Expansion of bone marrow stromal cells
Patent Number: 5766950
Date of First Priority Issue: Friday December 29th, 1995
Date Issued: Saturday May 16th, 1998
Assignee: ALG Company (Marlborough, MA)
Inventors: Greenberger, Joel S. (Sewickley, PA); Hurwitz, David R. (Acton, MA)
From Class: Expansion
Comments: No comments
This patent teaches that the clinically used cytokine FGF-1 is able to expand bone marrow stromal cells. This bone marrow stromal cell subtype seems to resemble, at least superficially, the mesenchymal stem cell. This is an interesting question that should be examined further.
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