Treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis using umbilical derived cells

• US 8,491,883 B2
• Filed: 02/14/2011
• Issued: 07/23/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Depuy Synthes Products Incorporated (Johnson & Johnson)
• Original Assignee: Advanced Technologies and Regenerative Medicine, LLC
• Inventors: Gosiewska, Anna, Harmon, Alexander M., Kihm, Anthony J., Dhanaraj, Sridevi, Fang, Carri H.
• Primary Examiner(s): Gamett, Daniel C
• Application Number:
  US13/026,995
• Publication Number:
  US 20110223205A1
• Time in Patent Office: 890 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 424/93.1
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Abstract

This invention relates to methods of treating amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. In particular, the invention provides for methods of treating amyotrophic lateral sclerosis by administering umbilical cord tissue-derived cells, an effective amount of a substantially homogenous population of umbilical cord tissue-derived cells or a pharmaceutical composition comprising umbilical cord tissue-derived cells to a patient.

Claims

1. A method of treating amyotrophic lateral sclerosis comprising administering by intrathecal injection umbilical cord tissue-derived cells in an amount effective to treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to a patient, wherein the umbilical cord tissue-derived cells are isolated from human umbilical cord tissue substantially free of blood, are capable of self-renewal and expansion into culture, have the potential to differentiate into cells of other phenotypes, can undergo at least 40 doublings, and have the following characteristics:

(a) expresses each of CD10, CD13, CD44, CD73, CD90, PDGFr-alpha, PD-L2 and HLA-A,B,C;

(b) does not express any of CD31, CD34, CD45, CD80, CD86, CD 117, CD141, CD178, B7-H2, HLA-G, or HLA-DR,DP,DQ; and

(c) increased expression of interleukin-8;

reticulon 1; and

chemokine receptor (C-X-C motif) ligand 3, relative to that of a human cell which is a fibroblast, a mesenchymal stem cell, or an iliac crest bone marrow cell.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the umbilical cord tissue-derived cells do not express hTERT or telomerase.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the umbilical cord tissue-derived cells are administered with at least one other cell type of an astrocyte, oligodendrocyte, neuron, neural progenitor, neural stem cell or other multipotent or pluripotent stem cell.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the umbilical cord tissue-derived cells are administered at a pre-determined site in the nervous system of the patient.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the umbilical cord tissue-derived cells exert a trophic effect on the nervous system of the patient.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the umbilical cord tissue-derived cells are genetically engineered to produce a gene product that promotes treatment of the neurodegenerative condition.

7. A method of treating amyotrophic lateral sclerosis comprising administering by intrathecal injection an effective amount of a substantially homogeneous population of umbilical cord tissue-derived cells to a patient, wherein the population of umbilical cord tissue-derived cells is isolated from human umbilical cord tissue substantially free of blood, is capable of self-renewal and expansion into culture, has the potential to differentiate into cells of other phenotypes, can undergo at least 40 doublings, and has the following characteristics:

(a) expresses each of CD10, CD13, CD44, CD73, CD90, PDGFr-alpha, PD-L2 and HLA-A,B,C;

(b) does not express any of CD31, CD34, CD45, CD80, CD86, CD 117, CD141, CD178, B7-H2, HLA-G, or HLA-DR,DP,DQ; and

(c) increased expression of interleukin-8;

reticulon 1; and

chemokine receptor (C-X-C motif) ligand 3, relative to that of a human cell which is a fibroblast, a mesenchymal stem cell, or an iliac crest bone marrow cell.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the umbilical cord tissue-derived cells do not express hTERT or telomerase.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the substantially homogeneous population of umbilical cord tissue-derived cells is administered with at least one other cell type of an astrocyte, oligodendrocyte, neuron, neural progenitor, neural stem cell or other multipotent or pluripotent stem cell.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the substantially homogeneous population of umbilical cord tissue-derived cells is administered at a pre-determined site in the nervous system of the patient.

11. The method of claim 7, wherein the substantially homogeneous population of umbilical cord tissue-derived cells exerts a trophic effect on the nervous system of the patient.

12. A method of treating amyotrophic lateral sclerosis comprising administering by intrathecal injection a pharmaceutical composition comprising umbilical cord tissue-derived cells in an amount effective to treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to a patient, wherein the umbilical cord tissue-derived cells are isolated from human umbilical cord tissue substantially free of blood, are capable of self-renewal and expansion into culture, have the potential to differentiate into cells of other phenotypes, can undergo at least 40 doublings, and have the following characteristics:

(a) expresses each of CD10, CD13, CD44, CD73, CD90, PDGFr-alpha, PD-L2 and HLA-A,B,C;

(b) does not express any of CD31, CD34, CD45, CD80, CD86, CD 117, CD141, CD178, B7-H2, HLA-G, or HLA-DR,DP,DQ; and

(c) increased expression of interleukin-8;

reticulon 1; and

chemokine receptor (C-X-C motif) ligand 3, relative to that of a human cell which is a fibroblast, a mesenchymal stem cell, or an iliac crest bone marrow cell.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the umbilical cord tissue-derived cells do not express hTERT or telomerase.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the pharmaceutical composition is administered with at least one other cell type of an astrocyte, oligodendrocyte, neuron, neural progenitor, neural stem cell or other multipotent or pluripotent stem cell.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein the pharmaceutical composition is administered at a pre-determined site in the nervous system of the patient.