497 results about "Metabolic function" patented technology

A method and apparatus for the transcutaneous monitoring of blood gases generally comprises a blood gas data acquisition device, a vacuum source and a blood gas transducer unit. The blood gas transducer unit is adapted for application to a patient's skin and administration of a local vacuum at the area of patient application. It further comprises an electrochemical blood gas transducer, well known to those of ordinary skill in the art, which is disposed entirely within the local vacuum at the area of patient application. The vacuum source is placed in fluid communication with the blood gas transducer unit, through a hydrophobic membrane filter for safety purposes, in order to induce a condition of hyperperfusion in the locality of the electrochemical blood gas transducer. Under the control of a microcontroller, or equivalent means, the blood gas acquisition device is then utilized to capture a measure of skin surface oxygen or carbon dioxide pressure. The microcontroller can then utilize this measure to arrive at an estimate of arterial partial pressure of oxygen or carbon dioxide, accordingly. Because vacuum induced perfusion produces the requisite condition of hyperperfusion without local heating and, therefore, without acceleration of the local metabolic function, the present invention results in more accurate than previously available estimates of partial pressure blood gas pressures and does so while eliminating a significant risk for injury to the patient.

Support structures for positioning sensors on a physiologic tunnel for measuring physical, chemical and biological parameters of the body and to produce an action according to the measured value of the parameters. The support structure includes a sensor fitted on the support structures using a special geometry for acquiring continuous and undisturbed data on the physiology of the body. Signals are transmitted to a remote station by wireless transmission such as by electromagnetic waves, radio waves, infrared, sound and the like or by being reported locally by audio or visual transmission. The physical and chemical parameters include brain function, metabolic function, hydrodynamic function, hydration status, levels of chemical compounds in the blood, and the like. The support structure includes patches, clips, eyeglasses, head mounted gear and the like, containing passive or active sensors positioned at the end of the tunnel with sensing systems positioned on and accessing a physiologic tunnel.

A method, and apparatus (10) for the controlled acceleration, and/or retardation of the body's inflammatory response generally comprises a foam pad (11) for insertion substantially into a wound site, a heating, a cooling pad (13) for application over the wound site (12), a wound drape (14) or sealing enclosure of the foam pad (11), the heating, and cooling pad (13) at wound site (12). The foam pad (11) is placed in fluid communication with a vacuum source for promotion of the controlled acceleration or retardation of the body's inflammatory response. The heating, and cooling provision controls the local metabolic function as part of the inflammatory response.

Support structures for positioning sensors on a physiologic tunnel for measuring physical, chemical and biological parameters of the body and to produce an action according to the measured value of the parameters. The support structure includes a sensor fitted on the support structures using a special geometry for acquiring continuous and undisturbed data on the physiology of the body. Signals are transmitted to a remote station by wireless transmission such as by electromagnetic waves, radio waves, infrared, sound and the like or by being reported locally by audio or visual transmission. The physical and chemical parameters include brain function, metabolic function, hydrodynamic function, hydration status, levels of chemical compounds in the blood, and the like. The support structure includes patches, clips, eyeglasses, head mounted gear and the like, containing passive or active sensors positioned at the end of the tunnel with sensing systems positioned on and accessing a physiologic tunnel.

This invention relates to a novel polypeptide involving in the modulation of central nervous system function, circulatory function, immune function, gastrointestinal function, metabolic function, reproductive function, etc., it can be used as a drug for treating or preventing a variety of diseases, e.g. HIV infection or AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) or the like.

The invention relates to a plant nutrient solution, in particular to a tree nutrient solution. The nutrient solution is formed by mixing a plant macroelement, a plant microelement, a physiologically active substance, an external source hormone and water. After the tree nutrient solution is applied to a tree, a survival rate of the large tree after transplantation can be increased as soon as possible, and the tree nutrient solution particularly has an important and positive effect on improving a metabolic function of the old tree and recovering the tree vigor.

Methods and devices are provided for activating brown adipose tissue with targeted substance delivery. Generally, the methods and devices can activate BAT to increase thermogenesis, e.g., increase heat production in the patient, which over time can lead to weight loss and/or improved metabolic function. In one embodiment, a chemical configured to stimulate nerves that activate the BAT and/or to stimulate brown adipocytes directly can be delivered to a patient, thereby increasing thermogenesis in the BAT and inducing weight loss and/or improved metabolic function through energy expenditure. The chemical can be delivered to the patient locally and/or systemically to stimulate the nerves and/or the brown adipocytes.

An immunoisolatory vehicle for the implantation into an individual of cells which produce a needed product or provide a needed metabolic function. The vehicle is comprised of a core region containing isolated cells and materials sufficient to maintain the cells, and a permselective, biocompatible, peripheral region free of the isolated cells, which immunoisolates the core yet provides for the delivery of the secreted product or metabolic function to the individual. The vehicle is particularly well-suited to delivery of insulin from immunoisolated islets of Langerhans, and can also be used advantageously for delivery of high molecular weight products, such as products larger than IgG. A method of making a biocompatible, immunoisolatory implantable vehicle, consisting in a first embodiment of a coextrusion process, and in a second embodiment of a stepwise process. A method for isolating cells within a biocompatible, immunoisolatory implantable vehicle, which protects the isolated cells from attack by the immune system of an individual in whom the vehicle is implanted. A method of providing a needed biological product or metabolic function to an individual, comprising implanting into the individual an immunoisolatory vehicle containing isolated cells which produce the product or provide the metabolic function.

The invention relates to a human-body health function-status evaluating model, relates to an evaluating method for comprehensively evaluating the functional level of a human body and belongs to the category of health evaluation. The construction of the evaluating model comprises the establishment of seven modules, i.e. a brain-cognizing function module, a metabolic function module, a traditional-Chinese-medicine symptom-identifying module, a psychological function module, a social-adapting function module, a cardio-pulmonary function module and a movement function module and the establishment of a specific testing project, an index system and a specific index under each module and a testing-project evaluating standard. The score evaluation of the whole module is finally obtained through each-step index evaluation, weight determination and calculation step by step. The integral comprehensive evaluation and the evaluating result of each module are all shown by corresponding evaluation reports. Functional-status levels in the aspects of physiology, psychology and social adaptation of the human body can be obtained through the health function-status evaluation of the human body, so that potential health hazards are found in advance, and intervention treatment is carried out as early as possible, so as to guarantee the physical and psychological function-status health of the human body.

The invention provides an sg RNA sequence used for knocking out a human ALDH2 gene;,a target DNA sequence of the sg RNA is at least one of sequences as shown in SEQ ID NO:1, SEQ ID NO:2 and SEQ ID NO:3. The invention further provides a method for knocking out a human hepatoma carcinoma cell ALDH2 gene; the method utilizes a CRISPR/Cas system to modify the ALDH2 gene in a human hepatoma carcinoma cell. The invention further provides two ALDH2 gene deletion cell strains; ALDH2 participates in an important metabolic function of a body. The ALDH2 gene deletion cell strains provided by the invention provide an effective platform for metabolism study, in vivo, of exogenous chemicals or exogenous poisons, so that powerful means are provided for researching chronic diseases (such as alcoholic liver diseases and diabetes) as well as tumor-associated diseases.

Essential genes coding for the metabolic pathway of solventogenic autotrophic Clostridia were sequenced, and functionality was confirmed. The present invention utilizes a comparative inter-species approach to develop the minimum set of essential genes for metabolic function and estimate productivity in species of suspected solventogenic capability.

The invention relates to a silica gel healthy material and an application technology of the silica gel healthy material, and in particular relates to a silica gel healthy material and a making method, a pair of healthy shoes, a pair of healthy insoles and a pair of healthy soles. The silica gel healthy material comprises a silica gel main material, negative ion powder, far infrared ray powder, a wear-resisting agent, titanium powder, a vulcanizing agent and a pigment, and can be molded or injected into a required shape. The silica gel healthy material can be applied to shoes and insoles, and has the advantages of simple manufacture process, flexibility and comfort in wearing, capabilities of balancing electrolyte in a human body, promoting blood circulation, enhancing metabolic function of the human body and purifying air, health care, wear resistance, good environmental friendliness, electrical insulation property and the like.

A system for estimating the glucose levels in blood is developed in the present invention. Said system establishes a physiological model of the pulse wave and its energy, which are also correlated with the glucose metabolic function, for generating a fixed length vector containing the values of the previous model combined with other variables related to the user such as, for example, age, sex, height, weight, etc. . . . This fixed length vector is used as an excitation of a function estimation system based on “random forests” for the calculation of the interest variable. The main advantage of this parameter estimation system lays in the fact that it does not apply any restriction a priori on the function to be estimated, and that it is robust in front of heterogeneous data, such as in the case of the present invention.

Methods and devices are provided for activating brown adipose tissue (BAT) with light. Generally, the methods and devices can activate BAT to increase thermogenesis, e.g., increase heat production in the patient, which over time can lead to weight loss and/or improved metabolic function. In one embodiment, a medical device is provided that activates BAT by using light to stimulate nerves that activate the BAT and/or to stimulate brown adipocytes directly, thereby increasing thermogenesis in the BAT and inducing weight loss and/or improved metabolic function through energy expenditure. The light can be configured to directly or indirectly stimulate the nerves and/or the brown adipocytes. The light can be configured to indirectly stimulate the nerves and/or the brown adipocytes by activating a light activatable medium administered to a patient and configured to respond to the light to cause activation of the brown adipose tissue.