Three-dimensional kidney cell and tissue culture system

Patent Number: 5516680

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 generation of artificial kidneys through culturing of various cells that comprise the functional kidney in a three dimensional stromal preparation. The patent may be used not only for addition of kidney stem cells, but can incorporate various types of adult and embryonic stem cells for generation of "younger" kidneys.

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