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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:
Apr. 07, 1998
Filed:
Aug. 31, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
Kevin J Scanlon, Pasadena, CA (US);
Assignee:
City of Hope, Duarte, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12P / ; C12Q / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435-6 ; 435 912 ; 935 77 ; 935 78 ;
Abstract
This invention provides a process for detecting acquired resistance to any chemotherapeutic agent by any type of human cancer cell. The process comprises assaying RNA from human cancer cells to determine whether the expression of at least one of a preselected spectrum of least two different genes is increased in comparison to a control.