Three-dimensional pancreatic cell and tissue culture system
Patent Number: 5516681
Date of First Priority Issue: Friday April 18th, 1986
Date Issued: Tuesday May 14th, 1996
Assignee: Advanced Tissue Sciences, Inc. (La Jolla, CA)
Inventors: Naughton, Gail K. (Groton, VT); Naughton, Brian A. (Groton, VT)
From Class: 3D Culture/Scaffold
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This patent teaches the use of stromal cells to support growth, proliferation, and differentiation of islet-like pancreatic structures after addition of pancreatic acinar cells to the culture. This technology can be a great basis for the numerous other stem cell technologies currrently available for islet regeneration.
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