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US 8,410,055 B2Granted
Skin wound healing compositions and methods of use thereof
AssigneeUniversity of Southern California
InventorsWei Li, Mei Chen, David T. Woodley
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Abstract
A wound healing composition comprising an amount of heat shock protein effective to promote wound healing and a method thereof to apply the composition. A preferred heat shock protein is either full-length hsp90α or the middle domain plus the charged sequence of hsp90α. The composition is topically applied to skin wounds, covering the outer surface of the wound. The heat shock protein acts by promoting migration of both human epidermal keratinocyte and dermal fibroblasts to the wound in order to close, heal, and remodel the wound.
Claims6
A method of healing a skin wound comprising:
- contacting a first effective amount of a pharmaceutical composition to the skin wound,
- said pharmaceutical composition comprising an isolated polypeptide fragment comprising the middle domain and the charged sequence of human hsp90α, wherein the isolated polypeptide fragment does not comprise the N-terminal ATP-binding domain or the C-terminal C′ domains of hsp90α, in a therapeutically effective amount to promote wound healing in a patient in need thereof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.