Low oxygen culturing of central nervous system progenitor cells
Patent Number: 6610540
Date of First Priority Issue: Wednesday November 18th, 1998
Date Issued: Tuesday August 26th, 2003
Assignee: California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, CA); National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, MD)
Inventors: Csete, Marie (Ann Arbor, MI); Doyle, John (South Pasadena, CA); Wold, Barbara J. (San Marino, CA); McKay, Ron (Bethesda, MD); Studer, Lorenz (New York, NY)
From Class: Expansion
Comments: No comments
This patent teaches that low oxygen conditions may be used in the expansion and differentiation of undifferentiated mesencephalic stem cells. This is interesting since in the hematopoietic system the early stem cells also prefer growth in the relatively hypoxic niches of the marrow.
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