Polymeric encapsulation system promoting angiogenesis

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PATENT NO 6383478
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09556743

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The present invention provides a convenient polymeric film or microparticulate vehicle to deliver protein factors into appropriate body sites to induce appropriate therapeutic effects. It also improves the existing methodologies for immunoisolation of non-human pancreatic islets (via microencapsulation) to protects them from the immunologically-different host. This invention demonstrates how vascularization and angiogenesis can be induced by means of addition of proper angiogenic factors. The angiogenesis is sustained over a long period of time, depending on the release characteristics of the polymeric matrix. Three-dimensional polymeric structures (mesh or perforated tubing and film) are used as resident materials for microcapsules bearing islets. Blood capillaries are generated outside the capsules and penetrate through the implant openings to ingrow into the vicinity of capsules/islets.

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VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY305 KIRKLAND HALL 2201 WEST END AVENUE NASHVILLE TN 37240

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Davidson, Jeffrey M Nashville, TN 12 1139
Dikov, Mikhail M Nashville, TN 4 154
Prokop, Ales Nashville, TN 19 524
Williams, Phillip Lebanon, TN 66 582

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