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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2005
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2002
Stimulation of cartilage growth with agonists of the non-proteolytically activated thrombin receptor
Darrell H. Carney, Dickinson, TX (US);
Roger S. Crowther, League City, TX (US);
Janet Stiernberg, Paris, TX (US);
John Bergmann, Galveston, TX (US);
Darrell H. Carney, Dickinson, TX (US);
Roger S. Crowther, League City, TX (US);
Janet Stiernberg, Paris, TX (US);
John Bergmann, Galveston, TX (US);
The Board of Regents The University of Texas System, Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is a method of stimulating cartilage growth, repair or regeneration at a site in a subject in need of such growth, repair or regeneration. The method comprises the step of administering a therapeutically effective amount of an agonist of the non-proteolytically activated thrombin receptor to the site. Also disclosed is a method of stimulating the proliferation and expansion of chrondrocytes in vitro. The method comprises culturing chrondrocytes in the presence of a stimulating amount of an NPAR agonist.