TY - DATA T1 - Tōnyōbyō oyobi zentōnyō shōjyō no shindan no tameno hōhō PY - 2016/09/14 AU - Ian Ray Mckay AU - Merrill Joy Rowley AU - Pau Zev Zimmet UR - https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/standard/JP_3510888/3810885 DO - 10.4225/03/57D0A4DB69C23 L4 - https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/5934429 KW - Japan Patent Office KW - 2004 KW - jpn KW - Monash University Patents Collection KW - 1959.1/23468 KW - 1959.1/2726 KW - monash:2726 KW - JP3510889 KW - 1994 N2 - English title:  Methods for the diagnosis of diabetes and prediabetic conditionsA 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]This is Japanese language item ER -