Patents Assigned to Ferring Laboratories, Inc.
  • Apparatus and methodology for pulsed administration of growth promoting agents
    Patent number: 4747825
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for therapeutically effective treatment of a living animal comprising administering a dynamic dosage of growth hormone releasing factor or analog thereof, or administering growth hormone or analogs thereof in a chronic course of treatment in a subdesensitizing regimen. Also a method of diagnosing living animals with an anterior pituitary unresponsive to growth hormone releasing factor or analogs thereof. A method of determining the optimum GRF and GH dynamic dosage for a given living animal, particularly a human.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1984
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1988
    Assignee: Ferring Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel M. Linkie, Michael O. Thorner