Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Normal-tension glaucoma model and method for evaluation of test substances by using same
- Patent Title (中): 正常眼压青光眼模型及其使用方法
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Application No.: US12668838Application Date: 2008-07-11
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Publication No.: US08367887B2Publication Date: 2013-02-05
- Inventor: Takuma Hayashi , Yasuko Takahashi , Tomoko Yanagidaira , Shunichiro Taniguchi , Toshinori Murata
- Applicant: Takuma Hayashi , Yasuko Takahashi , Tomoko Yanagidaira , Shunichiro Taniguchi , Toshinori Murata
- Applicant Address: JP Matsumoto-Shi
- Assignee: Shinshu University
- Current Assignee: Shinshu University
- Current Assignee Address: JP Matsumoto-Shi
- Agency: Oliff & Berridge, PLC
- Priority: JP2007-183306 20070712
- International Application: PCT/JP2008/062616 WO 20080711
- International Announcement: WO2009/008511 WO 20090115
- Main IPC: G01N33/00
- IPC: G01N33/00 ; A01K67/027 ; A01K67/033

Abstract:
It is intended to provide a simple normal-tension glaucoma model capable of spontaneously, age-dependently and surly developing conditions similar to symptoms of normal-tension glaucoma which occurs more frequently in elder people, and a method of evaluating therapeutic effect on normal-tension glaucoma whereby a drug useful in treating and diagnosing can be conveniently screened by using the normal-tension glaucoma model. A normal-tension glaucoma model comprising a nonhuman mammal, which is deficient in a transcriptional regulator NF-κBp50 and thus spontaneously develops the normal-tension glaucoma symptom age-relatedly, an organ or a tissue thereof or cells collected from any of the same. A method of evaluating therapeutic effect on normal-tension glaucoma of a test substance which comprises administering or adding the test substance to the above-described nonhuman mammal, an organ or a tissue thereof or cells collected from any of the same, and measuring a morphological defect, cell count, pressure, the expression amount or activity strength of a protein, the expression amount of a nucleic acid and/or the activity strength of an antibody in the organ, tissue and/or cells as indication(s) for the evaluation.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100204311A1 NORMAL-TENSION GLAUCOMA MODEL AND METHOD FOR EVALUATION OF TEST SUBSTANCES BY USING SAME Public/Granted day:2010-08-12
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