Drug – bio-affecting and body treating compositions – In vivo diagnosis or in vivo testing – Testing efficacy or toxicity of a compound or composition
Reexamination Certificate
2008-05-27
2008-05-27
Kam, Chih-Min (Department: 1656)
Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions
In vivo diagnosis or in vivo testing
Testing efficacy or toxicity of a compound or composition
C435S006120, C435S069100, C435S252300, C435S320100, C536S023100, C514S002600, C530S350000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07378080
ABSTRACT:
The present invention provides a method of identifying a compound that modulates a mammalian vestibular system. The method consists of administering a test compound to an invertebrate, and measuring a geotactic behavior of the invertebrate, where a compound that modulates the geotactic behavior of the invertebrate is characterized as a compound that modulates a mammalian vestibular system. The invention also provides a method of identifying a gene that modulates a mammalian vestibular system consisting of obtaining a first and a second strain of an invertebrate; subjecting the first and second invertebrate strains to conditions in which the first strain exhibits a geotactic behavior different than a geotactic behavior exhibited by the second strain; measuring gene expression levels in the first and second strains, and identifying one or more genes that are differentially expressed in the first strain relative to the second strain, whereby a mammalian gene having substantially the same nucleic acid sequence as the one or more differentially expressed genes modulates the mammalian vestibular system.
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Kam Chih-Min
McDermott Will & Emery LLP
Neurosciences Research Foundation Inc.
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