Methods for regulating the specific lineages of cells produced in a human hematopoietic cell culture, methods for assaying the effect of substances on lineage-specific cell production, and cell compositions produced by these cultures
Patent Number: 6667034
Date of First Priority Issue: Thursday June 15th, 1989
Date Issued: Tuesday December 23rd, 2003
Assignee: The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI)
Inventors: Palsson, Bernhard O. (La Jolla, CA); Armstrong, R. Douglas (Ann Arbor, MI); Clarke, Michael F. (Ann Arbor, MI); Emerson, Stephen G. (Ann Arbor, MI)
From Class: Differentiation
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This patent covers ways of ex vivo stimulation of bone marrow and other hematopoietic cells so that after transplantation they may engraft faster. Some of the methods thought in the patent include ways of stimulating production of specific blood cell lineages that may be more important for the specific condition being treated by hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.
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