Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology – Measuring or testing process involving enzymes or... – Involving antigen-antibody binding – specific binding protein...
Patent
1994-12-13
1997-12-02
Hutzell, Paula K.
Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology
Measuring or testing process involving enzymes or...
Involving antigen-antibody binding, specific binding protein...
435 71, 435806, 436503, 436510, 436548, 436 65, 436814, 436906, 600 34, G01N 33567, G01N 33577
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ABSTRACT:
Therapeutic and diagnostic methods of use for the growth factor transforming growth factor .beta., are provided by this invention. In accordance with preferred embodiments, methods of determining competence of a conceptus toward uterine implantation are provided as are methods for determining female infertility in mammals.
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Feinberg Ronald F.
Kliman Harvey Jon
Grun James L.
Hutzell Paula K.
The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
The Trustees of Yale University
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