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AssigneeAjinomoto Co., Inc.
InventorsYasuyo SUGA, Maiko MORI, Masaki HASHIMOTO, Manabu SUZUKI, Tomomi MORIGUCHI, Takaaki KAWAGUCHI, Keiko SAITO, Masakazu TAKAZOE
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The present invention provides a reagent and a method of safely, conveniently, and specifically diagnosing Crohn's disease. Provided are a diagnostic method for Crohn's disease in a subject, including measuring antibodies against one kind or more of dietary components selected from the group consisting of grapefruit, alfalfa, avocado, cabbage, green pepper, lettuce, onion, potato (white), spinach, tomato, oat, pecan, yeast, cane sugar, celery, buckwheat, corn, rice and soy, and a diagnostic reagent or kit for Crohn's disease, containing the above-mentioned preparation of a dietary component.
A diagnostic method for Crohn's disease in a subject, comprising measuring antibodies against one kind or more of dietary components selected from the group consisting of grapefruit, alfalfa, avocado, cabbage, green pepper, lettuce, onion, potato (white), spinach, tomato, oat, pecan, yeast, cane sugar, celery, buckwheat, corn, rice and soy (with the provision that when measuring an antibody against one kind of dietary component, the dietary component is other than celery, buckwheat, corn, yeast and soy) in a specimen collected from the subject.
A reagent for diagnosis of Crohn's disease comprising a preparation of a dietary component selected from the group consisting of grapefruit, alfalfa, avocado, cabbage, green pepper, lettuce, onion, potato (white), spinach, tomato, oat, pecan, rice and cane sugar.
A kit for diagnosis of Crohn's disease comprising a preparation of two kinds or more of dietary components selected from the group consisting of grapefruit, alfalfa, avocado, cabbage, green pepper, lettuce, onion, potato (white), spinach, tomato, oat, pecan, yeast, cane sugar, celery, buckwheat, corn, rice and soy.
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