Abstract:
To provide a cancer diagnostic method capable of detecting evidence presenting the presence of cancer cells in early stage cancer. Cancer diagnostic method comprised of; a process to obtain the sample containing RNA only as a somatic cell and cancer cell fraction from body fluid and a process having a reverse transcription reaction step to generate cDNA using reverse transcriptase from the sample containing said RNA only and a PCR reaction step utilizing fluorescent dye using the following primers for hTERT, CGGAAGAGTGTCTGGAGCAA and GGATGAAGCGGAGTCTGGA to quantify the PCR product amplified by the PCR reaction using the fluorescent dye binding to the PCR product.
Abstract:
The invention relates to low-molecular-weight compounds which are capable of inducing differentiation of mesenchymal stem cell into hepatocytes.
Abstract:
The purpose is to select low-molecular-weight compounds which are effective in inducing differentiation of mesenchymal stem cell into hepatocyte and to develop a safe differentiation-inducing method having excellent efficiency of differentiating mesenchymal stem cell into hepatocyte. Provided are at least one compound selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by formulae (1) and (2), a salt thereof, or a solvate of them; a differentiation inducer comprising at least one compound selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by formulae (1) and (2), a salt thereof, or a solvate of them; and a differentiation inducer comprising a compound represented by formula (8), a salt thereof, or a solvate of them.