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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 08, 2005
Applicant:
Kevin R. Mcintosh, Ellicott City, MD (US);
Inventor:
Kevin R. McIntosh, Ellicott City, MD (US);
Assignee:
Cognate Therapeutics, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 35/407 (2015.01); A61K 39/00 (2006.01); C12N 5/071 (2010.01); A61K 35/12 (2015.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 35/407 (2013.01); A61K 39/001 (2013.01); C12N 5/067 (2013.01); A61K 2035/122 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention encompasses methods and compositions for reducing an immune response to a transplant in a recipient by treating said recipient with an amount of liver stromal cells effective to reduce or inhibit host rejection of the transplant. Also disclosed is a method of inducing a reduced immune response against a host by foreign tissue, i.e., graft versus host disease, by treatment with liver stromal cells.