Biomaterial derived from vertebrate liver tissue
Patent Number: 6379710
Date of First Priority Issue: Tuesday December 10th, 1996
Date Issued: Tuesday April 30th, 2002
Assignee: Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, IN)
Inventor: Badylak, Stephen F. (West Lafayette, IN)
From Class: Use
Comments: No comments
This patent teaches that one can take an organ from an allogeneic or xenogeneic animal, decellularize the organ, and use the matrix components of the organ as a scaffold to be seeded with stem cells either in vitro or in vivo, and used for the generation of a new organ.
In one specific embodiment, livers are generated using this approach.
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