Hitachi Metals, Ltd.

Tohoku University

Otsuka Pharmaceutical Company, Limited

Kei Takahashi

Kazuo Hokkirigawa

Makoto Inada

Takeshi Yamaguchi

Kei Shibata

Hideki Katagiri

Tetsuya Yamada

Osamu Murakami

Keiko Kawata

Mika Hayashi

Kimiyoshi Sudoh

An object of the disclosure is to provide a composition for evaluating the hepatic glucose uptake capacity of a subject and a method for evaluating the hepatic glucose uptake capacity of a subject with the composition. An object of the disclosure is to provide a method for determining the stage of pre-onset diabetes in a subject with pre-onset diabetes using the method for evaluating the hepatic glucose uptake capacity. An aspect of the disclosure accordingly provides a composition comprisingC-labeled glucose for evaluating the hepatic glucose uptake capacity of a subject. Another aspect of the disclosure provides a method comprising measuringC-labeled glucose in a blood sample or an expired air sample obtained from the subject to which the composition was administered. The desired evaluation or determination can be achieved by comparing the measured value with a reference value.

Method of evaluating hepatic glucose uptake capacity

An elastic composite material containing a base polymer of a simple substance or a mixture of rubber or thermoplastic elastomer as a base material, and a hard porous carbon material containing carbide of defatted bran and carbide of phenolic resin. The hard porous carbon material is added in a ratio of 200 parts or more by weight relative to 100 parts by weight of the base polymer.

Elastic composite material and mold product using the same

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Kei Takahashi