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Use of multipotent adult stem cells in treatment of myocardial infarction and congestive heart failure

  • US 8,075,881 B2
  • Filed: 06/13/2005
  • Issued: 12/13/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/05/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method of providing cardiac muscle to a subject in need thereof, said method comprising administering to the subject, in an amount effective to provide new cardiac muscle, isolated expanded human multipotent non-ES, non-germ, and non-embryonic germ cells that express telomerase and can differentiate into ectodermal, endodermal, and mesodermal cell types, wherein the existing cardiac muscle is damaged by disease or injury, wherein said telomerase-expressing cells were expanded in cell culture, and wherein said telomerase-expressing cells have undergone 10-40 cell doublings in culture.

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