%0 Standard %A Mckay, Ian Ray %A Rowley, Merrill Joy %A Zimmet, Pau Zev %D 2016 %T Tōnyōbyō oyobi zentōnyō shōjyō no shindan no tameno hōhō %U https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/standard/JP_3510888/3810885 %R 10.4225/03/57D0A4DB69C23 %2 https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/5934429 %K Japan Patent Office %K 2004 %K jpn %K Monash University Patents Collection %K 1959.1/23468 %K 1959.1/2726 %K monash:2726 %K JP3510889 %K 1994 %X
English title:  Methods for the diagnosis of diabetes and prediabetic conditions

A method for detecting autoantibodies to glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) in the serum of a patient as diagnostic of a diabetic or prediabetic condition in the patient, comprises contacting a serum sample from the patient with a GAD antigen and detecting binding of autoantibodies to GAD in the sample by the GAD antigen, wherein the GAD antigen comprises a GAD preparation containing an enhanced amount of dimer(s) or oligomer(s) of the 65 kD or 67 kD isoforms, or both, of GAD. A diagnostic kit is also inclosed. [Abstract from Spanish version of this patent]

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%I Monash University