US Patent Issued to The University of Tokyo on Sept. 9 for "Composition for inducing proliferation or accumulation of regulatory T cells" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,196, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to The University of Tokyo (Tokyo).

"Composition for inducing proliferation or accumulation of regulatory T cells" was invented by Kenya Honda (Tokyo), Koji Atarashi (Tokyo), Kikuji Itoh (Tokyo) and Takeshi Tanoue (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It was found that bacteria belonging to the genus Clostridium induce accumulation of regulatory T cells (Treg cells) in the colon. Moreover, the present inventors found that regulatory T cells (Treg cells) induced by from these bacteria suppressed proliferation of effector T-cells. From these findings, the present inventors found that the use of bac...