Human pluripotent hematopoietic colony stimulating factor, method of production and use
Patent Number: 6838549
Date of First Priority Issue: Thursday March 28th, 1985
Date Issued: Tuesday January 4th, 2005
Assignee: Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (New York, NY)
Inventors: Welte, Karl (New York, NY); Platzer, Erich (Spardorf, DE); Gabrilove, Janice L. (New York, NY); Mertelsmann, Roland (Mainz, DE); Moore, Malcolm A. S. (Larchmont, NY)
From Class: Expansion
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This is a patent for a hematopoietic stimulatory cytokine that the inventors named pluripoietin alpha. This cytokine is described in several papers including (Gabrilove et al. Pluripoietin : A Second Human Hematopoietic Colony-Stimulating Factor Produced by the Human Bladder Carcinoma Cell Line 5637, PNAS | April 15, 1986 | vol. 83 | no. 8 | 2478-2482).
This factor is produced by several cell lines and is likely called another name in todays world of molecular biology. Readers are invited to provide references for the name that it is called today.
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