Abstract: A set of contiguous and partially overlapping cDNA sequences and polypeptides encoded thereby, designated as BL172 and transcribed from urinary tract tissue, is described. These sequences are useful for the detecting, diagnosing, staging, monitoring, prognosticating, in vivo imaging, preventing or treating, or determining the predisposition of an individual to diseases and conditions of the urinary tract, such as urinary tract cancer. Also provided are antibodies which specifically bind to BL172-encoded polypeptide or protein, and agonists or inhibitors which prevent action of the tissue-specific BL172 polypeptide, which molecules are useful for the therapeutic treatment of urinary tract diseases, tumors or metastases.

Abstract: A set of contiguous and partially overlapping cDNA sequences and polypeptides encoded thereby, designated as PCIGF and transcribed from prostate tissue, is described. These sequences are useful for the detecting, diagnosing, staging, monitoring, prognosticating, in vivo imaging, preventing or treating, or determining the predisposition of an individual to diseases and conditions of the prostate, such as prostate cancer. Also provided are antibodies which specifically bind to PCIGF-encoded polypeptide or protein, and agonists or inhibitors which prevent action of the tissue-specific PCIGF polypeptide, which molecules are useful for the therapeutic treatment of prostate diseases, tumors or metastases.

Abstract: A set of contiguous and partially overlapping cDNA sequences and polypeptides encoded thereby, designated as PS108 and transcribed from prostate tissue, is described. These sequences are useful for the detecting, diagnosing, staging, monitoring, prognosticating, in vivo imaging, preventing or treating, or determining the predisposition of an individual to diseases and conditions of the prostate, such as prostate cancer. Also provided are antibodies which specifically bind to PS108-encoded polypeptide or protein, and agonists or inhibitors which prevent action of the tissue-specific PS108 polypeptide, which molecules are useful for the therapeutic treatment of prostate diseases, tumors or metastases.

Abstract: A set of contiguous and partially overlapping cDNA sequences and polypeptides encoded thereby, designated as PS118 and transcribed from prostate tissue, is described. These sequences are useful for the detecting, diagnosing, staging, monitoring, prognosticating, preventing or treating, or determining the predisposition of an individual to diseases and conditions of the prostate, such as prostate cancer. Also provided are antibodies which specifically bind to PS118-encoded polypeptide or protein, and agonists or inhibitors which prevent action of the tissue-specific PS118 polypeptide, which molecules are useful for the therapeutic treatment of prostate diseases, tumors or metastases.

Abstract: A set of contiguous and partially overlapping cDNA sequences and polypeptides encoded thereby, designated as BS135 and transcribed from breast tissue, is described. These sequences are useful for the detecting, diagnosing, staging, monitoring, prognosticating, in vivo imaging, preventing or treating, or determining the predisposition of an individual to diseases and conditions of the breast, such as breast cancer.

Abstract: A set of contiguous and partially overlapping cDNA sequences and polypeptides encoded thereby, designated as LS170 and transcribed from lung tissue, is described. These sequences are useful for the detecting, diagnosing, staging, monitoring, prognosticating, in vivo imaging, preventing or treating, or determining the predisposition of an individual to diseases and conditions of the lung, such as lung cancer. Also provided are antibodies which specifically bind to a LS170-encoded polypeptide or protein, and agonists or inhibitors which prevent action of tissue-specific LS170 polypeptides, which molecules are useful for the therapeutic treatment of lung diseases, tumors or metastases.

Abstract: A set of contiguous and partially overlapping cDNA sequences and polypeptides encoded thereby, designated as BS274 and transcribed from breast tissue, is described. These sequences are useful for the detecting, diagnosing, staging, monitoring, prognosticating, in vivo imaging, preventing or treating, or determining the predisposition of an individual to diseases and conditions of the breast, such as breast cancer.

Abstract: A set of contiguous and partially overlapping cDNA sequences and polypeptides encoded thereby, designated as BS325 and transcribed from breast tissue, is described. These sequences are useful for the detecting, diagnosing, staging, monitoring, prognosticating, in vivo imaging, preventing or treating, or determining the predisposition of an individual to diseases and conditions of the breast, such as breast cancer.

Abstract: A set of contiguous and partially overlapping CDNA sequences and polypeptides encoded thereby, designated as BS265 and transcribed from breast tissue, is described. These sequences are useful for the detecting, diagnosing, staging, monitoring, prognosticating, in vivo imaging, preventing or treating, or determining the predisposition of an individual to diseases and conditions of the breast, such as breast cancer.

Abstract: A set of contiguous and partially overlapping cDNA sequences and polypeptides encoded thereby, designated as BS124 and transcribed from breast tissue, is described. These sequences are useful for detecting, diagnosing, staging, monitoring, prognosticating, preventing or treating, or determining the predisposition of an individual to diseases and conditions of the breast, such as breast cancer. Also provided are antibodies which specifically bind to a BS124-encoded polypeptide or protein, and agonists or inhibitors which prevent action of the tissue-specific BS124 polypeptide, which molecules are useful for the therapeutic treatment of breast diseases, tumors or metastases.

Abstract: A set of contiguous and partially overlapping cDNA sequences and polypeptides encoded thereby, designated as PS118 and transcribed from prostate tissue, is described. These sequences are useful for the detecting, diagnosing, staging, monitoring, prognosticating, preventing or treating, or determining the predisposition of an individual to diseases and conditions of the prostate, such as prostate cancer. Also provided are antibodies which specifically bind to PS118-encoded polypeptide or protein, and agonists or inhibitors which prevent action of the tissue-specific PS118 polypeptide, which molecules are useful for the therapeutic treatment of prostate diseases, tumors or metastases.

