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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2022
Filed:
Jul. 09, 2014
University of North Texas Health Science Center AT Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX (US);
Board of Regents, the University of Texas System, Austin, TX (US);
Sid E. O'Bryant, Aledo, TX (US);
Robert C. Barber, Benbrook, TX (US);
Guanghua Xiao, Coppell, TX (US);
Dwight German, Dallas, TX (US);
University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, Forth Worth, TX (US);
Board of Regents, The University of Texas System, Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
The present invention includes methods and kits for the diagnosing a neurological disease within primary care settings comprising: obtaining a blood test sample from a subject, measuring IL-7 and TNFα biomarkers in the blood sample, comparing the level of the one or a combination of biomarkers and neurocognitive screening tests with the level of a corresponding one or combination of biomarkers in a normal blood sample and neurocognitive screening tests, and predicting that an increase in the level of the blood test sample in relation to that of the normal blood sample indicates that the subject is likely to have a neurological disease.