Use of a growth-stimulating protein
AssigneeTurun Yliopisto
InventorsJukka Westermarck, Pietri Puustinen, Melissa Junttila
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Abstract
This invention relates to the inhibition of a newly discovered growth-stimulating protein in an individual. Further, the invention relates to a method for preventing or treating a cancer, or preventing or treating cancer growth, invasion or metastasis, or preventing or treating other hyperproliferative diseases in an individual, by down regulating the expression of said growth-stimulating protein or by inactivating said protein. Still further, the invention concerns a method for diagnosing cancer or other hyperproliferative diseases in an individual based on said growth-stimulating protein.
Claims11
A method of treating or alleviating cancer in a patient, comprising the step of:
- administering to said patient a therapeutically effective amount of a pharmaceutical composition comprising a small interfering RNA (siRNA) that inhibits KIAA1524;
- wherein said siRNA comprises a sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO:s 2 to 6.
A method of inhibiting KIAA1524 in a human or animal patient in need thereof by administering a therapeutically effective amount of a pharmaceutical composition comprising a small interfering RNA that comprises a sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ NO:s 2 to 6;
- wherein said patient suffers from cancer.
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