Physiological tissue repair and functional organ regeneration by cultivation of regenerative stem cells in vivo and in situ

Patent Number: 6991813

This patent covers a way of stimulating healing by treatment with a neutraceutical. Specifically the patent has 1 independent claim covering a method for regenerating skin through administration of a composition on a wound having beeswax a fatty acid-containing oil and a sterol compound. The patent claim is directed toward stimulation of proliferation of keratinocytes that express keratin-19. This is marker is found on skin stem cells that are "side population" cells, thus supporting the notion that they are stem cells (Yano S, et al. Characterization and localization of side population cells in mouse skin. Stem Cells. 2005 Jun-Jul;23(6):834-41)

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