Abstract: This invention relates to methods of testing, diagnosing, monitoring, prognostically stratifying and classifying disease, disorders and other medical conditions and physiological states through the detection and analysis of soluble CD antigens in a body fluid sample.
Type:
Application
Filed:
September 25, 2008
Publication date:
July 16, 2009
Applicants:
Cambridge University Technical Services Limited (CUTS), Medical Research Council, Addenbrookes NHS Trust
Inventors:
Cesar Milstein, Celia Prilleltensky-Milstein, Charles Nicholas Hales, Margaret Hales, Adrian Woolfson
Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of cluster of differentiation (CD) molecules in detecting the presence and progression of one or more disease states in an individual. In particular it relates to the use of profiles of shed CD (sCD) molecules in detecting and assessing the progression of one or more disease states in an individual. Further uses of sCD profiles according to the present invention are also described.
Type:
Application
Filed:
March 7, 2003
Publication date:
October 4, 2007
Applicants:
Cambridge University Technical Service Limited (CUTS), Medical Research Council, Addenbrookes NHS Trust
Inventors:
Cesar Milstein, Celia Milstein, Adrian Woolfson, Charles Hales, Margaret Hales