Patent 7744906 was granted and assigned to Helperby Therapeutics on June, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The present invention concerns the use of a heat shock polypeptide and/or an encoding nucleic acid sequence in the manufacture of a medicament for use in the relief of pain. In particular the invention concerns the use of chaperonin. The invention further provides methods of relieving pain medicaments containing the heat shock polypeptides.