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An apparatus and method for controlling the orientation, geometry, shape or length of an inserted catheter is provided to optimize it's position during procedures for treating cardiac arrhythmia by ablation based on functions derived from one or more parameters including the temporal relationship between intracardiac signals, patient anatomy, cardiac tissue electrical properties, imaging data, and other criteria that may include previously stored data collected from one or more patients who have had successful therapy delivered.

The present invention relates to a negative pressure wound closure system and methods for using such a system. Preferred embodiments of the invention facilitate closure of the wound by preferentially contracting to provide for movement of the tissue. Preferred embodiments can utilize tissue grasping elements to apply a wound closing force to the tissue.

A radiation-curable composition for optical fiber coatings comprising about 10 wt. % to about 90 wt. % of at least one radiation-curable oligomer (A), about 10 wt. % to about 90 wt. % of at least one radiation-curable monomer diluent (B), and an effective amount of at least one photoinitiator (C) represented by formula (1): wherein Ar1 to Ar3 are aromatic groups which may have one or more substitution groups.

Methods of modifying stem cells and compositions of modified stem cells, in particular mesenchymal stem cells, using electric or electromagnetic fields. In various embodiments, the present invention's methods are for the treatment of a human or other mammal subject in need thereof, comprising providing an in vitro culture comprising mesenchymal stem cells, administering an electric stimulation to the in vitro culture, and implanting the mesenchymal stem cells into the subject. Methods also include treatment of a human or other mammal subject, comprising implanting mesenchymal stem cells into the subject, and administering an electric stimulation to the mesenchymal stem cells in situ. Other embodiments include methods of administering electric stimulation in conjunction with growth factors to stem cells.

The invention relates to a Chinese medicinal preparation for treating cancer, and the Chinese medicinal preparation is prepared from 110 raw material drugs, such as yew, barbed skullcap herb, hairyvein agrimony and laggera pterodonta. The preparation can be oral solution, granules, powder, capsules, electuary and tablets. 110 Chinese medicaments are adopted, and monarch, minister, assistant and guide drugs are reasonably compatible and are comprehensively taken to play the effect of treating both principal and secondary aspect of cancers. The raw material drugs adopted in the Chinese medicinal preparation are common Chinese medicaments, and are low in manufacture cost and small in side effect. The medicament has the advantages of capabilities of effectively strengthening the body immunity and attacking pathogen without hurting a body along with quick response, high curative rate, high heal rate, low relapse rate, treatment of both principal and secondary aspect of cancers, safety and reliability, and can be used for treating various types of cancers, especially lung cancer, gastric cancer, liver cancer, esophagus cancer, pancreatic cancer, cervical cancer and breast cancer.

The present invention relates to a negative pressure wound closure system and methods for using such a system. Preferred embodiments of the invention facilitate closure of the wound by preferentially contracting to provide for movement of the tissue. Preferred embodiments can utilize tissue grasping elements to apply a wound closing force to the tissue.

A two-part screw system for use in bone repair and joint replacement includes a first portion and a second portion capable of mating with the first portion. The first portion includes a thread for engaging cancellous bone within a portion of a bone on one side of a fracture. The second portion is coupled to a retention mechanism that couples a portion of the bone on opposite sides of the fracture to a portion of the bone having the first portion of the two-part screw.

The invention discloses a traditional Chinese medicine preparation for treating cancer, which is prepared by 103 types of bulk drugs such as solidago decurrens, Chinese sage herb, hypericum japonicumand the like. A preparation method of the traditional Chinese medicine preparation comprises the following steps: preparing the bulk drugs into water extract by a conventional method; using the prepared water extract for preparing oral solution by a traditional method; drying the obtained water extraction, then conducting grinding and sieving; taking the throughs for extracting powder, and using the extracted powder for preparing tablets, granules, electuaries or capsules by a traditional method. The preparation method also can be as follows: sieving out the dust of the bulk drugs, conductinggrinding and sieving, taking the throughs, conducting disinfection and sterilization to obtain raw powder, and using the raw powder for preparing tablets, granules, electuaries or capsules by a traditional method. With drugs mixed rationally, the traditional Chinese medicine preparation addresses both the symptoms and root causes of cancer. The bulk drugs are frequently-used common Chinese drugs,have low preparation cost and small side effect, and can effectively enhance own immunity, attack pathogen while do not damage body. The traditional Chinese medicine preparation can cure various typesof cancer, particularly lung cancer, stomach cancer, liver cancer, esophageal cancer, pancreatic cancer, cervical cancer and breast cancer.

