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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Daniel Pipeleers, Roosdaal, BE;
Assignee:
Beta-Cell, N.V., , BE;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 5/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 5/00 ;
Abstract
A method for preparing a preparation of mammalian pancreatic endocrine cells comprising the steps: dissociating intact pancreatic tissue into a cell suspension comprising single cells and cell aggregates; enriching said cell suspension with regard to the content in endocrine cells by separating single cells and cellular aggregates with size <100 &mgr;m; and removing contaminating non-endocrine cells by density centrifugation.