211 results about "Ionophore" patented technology

Compositions for removing scale and/or inhibiting formation thereof include an alkaline agent, a primary scale inhibitor, a secondary scale inhibitor and a solvent. The primary scale inhibitor may include phosphonic acid, salts of phosphonic acids and combinations thereof. Suitable secondary scale inhibitor may include aminocarboxylic acids, salts of aminocarboxylic acids, carboxylic acids, salts of carboxylic acids, polycarboxylic acids, salts of polycarboxylic acids, gluconic acids, salts of gluconic acids, steroids, tetrapyrrols, ionophores, 2,2′-bipyridine, dimercaptopropanol, ortho-phenanthroline and combinations thereof. The compositions may be prepared as a stable concentrates that have pH values greater than or equal to 11. The compositions may also be prepared on site as a use solution. Methods of using the compositions to extend system operating times and to remove scale from and/or inhibit formation of scale on an article are also disclosed.

The present invention provides compositions comprising delivery systems comprising a lipid vehicle, a bioactive compound, and a polyanionic carrier macromolecule that is not a carrier polynucleotide, wherein the lipid vehicle encapsulates the polynucleotide of interest and the polyanionic carrier macromolecule, and wherein the delivery system is essentially free of carrier polynucleotides. Compositions also include delivery systems comprising a lipid vehicle and a bioactive agent, wherein the lipid vehicle encapsulates the bioactive agent, and wherein the lipid vehicle comprises a covalent bilayer or a core supported bilayer comprising polycationic lipids. Other compositions provided herein comprise a delivery system comprising a polypeptide of interest and a means for delivering the polypeptide into a cell. Also provided herein are methods for making the delivery systems, methods for delivering bioactive compounds, methods for treating a disease or unwanted condition in a subject with the delivery systems, and methods for detecting apoptosis in a cell.

Devices and methods for measuring a target ion concentration uses an electrode pair. The pair includes a working electrode and a reference electrode. The working and reference electrodes are ion-selective electrodes (ISEs). The reference ISE can include a sodium ISE. The ISE pair interacts with body fluids where a target ion concentration changes more than sodium ion concentration over time. Some ISE membranes of a pair vary essentially only in the ionophore. An ISE pair can determine the ratio of a target ion concentration to sodium ion concentration in vivo. Periodic measurement of sodium concentration in drawn blood can be used to calibrate an ISE pair and provide target ion concentration as an output. Or, a potassium/sodium ISE pair beneficially monitors potassium concentration changes over time in heart- or kidney-failure patients. Then, manual or automatic titration of a diuretic material can be implemented to maintain a desired potassium concentration.

A polymeric membrane for ion sensitive measurement comprising a polymer, a lipophilic salt and at least two ionophores selective for different chemical species. The membrane may be used in a pseudo reference for measurement of a plurality of ions.

A hand-held portable drug monitoring system to detect and quantitate cocaine and other organic drugs in saliva, sweat, and surface wipes by using an ion selective electrode or an array of ion selective electrodes. The ion selective electrode has a cast membrane reference electrode and a sensing electrode with a hydrophobic polymer, a plasticizer, and an ionophore selective for the organic drug to be tested. The ion selective electrode can be connected to a converter that coverts a voltage reading from the ion selective electrode to a quantitative drug concentration level. Also disclosed is the related method of using an ion selective electrode to detect an organic drug in saliva, sweat, and surface wipes, the method of testing electrical contact in an ion selective electrode, and the method of making a cast membrane reference electrode.

The invention relates to a composition that includes a first agent selected from the group consisting of an oxidative phosphorylation inhibitor, an ionophore, and an adenosine 5′-monophosphate-activated protein kinase (AMPK) activator; a second agent that possesses anti-inflammatory activity; and a third agent that possesses serotonin activity.

Methods for treating an individual to improve cognitive function are provided. In the subject methods, an effective amount of a noncompetitive GABA_A ionophore blocker is administered to the individual, resulting in an improvement in cognitive function of the host. The subject methods find use in a variety of different applications.

