Teijin Limited

Yukiya Koike

Yataro Ichikawa

Yoshihiko Sumi

Nobuo Aoki

Koji Suzuki

Daishiro Miura

Kenji Wakabayashi

Nobuhiko Yoshida

Shoko Ogata

The objects of the present invention are to solve low test efficiency and low accuracy which are problems encountered in the conventional methods for testing myelotoxicity of a drug by observing smears. To this end, markers for discriminating and identifying hematopoietic stem cells and blood cells at various differentiation stages in bone marrow are identified. From this point of view, cell surface antigens are specified. Thus, it is found that the myelotoxicity of a drug can be evaluated with a high efficiency at a high accuracy by using flow cytometry to analyze for a change in the quantity of bone marrow-derived cells expressing the cell surface antigens after administration of the drug to an animal.

Method of testing myelotoxicity with the use of flow cytometer

This invention provides a monoclonal antibody or its fragment specific to a human .alpha..sub.2 -plasmin inhibitor, said antibody having the function of specifically blocking that site of the human .alpha..sub.2 -plasmin inhibitor which inhibits the fibrinolytic activity of plasmin, and of suppressing said fibrinolytic activity inhibiting function of said .alpha..sub.2 -plasmin inhibitor, and also a hybridoma capable of producing the monoclonal antibody. Said monoclonal antibody or its fragment is useful for the immunological determination of a human .alpha..sub.2 -plasmin inhibitor, the separation or recovery of a human .alpha..sub.2 -plasmin inhibitor from a liquid containing the human .alpha..sub.2 -plasmin inhibitor, and the treatment of a thrombotic disease.

Monoclonal antibody specific to human .alpha..sub.2 -plasmin inhibitor

In methods for immunologically assaying free lipoprotein associated coagulation inhibitor (hereafter abbreviated as 'LACI') in a human inspection sample using a first antibody immobilized on an insoluble carrier and a labeled second antibody, a method for immunological assay of free LACI and a kit therefor wherein

Method for immunological assay of free lipoprotein associated

A method of immunologically determining free human protein S in an assay sample, which comprises contacting a primary antibody fixed to an insoluble solid carrier and a labelled secondary antibody with the assay sample, the primary and secondary antibodies having the property of binding to different epitopes of free human protein S, and one of the primary and secondary antibodies being a monoclonal antibody having the property of not binding to a complex of the human protein S and human complement cofactor C4b-binding protein (C4bp) but specifically binding to the free human protein S. Also provided is a method of immunologically determining a complex of human protein S and human complement cofactor C4b-binding protein (C4bp) in an assay sample, which comprises contacting a primary antibody fixed to an insoluble solid carrier and a labelled secondary antibody with the assay sample, one of the primary and secondary antibodies being a monoclonal antibody having the property of not binding to free human protein S and human complement cofactor C4b-binding protein (C4bp) but binding specifically to the complex, and the other being an antibody having the property of binding to the human complement cofactor C4b-binding protein (4Cbp).

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Hino, Japan

Yukiya Koike