Netrins

US6309638A · kind A · utility

Assignees

• The Regents of the University of California · US
• COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY · US

Inventors

• Marc Tessier-Lavigne · San Mateo, US
• Tito Serafini · San Francisco, US
• Timothy Kennedy · Montréal, CA
• Marysia Placzek · London, GB
• Thomas Jessell · New York, US
• Jane Dodd · New York, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 25, 2000
• Grant date: Oct 30, 2001
• Expiry date: Jan 25, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01N2500/04
• WIPO field: Pharmaceuticals
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Netrin proteins, nucleic acids which encode netrin proteins and hybridization reagents, probes and primers capable of hybridizing with netrin genes and methods for screening chemical libraries for lead compounds for pharmacological agents are provided.