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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 1988
Filed:
Jul. 28, 1987
Applicant:
Inventors:
John J Sauk, Ellicott City, MD (US);
Craig L Van Kampen, Oakdale, MN (US);
Assignees:
The University of Maryland at Baltimore, Baltimore, MD (US);
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing, St. Paul, MN (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K / ; A61K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
514-2 ; 514-7 ; 623 16 ;
Abstract
A composition for osseous repair which is prepared by a process comprising mixing a particulate polycrystalline calcium phosphate ceramic, a phosphophoryn calcium salt and type I collagen, preferably in a weight ratio of ceramic:calcium salt:collagen of about 775-15:3-0.1:1, to yield a solid porous composition which is effective to promote new bone formation upon introduction of the composition into osseous defects.