Methods of purifying hematopoietic cells using an antibody to a stem cell factor receptor
Patent Number: 5922847
Date of First Priority Issue: Friday April 5th, 1991
Date Issued: Tuesday July 13th, 1999
Assignee: Amgen Inc. (Thousand Oaks, CA)
Inventors: Broudy, Virginia C. (Seattle, WA); Lin, Nancy (Seattle, WA)
From Class: Extraction/Preservation
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This patent teaches ways of purifying hematopoietic stem cells based on their expression of the marker c-kit. This marker is the receptor for the cytokine stem cell factor that was developed by Amgen.
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