Method of improving the growth performance of an animal
OwnerAlan David Greve Strom, Marion Elizabeth Andrew +1inventors
InventorsAlan David Greve Strom, Marion Elizabeth Andrew, Aleta Gai Knowles
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Abstract
The invention broadly relates to a method of improving the growth performance of an animal. In particular the present invention relates to a method of improving the growth performance of an animal comprising the step of administering to an animal in need thereof a growth promoting amount of one or more cytokines or biologically active fragments thereof.
Claims37
A method for improving the growth performance of an animal comprising the step of administering to an animal in need thereof a growth promoting amount of one or more cytokines or biologically-active fragments thereof.
A method for improving the growth performance of an animal comprising the step of administering to an animal in need thereof a composition comprising a cytokine or biologically-active fragment thereof in conjunction with an antibiotic, optionally in combination with a pharmaceutical carrier, adjuvant or vehicle, wherein said composition achieves a synergistic growth promoting effect.
A method for improving the growth performance of an animal comprising the step of administering to an animal in need thereof a compound or composition which increases or supplements endogenous cytokine levels such that a growth promoting amount of one or more cytokines is produced, wherein growth performance is enhanced relative to the growth performance of an animal which has not been administered said compound or composition.
A growth promoting composition comprising one or more cytokines or biologically-active fragments thereof and one or more antibiotics.
26 A growth promoting composition according to claim 25, wherein the cytokine is selected from the group consisting of interleukin 3 (IL-3), interleukin 4 (IL-4), interleukin 5 (IL-5) and granulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF).
A method for improving the growth performance of an animal comprising the step of administering to an animal in need thereof a nucleic acid molecule encoding one or more cytokines or biologically-active fragments thereof, wherein the expression of said nucleic acid molecule produces a growth promoting amount of said cytokines or fragments thereof.
A construct for delivering in vivo an effective amount of cytokine, comprising:
- a) a nucleotide sequence encoding a cytokine or a biologically active fragment thereof;
- b) a vector comprising a control sequence wherein the control sequence is-capable of the controlling the expression of the nucleotide sequence of a) such that a cytokine or biologically active fragment thereof is produced which in turns improves growth performance in an animal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.