Prophylaxis and therapy of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
US6265539A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Feb 13, 1992 |
| Grant date | Jul 24, 2001 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 13, 2012 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG01N2333/16
- WIPO fieldPharmaceuticals
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
An active peptide consisting essentially of 7 to about 30 residue and having a sequence that corresponds to a conserved domain of an HIV protein is disclosed, as is a multimer containing that peptide, an aqueous composition containing the multimer and methods of using and making the same. The aqueous composition containing an immunologically effective amount of an active peptide multimer, when introduced into an immunocompetent host animal in an immunologically effective amount, is capable of inducing cellular immunity against the native HIV protein to which the active peptide of the multimer corresponds in sequence, but is not capable of inducing production of antibodies that immunoreact with that native HIV protein.
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