The present inventions relates to a method of increasing beef production in cattle with feed additives, comprising feeding cattle with feed, comprising an effective amount of an ionophore in combination with a macrolide antibiotic, and thereafter feeding cattle with feed, comprising zilpaterol and essentially no ionophore or macrolide antibiotic for the succeeding about 20 to 40 days.

The invention provides chromoionophore compounds comprising a triazacryptand (TAC) K⁺ ionophore conjugated to at least a first chromophoric moiety (e.g., xanthylium dyes and derivatives thereof). In related embodiments, the chromoionophore compounds further comprise a second chromophoric moiety which is insensitive to potassium binding by the TAC ionophore, thus providing for dual wavelength detection and absolute determination of K⁺ concentration. The invention further provides methods and kits for the determination of K⁺ concentrations in biological systems, either in vitro or in vivo, using embodiments of inventive chromoionophores.

A novel nano polycation transgenic vector relates to a nano polycation transgenic vector of a cyclodextrin-polyethyleneimine-folacin ternary assembly structure which takes the cyclodextrin as a skeleton material and polymerizes the cyclodextrin after activated with small molecular polyethyleneimine(PEI) as well as couples the decorative folacin on the cyclodextrin-polyethyleneimine to manufacture the nano polycation transgenic vector with tumor targeting. The material composing method of the vector is simple and effective with a high recycling rate; the material is shown to have the characteristics of low poison and high transfecting efficiency by the filtering of a plurality of tumor cell strains and experiences in the body of a rat.

This disclosure relates to a pharmaceutical composition that includes a first agent selected from the group consisting of an oxidative phosphorylation inhibitor, an ionophore, and an adenosine 5′-monophosphate-activated protein kinase (AMPK) activator; a second agent that possesses anti-inflammatory activity; and a third agent that is a serotonin metabolite.

There are provided bio-compatible means for delivery of at least one pharmaceutically active agent to a patient in need of same, comprising a bio-compatible, bio-degradable anionic or cationic carrier and at least one pharmaceutically active agent wherein the agent is cationic when the carrier is anionic and is anionic when the carrier is cationic. The delivery means further comprises at least one bio-compatible enclosing means for the carrier. This enclosing means may be bio-degradable or non bio-degradable and have a predetermined permeation gradient for the passage therethrough of the at least one pharmaceutically active agent. In an alternate embodiment the enclosing means may be biodegradable without a predetermined permeation gradient for the passage therethrough of the at least one pharmaceutically active agent. In all embodiments the active agent is ionically linked to the carrier and the carrier/active agent combination is enclosed in the enclosing means. There is also provided a method of administering at least one pharmaceutically active agent to the tissue surface of a subject in need of same at a rate dependent on the permeability and/or bio-degradability of the enclosing means of the delivery means which comprises contacting the tissue surface with a bio-compatible delivery means as described above.

An improved ion-sensing electrode for detecting ions or polyions is provided having an electrically conducting member sheathed or coated with a layer of insulation except at an exposed, uninsulated area, where the insulation free surface of the electrically conducting member is texturized, and a polymeric membrane coated on the insulation-free surface of the electrically conducting member, where the ion selective membrane includes an ionophore. The texturized surface improves the starting EMF stability and reproducibility of the ion-sensing electrodes, and further improves membrane adherence to the electrically conducting member.

The present invention relates to a potentiometric electrode and gradient polymer, both comprising electrically conducting particles, which increase in concentration away from one surface, ionophore molecules, which increase in concentration towards the same surface surface, and an electrical connection which passes proximal to said electrically conducting particles. The invention further relates to devices incorporating said electrode or gradient polymer, and to a method for their preparation. The new materials are highly robust and reliable.

