Human neuronal attachment factor-1
Patent Number: 6759512
Date of First Priority Issue: Monday February 12th, 1996
Date Issued: Tuesday July 6th, 2004
Assignee: Human Genome Sciences, Inc. (Rockville, MD)
Inventors: Hastings, Gregg (Newberry Park, CA); Dillon, Patrick J. (Gaithersburg, MD)
From Class: Expansion
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This patent covers a protein called F-spondin that is involved in regulation of development and stem cell function. It is published that F-spondin induces differentiation of neural stem cells into neurons (Schubert D et al. F-spondin promotes nerve precursor differentiation. J Neurochem. 2006 Jan;96(2):444-53).
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