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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 1985
Filed:
May. 06, 1983
Applicant:
Inventor:
William Shive, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Clayton Foundation for Research, Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N / ; G01N / ; C12Q / ; C12N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
424-2 ; 435-4 ; 435 29 ; 435240 ; 435241 ;
Abstract
Disclosed is a culture medium and methods for lymphocyte assessment of the nutritional status of humans by which repeatable and quantitative assays for deficiencies, abnormal requirements for or imbalances of vitamins, minerals and amino acids; for carbohydrate utilization, metabolism and imbalances and the like are obtained so that nutrition for each individual can be optimized thereby providing a significant impact on human health and productivity. Minimal amounts of lymphocytes and components of the culture medium are utilized making it possible to conduct a large number of nutritional assays with a small sample of blood.