The present invention provides a liposome having co-encapsulated in its intraliposomal aqueous core at least two amphipathic drugs, the liposomes being characterized by one of the following: the amphipathic drugs are co-encapsulated at a pre-determined ratio; the liposome comprises one or a combination of liposome forming lipids have a solid ordered to liquid disordered phase transition temperature above 37° C.; each of the amphipathic drugs exhibit a liposomal profile that corresponds to the profile of each drug when encapsulated as a single drug in the same liposome; and the liposome is absent of one or both of a transition metal and a ionophore. The invention also provides a method for preparing such liposomes. This method, taken together with the features of the liposomal composition, provides high loading and long term stability of the resulting co-encapsulated liposomal formulation.

A method for the quantitative determination of an ion in a fluid which comprises subjecting the fluid to voltammetry using a sensing electrode which comprises an electrically conducting support having a surface which is coated with a support matrix, the support matrix containing an electroactive species capable of being oxidised or reduced to form a charged species, and an ionophore.

Compositions for nucleic acid delivery are provided which comprise a relatively low amount a permanently cationic lipid or lipidoid, such as a lipid comprising a quaternary ammonium group. The compositions are suitable for the delivery of chemically modified or unmodified DNA or RNA. Moreover, the compositions are suitable for local administration, such as by extravascular injection.

The invention provides ion-selective sensors capable of selectively measuring ions, e.g., Na⁺, K⁺, Cl⁻, etc., in the cytosol of a single living cell. The sensor comprises one or more quantum dots or a fluorescent dye, a pH-sensitive dye, and optionally an ion-selective component such as an ionophore. These elements may, for example, be disposed in a polymer matrix. The polymer matrix comprises an internalizing moiety which enables the sensor to localize within the cytosol of a cell. The internalizing moiety comprises a small molecule or peptide such as an amine, antepennepedia, mastoparan, or melittin that react under acidic conditions to release a sensor from the confines of a endosome. Once in the cytosol the sensors may detect ionic analytes by selective ion extraction by the polymer, thereby inducing a pH change within the sensor which in turn changes the absorbance of the pH-sensitive dye. The change of absorbance may in turn attenuate the intensity of detectable emissions, e.g., fluorescence, from the quantum dot or dye by directly absorbing its fluorescence emission.

The instant invention provides various formulations comprising combinations of immunostimulating oligonucleotides, polycationic carriers, sterols, saponins, quaternary amines, TLR-3 agonists, glycolipids, and MPL-A or analogs thereof in oil emulsions, use thereof in preparations of immunogenic compositions and vaccines, and use thereof in the treatment of animals.

The invention provides ion-selective sensors comprising quantum dots capable of selectively measuring ions, e.g., Na⁺, K⁺, Cl⁻, etc., in various environments, including in the cytosol of a living cell. Quantum dots are attractive probes for microscopy due to their photophysical advantages over fluorescent dyes, including prolonged photostability, brightness and quantum efficiency. In certain embodiments, a sensor comprises one or more quantum dots, a pH-sensitive dye, and optionally an ion-selective component such as an ionophore. These elements may, for example, be disposed in a polymer matrix. In certain embodiments, the sensors may detect ionic analytes by selective ion extraction by the polymer, thereby inducing a pH change within the sensor which in turn changes the absorbance of the pH-sensitive dye. The change of absorbance may in turn attenuate the intensity of detectable emissions, e.g., fluorescence, from the quantum dot by directly absorbing its fluorescence emission.

The invention relates to the field of accessories and preparations with medicinal functions, in particular to a kind of oligopeptide-based pH-sensitive amphoteric ion lipid (I) or (II). In the invention, the derivatives of the oligopeptide amphoteric ion lipid have different surface charges under different pH conditions and can take relatively strong negative charges in a physiological environment with pH near neutrality so that the lipid has good blood compatibility; when the lipid reaches a tumor part, the surface charges of the oligopeptide amphoteric ion lipid are reversed in an acidulous tumor environment, so that the original electronegativity is reversed into electropositivity; and a carrier with positive charges is easily combined with the surface of a tumor cell, and the tumor cell targeting can be effectively realized through an endocytosis path. In lysosome, a cationic carrier continuously realizes a function of proton sponge or a function of splitting lysosome membranes, and the two functions can ensure the integrity of the carrier, so that the carrier can safely escape to cytoplast or other organelles.