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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:
Mar. 27, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 15, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hideaki Matsuoka, Musashino, JP;
Assignee:
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/000 ; A61B 5/00 ; A61B 8/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/000 ; A61B 5/00 ; A61B 8/00 ;
Abstract
A fluorescent imaging method of the changes in viability of living bodies wherein the living bodies are provided with a chemical or physical exterior stimulation and information on the changes in viability of cells caused by the stimulation is obtained by means of a fluorescent imaging method of the saccharide uptake activity by contacting or administering to the living bodies an aqueous solution of a fluorescent saccharide compound which includes at its specific position a saccharide molecule chemically combined with a fluorescent pigment molecule.