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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 04, 2008
Applicants:
Diane Marshall, Slough, GB;
Stevan Shaw, Slough, GB;
Inventors:
Diane Marshall, Slough, GB;
Stevan Shaw, Slough, GB;
Assignee:
UCB PHARMA S.A., Brussels, BE;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 39/395 (2006.01); C07K 16/24 (2006.01); C07K 16/28 (2006.01); A61K 39/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C07K 16/248 (2013.01); C07K 16/2866 (2013.01); A61K 2039/505 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention provides a method for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of glomerulonephritis associated with one or more disorders selected from the group consisting of Goodpasture's syndrome, a vasculitic disorder, Wegener's disease, IgA nephropathy and an inflammatory disease with basement membrane involvement comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of agent which interacts with or modulates the expression or activity of a mammalian IL-6 polypeptide.