Method of enhancing proliferation or differentiation of hematopoietic stem cells using Wnt polypeptides
Patent Number: 5851984
Date of First Priority Issue: Friday August 16th, 1996
Date Issued: Tuesday December 22nd, 1998
Assignee: Genentech, Inc. (South San Francisco, CA)
Inventors: Matthews, William (Woodside, CA); Austin, Timothy W. (Morgan Hill, CA)
From Class: Expansion
Comments: No comments
Wnt peptides are critical in embryonic development and cell fate determination. In this patent Wnt peptides are used for the expansion and differentiation of hematopoietic stem cells. I predict that these peptides would also be useful for expansion of non-hematopoietic stem cells as well.
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