Porous tissue scaffoldings for the repair or regeneration of tissue
Patent Number: 6365149
Date of First Priority Issue: Wednesday June 30th, 1999
Date Issued: Tuesday April 2nd, 2002
Assignee: Ethicon, Inc. (Somerville, NJ)
Inventors: Vyakarnam, Murty N. (Edison, NJ); Zimmerman, Mark C. (East Brunswick, NJ); Scopelianos, Angelo George (Whitehouse Station, NJ); Roller, Mark B. (North Brunswick, NJ); Gorky, David V. (Flemington, NJ)
From Class: 3D Culture/Scaffold
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This patent covers the composition of matter and use of a specialized foam that can be embedded with stem cells and inserted in vivo, or can be inserted in vivo with chemoattractants for stem cells so that the endogenous stem cells repopulate it.
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