US Patent:
20030100497, May 29, 2003
Inventors:
Kevin Baker - Darnestown MD, US
Napoleone Ferrara - San Francisco CA, US
Hanspeter Gerber - San Francisco CA, US
Mary Gerritsen - San Mateo CA, US
Audrey Goddard - San Francisco CA, US
Paul Godowski - Hillsborough CA, US
Austin Gurney - Belmont CA, US
Kenneth Hillan - San Francisco CA, US
Scot Marsters - San Carlos CA, US
James Pan - Etobicoke, CA
Jean-Philippe Stephan - Millbrae CA, US
Colin Watanabe - Moraga CA, US
P. Williams - Half Moon Bay CA, US
William Wood - Hillsborough CA, US
Weilan Ye - Foster City CA, US
International Classification:
A61K038/17
C07K014/435
C12P021/02
C12N005/06
C07H021/04
C12N009/00
US Classification:
514/012000, 530/350000, 536/023200, 435/069100, 435/183000, 435/320100, 435/325000
Abstract:
Compositions and methods are disclosed for stimulating or inhibiting angiogenesis and/or cardiovascularization in mammals, including humans. Pharmaceutical compositions are based on polypeptides or antagonists thereto that have been identified for one or more of these uses. Disorders that can be diagnosed, prevented, or treated by the compositions herein include trauma such as wounds, various cancers, and disorders of the vessels including atherosclerosis and cardiac hypertrophy. In addition, the present invention is directed to novel polypeptides and to nucleic acid molecules encoding those polypeptides. Also provided herein are vectors and host cells comprising those nucleic acid sequences, chimeric polypeptide molecules comprising the polypeptides of the present invention fused to heterologous polypeptide sequences, antibodies which bind to the polypeptides of the present invention and to methods for producing the polypeptides of the present invention.