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A coil for the treatment of vascular aneurysms is disclosed. The coil is formed from filamentary members interlaced to form a three-dimensional substrate. The substrate is deformable between a collapsed state wherein it fits within a catheter, and an expanded state, which it assumes once deployed from the catheter into the vascular aneurysm. The three-dimensional shapes of the substrate include flat sheets biased into a helix or a tubular forms biased into figure eight loops, helical loops or a sinusoid. Bioactive characteristics may be imparted to the coil through the use of coatings or materials that provoke a healing response in living tissue.

Double-stranded and single-stranded RNA molecules, and their use in methods for inducing interferon are provided. The interferon induction provides anti-viral and other medically useful effects, such as anti-cancer effects. Also provided are methods for reducing or inhibiting interferon induction exhibited by such molecules, particularly siRNA and shRNA molecules produced in vitro.

Monodisperse colloidal nanocrystal clusters of magnetite (Fe3O4) with tunable sizes from about thirty to about three hundred nanometers have been synthesized using a high-temperature hydrolysis process. The colloidal nanocrystal clusters are capped with polyelectrolytes, and highly water soluble. Each cluster is composed of many single magnetite crystallites, thus retaining the superparamagnetic behavior at room temperature. The combination of superparamagnetic property, high magnetization, and high water dispersibility makes the colloidal nanocrystal clusters ideal candidates for various important biomedical applications such as drug delivery and bioseparation. The present invention is further directed to methods for forming colloidal photonic crystals from both aqueous and nonaqueous solutions of the superparamagnetic colloidal nanocrystal clusters with an external magnetic field applied thereto. The diffraction of the photonic crystals can be tuned from near infrared to visible and further ultraviolet spectral region by varying the external magnetic field.

A method for detecting gas in a fluid, the system including flowing fluid bearing gas through a gas trap apparatus, flowing gas trapped by the gas trap apparatus to and through an infra-red gas detection system for detecting the gas, the infrared gas detection system having apparatus for isolating absorption spectra of the gas, producing with the infra-red gas detection system analog signals indicative of levels of the gas, transmitting the analog signals to a first processor for converting the analog signals to digital signals, transmitting the digital signals from the first processor to a second processor, producing with the second processor digital signals indicative of the level of the gas.

Ischemia-reperfusion injury commonly results from any surgical procedure requiring stopping of blood supply to an organ followed by reperfusion such as in heart bypass, angioplasty or organ transplant. The invention discloses a method to harness the innate power of repetitive transient ischemia in protecting organs against imminent ischemia-reperfusion, or any patho-physiological insults. This method of optimal remote ischemic preconditioning (ORIP) comprises of utilizing a pair of programmable pneumatic cuffs that inflate / deflate alternately occluding blood circulation to each of the limbs for pre-defined time intervals. The apparatus delivers maximal ORIP dose in shortest possible time either as an EMS procedure during patient transportation to hospital, as elective pre-surgery treatment, or in critical care for preventing multiple-organ-dysfunction-syndrome. ORIP can be self-administered and remotely monitored by clinician especially in chronic patients for homeostasis of malfunctioning target organs. ORIP may also be deployed as adjunct in angioplasty, gene / stem cell heart repair therapies.

The present invention relates to a nanowire array (15, 16) for electrically-controlled elution of a therapeutic composition (5) comprising a plurality of nanoscopic-sized wires (12, 12), nanowires, attached to an electrically conducting solid support (7), said nanowires formed from electroactive conjugated polymer (4) containing or doped with said therapeutic composition (5) coated over a plurality of nanoscopic sized electrically conducting protrusions (8). It also relates to a method for preparing a nanowire array and an electrode.

This invention relates to a method for systemic immune activation which is effective for eliciting both a systemic, non-antigen specific immune response and a strong antigen-specific immune response in a mammal. The method is particularly effective for protecting a mammal from herpes simplex virus. Also disclosed are therapeutic compositions useful in such a method.

A fundus camera using infrared light sources, which included an imaging optical path and an optical path for focusing and positioning and two optical paths share a common set of retina objective lens, and a computer-assisted method for retinal vessel segmentation in general and diabetic retinopathy (DR) image segmentation in particular. The method is primarily based on Multiscale Production of the Matched Filter (MPMF) scheme, which together the fundus camera, is useful for non-invasive diabetic retinopathy detection and monitoring.

This invention relates to a method for systemic immune activation which is effective for eliciting both a systemic, non-antigen specific immune response and a strong antigen-specific immune response in a mammal. The method is particularly effective for protecting a mammal from herpes simplex virus. Also disclosed are therapeutic compositions useful in such a method.

The present invention provides a novel method for enhancing engraftment of haematopoetic stem cells by an ex-vivo pretreatment comprising the steps of obtaining a sample containing haematopoetic stem cells and admixing a prostacyclin analogue to obtain a mixture, incubating said mixture for a period of time sufficient to stimulate G alphas-signalling in said cells and optionally and isolating said stimulated cells. Further, a composition comprising a prostacyclin analogue for use in the treatment of individuals undergoing haematopoetic stem cell transplantation is provided.

