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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 1999
Filed:
Feb. 11, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Marc Hammerman, St. Louis, MO (US);
Assignee:
Washington University, St. Louis, MO (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K / ; A01N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
424 931 ; 435375 ;
Abstract
Methods for increasing the nephron mass of a mammalian recipient are disclosed. A metanephros from an allogenic or xenogeneic mammalian donor is implanted next to a recipient's omentum or under the renal capsule of the recipient's kidney. The metanephros becomes vascularized by the recipient's blood vessels, forming a chimeric kidney that produces urine and develops a ureter that facilitates externalization of the urine. A ureter to ureter anastomosis can be subsequently performed to provide fluid communication between the chimeric kidney ureter and a ureter of the recipient.