The present invention involves implants suitable for surgical implantation into subjects. In some embodiments the implants comprise a biocompatible scaffold material and blood vessels containing engineered endothelial cells—such as E4ORF1+ engineered endothelial cells or engineered endothelial cells that express certain marker molecules. The present invention provides implants, methods for preparing such implants, and methods of treatment utilizing such implants.

A tooth dentin, pulp or pulp tissue composition for treating or preventing a disease, disorder, or symptom of a tooth dentin and/or pulp or pulp tissue includes: (a) an integrin binding fragment of Laminin, the Laminin being selected from the group consisting of Laminin 511 and Laminin 411, the integrin binding fragment comprising an integrin-binding domain of the Laminin; and (b) a mixture of odontoblast and mineralized nodules secreted from the odontoblast. A coating density of the integrin binding fragment is 1 to 8 μg/cm.sup.2. The material (b) has been mixed with the material (a) in the composition so as to form pulp capping applicable to a tooth, such that the composition is able to treat or prevent the disease, disorder or symptom of the tooth dentin and/or pulp tissue including dental caries when applied to the tooth.

Products are described for treating epithelial tissues of the human or animal body including liquid compositions containing whole blood, or parts of blood including blood plasma, blood serum, blood platelets and growth factors derivable from blood. Other compositions disclosed include solid reservoirs of collagen or amniotic membrane into which whole blood or parts of blood have been absorbed. Methods of treatment using these compositions are described, in particular for treatment of ophthalmic disorders such as dry-eye and oral disorders such as dry mouth. A range of devices (1, 11, 31, 41, 51, 61, 71, 81, 91, 101) are described for sampling, mixing, storing and/or applying blood and compositions containing blood and parts of blood.

Disclosed herein are hemostatic materials and methods of production and use thereof.

Disclosed herein are hemostatic materials and methods of production and use thereof.

The present invention relates to a stable and readily usable administration type including a composition including mesenchymal stem cells cultured in hydrogel, more specifically, a adipose tissue-derived mesenchymal stem cell-hydrogel composition and a method of preparing the same. More specifically, the present invention relates to a composition including mesenchymal stem cells cultured in hydrogel, washed, and filled into a syringe, wherein the composition of the present invention may be readily administered without modification and may not need an enzyme treatment in a final process of preparing transplanted cells, almost no cell is lost because the composition is washed as hydrogel without an washing process using centrifugation or other methods, and the therapeutic effect is shown immediately after administration to an individual because bioactive substances are patched in pores of the hydrogel.

The present invention relates to a stable and readily usable administration type including a composition including mesenchymal stem cells cultured in hydrogel, more specifically, a adipose tissue-derived mesenchymal stem cell-hydrogel composition and a method of preparing the same. More specifically, the present invention relates to a composition including mesenchymal stem cells cultured in hydrogel, washed, and filled into a syringe, wherein the composition of the present invention may be readily administered without modification and may not need an enzyme treatment in a final process of preparing transplanted cells, almost no cell is lost because the composition is washed as hydrogel without an washing process using centrifugation or other methods, and the therapeutic effect is shown immediately after administration to an individual because bioactive substances are patched in pores of the hydrogel.

A new method for preventing tumorigenicity or treating a cancer in a subject includes administering to the subject a Collagen XVII (Col XVII) inhibitor in an amount effective to inhibit and prevent survival, tumorigenesis and metastasis of cancer cells and/or cancer stem cells (CSCs).

The invention relates to a composition of peptides having an aminogram in which: glycine, hydroxyproline and proline are in molar quantities such that the ratio of each quantity to the sum of the molar quantities of the amino acids in the composition is comprised between 20.0% and 24.5%, between 6.0% and 12.0% and between 10.6% and 14.6%, respectively; the peptide composition comprising a quantity of peptides with a molecular weight lower than 1400 Da such that the ratio of said quantity to the quantity of peptides in the composition is less than 40%; the molecular weight and the quantity of peptides in the composition being determined by exclusion chromatography. The invention likewise relates to such a composition to be used as a drug. The invention further relates to such a composition to be used as a food supplement.

The present invention is in the fields of medicinal chemistry, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals. The invention provides compositions comprising one or more collagen mimetic peptides, optionally attached to one or more therapeutic compounds or one or more imaging compounds, for use in methods of treating, preventing, ameliorating, curing and diagnosing certain diseases and physical disorders in humans and veterinary animals, as well as methods of manufacturing such composition. The invention also provides medical devices comprising one or more such compositions of the invention. The invention also provides methods of use of such compositions and devices in treating and diagnosing certain diseases and physical disorders in humans and veterinary animals, including ocular diseases or disorders, skin diseases or disorders, certain cancers, particularly intraluminal cancers, gastrointestinal diseases or disorders, genitourinary tract diseases or disorders, fibrotic diseases/disorders and rheumatic diseases/disorders.