Human cord blood as a source of neural tissue for repair of the brain and spinal cord
Patent Number: 7,160,724
Date of First Priority Issue: Thursday March 9th, 2000
Date Issued: Tuesday January 9th, 2007
Assignee: University of South Florida (Tampa, FL)
Inventors: Sanberg; Paul (Spring Hill, FL), Sanchez-Ramos; Juan (Tampa, FL), Willing; Alison (Tampa, FL), Richard; Daniel D. (Sedona, AZ)
From Class: Use
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There is currently great interest in the use of cord blood stem cells for neuroregenerative purposes. This patent covers the ex vivo growth of cord blood cells in EGF, FGF2, NGF, and retinoic acid in order to generate a population of cells that contain neuronal-like properties.
Evidence of activity of these neural precursors is provided in the examples section which describes post-CNS injury recovery being accelerated in animals treated with human cord blood generated progenitors.
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