Patent ID: 6929796
Filing Date: 2005-08-16
Classification: A61K,C07K

Abstract:
1. A method of preventing or inhibiting a pathological condition associated with aberrant, pathogenic or undesirable antibody production which is specific for a particular antigen that is normally expressed in a human, comprising: administering to the respiratory tract of a human afflicted with, or at risk of, the pathological condition a dosage form comprising an amount of at least one epitope peptide, wherein the administration of the dosage form is effective to reduce or inhibit the aberrant, pathogenic or undesirable antibody production in humans having divergent HLA haplotypes, wherein the sequence of the epitope peptide comprises a universal, immunodominant epitope, wherein the peptide comprises less than the sequence of the antigen, and wherein the antigen is an acetylcholine receptor or factor VIII.