This invention is directed to methods for treating conditions which present with low bone mass in a patient in need thereof using continuous combination therapy with a synergistically effective combination of an EP₄ receptor selective agonist or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, such as 5-(3-{2S-[3R-hydroxy-4-(3-trifluoromethyl-phenyl)-butyl]-5-oxo-pyrrolidin-1-yl}-propyl)-thiophene-2-carboxylic acid or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; and an estrogen or a pharmaceutically effective salt thereof, The present methods are useful for treating conditions that present with low bone mass including osteoporosis, osteotomy, osteoporotic fracture, childhood idiopathic bone loss, periodontitis and low bone mass and for enhancing bone healing following facial reconstruction, maxillary reconstruction or mandibular reconstruction, inducing vertebral synostosis, enhancing long bone extension, enhancing the healing rate of a bone graft or a long bone fracture or enhancing prosthetic ingrowth in a patient in need thereof.

A surgical drain device includes a matrix of biodegradable polymer material and a plurality of drain tubes attached to the matrix. The device is implanted within a surgical wound to treat the presence of seromas, for example, and is used to promote drainage, tissue adhesion, and wound closure. The drain tubes converge into a common collection tube that leads wound fluid outside the body under gravity feed or negative pressure applied to the collection tube. The matrix contains an array of apertures that allow tissue contact across the device. A preferred embodiment comprises a tissue anchoring system including anchor elements such as hooks or barbs. The device can be used with a negative pressure system to further improve the drainage band can also be used with a wound dressing. The device and systems containing the device are particularly useful to promote the healing of surgical wounds from abdominal surgery.

The invention discloses a medicament for treating deficiency of kidney, frequent micturition, urgent urination and prostatitis, which is prepared from 38 Chinese medicinal herbs: common curculigo rhizome, tuber fleeceflower root, ginseng, hippocamp, common macrocarpium fruit, malaytea scurfpea, siberian solomonseal rhizome, hairy antler, songaria cynomorium herb, root of red-rooted salvia, sevenlobed yam rhizome, epimedium, astragalus, raw rehmannia root, prepared rehmannia root, cochinchnese asparagus root, ophiopogon root, shizandra berry, medlar, cinnamomvine, white poria, seal's genitals, hawthorn fruit, raspberry, chaff flower root, platycladi seed, eucommia bark, Chinese angelica, medicinal indianmulberry root, south dodder seed, desertliving cistanche, polygala root, phellodendron, anemarrhena root, cassia bark, placenta, prepared common monkshood daughter root and black sesame seed. The medicament has the advantages of addressing both symptoms and root causes along with appropriate compatibility, good curative effect, short treatment course, high cure rate, low recurrence rate, no toxic or side effect, convenience for application, low treatment cost and the like.

The present invention belongs to the field of Chinese medicine technology, and provides one kind of plaster for treating arthralgia. The plaster is prepared with dragon's blood, curcuma, dahurian angelica root, Chinese ephedra, pubescent angelica root, and other Chinese medicinal materials. Clinical application for years shows that the plaster has high curative effect, no toxic side effect, and other advantages, and can heal arthralgia radically.

The teachings provided herein generally relate to site-activated binding systems that selectively increase the bioactivity of phenolic compounds at target sites. More particularly, the systems taught here include a phenolic compound bound to a reactive oxygen species, wherein the phenolic compound and the reactive oxygen species react at a target area in the presence of an oxidoreductase enzyme.

