Innovacell Biotechnologie Gmbh

Innovacell Gmbh

Innovacell Ag

Innovacell Biotechnologie Ag

Rainer Marksteiner

Marco Thurner

Wolfgang Schwaiger

Craig Joseph Cermak

Hannes Strasser

Faheem Muhammad Asim

Steffen Hering

Eva Margreiter

The present invention relates to methods for obtaining induced smooth muscle cells (iSMCs), iSMCs, iSMCs for use in a method of treating a disease or disorder or for use in tissue engineering, and the use of skeletal muscle derived cells for obtaining iSMCs.

Methods for obtaining induced smooth muscle cells

A guidance device is provided for facilitating the placement of a puncture device (a needle) at a defined position relative to an ultrasound probe. The guidance device provides additional support of a needle tip near the needle injection site to maintain a selected path throughout an injection. The additional support is automatically retracted for simple disposal with the used syringe after an injection. The guidance device minimizes contact of soiled components and enables syringe insertion, alignment, and removal for multiple different injections without removal of an ultrasound probe from the patient. More particularly, this invention relates to a puncture device guide, comprising: an adapter configured to fixedly attach to an ultrasound probe; a syringe holder assembly configured to slidingly attach to the adapter and receive a syringe therein; wherein the syringe holder assembly is configured to slide on probe adapter in an axial direction relative to the ultrasound probe; wherein the syringe holder assembly is configured to allow for selective adjustment of a radial distance for a path of a needle of the syringe relative to the ultrasound probe; wherein the adapter includes a tip guide to selectively align a distal end of the needle with the radial distance for the path; and wherein, when the ultrasound probe is inserted into a patient, the syringe assembly is configured to slide forward on the adapter to insert the needle past the tip guide into a patient. The present invention further relates to a method of performing an injection, in particular by using a puncture device guide according to the present invention and to a guide plate configured to be used with a puncture device guide according to the present invention.

Parallel path puncture device guide and method

The present invention relates to methods for obtaining skeletal muscle derived cells (SMDC), and the use of SMDCs in a method of preventing and/or treating neuromyopathies and/or myopathies, wherein the neuromyopathy and/or myopathy is incontinence, in particular a urinary and/or an anal or fecal incontinence.

Methods for obtaining muscle derived cells

An injection device (), provided for injection with an injection syringe () into an organism (), comprises a guide device () designed to receive the injection syringe (), wherein an injection needle () and a syringe body () of the injection syringe () can be moved relative to the guide device (), in an advance movement towards or in a withdrawal movement away from the organism (), and an actuating device () to which the injection syringe () can be coupled and which is used to actuate the injection syringe () for injection of an injectable substance into the organism (), wherein the actuating device () has an actuating element () which forms an abutment for a piston device () of the injection syringe () on the guide device (), in such a way that, during the withdrawal movement, the piston device () executes a relative movement counter to the injection needle () and the syringe body ().

Injection device for injection into biological tissue and injection depot

An injection device () for injecting a substance into an organism () is described, comprising a guide device () with a lumen () in which an injection tool () is arranged in a displaceable manner, a displacement device () to which the injection tool () is connected, and a holder device () that forms a support for the guide and displacement devices (), said guide and displacement devices () being displaceably arranged on the holder device (). A method for injecting a substance into an organism () is also described.

Injection device and method

An ultrasonic probe with an ultrasonic head (K), which is arranged on or in a shaft (S) and is moveable with or in this shaft, and a positioning apparatus (P) for at least one examination or operating device is described, which is connected with the shaft. Also, medical operating apparatuses with examination probes and uses of the ultrasonic probe and the medical implements are described.

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Schwaz, Austria

Rainer Marksteiner