Patent ID: 9301975
Filing Date: 2016-04-05
CPC Classification: A61K,A61P,C12N,C12Q

Claim Text:
1. A method of treating a patient, said patient having tissue in or near a target area of a disease, with an autologous therapeutic cell population expanded in autologous medium comprising: selecting a patient having a disease selected from the group consisting of: heart failure, myocardial ischemia, and Crohn's disease; harvesting blood from the selected patient in two visits separated between one and three weeks; harvesting bone marrow cells from the selected patient; forming a culture medium from said blood that contains no animal serum and comprises 10% autologous serum obtained from the patient; expanding a population of mesenchymal stem cells from the bone marrow cells in the culture medium; and injecting the expanded mesenchymal stem cells into the tissue of the selected patient in or near the target area of the disease; thereby ameliorating the effect of the disease.