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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:
Dec. 06, 1988
Filed:
Jul. 05, 1985
Applicant:
Inventors:
Donald G Wallace, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Thomas L Smestad, Palo Alto, CA (US);
John M McPherson, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Karl A Piez, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Saeid Seyedin, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Rosa Armstrong, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Collagen Corporation, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K / ; A61K / ; C07K / ; C12P / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
514 21 ; 514-2 ; 514801 ; 424 95 ; 424423 ; 424443 ; 530356 ; 435 68 ; 128 / ;
Abstract
A method of repairing bone defects by use of suspensions containing purified atelopeptide, reconstituted, fibrillar skin collagen or bone collagen powder or mixtures thereof is disclosed. The suspensions provide matrices for conductive growth of bone into the defect. The skin collagen may also be lyophilized and used in the form of mats.