Patents by Inventor Shiro Kitano

Shiro Kitano 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).

  • Publication number: 20240117313
    Abstract: A method for producing a three-dimensional tissue construct comprising mature adipocytes, comprising incubating cells comprising at least fat-derived stein cells in the presence of one or more fatty acids selected from the group consisting of erucic acid, elaidic acid, oleic acid, palmitoleic acid, myristoleic acid, phytanic acid, and pristanic acid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicants: TOPPAN INC., OSAKA UNIVERSITY, Kyoto Prefectural Public University Corporation
    Inventors: Shiro KITANO, Michiya MATSUSAKI, Fiona LOUIS, Yoshihiro SOWA
  • Publication number: 20230407266
    Abstract: A primary culture method in which cells contained in a tissue collected from a living body are primary cultured in vitro, in which the cells in the tissue collected from the living body are seeded and cultured on a top surface of a cell structure containing cells constituting a stroma and composed of a single layer or two or more cell layers laminated in the thickness direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicants: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD., Japanese Foundation For Cancer Research
    Inventors: Yuki TAKAHASHI, Shiro KITANO, Ryohei KATAYAMA, Satoshi NAGAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230389540
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for freezing a cell structure including freezing a cell structure including fragmented extracellular matrix components, cells and fibrin and having a three-dimensional tissue structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicants: OSAKA UNIVERSITY, TOPPAN INC., Kyoto Prefectural Public University Corporation
    Inventors: Michiya MATSUSAKI, Fiona LOUIS, Shiro KITANO, Yoshihiro SOWA
  • Publication number: 20230323310
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a three-dimensional tissue body, including: a step of obtaining a mixture by mixing a cationic substance and a fragmented extracellular matrix component with cells; and a step of culturing the cells after the step of obtaining the mixture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicants: TOPPAN INC., OSAKA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Tomoko KUNITOMI, Shiro KITANO, Kei TSUKAMOTO, Michiya MATSUSAKI
  • Patent number: 11781115
    Abstract: A primary culture method in which cells contained in a tissue collected from a living body are primary cultured in vitro, in which the cells in the tissue collected from the living body are seeded and cultured on a top surface of a cell structure containing cells constituting a stroma and composed of a single layer or two or more cell layers laminated in the thickness direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignees: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD., JAPANESE FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH
    Inventors: Yuki Takahashi, Shiro Kitano, Ryohei Katayama, Satoshi Nagayama
  • Publication number: 20230287356
    Abstract: A method of producing a three-dimensional cell tissue include obtaining a mixture including cells, a cationic substance, an extracellular matrix component and a polyelectrolyte, gelling the mixture such that a gel composition including the cells, cationic substance, extracellular matrix component and polyelectrolyte is obtained; and incubating the gel composition such that a three-dimensional cell tissue is obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: TOPPAN Inc.
    Inventors: Shiro KITANO, Kei TSUKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11746382
    Abstract: A method of detecting somatic mutations of tumor marker genes includes recovering a peripheral blood mononuclear cell layer from a blood sample collected from a subject and examining whether or not a nucleic acid derived from tumor marker genes having somatic mutations is detected from DNA included in the peripheral blood mononuclear cell layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignees: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD., NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Shiro Kitano, Takeshi Yamada, Goro Takahashi, Takuma Iwai, Koki Takeda
  • Publication number: 20230203452
    Abstract: A method of producing a conditioned medium for culturing a patient-derived cancer cell, including culturing, in a first medium for 24 hours or longer, a three-dimensional cell tissue including an extracellular matrix component, a polymer electrolyte, and a cell cluster including a fibroblast, and collecting the first medium in which the three-dimensional cell tissue has been cultured as the conditioned medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: TOPPAN Inc.
    Inventors: Kei TSUKAMOTO, Shiro KITANO, Tomoko KUNITOMI
  • Publication number: 20230201426
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a gel composition containing at least one selected from the group consisting of an extracellular matrix component and a fragmented extracellular matrix component, and an ion of a metal element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicants: TOPPAN INC., Osaka University
    Inventors: Shiro KITANO, Michiya MATSUSAKI, Hidehiro SAKURAI, Yuta UETAKE
  • Publication number: 20230203451
    Abstract: A method for producing a three-dimensional cell structure having a vascular network, including preparing a mixture of a cationic substance, a polyelectrolyte, an extracellular matrix component, and a cell population including endothelial cells, collecting, from the mixture, a cell aggregate including the cell population, the cationic substance, the polyelectrolyte, and the extracellular matrix component, and culturing a collected cell aggregate in a medium. The mixture includes the extracellular matrix at a concentration of 1.0×10?8 mg/mL or more and less than 2.5×10?2 mg/mL.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: TOPPAN Inc.
    Inventors: Mizuho SUZUKI, Shiro KITANO
  • Publication number: 20230193211
    Abstract: A method for producing a three-dimensional cell structure includes preparing a mixture of a cationic substance, an extracellular matrix component, a polyelectrolyte, and a cell population including endothelial cells and mouse-derived stromal cells, which exclude mouse-derived endothelial cells, collecting a cell aggregate from the mixture, and culturing a collected cell aggregate to obtain a three-dimensional cell structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: TOPPAN Inc.
