METHOD FOR DETECTING ESOPHAGEAL CANCER AND ESOPHAGEAL CANCER INHIBITOR

• Main Authors: TSUDA HITOSHI, INASAWA JOJI, KOMATSU SHUHEI, OZAKI KENICHI, IMOTO TOSHINARI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 07.10.2010
• Subjects: BEER; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS OR TEST PAPERS THEREFOR; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; CONDITION-RESPONSIVE CONTROL IN MICROBIOLOGICAL ORENZYMOLOGICAL PROCESSES; CULTURE MEDIA; ENZYMOLOGY; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIRCHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; MEASURING; MEASURING OR TESTING PROCESSES INVOLVING ENZYMES, NUCLEICACIDS OR MICROORGANISMS; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; METALLURGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; PHYSICS; PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL, OR TOILET PURPOSES; PROCESSES OF PREPARING SUCH COMPOSITIONS; PROPAGATING, PRESERVING OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; SPECIFIC THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY OF CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS ORMEDICINAL PREPARATIONS; SPIRITS; TESTING; VINEGAR; WINE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for detecting esophageal cancer by identifying a gene giving a behavior typical thereof or the like, and to provide a related-cell proliferation inhibitor. SOLUTION: The method for detecting esophageal cancer includes: in a subject in question, at least one of the amplifications of genes present in the 1q32 to 1q41 chromosome region is detected to detect a carcinogenesis. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT