Patent ID: 9372189
Filing Date: 2016-06-21
CPC Classification: C07K,G01N

Claim Text:
1. An assay for the discrimination of lymphocytic infundibuloneurohypophysitis, the assay comprising the following steps (a) to (c): (a) a step of providing a specimen derived from a subject suspected of having lymphocytic infundibuloneurohypophysitis, wherein the specimen is blood, plasma, serum, or cerebrospinal fluid; (b) a step of detecting an anti-rabphilin 3a antibody in the specimen with a labeled rabphilin 3a or a labeled antibody binding fragment of rabphilin 3a; and (c) a step of determining whether the subject has lymphocytic infundibuloneurohypophysitis, or the subject has the possibility of developing lymphocytic infundibuloneurohypophysitis, wherein the subject has infundibuloneurohypophysitis or the subject has the possibility of developing lymphocytic infundibuloneurohypophysitis when the detection result of step (b) is greater than a standard value, a control value, or a value of a previous specimen taken from the subject.