Patents by Inventor Takeshi UJIKE

Takeshi UJIKE 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 FOR DETECTING CANCER BONE METASTASIS AND DETECTION REAGENT
    Publication number: 20230053846
    Abstract: A problem to be addressed by the present invention is to provide: a method for detecting bone metastasis of cancer (excluding castration resistant prostate cancer) in a simple and highly accurate manner; and a reagent that can be used in the method. Bone metastasis of cancer (excluding castration resistant prostate cancer) is detected by measuring an intact growth and differentiation factor 15 (GDF15) propeptide level, a GDF15 propeptide fragment level, and the total of an intact GDF15 propeptide level and a GDF15 propeptide fragment level in a sample. The above described method for detecting bone metastasis of cancer includes a method for detecting bone metastasis of prostate cancer other than castration resistant prostate cancer, renal cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer, thyroid cancer, pancreatic cancer, bladder cancer, colon cancer, melanoma, myeloma, or lymphoma.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicants: OSAKA UNIVERSITY, TOSOH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Motohide UEMURA, Norio NONOMURA, Takeshi UJIKE, Shohei MYOBA, Norihisa OHTAKE