Patent · US Expired

Substrates having bound polysaccharides and bacterial nucleic acids

US6087342A · kind A · utility

0Cited by

1References

39Claims

0Family size

Assignee

FMC Biopolymer AS · NO

Inventors

Terje Espevik · Trondheim, NO
Gudmund Skjåk-Br.ae butted.k · Trondheim, NO

Key dates

Filing date	May 15, 1998
Grant date	Jul 11, 2000
Priority date	—
Expiry date	May 15, 2018

Classification

Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
CPC primaryA61K47/6927
WIPO fieldPharmaceuticals
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

The cytokine stimulating effects of immune- stimulating polysaccharides and bacterial nucleic acids, and of lower molecular weight fragments thereof, is potentiated by coupling the immune-stimulating bioactive substance to the surface of a substrate, which is preferably in particulate form.

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.