Three-dimensional skin cell and tissue culture system
Patent Number: 5512475
Date of First Priority Issue: Friday April 18th, 1986
Date Issued: Tuesday April 30th, 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 how to generate artificial skin through culturing of stem cells in a three dimensional matrix. Artificial skin is very useful not only for burn patients, but also for in vitro testing of topical drug formulations. The invention uses a stromal cell preparation onto which melanocytes and keratinocytes are added.
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