Abstract:
Problem to be SolvedAn object of the present invention is to provide a separase sensor for visualizing separase activity in a living cell. Another object is to develop a function analysis system of cell division using the separase sensor and further obtain a simple screening method for an anticancer agent.SolutionThe separase sensor of the present invention has two types of fluorescent proteins different in fluorescence wavelength at both ends of an amino acid sequence containing a separase cleavage site and a localization-targeting sequence targeting to a specific site within a cell. Since timing of activating separase and location of separase in a cell can be specified by use of the sensor, cell division can be analyzed and an anticancer agent can be screened.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a small compound targeting at TACC3. The present invention further provides a drug, particularly, an anticancer agent, comprising the small compound targeting at TACC3. A compound represented by the general formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, solvate, or ester derivative thereof binds to TACC3 and inhibits cell growth. Thus, these compounds can be used as drugs, particularly, anticancer agents.
Abstract:
A evaluation method of an anticancer drug includes culturing a cell structure containing a cancer cell and a stromal cell in a presence of one or two or more of anticancer drugs and evaluating an anticancer effect of the anticancer drug using, as an index, the number of cells having a proliferation ability of the cancer cell in the cell structure after the culturing, in which a signal transduction pathway in the cancer cell stimulated by a hepatocyte growth factor, a placental growth factor, or a vascular endothelial growth factor is more activated than a signal transduction pathway in a normal cell.
Abstract:
For diagnosing gastric cancer by magnifying endoscopy with narrow-band imaging or endocytoscopy with narrow-band imaging where light of narrow-band width is used for observation, a high-performance diagnostic method was established. In place of staining with a dye conducted in other organs, pronase is orally administered prior to endoscopic examination and topically administered under endoscopic observation as needed. In this manner, endoscopy can be performed without promoting production of mucosal fluid. In conventional endoscopic examination, a lesion is found and definitive diagnosis is made based on pathological examination. In contrast, this method can provide high diagnostic performance, suggesting that accurate diagnosis equivalent to that provided by pathological examination can be made by endoscopy. Removal of mucosal fluid with pronase is useful in magnifying endoscopy and endocytoscopy.
Abstract:
Provided are a diagnostic imaging device, diagnostic imaging method, diagnostic imaging program, and learned model with which gastric cancer diagnosis can be carried out in real time during endoscopic examination performed using NBI in combination with a magnifying endoscope. The diagnostic imaging device comprises an endoscopic video image acquisition unit which emits narrow-band light at a subject's stomach and acquires an endoscopic video image captured while the stomach is in a state of magnified observation, and an estimation unit which uses a convolutional neural network, which has been caused to learn using gastric cancer images and non-gastric cancer images as training data, to estimate the presence of gastric cancer in the acquired endoscopic video image, and outputs estimation results.
Abstract:
Provided are 2-(piperidin-1-yl)pyrimidin-4(3H)-ones or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, each characterized by having a 1,8-diazaspiro[4.5]deca-3-ene, 1-oxa-8-azaspiro[4.5]deca-3-ene, 2,8-diazaspiro[4.5]deca-3-ene, 2-oxa-8-azaspiro[4.5]deca-3-ene, 2,9-diazaspiro[5.5]undeca-3-ene, 1-oxa-9-azaspiro[5.5]undeca-3-ene, 1,9-diazaspiro[5.5]undeca-4-ene, or 3,9-diazaspiro[5.5]undeca-1-ene structure represented by the following general formula (1):
Abstract:
An object of the invention is to provide a method for detecting cancer in a simple and highly accurate manner, and a reagent that can be used in the method. A method for detecting cancer (excluding renal cell cancer), which comprises measuring the level of Azurocidin (AZU1) in a sample, in which it is determined that cancer is detected when a measured value exceeds a preset reference value. The cancer is preferably selected from the group consisting of stomach cancer, breast cancer, colorectal cancer, and lung cancer. A reagent containing an antibody that specifically recognizes AZU1 is used in detecting cancer (excluding renal cell cancer).
Abstract:
Provided is an information processing apparatus including an image supply unit that supplies a plurality of input images showing corresponding objects to an image processing unit and obtains a plurality of object images as an image processed result from the image processing unit, and a display control unit that synchronously displays the plurality of object images that have been obtained. The object images are regions including the corresponding objects extracted from the plurality of input images, and orientations, positions, and sizes of the corresponding objects of the plurality of object images are unified.
Abstract:
It is intended to provide a method for determining a tumor. The method for determining a tumor comprises: (1) treating genomic DNA prepared from a subject tissue or cell with bisulfite (the subject tissue or cell is derived from a patient who is affected by a tumor and is determined as (i) having MSI-H of the tumor in MSI examination and/or no or reduced expression of MLH1 in the tumor in immunohistochemical examination, and (ii) having no mutation in MLH1 in genetic examination); 2) amplifying, by PCR, DNA comprising a portion or the whole of MLH1 promoter region from the bisulfite-treated DNA; 3) subjecting the PCR amplification product to ion exchange chromatography to obtain a detection signal; 4) determining whether or not the peak of the detection signal is a peak indicating highly methylated DNA; and 5) determining the tumor as a tumor derived from a patient without Lynch syndrome when the peak is determined as a peak indicating highly methylated DNA.
Abstract:
Provided is a compound having a tyrosine kinase inhibitory activity specific to C797S resistant mutant EGFR (particularly C797S tertiary-resistant mutant EGFR) and is useful as a C797S resistant mutant EGFR (particularly C797S mutant tertiary-resistant EGFR) specific tyrosine kinase inhibitor, an agent for preventing and/or treating non-small cell lung cancer with resistance mutant EGFR and the like, and the like. A compound represented by the formula (I): wherein X is O or NH, R1 and R2 are each independently a hydrogen atom or an optionally substituted hydrocarbon group; R3 and R4 are each independently a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom or an optionally substituted hydrocarbon group, and R5 and R6 are each independently an optionally substituted hydrocarbon group, excluding the following compounds: or a salt thereof.