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US 7,405,047 B2Granted
Method for estimation of the amount of specific cell types
AssigneePhadia AB
InventorPer Venge
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Abstract
The present invention relates to the estimation of the amount of subtypes of specific cells, for example the number of certain subtypes of leukocytes, by measurements of unique proteins in extracts of blood and other biological material. The knowledge of the number or amount of specific subtypes of white cells is important in the clinical diagnosis and surveillance of subjects with inflammatory disease including infectious disease, cancer, allergy/asthma etc.
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A method for in vitro estimating an amount of specific cells in a patient sample using cell specific molecules, the method comprising
- a) extracting cell specific molecules from cells contained in an aliquot of the patient sample;
- b) measuring the concentration of at least two cell specific molecules in the extracted aliquot by immunological assay;
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- c) estimating the amount of specific cells that contained the at least two cell-specific molecules from a ratio between the measured concentrations of the cell specific molecules.
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