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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2023
Filed:
Jan. 17, 2018
Applicant:
The University of Durham, Durham, GB;
Inventors:
Assignee:
THE UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM, Durham, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 5/071 (2010.01); G01N 33/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 5/0629 (2013.01); G01N 33/5082 (2013.01); C12N 2503/06 (2013.01); C12N 2513/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of creating skin tissue is described, particularly, an in vitro or ex vivo method for creating skin tissue. The invention extends to the use of agents that disrupt the LINC complex in a skin cell to create the skin tissue, and to using the created tissue in an assay to identify or screen anti-ageing compounds. The invention further extends to model skin tissues per se, uses thereof and to kits for creating such model skin tissues.