Chemistry: natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; – Proteins – i.e. – more than 100 amino acid residues – Blood proteins or globulins – e.g. – proteoglycans – platelet...
Patent
1999-02-10
2000-03-28
Chan, Christina Y.
Chemistry: natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins;
Proteins, i.e., more than 100 amino acid residues
Blood proteins or globulins, e.g., proteoglycans, platelet...
5303882, 53038822, 53038824, 53038825, 5303891, 5303892, 5303893, 530350, C07K 100, C07K 1624, C07K 1626, C07K 1628
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ABSTRACT:
The present invention relates to antibodies which specifically bind to mammalian tub gene products, tub peptide fragments and tub peptides produced by genetically engineered cells.
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Kleyn Patrick W.
Moore Karen J.
Chan Christina Y.
Millennium Pharmaceuticals Inc.
VanderVegt F. Pierre
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