US 7,488,719 B1
Wound and cutaneous injury healing with a nucleic acid encoding perlecan
Arthur A. DeCarlo, Weston, Fla. (US); and John Whitelock, Sydney (Australia)
Assigned to Agenta Biotechnologies, Inc., Birmingham, Ala. (US)
Filed on Nov. 27, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/604,633.
Application 11/604633 is a continuation of application No. 10/420270, filed on Apr. 22, 2003, granted, now 7,141,551, filed on Nov. 28, 2006.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/374553, filed on Apr. 22, 2002.
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A01K 63/00 (2006.01); A61K 48/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 514—44  [424/93.2; 424/93.21] 15 Claims
 
1. A method for the effective healing of a wound or a cutaneous injury in a subject in need of such healing via delivery of a heparin sulfate-decorated perlecan molecule, the method comprising administering to the wound or cutaneous injury in the subject a nucleic acid coding for perlecan whereby said heparin sulfate-decorated perlecan molecule is generated by the subject, said nucleic acid being delivered in an amount sufficient to deliver an effective amount of heparin sulfate-decorated perlecan to the wound or cutaneous injury resulting in an in improvement in healing of the wound or cutaneous injury in the subject.