Patents by Inventor Masato Enari

Masato Enari 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).

  • Method and Detection of the Presence of Prions Protein
    Publication number: 20080108085
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods for determining the presence of prions in a tissue/organ or fluid therefrom; said method comprising the steps of: contacting the tissue/organ with one or more devices, wherein said devices are capable of binding prions; removing said devices from contact with said tissue/organ; determining if said devices are binding prions wherein the device is contacted with the tissue/organ for 120 minutes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2007
    Publication date: May 8, 2008
    Applicant: D-GEN LIMITED
    Inventors: Masato Enari, Eckhard Flechsig, John Collinge, Charles Weissmann
  • Transcriptional factor inducing apoptosis in cancer cell
    Publication number: 20060159692
    Abstract: A new method for treating cancer by inducing apoptosis exclusively in cancer cells and killing them is provided. The present invention relates to a transcriptional factor, comprising p53 or a mutated type p53, wherein one or more amino acids are deleted, substituted or added with respect to the amino sequence of p53, and clathrin heavy chains and having an activity to induce apoptosis of cancer cells. The transcriptional factor enhances the transcriptional activity of p53AIP1 promoter and induces apoptosis of cancer cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2004
    Publication date: July 20, 2006
    Inventors: Yoichi Taya, Masato Enari
  • Method
    Publication number: 20050221320
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for detecting a prion in a sample comprising providing a population of cells which are susceptible to prion infection, contacting the population of cells with the cells with the sample, incubating the cells on a growth substrate, assaying for prion colony formation wherein presence of prion colonies indicates presence of prions in the sample. The invention further relates to methods for quantifying the prions, and to cell lines sensitive to prion infection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2003
    Publication date: October 6, 2005
    Applicant: Medical Research Council
    Inventors: Masato Enari, Peter Kloehn, Eckhard Flechsig, Lars Stoltze, Charles Weissmann
  • Method
    Publication number: 20040132109
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods for determining the presence of prions in a tissue/organ or fluid therefrom; said method comprising the steps of: contacting the tissue/organ with one or more devices, wherein said devices are capable of binding prions; removing said devices from contact with said tissue/organ; determining if said devices are binding prions wherein the device is contacted with the tissue/organ for 120 minutes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2004
    Publication date: July 8, 2004
    Inventors: Masato Enari, Eckhard Flechsig, John Collinge, Charles Weismann
  • Agent
    Publication number: 20030049249
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of treating or preventing prion infection in a subject comprising administering to said subject a therapeutically effective amount of an agent wherein said agent cleaves PrPC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2001
    Publication date: March 13, 2003
    Inventors: Charles Weissmann, Masato Enari