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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:
Dec. 16, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2008
Applicants:
Samer Srouji, Haifa, IL;
Eyal Zussman, Haifa, IL;
Erella Livne, Haifa, IL;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 5/0793 (2010.01); C07K 14/00 (2006.01); A61L 27/56 (2006.01); A61L 27/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61L 27/56 (2013.01); A61L 2400/12 (2013.01); A61L 27/46 (2013.01); Y10S 977/795 (2013.01);
Abstract
A porous scaffold is disclosed, the porous scaffold comprising electrospun polymeric nanofibers, wherein an average diameter of a pore of the porous scaffold is about 300 μm is disclosed. An average diameter of the polymeric nanofibers ranges from about 100 to 400 nm. The scaffold may comprise a plurality of particles, the particles being greater than about 1 μm in diameter. Methods of fabricating scaffolds, methods for generating tissue and methods of using scaffolds for tissue reconstruction are also disclosed.