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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2005
John Christian Olsen, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Manij Patel, Durham, NC (US);
David Allen Wilcox, Wauwatosa, WI (US);
John Christian Olsen, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Manij Patel, Durham, NC (US);
David Allen Wilcox, Wauwatosa, WI (US);
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
The MCW Research Foundation, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a modified cell having adhesion properties that are increased as compared to the adhesion properties of an unmodified cell, comprising a) a recombinant nucleic acid encoding an integrin βsubunit; b) a recombinant nucleic acid encoding an integrin αsubunit; c) a recombinant nucleic acid encoding an integrin αsubunit; and/or d) any combination of (a), (b) and (c).