The invention relates to an antibody chip kit for diagnosis of various tumors. The kit includes an antibody chip, a tumor marker standard substance mixture, a biotin-labeled tumor marker detection antibody mixture, and a fluorescein Cy3-labeled streptavidin, wherein the antibody chip includes a substrate, 16 kinds of tumor marker specific antibodies fixed on the surface of the substrate, and two kinds of positive controls, and the tumor marker standard substance mixture is a freeze-dried mixture obtained by mixing 16 kinds of standard tumor marker standard substances together according to a certain amount. The kit can detect 16 clinical commonly used tumor markers, overcomes the defects of complicated operation, single detection index, low sensitivity and the like in the prior art, has the advantages of being cheap, convenient, sensitive, accurate, high in throughput, and less in amount of samples, and can be popularized and large-scaled in common laboratories.

The invention relates to a combined drug for treatment of cow hoof disease. The drug comprises ethylenediamine dihydroiodide and copper sulfate that are mixed in a mass ratio of 1:2-2:3. The ethylenediamine dihydroiodide can react with copper sulfate to release free elementary iodine, free state iodine atom has ultrastrong oxidation, and can enable protein denaturation and destroy the cell membrane structure of pathogens, thereby achieving the purposes of preventing infection and treating cow hoof disease. The drug provided by the invention has the advantages of short treatment cycle, high cure rate and no pollution to the environment and milk production.

A Chinese medicine for treating osteophyte, rheumatic or rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, ischias, lumbar intervertebral disc protrusion, periomethritis, etc includes the enterior-applied pills prepared from 46 Chinese-medicinal materials and the exterior-applied ointment prepared from 54 Chinese-medicinal materials.

The invention discloses a health preserving wine which is prepared from ginseng, gastrodia tuber, scorpion, hairy deerhorn, saussurea involucrate, earthworm, black-tail snake, ganoderma lucidum, Sichuan aconite root, Kusnezoff monkshood root, frankincense, myrrh, dipsacus root, east Asian tree fern rhizome, eucommia bark, homalomena rhizoma, ledebouriella root, ledebouriella root, Schizonepeta tenuifolia, centipede, cassia twig, Japanese yam, Tripterygium wilfordii, orienavine, achyranthes and cyathula root, batryticated silkworm, spatholobus stem, Clematis chinensis, asaryl, slice of aconite, fleece-flower root, notopterygium root, safflower, large-leaf gentian root, pubescent angelica root, Chinese angelica root, root of red rooted saliva, pawpaw, cortex acanthopanacis, leeches, radix paeoniae rubrathe, Chinese starjasmine, dried body of ground beetle, fructus lycii, kudzu vine root, epimeddium, Ligusticum wallichii, astragalus root, Loranthus mulberry mistletoe, and can be used for treating cerebrovascular diseases, hemiplegia, arthritis, periarthritis humeroscapularis and ischialgia.

There are provided devices for applying negative pressure to a wound in an endoluminal surface of a patient to facilitate healing of the wound and methods for use of the devices. The device (69, 94, 134, 140, 156, 164) comprises a flexible porous element with an outer face defined between opposite proximal and distal ends of the porous element. A suction tube (30) for being connected to a suction source externally of the patient's body is in fluid communication with the porous element (14) to apply the negative pressure to the wound via the outer face of the porous element. In some embodiments, the porous element has a longtitudinal passageway (16) for passage of bodily substances of the patient along the lumen defining the endoluminal surface through the porous element. In such embodiments, the device may also have at least one absorbent element (70, 80) for absorbing the bodily substances and which is disposed forwardly or rearwardly of the porous element (14). Embodiments of the device may also include a drainage tube (22) for collection and drainage of bodily substances from the patient and which is received in the longtitudinal passageway (16) of the porous element. In other embodiments, the porous element can be in the form of a mat wrapped around a feeding or other insertion tube. The porous element of a device embodied by the invention may also include one or more irrigation channels (85, 86) for delivery of an irrigation fluid into or though, the porous element. The porous element and/or absorbent element(s) may be sponge(s).

