Purging of stem cell products
Patent Number: 6475481
Date of First Priority Issue: Tuesday November 18th, 1997
Date Issued: Tuesday November 5th, 2002
Assignee: Canji, Inc. (San Diego, CA)
Inventor: Talmadge, James E. (Bellevue, NE)
From Class: Extraction/Preservation
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This patent covers ways of purging tumor cells from bone marrow stem cell grafts. Specifically, the patent teachs ways of selectively protecting the bone marrow through gene transfection, while allowing tumor cells to die.
This patent is particularly suited for situations of autolous bone marrow transplants in cancer patients in order to allow for high levels of chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy.
View this patent on the USPTO website.
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