Patent ID: 9706951
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: A61B,A61P,G01N

Claim:
1. A method for identifying urogenital changes associated with vaginal atrophy, the method comprising: a. measuring pH at the labia majora, labia minora, introitus, or combinations thereof; b. determining brush sensitivity at the introitus; c. assessing glycogen amount at the introitus; d. analyzing epithelial cells sampled at the introitus; e. assessing protein amount at the introitus or the labia majora or the labia minora; f. assessing metabolites amounts at the introitus or the labia majora or the labia minora; g. assessing histamine amount at the introitus or the labia majora or the labia minora; h. transcriptomic heat mapping at the labia majora or the labia minora or the introitus; and i. evaluating gene expression at the labia majora using a gene probe set.