Proteoglycan-reduced soft tissue xenografts

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 6455309
APP PUB NO 20010039459A1
SERIAL NO

09873975

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The invention provides an article of manufacture comprising a substantially non-immunogenic soft tissue xenograft for implantation into humans. The invention further provides methods for preparing a soft tissue xenograft by removing at least a portion of a soft tissue from a non-human animal to provide a xenograft; washing the xenograft in saline and alcohol; subjecting the xenograft to cellular disruption treatment; and digesting the xenograft with a proteoglycan-depleting factor and/or glycosidase and optionally following with a capping treatment. The invention also provides an article of manufacture produced by the above-identified method of the invention. The invention further provides a soft tissue xenograft for implantation into a human including a portion of a soft tissue from a non-human animal, wherein the portion has extracellular components and substantially only dead cells. The extracellular components have reduced proteoglycan molecules. Each of the xenografts of the invention are substantially non-immunogenic and have substantially the same mechanical properties as a corresponding native soft tissue.

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APERION BIOLOGICS INC11969 STARCREST DRIVE SAN ANTONIO TX 78247

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Stone, Kevin R Mill Valley, CA 72 7709

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