Neural stem cells and use thereof for brain tumor therapy
Patent Number: 7,186,409
Date of First Priority Issue: Friday August 14th, 1998
Date Issued: Tuesday March 6th, 2007
Assignee: The Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, MA)
Inventors: Snyder; Evan Y. (Jamaica Plain, MA), Breakefield; Xandra O. (Newton Center, MA), Aboody; Karen S. (Needham, MA), Herrlinger; Ulrich (Tuebingen, DE), Lynch; William P. (Ravenna, OH)
From Class: Use
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The current patent teaches that exogenous neural stem cells can migrate to the area of various brain cancers. The patent covers the use of neural stem cells as a trojan horse to carry enzymes that activate prodrugs into active drugs in proximity to a tumor in order to induce cancer cell death.
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