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  • Use of glycolipids as adjuvants
    Patent number: 8211463
    Abstract: The present invention relates to adjuvants of the glycolipid type and their uses in pharmaceutical compositions, like in vaccines. In particular, the present invention provides new uses of compounds useful as adjuvants for prophylactic and/or therapeutic vaccination in the treatment of infectious diseases, inflammatory diseases, autoimmune diseases, tumors and allergies. The compounds are particularly useful not only as systemic, but preferably as mucosal adjuvants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Helmholtz-Zentrum Fuer Infektionsforschung GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Ebensen, Michael Morr, Carlos Guzman, Goetz Milkereit