Human brain endothelial cells and growth medium and method for expansion of primitive CD34+CD38-bone marrow stem cells
Patent Number: 6642049
Date of First Priority Issue: Friday December 4th, 1998
Date Issued: Tuesday November 4th, 2003
Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
Inventors: Chute, John P. (San Francisco, CA); Saini, Abha A. (Collegeville, PA); Chute, Dennis J. (Los Angeles, CA); Davis, Thomas A. (Newton, PA)
From Class: Expansion
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This patent covers culture techniques and cells that are useful for the growth and expansion of primitive hematopoietic stem cells. One of the interesting aspects of this patent is that it uses human endothelial cells that are derived from the brain as feeder cells. Given all of the interesting correlations between brain cells and bone marrow hematopoietic stem cells, this patent is particularly interesting.
View this patent on the USPTO website.
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