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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 06, 1998
Kevin R Stone, Mill Valley, CA (US);
CrossCart, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
The invention provides a substantially non-immunogenic ligament or tendon xenograft for implantation into humans. The invention further provides a method for preparing a ligament xenograft by removing at least a portion of a ligament from a non-human animal to provide a xenograft; washing the xenograft in saline and alcohol; subjecting the xenograft cellular disruption treatment, such as exposure to ultraviolet radiation, immersion in alcohol, ozonation, freeze/thaw cycling, and optionally chemical crosslinking. In addition to or in lieu of the above treatments, the methods include digestion of the carbohydrate moieties of the xenograft with a glycosidase, preferably a galactosidase, and more preferably .alpha.-galactosidase. The invention also provides articles of manufacture produced by one or more of the above-identified methods of the invention. The invention further provides a ligament xenograft for implantation into a human including a portion of a ligament from a non-human animal, wherein the portion includes extracellular components and substantially only dead cells having substantially no surface .alpha.-galactosyl moieties. Each of the xenografts of the invention is substantially non-immunogenic and has substantially the same mechanical properties as the respective native ligament.