US 7,615,355 B2
	Peripheral-type benzodiazepine receptor expression level as an index of organ damage and regeneration
Vassilios Papadopoulos, N. Potomac, Md. (US); and Thierry Hauet, Saint Benoit (France)
Assigned to Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. (US)
Appl. No. 10/512,060 PCT Filed Apr. 22, 2003, PCT No. PCT/US03/12385 § 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Dec. 08, 2005, PCT Pub. No. WO03/089930, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 30, 2003.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/374136, filed on Apr. 22, 2002.
Prior Publication US 2006/0099582 A1, May 11, 2006
Int. Cl. G01N 33/53 (2006.01)

U.S. Cl. 435—7.1  [435/40.5]

6 Claims

1. A method for determining an index of organ health in the course of transplantation therapy comprising measuring an expression level of peripheral-type benzodiazepine receptor (PBR) in an organ, wherein the organ is a kidney, whereby said index is determined by correlating the expression level of PBR with an assessment of organ health.