Use of GHRH-RP to stimulate stem cell factor production
Patent Number: 6159934
Date of First Priority Issue: Wednesday December 20th, 1995
Date Issued: Tuesday December 12th, 2000
Assignee: Indiana University Foundation (Bloomington, IN)
Inventor: Pescovitz, Ora H. (Carmel, IN)
From Class: Expansion
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This patent teaches that Sertoli cells make stem cell factor (which is interesting since people are co-culturing sertoli cells with islets from treating diabetes)...and that production of stem cell factor from sertoli cells may be upregulated by administration of the hormone GHRH-RP.
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