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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5744317 | Diagnostic test for replicative senescence in T cells A method for distinguishing replicatively senescent T cells from replicatively non-senescent T cells in a cell population comprises the steps of: (1) providing a cell population of peripheral blood mononuclear cells; (2) reacting the cell population with ... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5738998 | Compositions and methods for diagnosing schizophrenia Methods and compositions for detecting schizophrenia based on modification of the dopamine D4 receptor by addition of an adenosyl group to methionine #313 via methionine adenosyltransferase are described herein. Individuals with schizophrenia h... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5736347 | Nucleic acids of Rochalimaea henselae and methods and compositions for diagnosing Rochalimaea henselae and Rochalimaea quintana infection A method of diagnosing cat scratch disease and a method of diagnosing bacillary angiomatosis in a subject by detecting the presence of Rochalimaea henselae or an antigenic fragment thereof in the subject is provided. Also provided is a vaccine comprising ... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5736348 | Method for the immunological diagnosis of Chagas' Disease using recombinant antigens This patent deals with the use of Trypanosoma cruzi antigens obtained using recombinant DNA techniques, or synthetic peptides derived from these antigens, and their use in the immunological diagnosis of Chagas Disease using either ELISA, or western blot, ... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5733734 | Method of screening for Alzheimer's disease or disease associated with the accumulation of paired helical filaments Substantially purified antibodies, including substantially purified monoclonal antibodies, which are specifically reactive with ͌ that has an abnormally phosphorylated serine in the sequence LysSerProVal SEQ ID NO:3 are disclosed. Methods of screening pe... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5733790 | CRF binding protein antibodies and assays using same Corticotropin Releasing Factor-binding protein (CRF-BP) is produced recombinantly and is useful for modulating the biological activity of CRF. CRF-BP or fragments thereof and/or antibodies to such polypeptides are employed in diagnostic assays to determin... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5731208 | Method of detecting conditions indicative of atherosclerosis A diagnostic method and screening test for atherosclerosis and analogous diseases involving activated phagocytes and/or inflammation is provided which comprises determining the presence of p-hydroxyphenylacetaldehyde-lysine in a test sample of a body flui... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5728519 | Assay for virulent revertants of attenuated live vaccines and kits therefor The present invention provides a method of classifying an unclassified live poliovirus vaccine as having an acceptable or unacceptable level of neurovirulence, comprising, prior to vaccine administration, the steps of: a) selectively amplifying a region o... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5721110 | Methods and compositions useful in the diagnosis and treatment of autoimmune diseases A method for producing a protein antigen which is reactive with an autoantibody associated with an autoimmune disease in a host, which comprises introducing genetic information from a cross-reactive donor gene library, into plural cells thereby producing ... | 02/24/1998 |
| 5721109 | Method for diagnosing infection caused by acid-fast bacterium A reagent for the detection of an antibody against an acid-fast bacterial antigen comprising at least one compound selected from the group comprising mycolic acids, mycolic acid salts, mycolic acid esters and esters of fatty acids having a carbon number o... | 02/24/1998 |
| 5716793 | Method for diagnosing a patient for chlamydia A method of detecting chlamydia in a extracellular sample is provided which comprises contacting the sample with an idiotypic antibody to GLXA to form an immunocomplex and detecting the immunocomplex.... | 02/10/1998 |
| 5707819 | Diagnosis of Mycobacterium bovis infection A method for the diagnosis of Mycobacterium bovis infection in a susceptible animal, comprises detection in said animal of antibodies against the MPB-70 protein of M.bovis and/or the detection of a cell-mediated immune response of said animal to the said ... | 01/13/1998 |
