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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 03, 2013
Kyoto Prefectural Public University Corporation, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto, JP;
The Doshisha, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto, JP;
Senju Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Osaka-shi, Osaka, JP;
Takahiro Nakamura, Kyotanabe, JP;
Noriko Koizumi, Kyotanabe, JP;
Naoki Okumura, Kyotanabe, JP;
Shigeru Kinoshita, Kyoto, JP;
Kana Tominaga, Kyoto, JP;
Satoshi Kawasaki, Kyoto, JP;
KYOTO PREFECTURAL PUBLIC UNIVERSITY CORPORATION, Kyoto, JP;
THE DOSHISHA, Kyoto, JP;
SENJU PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a differentiation marker and a differentiation controlling technique for an eye cell. More particularly, the present invention has attained an object of providing a differentiation marker for an eye cell among the aforementioned problems, by providing a marker for identifying a cell having a high proliferation ability among corneal endothelial cells and/or the differentiation ability of a corneal endothelial cell, the marker comprising GPR49/LGR5, as well as a detection agent or detection method for identifying a cell having a high proliferation ability among corneal endothelial cells and/or the differentiation ability of a corneal endothelial cell, comprising a substance binding to GPR49/LGR5. In addition, the present invention has attained an object of providing a differentiation controlling technique for an eye cell, by providing an agent for suppressing differentiation and/or promoting proliferation of an eye cell, comprising R-spondins.