An oral fluid collection and transfer device comprises a collection device (10) and a test cartridge (100). The collection device includes a frame or chassis (14), and an absorbing pad (12) for absorbing oral fluid and which is secured around part of the frame with part of the frame protruding from the pad. A collapsible cover (16) covers the absorbing means and has apertures (68) for the ingress of oral fluid into contact with the absorbing pad. A cap (18) covers the part of the frame protruding from the absorbing pad. The cap and the cover latch together to surround the frame and the absorbing pad. The device also includes a fluid adequacy indicator (20) in the form of an electrical circuit with an LED (66) which is completed when the absorbing means has absorbed a predetermined volume of oral fluid.

Magnetic materials and methods exhibit large magnetic-field-induced deformation / strain (MFIS) through the magnetic-field-induced motion of crystallographic interfaces. The preferred materials are porous, polycrystalline composite structures of nodes connected by struts wherein the struts may be monocrystalline or polycrystalline. The materials are preferably made from magnetic shape memory alloy, including polycrystalline Ni—Mn—Ga, formed into an open-pore foam, for example, by space-holder technique. Removal of constraints that interfere with MFIS has been accomplished by introducing pores with sizes similar to grains, resulting in MFIS values of 0.12% in polycrystalline Ni—Mn—Ga foams, close to the best commercial magnetostrictive materials. Further removal of constraints has been accomplished by introducing pores smaller than the grain size, dramatically increasing MFIS to 2.0-8.7%. These strains, which remain stable over >200,000 cycles, are much larger than those of any polycrystalline, active material.

A magnetic materials construct and a method to produce the construct are disclosed. The construct exhibits large magnetic-field-induced deformation through the magnetic-field-induced motion of crystallographic interfaces. The construct is a porous, polycrystalline composite structure of nodes connected by struts wherein the struts may be monocrystalline or polycrystalline. If the struts are polycrystalline, they have a “bamboo” microstructure wherein the grain boundaries traverse the entire width of the strut. The material from which the construct is made is preferably a magnetic shape memory alloy, including polycrystalline Ni—Mn—Ga. The construct is preferably an open-pore foam. The foam is preferably produced with a space-holder technique. Space holders may be dissolvable ceramics and salts including NaAlO2.

The present invention relates to preventive, therapeutic, and diagnostic compositions and methods employing lymphocytes having T-cell receptors and chimeric receptors. In particular, the invention relates to pre-selected dual-specificity lymphocytes having endogenous T-cell receptors and chimeric T-cell receptors that recognize a strong antigen and tumor associated antigens where the pre-selected population of adoptively transferred lymphocytes is activated by in vivo immunization, thereby increasing the effectiveness of adoptive immunotherapy.

The present invention is in the fields of medicine, immunology, virology and molecular biology. The present invention provides a composition comprising a modified virus-like (VLP) particle derived from RNA bacteriophage AP205. The invention also provides a process for producing the aforementioned VLP. The modified VLP disclosed in the present invention is useful in the production of compositions for inducing immune responses for the prevention or treatment of diseases, disorders including infectious diseases, allergies, cancers and drug addiction. Moreover, the modified VLP disclosed in the present invention is, in particular, useful to efficiently induce self-specific immune responses, in particular antibody responses.

Modulation of target effector organs in vertebrate beings using direct current stimulation for stimulation of spinal cord at regions of autonomic innervation, using direct current for peripheral nerve stimulation, by modulating central autonomic outflow and combinations thereof.

The invention relates to a method for detecting judgment type visual saliency based on a gradient direction histogram. The convention method has low resolution ratio, incomplete extracted object outline and high computation complexity. The method comprises the following steps of: firstly, extracting a color component diagram of an original image in a CIELAB space by a color transformation method;secondly, counting a local gradient direction histogram of every pixel point in the component diagram by using a sampling point in a central-peripheral computation structure; thirdly, calculating a local saliency judgment vector and a global saliency judgment vector of every pixel point; and finally, obtaining a final saliency judgment result by a linear weighting method. The method of the invention has a stronger response in a visually salient area and has higher inhibiting capacity in other non-salient areas.

The invention discloses a surface defect detection method based on multi-scale convolution and trilinear global attention, and the method comprises the steps: carrying out the convolution and poolingof trunk features in an encoding module, and extracting shallow feature maps of an image under different scales; obtaining a deep feature map through up-sampling and convolution operations in a decoding module; fusing the shallow feature maps and the deep feature map together through four times of splicing operation in the middle; converting the shallow feature map into a shallow attention map bya first branch of the trilinear global attention module through linear operation, activating the deep feature map by a second branch through compression to obtain a deep feature weight of the deep feature map, and then weighting the deep feature weight to the shallow feature map; in a decision-making network module, processing an output feature map of the decoding module by using global average pooling and global maximum pooling, outputting the probability that a surface defect image has defects through an activation function, and outputting a grey-scale map of a potential position of the defect through 1*1 convolution operation for visually explaining a neural network.

