant FGF-9 of SEQ ID NO:13, or an angiogenically active fragment or mutein thereof. The invention is also directed to a method for inducing angiogenesis in the heart of a patient, comprising administering into at least one coronary vessel of a human patient in need of coronary angiogenesis a therapeutically effective amount of a recombinant FGF-9 of SEQ ID NO:13, or an angiogenically active fragment or mutein thereof.