Abstract: A set of contiguous and partially overlapping cDNA sequences and polypeptides encoded thereby, designated as PCIGF and transcribed from prostate tissue, is described. These sequences are useful for the detecting, diagnosing, staging, monitoring, prognosticating, in vivo imaging, preventing or treating, or determining the predisposition of an individual to diseases and conditions of the prostate, such as prostate cancer. Also provided are antibodies which specifically bind to PCIGF-encoded polypeptide or protein, and agonists or inhibitors which prevent action of the tissue-specific PCIGF polypeptide, which molecules are useful for the therapeutic treatment of prostate diseases, tumors or metastases.

Abstract: A set of contiguous and partially overlapping cDNA sequences and polypeptides encoded thereby, designated as CS 198 and transcribed from GI tract tissue, is described. These sequences are useful for detecting, diagnosing, staging, monitoring, prognosticating, preventing or treating, or determining the predisposition of an individual to diseases and conditions of the GI tract, such as GI tract cancer. Also provided are antibodies which specifically bind to CS 198-encoded polypeptide or protein, and agonists or inhibitors which prevent action of the tissue-specific CS 198 polypeptide, which molecules are useful for the therapeutic treatment of GI tract diseases, tumors or metastases.

Abstract: The present invention relates to improved specific binding assay methods, kits and devices utilizing chromatographically mobile specific binding reagents labelled with colloidal particles. Specific binding reagents labelled with colloidal particles such as gold and selenium may be subjected to rapid chromatographic solvent transport on chromatographic media by means of selected solvents and chromatographic transport facilitating agents. Further, impregnation of solid substrate materials with labile protein materials including colloidal particle and enzyme labelled reagents in the presence of meta-soluble proteins provides for the rapid resolubilization of such materials which have been dried onto such substrate materials.

Abstract: A set of contiguous and partially overlapping cDNA sequences and polypeptides encoded thereby, designated as PS108 and transcribed from prostate tissue, is described. These sequences are useful for the detecting, diagnosing, staging, monitoring, prognosticating, in vivo imaging, preventing or treating, or determining the predisposition of an individual to diseases and conditions of the prostate, such as prostate cancer. Also provided are antibodies which specifically bind to PS108-encoded polypeptide or protein, and agonists or inhibitors which prevent action of the tissue-specific PS108 polypeptide, which molecules are useful for the therapeutic treatment of prostate diseases, tumors or metastases.

Abstract: The invention relates to multiplex ligase chain reaction (LCR). Two or more putative target sequences are selected. For each one, a set of four probes is used simultaneously to amplify the putative sequence if it is present in the sample. Preferably, all the amplicons are labeled with a common label/hapten and, for each different target, with a unique label/hapten. The invention also relates to an immunochromatographic strip device and method employing a diagonal array of capture spots.

Abstract: Polypeptides and polynucleotides useful for detecting, diagnosing, staging, monitoring, prognosticating, in vivo imaging, preventing or treating, or determining the predisposition of an individual to diseases and conditions of the urinary tract, such as urinary cancer, are described. These sequences are derived from keratin/cytokeratin, CAS, or mat-8 polypeptides and polynucleotides. Also provided are antibodies which specifically bind to keratin/cytokeratin, CAS, or mat-8-encoded polypeptides or proteins, which molecules are useful for the therapeutic treatment of urinary tract diseases, tumors or metastases.

Abstract: A novel member of the uteroglobin family of proteins, designated as BU101, is described. BU101 is defined by a set of contiguous and partially overlapping RNA sequences transcribed from breast tissue, and polypeptides encoded thereby. A fully sequenced clone representing the longest continuous sequence of BU101 is also disclosed. These sequences are useful for the detecting, diagnosing, staging, monitoring, prognosticating, preventing or treating, or determining the predisposition of an individual to diseases and conditions of the breast such as breast cancer. Also provided are antibodies which specifically bind to BU101-encoded polypeptide or protein, and agonists or inhibitors which prevent action of the tissue-specific BU101 polypeptide, which molecules are useful for the therapeutic treatment of breast diseases, tumors or metastases.

Abstract: A set of contiguous and partially overlapping cDNA sequences and polypeptides encoded thereby, designated as PS108 and transcribed from prostate tissue, is described. These sequences are useful for the detecting, diagnosing, staging, monitoring, prognosticating, in vivo imaging, preventing or treating, or determining the predisposition of an individual to diseases and conditions of the prostate, such as prostate cancer. Also provided are antibodies which specifically bind to PS108-encoded polypeptide or protein, and agonists or inhibitors which prevent action of the tissue-specific PS108 polypeptide, which molecules are useful for the therapeutic treatment of prostate diseases, tumors or metastases.

Abstract: A set of contiguous and partially overlapping RNA sequences and polypeptides encoded thereby, designated as PS112 and transcribed from prostate tissue is described. A fully sequenced clone representing a continuous sequence of PS112 is also disclosed. These sequences are useful for the detecting, diagnosing, staging, monitoring, prognosticating, preventing or treating, or determining the predisposition of an individual to diseases and conditions of the prostate, such as prostate cancer. Also provided are antibodies which specifically bind to PS112-encoded polypeptide or protein, and agonists or inhibitors which prevent action of the tissue-specific PS112 polypeptide, which molecules are useful for the therapeutic treatment of prostate diseases, tumors or metastases.