Patents Assigned to Masanori HARA
  • Publication number: 20100233738
    Abstract: The present invention is intended to develop a urine pretreatment agent, a urine pretreatment method, and a urinary protein quantitation method which reduce or cancel the influences of urine pH variations, cancel the influences of precipitates of urinary inorganic salts, and solubilize membrane proteins. The present invention provides: a urine pretreatment agent for urinary protein quantitation, comprising a buffer, a chelating agent, and a surfactant; a urine pretreatment method comprising a step of mixing 10 to 1000 parts by mass of the urine pretreatment agent of the present invention with 100 parts by mass of urine; and a urinary protein quantitation method comprising steps of: mixing 10 to 1000 parts by mass of the urine pretreatment agent of the present invention with 100 parts by mass of urine; and then measuring the protein concentration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicants: Niigata University, Masanori HARA, Denka Seiken Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanori Hara, Akihiko Saito, Shinya Ogasawara, Yoshiaki Hirayama, Hiroyuki Kurosawa