Use of adipose tissue-derived stromal cells for chondrocyte differentiation and cartilage repair
Patent Number: 7033587
Date of First Priority Issue: Thursday August 19th, 1999
Date Issued: Tuesday April 25th, 2006
Assignee: Artecel Sciences, Inc. (Durham, NC)
Inventors: Halvorsen, Yuan-Di C. (Holly Springs, NC); Wilkison, William O. (Bahama, NC); Gimble, Jeffrey Martin (Chapel Hill, NC)
From Class: Use
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This patent teaches ways to make artificial cartilage patches using adipose stem cells as starting material. These patches may be useful for people having injuries in which cartilage is damaged. The patent has 1 independent claim which essentially covers producing such an artifical patch through taking out adipose stem cells, culturing the cells to become chondrocytes, allowing the chondrocytes to grow in a pre-shaped well...and allowing (or inducing I guess) the chondrocytes to produce extracellular matrix so that the patch together with the chondrocytes may be implanted.
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