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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:
Dec. 08, 1998
Filed:
Jan. 06, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Michael N Gould, Madison, WI (US);
Steven P Stoesz, Morristown, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Madison, WI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N / ; G01N / ; G01N / ; C07K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435-71 ; 435-721 ; 435-723 ; 435-77 ; 435-772 ; 435-78 ; 435-79 ; 435-791 ; 435-792 ; 435 4052 ; 435 4051 ; 435 405 ; 5303871 ; 530350 ; 5303877 ;
Abstract
A method of determining the proliferative status of a carcinoma is disclosed. One obtains a patient sample and then quantitatively analyzes the sample for NGAL gene expression product. The amount of NGAL expression product is compared with a standard curve to determine the S-phase value. The sample can be breast tissue or breast fluid aspirate. Alternatively, blood can by analyzed for this marker to diagnose metastasis.