Patent ID: 8871198

Claim:
A method for accelerating wound healing of a treated burn wound as compared to the healing rate of a non-treated burn wound in a patient in need thereof comprising treating the burn wound by topically administering to the patient's burn wound about 0.25-1.0×10 6 cultured amnion-derived epithelial cells, wherein the cultured amnion-derived epithelial cells are made by the method comprising the steps of a) obtaining a placenta and isolating an amnion from the placenta, b) enzymatically releasing amnion-derived epithelial cells from the amnion, c) collecting the released amnion-derived epithelial cells, and d) culturing the collected amnion-derived epithelial cells of step (c) in basal culture medium that is supplemented with human serum albumin and recombinant human EGF.