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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 17, 2014
Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc., Warsaw, IN (US);
Nels Lauritzen, Piscataway, NJ (US);
Lawrence A. Shimp, Burlington, WI (US);
Brent S. Mitchell, Somerset, NJ (US);
Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc., Warsaw, IN (US);
Abstract
Foam-formed collagen strands and methods for forming strands involve depositing a dispersed solution of an isolated cleaned, de-fatted, enzymatically-treated (or non-enzyme treated) human-derived collagen product having a preserved amount of its natural constituents into grooves of a grooved plate, and processing the dispersed collagen product to provide a foam-formed collagen strand. Foam-formed collagen strands may be processed into threads having a matrix of reticulated pores to conduct biological materials in and through the strand, the collagen of the collagen strand comprising isolated, enzymatically-treated human derived collagen having a preserved amount of its natural collagen constituents.