METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATED CELL TRANSFER THERAPY AND HAIR TRANSPLANTATION

摘要

Methods and apparatuses that selectively capture therapeutic cells associated with hair growth or development and their delivery to regions of hair loss. Cell capture and delivery is accomplished in part through the use of antibodies having binding sites specific to cell surface moieties characteristic of the therapeutic cells and having magnetic or paramagnetic features, which facilitates their immobilization to magnetizable rods that can be used to pierce the skin of the subject being treated for hair loss and the subsequent release of therapeutic cells to targeted sites beneath the epidermis.