Maturation of hemopoietic cells

Patent Number: 5246699

This patent teaches a really interesting way of stimulating myelopoiesis by exposing myeloid precursor cells to a compound called IgE binding factor. Myeloid precursors are important for generation of neutrophils and therefore protecting from opportunistic diseases.

Stimulation of myeloid cells by this approach may be useful for immune modulation as well, some papers suggest that myeloid precursor cells are actually associated with the "natural suppressor" cells that were described in the 1970s.

View this patent on the USPTO website.