US Patent Issued to Purdue Research Foundation on Oct. 27 for "Primed muscle progenitor cells and uses thereof" (Indiana Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,428, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Primed muscle progenitor cells and uses thereof" was invented by Stacey L Halum (Indianapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates to a method for repairing and reconstructing a damaged or non-functional muscle, in particular to a method and a tool kit using in vitro primed motor endplate-expressing muscle progenitor cells (MPCs) to promote innervation of the damaged or non-functional muscle using an agent without any genetic manipulation. This method is particularly useful for repairing or reconstructing damaged or non-functi...