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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2002
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2001
Rajendra S. Bhatnagar, Burlingame, CA (US);
Steven B. Nicoll, San Francisco, CA (US);
The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
Abstract
Fibroblast cells are treated with a chemical inhibitor of protein kinase C such as staurosporine, in conjunction with functionally hypoxic micromass culture so as to be induced into chondrogenic differentiation. Such fibroblast-derived, chondrocyte-like cells may be seeded onto three-dimensional polymer scaffolds for use in the repair of articular cartilage lesions, and thus can obviate the need for invasive techniques to harvest autologous chondrocytes from a limited supply of existing articular cartilage, or to avoid the need for obtaining allogeneic chondrocytes from non-biocompatible donor tissues.
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