177 results about "Mitotic cell" patented technology

A method and system for automatically determining diagnostic saliency of digital images for medical and / or pathological purposes. Luminance parameters (e.g. intensity, etc.) from a digital image of a biological sample (e.g., tissue cells) to which a chemical compound (e.g., a marker dye) has been applied are automatically analyzed and automatically corrected if necessary. Morphological parameters (e.g., cell membrane, cell nucleus, mitotic cells, etc.) from individual components within the biological sample are automatically analyzed on the digital image. A medical conclusion (e.g., a medical diagnosis or prognosis) is automatically determined from the analyzed luminance and morphological parameters.

A method and system for morphology based mitosis identification and classification of digital images. Luminance parameters such as intensity, etc. from a digital image of a biological sample (e.g., tissue cells) to which a chemical compound (e.g., a marker dye) has been applied are analyzed and corrected if necessary. Morphological parameters (e.g., size, elongation ratio, parallelism, boundary roughness, convex hull shape, etc.) from individual components within the biological sample are analyzed. A medical conclusion (e.g., type and count of mitotic cells) or a life science and biotechnology experiment conclusion is determined from the analyzed luminance and morphological parameters. The method and system may be used to develop applications for automatically obtaining a medical diagnosis (e.g., a carcinoma diagnosis).

The spreading of cancer cells in a target region can be inhibited by imposing a first AC electric field in the target region for a first interval of time, with a frequency and amplitude selected to disrupt mitosis of the cancer cells; and imposing a second AC electric field in the target region for a second interval of time, with a frequency and the amplitude selected to reduce motility of the cancer cells. The amplitude of the second AC electric field is lower than the amplitude of the first AC electric field.

The present invention provides for compounds, compositions, methods and systems for inhibiting cell growth. More specifically, the present invention provides for methods, compounds and compositions which are capable of inhibiting mitosis in metabolically active cells. Compounds, compositions and methods of the present invention inhibit the activity of a protein involved in the assembly and maintenance of the mitotic spindle. One class of proteins which acts on the mitotic spindle is the family of mitotic kinesins, a subset of the kinesin superfamily.

Compositions and methods for enhancing repair of damaged DNA in skin cells. Topical compositions comprising at least one agent that upregulates circadian gene expression in skin cells and at least one non-circadian agent that delays mitosis in skin cells. Preferably, such compositions comprise one or more keratinocyte clock and per1 gene activators, along with SIRT1 or one or more sirt1 activators. More preferably, the sirt1 activator is a synergistic combination of specific peptidic sirt1 activators and resveratrol. Preferably, such compositions are easy to use, efficacious, cosmetically acceptable, chemically, thermodynamically and light stable, safe for topical use, have little or no side effects, and commercially feasible in a personal care marketplace.

The present invention discloses novel mechanisms in the aging process and describes novel methods for high-throughput screening to identify, detect, and purify agents to be used for improving mitochondrial function, maintaining the cell cycle-arrested state in senescent and post mitotic cells, and thus preventing or treating age-related diseases or disorders associated with accelerated mitochondrial function loss, telomere dysfunction, and / or deterioration of the growth-arrested state. The present invention also discloses a number of compounds or compositions identified from this method. The present invention further provides the use of low doses of rapamycin or its analogs as a mimic of caloric restriction in preventing age-related diseases or disorders.

A method for the automated analysis of digital images, particularly for the purpose of assessing mitotic activity from images of histological slides for prognostication of breast cancer. The method includes the steps of identifying the locations of objects within the image which have intensity and size characteristics consistent with mitotic epithelial cell nuclei, taking the darkest 10% of those objects, deriving contours indicating their boundary shape, and smoothing and measuring the curvature around the boundaries using a Probability Density Association Filter (PDAF). The PDAF output is used to compute a measure of any concavity of the boundary—a good indicator of mitosis. Objects are finally classified as representing mitotic nuclei or not, as a function of boundary concavity and mean intensity, by use of a Fisher classifier trained on known examples. Other uses for the method could include the analysis of images of soil samples containing certain types of seeds or other particles.

The present invention provides tricyclic compounds, pharmaceutically acceptable salts, prodrugs, solvates, or hydrates thereof, having antimitotic activity, anti-multidrug resistance activity, for example P-glycoprotein inhibition, and antitumor activity, and which inhibit paclitaxel sensitive and resistant tumor cells. Also provided are methods of utilizing these compounds for treating tumor cells and inhibiting mitosis of cancerous cells.

Disclosed herein are methods of inhibiting proliferation of a cancer cell or inducing apoptosis of a cancer cell, which does not overexpress N—CoR. Also disclosed herein are methods of inhibiting proliferation or inducing apoptosis of a cancer cell that overexpresses TCTP and methods for determining whether a compound is effective in inducing cell death.

