Enhancing hematopoietic progenitor cell engraftment using mesenchymal stem cells
Patent Number: 6010696
Date of First Priority Issue: Friday November 16th, 1990
Date Issued: Tuesday January 4th, 2000
Assignee: Osiris Therapeutics, Inc. (Baltimore, MD)
Inventors: Caplan, Arnold I. (Cleveland Heights, OH); Haynesworth, Stephen E. (Cleveland Heights, OH); Gerson, Stanton L. (Pepper Pike, OH); Lazarus, Hillard M. (Shaker Heights, OH)
From Class: Use
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This patent covers the administration of mesenchymal stem cells as "facilitator cells" such that engraftment of hematopoietic stem cells is accelerated. Mesenchymal stem cells may play this engraftment assisting role due to the wide variety of growth factors that they are known to produce.
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