US 2006/0052862 A1 · Intravascular, indwelling instrument

Abstract

An intravascular, indwelling instrument for placement in a blood vessel includes a body having a face in contact with a maintained blood flow to be maintained and a face in contact with a non-maintained blood flow not to be maintained, and a peptide fixed to all or part of the maintained blood flow contact face or the non-maintained blood flow contact face of the body. The peptide has specific interaction with vascular endothelial precursor cells, with the peptide permitting selective adsorption and adhesion of the vascular endothelial precursor cells to cover all or part of the maintained blood flow contact face or the non-maintained blood flow contact face of the body with the vascular endothelial precursor cells thereby reducing or inhibiting the blood flow not to be maintained.

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Dependent claims

An intravascular, indwelling instrument for placement in a blood vessel, comprising:

a body having a maintained blood flow contact face adapted to be in contact with blood flow to be maintained and a non-maintained blood flow contact face adapted to be in contact with blood flow not to be maintained;
a peptide fixed to at least a part of one of the maintained blood flow contact face and the non-maintained blood flow contact face of the body and having specific interaction with vascular endothelial precursor cells;
and
said peptide permitting selective adsorption and adhesion of the vascular endothelial precursor cells to cover at least a part of one of the maintained blood flow contact face and the non-maintained blood flow contact face of the body with the vascular endothelial precursor cells to reduce or inhibit the blood flow not to be maintained.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Intravascular, indwelling instrument

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