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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2007
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2002
Hiroyuki Ebinuma, Ryugasaki, JP;
Kazunori Saito, Ryugasaki, JP;
Hirohito Sone, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki, JP;
Nobuhiro Yamada, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroyuki Ebinuma, Ryugasaki, JP;
Kazunori Saito, Ryugasaki, JP;
Hirohito Sone, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki, JP;
Nobuhiro Yamada, Tokyo, JP;
Daiichi Pure Chemicals Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Other;
Abstract
The present invention provides a screening method by which a prediabetic state can be more accurately determined and many test samples can be treated without physical burden on patients, and a diagnostic reagent used for it. By measuring a D-mannose concentration, preferably a D-mannose concentration and a glucose concentration, in a body fluid collected from a subject, and comparing them with their respective standard values, a patient in a prediabetic state can be detected. Further, the measurement of the mannose concentration is conducted by allowing an enzyme having an oxidizing activity on mannose by dehydrogenation to react on the mannose in a sample in the presence of an electron acceptor, and quantitatively determining the formed reductant of the electron acceptor.