| 5705400 | Assay for adrenal autoantigen Adrenal autoantigen is isolated and characterised as a protein obtainable from the microsome fraction of the adrenal gland, having a molecular weight of about 55,000 and antigenic towards adrenal autoantibody. The protein is used in a method for detecting... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5705401 | Method of assaying for alzheimer's disease The present invention relates to a method of assaying for Alzheimer's disease in a human by determining the relative abundance of one or more forms of amyloid precursor protein (APP) or the enzyme responsible for said forms in circulatory fluid and to a m... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5702909 | Methods of detecting collagen type II degradation in vivo In a method of analyzing a body fluid sample for the presence of an analyte indicative of a physiological condition, comprising the steps of contacting the body fluid sample with an immunological binding partner which binds to the analyte, detecting bindi... | 12/30/1997 |
| 5702910 | Method of sandwich immunoassay for N-peptide The present invention relates to a sandwich immunoassay for rapidly and readily measuring N-peptide using two kinds of monoclonal antibodies recognizing different portions of the N-peptide. The method for measuring N-peptide or a precursor thereof include... | 12/30/1997 |
| 5702904 | Immunoassay for identifying alcoholics and monitoring alcohol consumption The invention provides an antibody which reacts selectively with a transferrin homolog found in alcoholics but not in non-alcoholics. The invention also provides methods of making the antibody and hybridomas producing the antibody. Finally, the invention ... | 12/30/1997 |
| 5700693 | Method to detect bone and other connective tissue disorders in humans and animals The invention is directed to methods to assess connective tissue, especially bone, metabolism in disease or to monitor therapy, which method comprises assessing the levels of native free collagen-derived crosslinks in biological fluids, especially urine. ... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5700694 | Method to detect bone and other connective tissue disorders in humans and animals The invention is directed to methods to assess connective tissue, especially bone, metabolism in disease or to monitor therapy, which method comprises assessing the levels of native free collagen-derived crosslinks in biological fluids, especially urine. ... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5691157 | Method for detecting a mammal's prior exposure to radiation or radiomimetic chemicals The present invention is directed to a method for detecting a mammal's prior exposure to radiation or radiomimetic agents. Labeled antibodies are employed to determine the quantity of transferrin receptors on the red blood cells of the mammal. The quantit... | 11/25/1997 |
| 5688652 | Detection of collagen degradation in vivo Methods of determining collagen degradation in vivo, by quantitating the concentration of a peptide in a body fluid, the peptide having the following structure: ##STR1## is hydroxylysyl pyridinoline or lysyl pyridinoline, and J is pyroglutamic a... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5688641 | Cancer diagnosis using nucleic acid hybridization A method of determining whether a test cell from a given human tissue type is (a) normal, or (b) cancerous or precancerous, by contacting the mRNA of the test cell with a nucleic acid probe which contains a nucleotide sequence at least 15 nucleotides in l... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5686311 | Diagnosis of autism and treatment therefor A method for diagnosing the likelihood of autism in patients is provided which comprises first obtaining from the patient a sample of body fluid such as urine and analyzing the sample to determine the quantity therein of at least one marker compound selec... | 11/11/1997 |
| 5686269 | Method of diagnosing Alzheimer's disease by detecting the level of cathepsin D in cerebrospinal fluid Disclosed is a method of diagnosing Alzheimer's disease in a patient by measuring the level of cathepsin D in the patient's cerebrospinal fluid.... | 11/11/1997 |
| 5686255 | Compositions and methods for diagnosing schizophrenia Methods and compositions for detecting schizophrenia based on modification of the dopamine D4 receptor by addition of an adenosyl group to methionine #313 via methionine adenosyltransferase are described herein. Individuals with schizophrenia h... | 11/11/1997 |
| 5679509 | Methods and a diagnostic aid for distinguishing a subset of HPV that is associated with an increased risk of developing cervical dysplasia and cervical cancer Methods and a diagnostic aid for distinguishing a subset of HPV that is associated with an increased risk of developing cervical dysplasia and cervical cancer. The method comprises either distinguishing leucine or valine at amino acid position 83 in the H... | 10/21/1997 |
