Treatment for wounds
Patent Number: 7,262,174
Date of First Priority Issue: Wednesday May 9th, 2001
Date Issued: Tuesday August 28th, 2007
Assignee: Geron Corporation (Menlo Park, CA)
Inventors: Jiang; Xu-Rong (Mountain View, CA), Chiu; Choy-Pik (Cupertino, CA), Harley; Calvin B. (Palo Alto, CA)
From Class: Expansion
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The use of epithelial cells (such as fibroblasts) transfected with telomerase for acceleration of wound healing is covered by this patent. This invention is conceptually attractive, however the possible effects of telomerase transfection in terms of immortalization of cells showed be consided. Since wounds already express inflammatory mediators such as free radicals (which damage DNA), would not the addition of immortalized or semi-immortalized cells increase likelihood of neoplasia?
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