The present invention discloses a rice large-grain gene GW2 and the application thereof, the GW2 gene can be used to control the grain size of the crop, improve the yield or quality of the crop, regulate the cycle duration of cellular mitosis, and used as a molecular marker to identify the species of the crop to be a large-grain one or a small-grain one. The present invention also discloses a method to ameliorate the crop. The gene GW2 has a wide prospect on high-yield breeding of crops such as rice.

Disclosed are compounds and pharmaceutically acceptable salts of Formula I: wherein n, R1, R2, R3, X, R4, R5, R6, R8, R9, and Y are as defined herein. Compounds of Formula I are useful in the treatment of diseases and / or conditions related to cell proliferation and / or abnormal cell mitosis, such as cancer, inflammation and inflammation-associated disorders, and conditions associated with angiogenesis. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions comprising compounds of the invention and methods of treating the aforementioned conditions using such compounds.

The invention relates to the field of medicinal chemistry, and discloses three crystal forms of cabazitaxel, i.e., an ester compound crystal form J of cabazitaxel, a hydrate crystal form G of cabazitaxel and a cabazitaxel crystal form I, and a preparation method of a novel crystal form of cabazitaxel. The novel cabazitaxel form has superior performance on the aspects of oral absorptivity, activation of metabolism and suppression of mitosis and interval cell function of cells, is weak in toxicity, has high storing and treating stability, and can be applied to preparation of a medicament for treating prostatitis.

The application discloses novel synthetic compounds, modeled after unique toxins extracted from the marine invertebrate Diazona angulata useful in the treatment abnormal cell mitosis. The application also discloses novel methods for synthesis of these compounds and methods of using these compounds.

Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP) and its receptor system can be manipulated positively or negatively to regulate mitosis in neuronal precursor cells. The ligand / receptor system involves PACAP, PACAP receptor, PAC1, and related antagonists. The methods of regulation of the present invention may model be used to define cell cycle regulation in the developing neurons. The present invention may also be used to control or cure diseases related to or caused by damage to or destruction of neuronal cells.

The invention provides for delivery, engineering and optimization of systems, methods, and compositions for manipulation of sequences and / or activities of target sequences. Provided are delivery systems and tissues or organ which include post mitotic cells which are targeted as sites for delivery. Also provided are vectors and vector systems some of which encode one or more components of a CRISPR complex, as well as methods for the design and use of such vectors. Also provided are methods of directing CRISPR complex formation in eukaryotic cells to ensure enhanced specificity for target recognition and avoidance of toxicity and to edit or modify a target site in a genomic locus of interest to alter or improve the status of a disease or a condition.

Provided are tissue scaffolds colonized by vertebrate cells expressing a transgenic bioactive molecule, where the vertebrate cells are unable to undergo mitosis. Also provided are methods of growing tissue in a mammal and methods of delivering a transgenic bioactive molecule to a tissue of a mammal, using the tissue scaffolds. Additionally, methods of making the tissue scaffolds are provided.

Methods and compositions for determining the duration of a cell cycle phase of a mammalian cell, as well as identification of the cell cycle stage of fixed mammalian cells, are provided. In practicing the subject methods, at least one biosensor polypeptide that monitors a cell-cycle phase in a mammalian cell, such as mitosis, G1, S, or G2 phase, is used to determine the duration of a cell-cycle phase of a mammalian cell. Also provided are methods for identifying an agent (e.g., a gene product or small molecule compound) that modulates the duration of a cell-cycle phase of a mammalian cell, as well as kits and systems for practicing the subject methods.

The invention provides an excised mutagenesis tetraploid method of water melon and ploidy early stage certification technique, wherein dinitro toluene herbicide (DNH) is employed to substitute the conventional colchicines as inducer, whose function is to suppress the Mitosis in the metaphase of cell division through the mechanism of interfering spindle, so as to double the tissue cell chromosome. The method has the advantages of increased inducement success rate and substantially shortened time required for inducement.

The present invention is directed to the full-length cDNA sequence encoding human diaphanous-3 (DIAPH3), to DIAPH3 encoded thereby, and to fragments of DIAPH3 and the cDNA. The present invention also provides for the use of the cDNA, and of DIAPH3, as a marker of poor prognosis of breast cancer. Because DIAPH3 appears essential for proper spindle pole formation during mitosis, DIAPH3 is a useful target for screening assays designed to identify inhibitors or modulators of DIAPH3 activity, which are useful for the treatment of cancer, particularly breast cancer. Thus, the invention further provides methods of using DIAPH3, or fragments thereof, in assays to identify such compounds.