    Inventors: Rii MORIMURA, Isana NADA, Shiro KITANO
  • Publication number: 20230121965
    Abstract: An evaluation device for evaluating an anticancer effect includes a learning information acquisition unit that acquires learning data that includes state information which indicates at least a cancer state in an unspecified subject and training data that is information about an effect of an anticancer agent obtained by administering the anticancer agent to cells collected from the subject, a learning unit that generates a prediction model by causing a learning model to perform supervised learning for a corresponding relationship between the learning data and the training data, and a prediction unit that makes related predictions to therapy using the anticancer agent with the prediction model. The learning information acquisition unit acquires the information about the anticancer effect obtained by administering the anticancer agent to a three-dimensional cell structure including cancer cells collected from the unspecified subject and cells constituting a stroma as the training data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicants: TOPPAN INC., Japanese Foundation For Cancer Research
    Inventors: Shiro KITANO, Eiji SHINOZAKI
  • Publication number: 20230110381
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for controlling the Young’s modulus of a three-dimensional tissue containing cells and an extracellular matrix by adjusting the average diameter of an extracellular matrix in production of the three-dimensional tissue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicants: OSAKA UNIVERSITY, TOPPAN INC.
    Inventors: Michiya MATSUSAKI, Naoko SASAKI, Shiro KITANO, Shinji IRIE
  • Publication number: 20220411750
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a cell structure including cells containing at least hepatocytes and vascular endothelial cells, and extracellular matrix component, wherein the extracellular matrix components are disposed between the cells, and a liver sinusoidal network is provided between the cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicants: TOPPAN INC., Osaka University
    Inventors: Yasuyuki HIRAOKA, Shiro KITANO, Shinji IRIE, Michiya MATSUSAKI
  • Patent number: 11492652
    Abstract: A method of assessing a possibility of cancerization including culturing a cell structure including normal cells and having a vascular network structure in a presence of a biological specimen from a subject, and assessing a possibility of cancerization in the subject based on a state of vessels in the cell structure after the culturing. The biological specimen is a body fluid specimen from the subject, a cell extract of cells from the subject, or a culture supernatant of cells from the subject, and the possibility of cancerization is assessed as high in the subject when a number of cells forming the vessels in the cell structure is larger than a number of cells cultured in an absence of the body fluid specimen, or when the vascular network structure in the cell structure extends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shiro Kitano, Kei Tsukamoto, Shinji Irie
  • Publication number: 20220341918
    Abstract: Provided is a cell structure including: a connective tissue structure; and an epithelial structure placed on the connective tissue structure, in which the connective tissue structure contains a fragmented extracellular matrix component and first cells including mesenchymal cells, at least a part of the fragmented extracellular matrix component is placed between the first cells, and the epithelial structure contains epithelial cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicants: TOPPAN INC., Osaka University
    Inventors: Shiro KITANO, Shinji IRIE, Michiya MATSUSAKI, Naoko SASAKI, Atsuo AMANO, Hiroki TAKEUCHI
  • Patent number: 11479764
    Abstract: A method of separating a target double-stranded nucleic acid molecule from a sample including the target double-stranded nucleic acid molecule and a non-target double-stranded nucleic acid molecule, including (1) mixing the sample, a pyrrole-imidazole-containing polyamide (first PI polyamide) modified with a first linker molecule and capable of specifically binding to a sequence of the target double-stranded nucleic acid molecule, and a carrier a modified with a first ligand capable of specifically binding and/or adsorbing to the first linker molecule such that a mixed solution is produced, (2) forming a complex A by binding the carrier a to the first PI polyamide with which the target double-stranded nucleic acid molecule is bound in the mixed solution, and (3) separating the complex A from the mixed solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Nagase, Kei Tsukamoto, Shiro Kitano
  • Publication number: 20220170911
    Abstract: Disclosed is a cell structure comprising: a fragmented extracellular matrix component; and cells, wherein the cell structure comprises an intercellular vascular network, and the cells comprise at least adipocytes and vascular endothelial cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicants: TOPPAN INC., OSAKA UNIVERSITY, Kyoto Prefectural Public University Corporation
    Inventors: Shiro KITANO, Shinji IRIE, Michiya MATSUSAKI, Fiona LOUIS, Yoshihiro SOWA
  • Publication number: 20220145242
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an extracellular matrix-containing composition containing a fragmented extracellular matrix component and a compound bound or adsorbed to the fragmented extracellular matrix component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicants: TOPPAN INC., OSAKA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Shiro KITANO, Shinji IRIE, Michiya MATSUSAKI
  • Publication number: 20220133952
    Abstract: A method may comprises bringing cells suspended in an aqueous medium into contact with a plurality of fragmented collagen pieces and, after the cells brought into contact with the plurality of fragmented collagen pieces and the plurality of fragmented collagen pieces are concentrated, culturing the cells brought into contact with the fragmented collagen pieces, with the plurality of fragmented collagen pieces, to form a three-dimensional tissue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicants: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD., OSAKA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Michiya MATSUSAKI, Shinji IRIE, Shiro KITANO