CD73 AS A BIOMARKER FOR MONITORING DEVELOPMENT OF DISEASES AND ASSESSING THE EFFICACY OF THERAPIES

摘要

The invention concerns a method for monitoring the development of a disease in a patient, or for assessing the efficacy of a cytokine therapy or a statin therapy in a patient, in which methods CD73 in a tissue fluid drawn from said patient is used as a biomarker. The invention concerns also methods for determining of CD73 protein in a sample drawn from an individual's tissue fluid.