Patents by Inventor Yasinari Matsuzaka

Yasinari Matsuzaka 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).

  • Inflammatory skin disease-related slurp-2 gene and utilization thereof
    Publication number: 20070009515
    Abstract: The present inventors used microarrays to identify a novel gene from cDNA clones showing significantly different gene expression in normal tissues compared to psoriasis lesion tissues. This gene was named secretory Ly-6/uPAR-related protein-2 (SLURP-2). Quantitative real-time RT-PCR analysis using total RNA extract was used to compare SLURP-2 gene expression between psoriatic lesional skin, non-lesional skin, and normal skin, to indicate that the SLURP-2 gene is significantly upregulated in psoriasis lesions. Thus, SLURP-2 gene can be used as a diagnostic marker for inflammatory skin diseases such as psoriasis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2003
    Publication date: January 11, 2007
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Inoko, Hitomi Tsuji, Kouichi Okamoto, Yasinari Matsuzaka, Gen Tamiya