Nanoconstructs having three components: (1) biodegradable nanopolymers and nanoparticles, (2) immunodrugs such as CpG, and a (3) tumor binding device, which are actively targeted to tumor cells such as melanoma cells through receptor-mediated uptake and methods of using the same are described. Antitumor immunity is further enhanced by combination of PG-CpG nanoconstructs with agonists of positive costimulatory signals and inhibitors of negative immune regulatory signals.

Ischemia-reperfusion injury commonly results from any surgical procedure requiring stopping of blood supply to an organ followed by reperfusion such as in heart bypass, angioplasty or organ transplant. The invention discloses a method to harness the innate power of repetitive transient ischemia in protecting organs against imminent ischemia-reperfusion, or any patho-physiological insults. This method of optimal remote ischemic preconditioning (ORIP) comprises of utilizing a pair of programmable pneumatic cuffs that inflate / deflate alternately occluding blood circulation to each of the limbs for pre-defined time intervals. The apparatus delivers maximal ORIP dose in shortest possible time either as an EMS procedure during patient transportation to hospital, as elective pre-surgery treatment, or in critical care for preventing multiple-organ-dysfunction-syndrome. ORIP can be self-administered and remotely monitored by clinician especially in chronic patients for homeostasis of malfunctioning target organs. ORIP may also be deployed as adjunct in angioplasty, gene / stem cell heart repair therapies.

The invention relates to a vision significance detection method based on Weber's law and center-periphery hypothesis. The conventional method is low in resolution, incomplete in extracted object outline and high in computational complexity. The method comprises the following steps of: extracting color component graphs of original images in a CIELAB space by adopting a color transformation method; calculating horizontal gradient difference excitation values and vertical gradient difference excitation values of pixel points in the 1 color component graph, the color component graph and the b color component graph according to the Weber's law; calculating the difference excitation value of a random gradient direction according to the horizontal gradient difference excitation values and the vertical gradient difference excitation values, and counting a difference excitation value histogram; and finally, establishing local significance excitation vectors of the pixel points to obtain local significance judgment values and overall significance excitation values, and calculating the significance judgment values according to the local significance judgment values and the overall significance excitation values. By the method, vision significance graphs with the same resolution as the input images can be acquired, and stronger response in a significance region can be realized.

The present invention relates to a graphene composite magnetic photocatalyst Mn1-xZnxFe2O4 / BiVO4 / RGO preparation method belonging to the field of inorganic photocatalytic materials. A heterojunction composite photocatalyst formed by loading sheet layer graphene (RGO) and magnetic Mn1-xZnxFe2O4 particles onto monoclinic BiVO4 has strong conductivity, impedance value (103 Omega.cm<2>) of the heterojunction composite photocatalyst is significantly less than impedance value (351 Omega.cm<2>) of BiVO4 or impedance value (206 Omega.cm<2>) of Mn1-xZnxFe2O4 / BiVO4; the composite catalyst can be used for visible light photocatalytic degradation of rhodamine B, 1.5 hour degradation rate is up to 96%, specific saturation magnetization is 8.21emu . g<-1>, due to strong magnetism, the composite photocatalyst is easy to recover by use of an applied magnetic field, the recovery rate is not less than 89%, degradation rate on RhB of the recovered catalyst is still 85%; the graphene composite magnetic material prepared by the method has high visible light catalytic activity, strong stability and large recovery rate, can significantly improve the removal efficiency and speed when being used in optical degradation of organic pollutants, and has good use prospects.

Modulation of target effector organs in vertebrate beings using direct current stimulation for stimulation of spinal cord at regions of autonomic innervation, using direct current for peripheral nerve stimulation, by modulating central autonomic outflow and combinations thereof.

The invention provides rhinovirus vectors, which can be used in the delivery of immunogens, such as influenza virus immunogens, and corresponding compositions and methods.

Modulation of target effector organs in vertebrate beings using direct current stimulation for stimulation of spinal cord at regions of autonomic innervation, using direct current for peripheral nerve stimulation, by modulating central autonomic outflow and combinations thereof.

The present invention is related to the fields of molecular biology, virology, immunology and medicine. The invention provides a composition comprising a virus like particle (VLP) and at least one GnRH peptide or fragment or variant thereof linked thereto.The invention also provides a process for producing the composition. The compositions of the invention are useful in the production of vaccines for the treatment of GnRH-related diseases and conditions and to efficiently induce immune responses, in particular antibody responses. Furthermore, the compositions of the invention are particularly useful to efficiently induce self-specific immune responses within the indicated context.

The invention described herein relates to a chimeric protein comprising the NTHi twitching pilus major subunit protein (PilA) presenting a portion of the NTHi OMP P5 protein. The invention provides for vaccine compositions comprising the recombinant chimeric protein and methods of eliciting an immune response using the recombinant chimeric proteins of the invention.

The present invention provides methods of producing biologically active recombinant bFSH and methods of increasing reproduction in mammals, particularly bovine, using recombinant bFSH. Also provided are methods of producing single chain recombinant bFSH. The recombinant bFSH of the present invention increases superovulation, embryo development, and reproductive efficiency in cattle and other ungulates.