Patent ID: 7741114

Claim:
A method for isolating and/or identifying at least one cell population, which is selected from the group consisting of haematopoietic stem cells, neuronal stem cells, neuronal progenitor cells, mesenchymal stem cells and mesenchymal progenitor cells, comprising the step of contacting said cell population with an antibody, or a fragment thereof, wherein said antibody or fragment binds to an antigen which is the same as that bound by an antibody which is produced by the hybridoma cell lines CUB1, CUB2, CUB3 or CUB4, which were deposited in the DSMZ under the numbers DSM ACC2569, DSM ACC2566 and DSM ACC2565, on 14 Aug. 2002, and DSM ACC2551, on 12 Jul. 2002.