Patents by Inventor Keiko IMAMURA
Keiko IMAMURA has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20240034994Abstract: A cultured spherical body that is capable of easily performing quantitative analysis of a region containing brain neurons, useful as a supply source of neurons for transplantation, and can be used suitably for drug discovery screening for neurological diseases and compound evaluation systems is obtained. Provided are a cultured spherical body including a first cell layer containing neural stem cells and/or neural progenitor cells and a second cell layer containing brain neurons, wherein the first cell layer is present in the superficial portion of the cultured spherical body, and a method for producing the cultured spherical body.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2021Publication date: February 1, 2024Inventors: Haruhisa INOUE, Keiko IMAMURA, Takayuki KONDO, Ngoc Anh Suong DANG, Yoshikazu KATO
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Patent number: 11685919Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a therapeutic agent for hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) SPG4. Specifically, the present invention relates to a composition for preventing or treating a neurodegenerative disease such as hereditary spastic paraplegia SPG4, the composition comprising, as an active ingredient, a substance that inhibits a function of miR-33a.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2019Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: Kyoto UniversityInventors: Haruhisa Inoue, Koh Ono, Keiko Imamura, Takahiro Horie, Fumiko Nakazeki
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Publication number: 20230147364Abstract: A a prophylactic or therapeutic agent for RNA virus-related diseases is provided, the prophylactic or therapeutic agent containing, as an active ingredient, at least one compound selected from the group consisting of a selective estrogen receptor modulator, an anti-tuberculosis drug, a CysLT1 receptor antagonist, a peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor ? (PPAR?) agonist, an arachidonate 5-lipoxygenase (5-LOX) inhibitor, a derivative thereof, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and a pharmaceutically acceptable solvate thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2021Publication date: May 11, 2023Inventors: Haruhisa INOUE, Keiko IMAMURA, Jiro YASUDA, Yasuteru SAKURAI
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Publication number: 20230120205Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a neuron degeneration inhibitor. The present invention relates to a neuron degeneration inhibitor comprising a compound represented by the formula (I) wherein each symbol is as defined in the description, or a salt thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2021Publication date: April 20, 2023Applicant: KYOTO UNIVERSITYInventors: Haruhisa INOUE, Keiko IMAMURA, Makoto FURUSAWA, Masaaki FUNATA, Satoru HAYASHI, Keisuke IMAMURA, Takahiro SUGIMOTO
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Publication number: 20220296548Abstract: A prophylactic or therapeutic agent for tauopathy, containing an inhibitor of ?2? of the voltage-dependent calcium channel is provided by the present invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2020Publication date: September 22, 2022Inventors: Haruhisa Inoue, Keiko Imamura, Makoto Higuchi, Naruhiko Sahara, Maiko Ono
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Patent number: 11393383Abstract: A display control device includes: a circle setting unit that sets a reference circle that serves as the reference for a scale mark layout; a scale mark position determining unit that determines the position of a scale mark on the reference circle; a rectangle setting unit that sets a number display rectangle of the size corresponding to the number of digits of the indication number indicating the value corresponding to the scale mark; a rectangle position determining unit that determines the layout position of the number display rectangle from the position of the scale mark, using a calculating formula that has been set on the basis of the size of the reference circle and the size of the number display rectangle; and a number display unit that displays a number in the number display rectangle, and the calculating formula is designed so that, in a case where a straight line extending through the center of the reference circle on a display screen is set as a symmetrical axis, number display rectangles for dispType: GrantFiled: November 13, 2020Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Hirohiko Higuchi, Kenichi Ogawa, Keiko Imamura
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Publication number: 20220215544Abstract: An information processing device includes: an acquirer configured to acquire images obtained by imaging cells differentiated from pluripotent stem cells derived from a subject; and a predictor configured to input the images acquired by the acquirer to a model trained on data in which information indicating at least an intractable neurological disease is associated with an image obtained by imaging the cells of the intractable neurological disease differentiated from the pluripotent stem cells, and predict an onset of the intractable neurological disease of the subject based on output results of the model to which the images were input.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2020Publication date: July 7, 2022Inventors: Haruhisa INOUE, Keiko IMAMURA, Yuichiro YADA
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Publication number: 20220122272Abstract: A display processing device includes: a processor to execute a program; and a memory to store the program which, when executed by the processor, performs processes of: (a) extracting a plurality of movement lines representing trajectories of moving bodies that leave a first area and arrive in a second area and/or trajectories of moving bodies that leave the second area and arrive in the first area; (b) obtaining, for each of the movement lines extracted by process (a), N-1 division points by dividing the movement line by a division number N, N being an integer not less than 2; (c) calculating N-1 average points by averaging coordinates of the division points obtained by process (b) and belonging to the different movement lines; and (d) drawing a movement line that passes through the N-1 average points obtained by process (c), the first area, and the second area.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2021Publication date: April 21, 2022Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yusuke NAKATA, Yoshiyuki KATO, Keiko IMAMURA
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Patent number: 11179411Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide ASO that can effectively suppress a formation of RNA foci spontaneously occurring in neurons having SCA36 mutation, without inducing the cleavage of NOP56 pre-mRNA. The present invention provides an oligonucleotide comprising a nucleotide sequence in which one or more nucleotide sequences represented by SEQ ID NO: 2 are consecutively connected and is complementary to pre-mRNA of NOP56 gene, wherein a structure formed by the hybridization of the oligonucleotide to the pre-mRNA is resistant to RNaseH.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2018Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: KYOTO UNIVERSITYInventors: Haruhisa Inoue, Keiko Imamura, Kosuke Matsuzono
