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Method for inspecting gastroenterological cancer by utilizing N-linked sugar chain

US8932866B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignees

Kagoshima University · JP
SUMITOMO BAKELITE CO., LTD. · JP

Inventors

Shoji Natsugoe · Kagoshima, JP
Yasuto Uchikado · Kagoshima, JP
Teruto Hashiguchi · Kagoshima, JP
Hiroyuki Shinchi · Kagoshima, JP
Kosei Maemura · Kagoshima, JP
Yuko Mataki · Kagoshima, JP
Norichika Moriwaki · Tokyo, JP
Masaru Sekijima · Tokyo, JP
Hideyuki Shimaoka · Tokyo, JP
Midori Abe · Osaka, JP
Masao Fukushima · Tokyo, JP
Kota Igarashi · Tokyo, JP
Hiroki Abe · Shiojiri, JP
Taichi Aihara · Tokyo, JP

Key dates

Filing date	Apr 6, 2011
Grant date	Jan 13, 2015
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Apr 6, 2031

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY10T436/143333
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

As a result of collecting blood from pancreatic cancer patients, esophageal cancer patients, and stomach cancer patients, and conducting mass spectrometry on N-linked sugar chains in the plasmas, sugar chains whose abundances are significantly different from those of healthy subjects have been successfully identified from the blood samples of the cancer patients.

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