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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2006
Robert M. Carr, Jr., West Roxbury, MA (US);
Kimberlie D. Condon, Brant Rock, MA (US);
Paul L. Termin, St. Paul, MN (US);
Janet Hardin Young, Cary, NC (US);
Robert M. Carr, Jr., West Roxbury, MA (US);
Kimberlie D. Condon, Brant Rock, MA (US);
Paul L. Termin, St. Paul, MN (US);
Janet Hardin Young, Cary, NC (US);
Organogenesis, Inc., Canton, MA (US);
Abstract
This invention is directed to prosthesis, which, when implanted into a mammalian patient, serves as a functioning replacement for a body part, or tissue structure, and will undergo controlled biodegradation occurring concomitantly with bioremodeling by the patient's living cells. The prosthesis is treated so that it is rendered non-antigenic so as not to elicit a significant humoral immune response. The prosthesis of this invention, in its various embodiments, thus has dual properties. First, it functions as a substitute body part, and second, it functions as bioremodeling template for the ingrowth of host cells.