Transduced mesenchymal stem cells
Patent Number: 5591625
Date of First Priority Issue: Wednesday November 24th, 1993
Date Issued: Tuesday January 7th, 1997
Assignee: Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, OH)
Inventors: Gerson, Stanton L. (Pepper Pike, OH); Caplan, Arnold I. (Cleveland Heights, OH); Haynesworth, Stephen E. (Cleveland Heights, OH)
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This patent covers mesenchymal stem cells that are transfected with anything. Mesenchymal stem cells are very useful for clinical development since that do not need to be matched with HLA of the recipient in many situations, thus allowing for the use of an "off the shelf" product.
The advantage of transfecting mesenchymal stem cells with genes is that the mesenchymal stem cells can act as a delivery vector for the genes, to express them in a place that is therapeutically desirable.
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