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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 1996
Filed:
Mar. 17, 1993
Hiroshi Watanabe, Hiki, JP;
Mikio Akita, Kawagoe, JP;
Kohsei Gotoh, Higashimatsuyama, JP;
Kazuyuki Kitamura, Sakado, JP;
Hoechst Japan Limited, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An animal tissue antigen for osteoporotic patients that reacts with antibody in a serum of human osteoporotic patients, but does not react with that in normal human serum. Preferably, a specific antigen for osteoporotic patients in rat or mouse epithelium of tongue mucous membrane, epithelium of tracheal mucous membrane, upper lip epidermis or follicular epithelium containing upper lip hair shafts, or a specific antigen for osteoporotic patients contained in cultured cells of a human squamous cell tongue carcinoma cell lines such as SCC-9 and fibroblast cell lines such as MRC-5. Osteoporosis can be both specifically and easily diagnosed by bringing the above-mentioned antigen in contact with a serum of a subject and then testing for the presence of an antigen-antibody reaction.