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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:
Nov. 02, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 18, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Steven A. Goldman, South Salem, NY (US);
Maiken Nedergaard, South Salem, NY (US);
Assignee:
Cornell Research Foundation, Inc., Ithaca, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 5/00 ; C12N 5/02 ; C12N 5/08 ; C12N 1/563 ; C12N 3/3563 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 5/00 ; C12N 5/02 ; C12N 5/08 ; C12N 1/563 ; C12N 3/3563 ;
Abstract
The present invention provides neuronal progenitor cells which have been identified in histological sections of the adult human brain. The present invention also provides methods to localize, characterize, harvest, and propagate neuronal progenitor cells derived from human brain tissue. Additional methods are provided for introducing and expressing genes in the brain.