Methods for collagen processing and products using processed collagen
First Claim
1. A medical implant comprising isolated, enzymatically-treated human derived collagen having a preserved amount of its natural collagen constituents, wherein the enzyme treatment comprises digesting the collagen with ficin and deactivating the ficin with a non-alkaline sodium chlorite solution to maintain growth factors and morphogenic proteins otherwise stripped away by exposure to an alkaline solution, wherein the collagen is lyophilized by exposing the collagen to a vapor phase cross-linking agent, the cross-linking agent comprising at least one of acetaldehyde, dialdehyde starch, glycerol polyglycidyl ethers, polyethylene glycol diglycidyl ethers, polyvalent metallic oxides, or a combination thereof, wherein the collagen comprises cartilage fragments, a plasticizer and angiogenesis promoting factors, the angiogenesis promoting factors comprising SEMA3.
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Abstract
Purifying human derived collagen from human tissue includes treating harvested human tissue with an enzyme to form a collagen product, deactivating the enzyme with a non-alkaline enzyme deactivation solution, and collecting the collagen product resulting from the enzyme treatment, where the collected collagen product includes a preserved amount of its natural collagen constituents. Various medical implants can be formed using the isolated, enzymatically-treated human derived collagen having an amount of its natural collagen constituents preserved, and may include implantable sponges, patches, tubes, structural supports and coatings, and which may be used for repair, barrier, support and/or stabilization purposes.
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- 1. A medical implant comprising isolated, enzymatically-treated human derived collagen having a preserved amount of its natural collagen constituents, wherein the enzyme treatment comprises digesting the collagen with ficin and deactivating the ficin with a non-alkaline sodium chlorite solution to maintain growth factors and morphogenic proteins otherwise stripped away by exposure to an alkaline solution, wherein the collagen is lyophilized by exposing the collagen to a vapor phase cross-linking agent, the cross-linking agent comprising at least one of acetaldehyde, dialdehyde starch, glycerol polyglycidyl ethers, polyethylene glycol diglycidyl ethers, polyvalent metallic oxides, or a combination thereof, wherein the collagen comprises cartilage fragments, a plasticizer and angiogenesis promoting factors, the angiogenesis promoting factors comprising SEMA3.
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21. A medical implant comprising:
- reconstituted human derived collagen, wherein the human derived collagen comprises a preserved amount of its native collagen constituents of growth factors and morphogenic proteins, wherein the collagen is lyophilized by exposing the collagen to a vapor phase cross-linking agent, the cross-linking agent comprising at least one of acetaldehyde, dialdehyde starch, glycerol polyglycidyl ethers, polyethylene glycol diglycidyl ethers, polyvalent metallic oxides, or a combination thereof, wherein the collagen comprises cartilage fragments, a plasticizer and angiogenesis promoting factors, the angiogenesis promoting factors comprising SEMA3, and the medical implant comprises a cartilage repair structure.
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