Treatment of inflammatory disorders with STIgMA immunoadhesins
AssigneeGenentech, Inc.
InventorsAvi Ashkenazi, Sherman Fong, Audrey Goddard, Austin L. Gurney, Mary A. Napier, Daniel Tumas, Menno Van Lookeren, William I. Wood
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Abstract
The present invention relates to compositions and methods of treating and diagnosing disorders characterized the by the presence of antigens associated with inflammatory diseases and/or cancer.
Claims5
A method of treating rheumatoid arthritis in a mammal, comprising administering to said mammal an effective amount of an immunoadhesin comprising an extracellular domain sequence of the polypeptide of SEQ ID NO:32, wherein said extracellular domain sequence consists of amino acid residues 1 or 21 to X of SEQ ID NO:
- 32, where X is any amino acid from 271 to 281.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.