The invention discloses a skin-care, defect-repairing, anti-aging and winkle-removing cosmetic preparation. A recombinant human platelet-derived growth factor (rhPDGF) which contains bioactive constituents and has a dermis repairing function, other growth factors such as a transforming growth factor (TGF-beta), an acidic fibroblast growth factor (aFGF), a basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) and an epidermal growth factor (EGF), and a hyaluronic acid (HA) compound preparation are introduced into the dermis by a daily skin care or cosmetic introducing method to stimulate the growth and the mitosis of fibroblasts in the dermis, the synthesis and the secretion of collagen and the HA and the growth and repair of collagenous fiber and elastic fiber so as to repair skin tissue defects such as skin depression, deep wrinkle, fracture of dermis fibrous tissue and the like caused by aging or skin damage. Therefore, skin beautifying and anti-aging effects are achieved.

The invention discloses a breast cancer pathology image mitosis nucleus automatic segmentation method. A foreground pixel and a background pixel can be roughly estimated according to a maximum response of LoG filters of different scales of a BR graph. The color distribution of the foreground pixel and the background pixel can be described by Gaussian Mixed Models GMM, which are trained respectively according to the current foreground pixel and the current background pixel. An s-t graph G=(V,E) can be established, and the new estimation of the foreground and the background can be realized by calculating the maximum flow of the graph G, and then the GMM training and the Graph-Cut segmentation can be repeated, till the convergence is realized, or the predetermined iterations can be satisfied. The morphology open operation of the segmentation result can be carried out, and the final segmentation can be completed. The breast cancer pathology image mitosis nucleus automatic segmentation method is advantageous in that during the segmentation, the probability of the single pixel color characteristic belonging to the foreground or the background can be considered, and the relation between the adjacent pixels can be considered, and therefore the smoothness of the segmentation results can be guaranteed, and the precision can be improved.

The invention provides a multicolor fluorescence in situ hybridization (MFISH) method for quickly analyzing and identifying alien chromosome of wheat. The method comprises the following steps: (1) preprocessing actively dividing tissues in meristematic zone of wheat root tip by N2O and conducting enzymolysis on the actively dividing tissues to obtain a metaphase specimen with clear images and uniform distribution of chromosomes; (2) marking a fluorescent probe of fundamental genome of wheat by nick translation method; (3) conducting fluorescence in situ hybridization on chromosomes at mitosis metaphase obtained in step (1) by using the constructed fluorescent probe in step (2); and (4) analyzing the fluorescence in situ hybridization results obtained in step (3). According to the method provided by the invention, not only can alien chromosomes and chromosome segments in distant hybrid wheat be identified, but also alien chromosomes and chromosome segments of distant hybrids of other crops can be identified.

A composite supported vascular graft comprising Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) and / or Platelet Derived Growth Factor (PDGF) for enhanced site-specific angiogenesis and methods thereof are disclosed. At least one VEGF, PDGF or angiogenesis factor is incorporated into the composite vascular graft to facilitate enhanced angiogenesis so as the cells are stimulated to migrate to environments having higher concentration of growth factors and start mitosis.

Provided are tissue scaffolds colonized by vertebrate cells expressing a transgenic bioactive molecule, where the vertebrate cells are unable to undergo mitosis. Also provided are methods of growing tissue in a mammal and methods of delivering a transgenic bioactive molecule to a tissue of a mammal, using the tissue scaffolds. Additionally, methods of making the tissue scaffolds are provided.

The application discloses novel synthetic compounds, modeled after unique toxins extracted from the marine invertebrate Diazona angulata useful in the treatment abnormal cell mitosis. The application also discloses novel methods for synthesis of these compounds and methods of using these compounds.

The present invention is directed to the use of mitotically and / or lethally inactivated stem cells for the repair of damaged organs and / or tissues. Stem cells are mitotically and / or lethally inactivated and transplanted into damaged tissue. Any form of ex vivo inactivation of stem cells may be used such that the stem cells cannot undergo mitosis or cell division before in vivo application. Mitotically and / or lethally inactivated stem may be used to ameliorate numerous disease, injury, traumatic, ischemic, aging, and / or degenerative conditions in different types of organs and / or tissues.

FtsZ, the bacterial analog of tubulin, is a promising new target for developing new antibiotics. It has been shown that polyphenols inhibit the GTPase activity of FtsZ, thereby inhibiting Z-ring formation during mitosis. The present invention provides novel polyphenols compounds, which can be accessed by the synthesis of dichamametin and 2′″-hydroxy-5″-benzylisouvarinol-B as described herein. These novel compounds are useful in treating infections, particularly infections caused by gram-positive organisms. Methods of preparing the inventive compounds are also provided. The compounds are prepared by the benzylation of pinocembrin or chrysin core structure. Pharmaceutical compositions and method of using the compounds to treat disease are also provided. These compounds may be screened for antimicrobial activity as well as other biological activities such as anti-neoplastic, anti-inflammatory, immunosuppressive, and cytotoxic activity.