US 11,852,632 B2
Cancer test device, cancer test method, and staining agent for use in cancer test
Akira Mizoguchi, Mie (JP); Koji Tanaka, Mie (JP); Naoyuki Katayama, Mie (JP); Tetsuya Nosaka, Mie (JP); Kyosuke Tanaka, Mie (JP); Shujie Wang, Mie (JP); Aika Kaito, Mie (JP); Kousyoku Sai, Mie (JP); and Kazushi Kimura, Mie (JP)
Assigned to Mie University, Mie (JP)
Filed by MIE UNIVERSITY, Tsu (JP)
Filed on Oct. 12, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/964,758.
Application 17/964,758 is a division of application No. 16/301,939, granted, now 11,555,819, previously published as PCT/JP2017/018755, filed on May 18, 2017.
Application 16/301,939 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2017/006962, filed on Feb. 23, 2017.
Claims priority of application No. 2016-099997 (JP), filed on May 18, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2023/0037210 A1, Feb. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. G01N 35/00 (2006.01); G01N 33/574 (2006.01); G01N 1/30 (2006.01); G01N 1/31 (2006.01); G01N 21/78 (2006.01); G01N 33/48 (2006.01); G01N 21/64 (2006.01); A61B 1/00 (2006.01); G01N 33/483 (2006.01); C12M 1/00 (2006.01); G01N 33/50 (2006.01)
CPC G01N 33/57496 (2013.01) [A61B 1/00 (2013.01); G01N 1/30 (2013.01); G01N 1/31 (2013.01); G01N 21/64 (2013.01); G01N 21/78 (2013.01); G01N 33/48 (2013.01); C12M 41/06 (2013.01); G01N 33/4833 (2013.01); G01N 33/50 (2013.01); G01N 33/574 (2013.01); G01N 2001/302 (2013.01)] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cancer test method comprising:
an application step of applying a stain that selectively stains a cancer-related gene product of living cells in a chromatic color to a living cell group, wherein, the cancer-related gene product is STAT3-family cancer-related gene product that transmits a signal that promotes growth of the living cells and the stain is a curcumin-based compound;
an imaging step of imaging the living cell group to which the stain has been applied; and
an evaluation step of evaluating a grade of cancerization of the living cell group based on a staining state of the living cell group in an image produced by the imaging.