| 5670314 | Genetic alterations that correlate with lung carcinomas The present invention relates to compositions and methods for detecting chromosome abnormalities correlated with lung cancer. The method contacting a nucleic acid sample from a patient with a probe which binds selectively to a target polynucleotide sequen... | 09/23/1997 |
| 5670312 | Method of obtaining diagnostic reagents, assays and therapeutics based on clinical manifestations of a disease Antibodies are recovered and isolated from the sera of a number "n" of patients each of which have or have had the same given disease so that each of the "n" patients has, within a large number of different antibodies, some antibodies uniquely associated ... | 09/23/1997 |
| 5670377 | Method of diagnosing gestational diabetes Methods of diagnosis of gestational diabetes mellitus are disclosed. In preferred embodiments, a blood sample is obtained from a pregnant female in the 24th to 28th week of pregnancy after an overnight fast, after a 1-hour 50-gram glucose challenge test, ... | 09/23/1997 |
| 5665540 | Multicolor in situ hybridization methods for genetic testing This invention relates to novel methods of optimally analyzing commonly obtained prenatal cell samples by in situ hybridization. In addition, this method diagnoses gene deletion and gene multiplication using multicolor in situ hybridization. A method is a... | 09/09/1997 |
| 5665537 | Herpes simplex virus type 2-glycoprotein G proteins and polypeptides Disclosed are recombinant, synthetically and otherwise biologically produced novel proteins and polypeptides which are encoded by the DNA sequence for HSV-2 glycoprotein G (gG) or fragments of said gG sequence particularly by the unique sequence for gG or... | 09/09/1997 |
| 5658745 | Cell enumeration immunoassay This invention relates to a cell enumeration immunoassay which uses a calibrated standard, i.e., a substance which behaves like the sample under study and the concentration of which can be correlated to the concentration of the cells. This immunoassay is ... | 08/19/1997 |
| 5645998 | Methods and compositions for the early detection and treatment of insulin dependent diabetes mellitus The subject invention concerns a process for the early detection of insulin dependent diabetes (IDD). The process described here enables the detection of the onset of IDD before clinical symptoms appear. The process involves the detection, in a sample of ... | 07/08/1997 |
| 5646000 | Compounds and methods for identifying activated platelets The invention is directed to a series of novel compounds, and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts, of the formula ##STR1## wherein R is C0-6 alkyl substituted with R5 or a mono or polycyclic aromatic or heteroaromatic system... | 07/08/1997 |
| 5643737 | Merozoite proteins for use in detection of Babesia equi in horses using immunological techniques The present invention relates to a purified and isolated merozoite protein which is a specific indicator of infection by Babesia equi (B. equi) in horses. This protein contains a conserved region found in all strains of B. equi. It has a molecular weight ... | 07/01/1997 |
| 5631138 | Method for the measurement of serum bile acids by elisa and method for the diagnosis of liver disease A method for the measurement of serum bile acids by ELISA comprising: preparing a bile acid active ester, reacting the ester with a bovine serum albumin solution, dialyzing, and immunizing a mammal other than human being with the dialyzate thus obtained a... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5629210 | Rapid screening test for smith-lemli-opitz syndrome A rapid screening test was used to distinguish between blood of normal infants and that of individuals having the Smith-Lemli-Opitz Syndrome (SLO). Blood was spotted on filter paper and analyzed with no extractions or separations. The method comprises the... | 05/13/1997 |
| 5624811 | Bilirubin oxidase from alfalfa and use of the enzyme Enzyme specific for bilirubin which has a phenol oxidase activity of less than 0.5% and an activity for biliverdin of less than 10%, a broad pH optimum as well as a good thermostability. The enzyme is obtainable from plants such as alfalfa and is suitable... | 04/29/1997 |
| 5624807 | Methods for detecting Alzheimer's disease by measuring ratios of calcium-activated neutral protease isoforms Methods for screening individuals for Alzheimer's disease are disclosed. Also disclosed are antibodies that immunochemically react with the isoforms of calcium-activated neutral proteinases which are characteristic of Alzheimer's disease. Also disclosed a... | 04/29/1997 |
| 5620864 | Acceptor for fucosyl transferase A biologically active oligosaccharide compound comprising at least two L hexose rings connected together by an ether oxygen atom. The ether oxygen atom is connected to a first of the rings at the first carbon atom to the right of the hexose ring oxygen at... | 04/15/1997 |
