Methods for treating bone tumors
OwnerJohn C. Lee, Carol A. Tothinventors
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Abstract
The present invention provides methods of treating bone cancer, inducing differentiation of bone tumor cells, inhibiting bone tumor growth, inducing bone tumor regression or treating a hyperproliferative cell disorder by administering a pharmaceutically effective amount of a bone morphogenic protein or a nucleic acid encoding the bone morphogenic protein.
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A method of treating a secondary bone cancer in a mammal comprising the step of administering to the mammal a pharmaceutically effective amount of OP-1 or a nucleic acid encoding OP-1.
A method of inducing regression of a secondary bone cancer in a mammal comprising the step of administering to the mammal a pharmaceutically effective amount of OP-1 or a nucleic acid encoding OP-1.
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