Methods of stimulating hematopoietic cells with flt3-ligand
Patent Number: 5843423
Date of First Priority Issue: Monday May 24th, 1993
Date Issued: Tuesday December 1st, 1998
Assignee: Immunex Corporation (Seattle, WA)
Inventors: Lyman, Stewart D. (Seattle, WA); Beckmann, M. Patricia (Poulsbo, WA)
From Class: Expansion
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This patent covers the stimulation of hematopoietic stem cells with flt-3 ligand. This cytokine is used in many stem cell stimulation/expansion cocktails...additionally flt-3 ligand is one of the few cytokines that can preferentially induce expansion of tissue dendritic cells.
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