33 results about "Pratylenchus" patented technology

The invention discloses a swine testicular cell strain ST-S suitable for suspension culture as well as an acquisition method and an application of the swine testicular cell strain ST-S. ST cells, which are subjected to adherent culture, are domesticated into ST cells which are suitable for suspension culture and can be passaged stably, and the ST cells are named as ST-S; and the ST-S cells keep sensitivity to classical swine fever virus (CSFV) and are capable of avoiding mycoplasma contamination. The invention provides a large-scale industrial suspension culture mode on the ST-S cells, and the suspension culture mode is applicable to culture by virtue of a shake flask and a bioreactor. By virtue of the ST-S cells obtained from the suspension culture, vaccines or other bio-products can be produced, so that a virus production process is simplified, product stability is enhanced, serum dosage and production cost are reduced and production efficiency is improved.

The invention provides the identification of the presence of mutant ROS protein in human cancer. In some embodiments, the mutant ROS are FIG-ROS fusion proteins comprising part of the FIG protein fused to the kinase domain of the ROS kinase. In some embodiments, the mutant ROS is the overexpression of wild-type ROS in cancerous tissues (or tissues suspected of being cancerous) where, in normal tissue of that same tissue type, ROS is not expressed or is expressed at lower levels. The mutant ROS proteins of the invention are anticipated to drive the proliferation and survival of a subgroup of human cancers, particularly in cancers of the liver (including bile duct), pancreas, kidney, and testes. The invention therefore provides, in part, isolated polynucleotides and vectors encoding the disclosed mutant ROS polypeptides (e.g., a FIG-ROS(S) fusion polypeptide), probes for detecting it, isolated mutant polypeptides, recombinant polypeptides, and reagents for detecting the fusion and truncated polypeptides. The identification of the mutant ROS polypeptides enables new methods for determining the presence of these mutant ROS polypeptides in a biological sample, methods for screening for compounds that inhibit the proteins, and methods for inhibiting the progression of a cancer characterized by the mutant polynucleotides or polypeptides, which are also provided by the invention.

The invention discloses an anti-breeding rodenticide. Melia azedarach oil is served as an anti-breeding agent, and the weight percent of the melia azedarach oil in the anti-breeding rodenticide accouts for 0.08%-0.1%. Through researching the intrinsic rules and hormone regulation mechanism of mouse breeding as well as studying the toxicological and function mechanism of a vegetable anti-breeding agent, ideal anti-breeding agent-melia azedarach oil is screened. The anti-breeding rodenticide is low in effective dosage, makes mice infertile, and has the advantages of low toxicity index, high safety, no harm to human being and animals and no secondary poisoning. After the anti-breeding rodenticide is eaten 10 days later, main reproductive organs-testicles of male mice generate the following variation: the organ coefficient gets small, the sperm amount is reduced, the seminiferous tubule diameter is thinned, lumens are reduced, germinal epithelium thickness is thinned, and interstitial cells are decreased; and ovarial organ coefficient of female mice is obviously reduced, and the corpus luteum in an ovarial structure is contracted. Dead fetus are increased after male and female mice coition, and the breeding number is greatly decreased.

Compositions and methods for conferring nematicidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. In particular, methods for killing or controlling a nematode pest population, particularly a Pratylenchus spp., e.g., Pratylenchus brachyurus, root knot nematode, reniform nematode, or Lance nematode population, are provided. The methods include contacting the nematode pest with a pesticidally-effective amount of a polypeptide comprising a nematicidal toxin, particularly a nematicidal toxin active against a Pratylenchus spp. nematode, e.g. Pratylenchus brachyurus. Further included are methods for increasing yield in plants by expressing the toxin of the invention.

A method of inducing male and / or female infertility in a genetically modified (GM) fish is disclosed. Also disclosed is a method of generating an infertile GM fish with a phenotype and / or genotype of interest. The method involves generation of a GM fish whose genome comprises a foreign transgene operably linked to a fish gonad-specific promoter selected from the group consisting of an ovary-specific promoter and a testis-specific promoter. The transgene comprises a suicide gene selected from the group consisting of a reductase and a photosensitizer, in which the reductase is operably linked to a reporter gene. Infertility of the GM fish is induced if the GM fish expressing the reductase is treated with an effective amount of a reductase-activated cytotoxic prodrug or if the GM fish expressing the photosensitizer is treated with light irradiation.