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Publication number: 20210189395Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a therapeutic agent for hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) SPG4. Specifically, the present invention relates to a composition for preventing or treating a neurodegenerative disease such as hereditary spastic paraplegia SPG4, the composition comprising, as an active ingredient, a substance that inhibits a function of miR-33a.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2019Publication date: June 24, 2021Applicant: KYOTO UNIVERSITYInventors: Haruhisa INOUE, Koh ONO, Keiko IMAMURA, Takahiro HORIE, Fumiko NAKAZEKI
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Publication number: 20210065609Abstract: A display control device includes: a circle setting unit that sets a reference circle that serves as the reference for a scale mark layout; a scale mark position determining unit that determines the position of a scale mark on the reference circle; a rectangle setting unit that sets a number display rectangle of the size corresponding to the number of digits of the indication number indicating the value corresponding to the scale mark; a rectangle position determining unit that determines the layout position of the number display rectangle from the position of the scale mark, using a calculating formula that has been set on the basis of the size of the reference circle and the size of the number display rectangle; and a number display unit that displays a number in the number display rectangle, and the calculating formula is designed so that, in a case where a straight line extending through the center of the reference circle on a display screen is set as a symmetrical axis, number display rectangles for dispType: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2020Publication date: March 4, 2021Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hirohiko HIGUCHI, Kenichi OGAWA, Keiko IMAMURA
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Publication number: 20200368267Abstract: The present invention provides a prophylactic and/or therapeutic agent for ALS containing a Src/c-Abl pathway inhibitor.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2018Publication date: November 26, 2020Applicant: KYOTO UNIVERSITYInventors: Haruhisa INOUE, Keiko IMAMURA
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Publication number: 20200222443Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide ASO that can effectively suppress a formation of RNA foci spontaneously occurring in neurons having SCA36 mutation, without inducing the cleavage of NOP56 pre-mRNA. The present invention provides an oligonucleotide comprising a nucleotide sequence in which one or more nucleotide sequences represented by SEQ ID NO: 2 are consecutively connected and is complementary to pre-mRNA of NOP56 gene, wherein a structure formed by the hybridization of the oligonucleotide to the pre-mRNA is resistant to RNaseH.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2018Publication date: July 16, 2020Inventors: Haruhisa INOUE, Keiko IMAMURA, Kosuke MATSUZONO
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Patent number: 10519421Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a method of producing motor neurons/neurons that sufficiently reproduce intrinsic properties of motor neurons/neurons, especially of the motor neurons/neurons in patients, from pluripotent stem cells promptly and synchronically, and a pluripotent stem cell capable of differentiating into a neuron or a motor neuron promptly and synchronically after a drug treatment. A method of generating a motor neuron from a pluripotent stem cell, comprising the following steps in order from (1) to (2): (1) introducing one or more nucleic acids encoding Lhx3, Ngn2, and Isl1 into a pluripotent stem cell; and (2) maintaining expression of the Lhx3, Ngn2, and Isl1 for three days or more.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2014Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: KYOTO UNIVERSITYInventors: Haruhisa Inoue, Keiko Imamura, Takayuki Kondo
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Publication number: 20180209962Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method for screening for a prophylactic or therapeutic agent for tauopathy capable of blocking the propagation of tau-mediated neurodegeneration. A method for screening for a prophylactic or therapeutic agent for tauopathy, comprising the following steps (1) to (3): (1) contacting neurons having a mutant MAPT gene with a test substance; (2) measuring any one index selected from the group consisting of the following (a) to (e) in the neurons: (a) the amount of a tau oligomer in a culture supernatant.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2015Publication date: July 26, 2018Inventors: Haruhisa INOUE, Keiko IMAMURA
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Publication number: 20180000771Abstract: The present invention provides a prophylactic and/or therapeutic agent for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), which contains one or more kinase inhibitors selected from the group consisting of an epithelial cell growth factor receptor (EGFR) inhibitor, a fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR) inhibitor, an Aurorakinase inhibitor, a protein kinase A (PKA) inhibitor, a protein kinase C (PKC) inhibitor, an MEK inhibitor, an Met inhibitor, a JNK inhibitor, a Syk inhibitor and a JAK inhibitor, a prostaglandin analogue and an estrogen receptor antagonist, or one or more kinase inhibitors selected from the group consisting of Tivozanib and an analog thereof, SB 216763, Cdk2 Inhibitor II, BUDESONIDE, RIBOFLAVIN, alpha-TOCHOPHEROL, AMODIAQUINE, SU9516, Sunitinib and an analog thereof, GSK-3 Inhibitor XIII, Bisindolylmaleimide I, HYDROQUINONE, FLUNISOLIDE, MGCD-265, Indirubin-3?-monoxime, HYDRASTINE (1R,9S), PIPERINE, BUTAMBEN, Axitinib and an analog thereof, APOMORPHINE, FENBUFEN, Bosutinib (SKI-606) and an analogType: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2016Publication date: January 4, 2018Applicant: KYOTO UNIVERSITYInventors: Haruhisa INOUE, Keiko IMAMURA
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Publication number: 20160046905Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a method of producing motor neurons/neurons that sufficiently reproduce intrinsic properties of motor neurons/neurons, especially of the motor neurons/neurons in patients, from pluripotent stem cells promptly and synchronically, and a pluripotent stem cell capable of differentiating into a neuron or a motor neuron promptly and synchronically after a drug treatment. A method of generating a motor neuron from a pluripotent stem cell, comprising the following steps in order from (1) to (2): (1) introducing one or more nucleic acids encoding Lhx3, Ngn2, and Isl1 into a pluripotent stem cell; and (2) maintaining expression of the Lhx3, Ngn2, and Isl1 for three days or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2014Publication date: February 18, 2016Inventors: Haruhisa INOUE, Keiko IMAMURA, Takayuki KONDO