A method for manufacturing a microlens includes: ejecting liquid drops containing a material for forming microlenses from a liquid drop ejection head to make the liquid drops land on a substrate; and irradiating the liquid drops with ultraviolet light at least once at a time period between after the ejection of the liquid drops and immediately after the landing of the liquid drops on the substrate. In addition, an apparatus for manufacturing a microlens, includes: a liquid drop ejection head that ejects liquid drops containing a material for forming microlenses; a table that supports a substrate above which the microlenses are to be formed; and an ultraviolet light radiating device that irradiates with ultraviolet light one of: the liquid drops that are flying from the liquid drop ejection head to the substrate; and the liquid drops that has landed on the substrate.

The invention relates to a medicament for treating fractures and a preparation method thereof. The medicament comprises a bone-knitting plaster, a bone-knitting powder and a bone-knitting capsule, wherein the bone-knitting plaster comprises frankincense, myrrh, radix clematidis, red-rooted salvia roots, sesame oil, yellow lead, and the like; the bone-knitting powder comprises raidx astragali, Chinese angelica, licorice roots, Xueye, and the like; and the bone-knitting capsule comprises radix bupleuri, red peony, dipsacus asperoides, peach kernels, and the like. When in use, the bone-knitting plaster is used together with the bone-knitting powder or the bone-knitting capsule. The medicament can effectively treat fractures, bone joint dislocations, intervertebral disc protrusions and hyperosteogeny and have obvious treatment effect and high cure rate on symptoms such as delayedunions, nonunions, and the like. The medicament has no toxic or side effects, can be taken by both adults and children, is simple and convenient to operate and use, can be widely applied to various types of fractures and external wounds of different parts at different ages and is popular for patients.

The invention relates to an oral traditional Chinese medicine for treating skin diseases. The oral traditional Chinese medicine is prepared from radix lithospermi, rhizoma smilacis glabrae, fructus gardeniae, cortex dictamni, common peony roots, radix scrophulariae, rehmanniae radix, isatis indigotica forts, radix sophorae flavescentis, lalang grass rhizome, flos sophorae, radix sileris, puncturevine caltrop fruits, red-rooted salvia roots, ligusticum wallichii, large-leaved gentian, processed polygonum multiflorum, Chinese angelica, white paeony roots and licorice roots. The oral traditional Chinese medicine is a pure traditional Chinese medicine prescription, reduces the recurrence rate of psoriasis and obviously improves the cure rate. In the invention, by mixing the Chinese angelica, the white paeony roots, the isatis indigotica forts and the licorice roots for use, the organism immunity can be enhanced greatly and the problem of recurrence of the psoriasis due to cold and pharyngitis can be solved. The oral traditional Chinese medicine has high effective rate to the psoriasis more than 98 percent and also has 100 percent cure rate to conventional skin diseases such as acne, cutaneous pruritus, pityriasis rosea, eczema, lichen planus, neurodermatitis, urticaria, seborrheic dermatitis, and the like.

The device (10, 36, 38, 42, 68) applies a negative pressure to an endoluminal surface in the body of a patient to facilitate healing of a wound in the endoluminal surface. The device comprises a flexible porous element (14) with a peripheral outer face (32) for contact with the wound, the outer face being defined between opposite proximal and distal ends of the porous element. A suction tube (30) for being connected to a suction source externally of the patient's body is provided in fluid communication with the porous element to apply a negative pressure to the wound via the outer face (32) of the porous element (14) upon operation of the suction source. The porous element (14) has at least one through passageway (16) extending from its proximal end to its distal end for passage of bodily substances of the patient through the porous element. The device can also include a drainage tube (22) for collection and drainage of the bodily substances from the patient, wherein the drainage tube is received in the through passageway of the porous element. The device is particularly suitable for assisted healing of anastomotic wounds but its use is not limited thereto.

Two-component adhesive or sealing compounds (K), comprising a first component (K1), containing silane-terminated prepolymers (A), which have end groups of the general formula (II) —O—CO—NH—(CH₂)_y—SiR²_3-x(OR¹)_x (II), where R¹ and R² independently from each other are hydrocarbon groups having 1-18 carbon atoms or ω-oxaalkyl-alkyl groups having in total 2-20 carbon atoms, x is 2 or 3, and y is a number from 1 to 10, and a second component (K2), containing water, provided that at least 50% of all prepolymer molecules (A) do not have any additional urethane or urea units in the backbone of the prepolymer chain.