Patent ID: 9632096
Date: 2017-04-25
CPC Classifications: G01N

Claim:
1. A method of determining immunomodulatory potential of a multipotent stromal cell population, the method comprising: (a) producing a multipotent stromal cell (MSC) population comprising MSCs; (b) contacting a sample of the MSC population with: under conditions sufficient for the CD54 detectible label to bind to CD54 present on the MSCs and for the IL-6 detectible label to bind to IL-6 inside of the MSCs to produce a labeled sample comprising detectibly labeled MSCs; and (c) quantitating the amount of CD54 on the surface of a detectibly-labeled MSC and the amount of IL-6 inside of the detectibly-labeled MSC of the labeled sample to obtain a CD54/IL-6 result for the labeled sample wherein the CD54/IL-6 result provides a determination of the immunomodulatory potential of the MSC population.