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  • Antiviral therapy using ovine or bovine interferon-tau
    Patent number: 5942223
    Abstract: The invention provides antiviral therapeutic methods employing bovine or ovine interferon-tau (IFN-.tau.) proteins and polypeptides. The IFN-.tau. proteins exhibit the antiviral and antiproliferative properties characteristic of type I interferons. An advantage of the invention is that IFN-.tau. has essentially no cytotoxic effects on treated cells as does, for example, IFN-.alpha..
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1999
    Assignee: University of Florida
    Inventors: Fuller Warren Bazer, Howard Marcellus Johnson, Carol Hanlon Pontzer, Troy Lee Ott, Gino Van Heeke