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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 08, 2010
Applicants:
Hiroshi Kitani, Tsukuba, JP;
Takato Takenouchi, Tsukuba, JP;
Noriko Yamanaka, Tsukuba, JP;
Miyako Yoshioka, Tsukuba, JP;
Inventors:
Hiroshi Kitani, Tsukuba, JP;
Takato Takenouchi, Tsukuba, JP;
Noriko Yamanaka, Tsukuba, JP;
Miyako Yoshioka, Tsukuba, JP;
Assignee:
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, Tsukuba-shi, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 5/0786 (2010.01); A61K 35/407 (2006.01); G01N 33/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 33/5055 (2013.01); C12N 5/0645 (2013.01); A61K 35/407 (2013.01); C12N 2500/84 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention has successfully established a mixed culture system capable of actively proliferating a Kupffer cell in a primary culture of a cell population derived from a liver. Additionally, the present invention has successfully established a novel production method for efficiently producing a large amount of highly purified Kupffer cells using this mixed culture system.