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Stem Cell Related Patent Number US6852331
| Title: | Fabrication of a cartilage implant | | Inventors: | Lai, Wen-Fu T.; Taipei, Taiwan
Tang, Ja-Reng; Taipei, Taiwan
Chen, Chien-Tsu; Taipei, Taiwan | | Summary: | This invention introduces a method of fabricating a cartilage implant by embedding and growing chondrocytes or mesenchymal stem cells in a three-dimensional substrate containing randomly rewound ?-helical monomers from type I collagen and from partially digested type II collagen. Further disclosed are methods by which the chrondrocytes or mesenchymal stem cells and the substrate are placed in a rotating and oscillating vessel during the growth stage. Therapeutic applications of such a cartilage implant are included, such as in the regeneration and replacement of damaged cartilage. | | Abstract: | A method of fabricating a cartilage implant including embedding and growing chondrocytes or mesenchymal stem cells in a three-dimensional substrate. The substrate contains randomly rewound α-helical monomers of type I collagen. | | US Patent Website: | Click Here for Full Text of Patent | | Title Number: | US6852331 | | Application Number: | US2002000073521 | | Date Filed: | 11/02/2002 | | Date Published: | 08/02/2005 | | Assignee: | Taipei Biotechnology Ltd., Inc., Taipei, Taiwan |
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