EVALUATION METHOD OF BONE QUALITY, EVALUATION KIT FOR BONE QUALITY, SCREENING METHOD OF BONE QUALITY DETERIORATION PREVENTING OR IMPROVING AGENT, AND KIT FOR SCREENING BONE QUALITY DETERIORATION PREVENTING OR IMPROVING AGENT

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method capable of evaluating accurately a bone quality, and to reduce a patient load, especially in the case of an evaluation method using a bone cell-producing material amount in serum as an index, since the method is a nondestructive inspection not requiring extraction of a bone tissue. SOLUTION: In the evaluation method of the bone quality, at least either of a bone cell and a bone cell-producing material is used as an index. An evaluation kit for the bone quality includes an antibody against the bone cell or the bone cell-producing material, or a gene probe to a gene of the bone cell-producing material. In a screening method of a bone quality deterioration preventing or improving agent, existence of the bone cell and/or the bone cell-producing material is used as an index. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT