Composition comprising midkine or pleiotrophin protein and method of increasing hematopoietic cells
Patent Number: 6383480
Date of First Priority Issue: Wednesday July 10th, 1996
Date Issued: Tuesday May 7th, 2002
Assignee: Meiji Milk Products, Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, JP)
Inventors: Kikuchi, Makoto (Fukuoka, JP); Ikematsu, Shinya (Kanagawa, JP); Oda, Munehiro (Kanagawa, JP); Sakuma, Sadatoshi (Kanagawa, JP); Muramatsu, Takashi (Aichi, JP)
From Class: Expansion
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This patent covers a cytokine cocktail, that contains midkine, amongst other classical hematopoietic cytokines, useful for the expansion of hematopoietic stem cells.
The cocktail may be used for the in vivo treatment of patients that are neutropenic or cytopenic, or may be used for the ex vivo expansion of hematopoietic stem cells.
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