32 results about "The integument" patented technology

The present invention provides an authenticating apparatus for employing a living-body such as, for example, a fingerprint and a palm print, thereby to make personal authentication, and for purpose of allowing a detection as to whether or not a subject is a living-body to be made securely, thus making it possible to securely identify a non-living body such as, for example, an artificial finger made of gummi, the apparatus comprises and is configured of: an image obtaining means for continuously obtaining images of an integument surface of the living-body, which moves while touching an obtaining plane; and a secretion product detecting means for detecting existence of a secretion product to be secreted from an exocrine gland of the integument surface of the living-body, based upon a plurality of the images obtained continuously by this image obtaining means.

Compositions including zinc compounds and select amino acids in a carrier base, and methods of skin treatment with such compositions, are described. The compositions are useful for healing skin and minimizing the irritation incurred from contact with the zinc compound without loss of zinc availability during absorption into the integument.

The present invention relates to a composition in the form of a fine oil-in-water emulsion, containing at least one hydrophilic screening agent, preferably obtained without input of energy and suitable for topical application, to the process for preparing it, and to its use especially for treating, caring for, making up and / or cleansing the skin, the integuments (hair, eyelashes or nails) and / or mucous membranes. The composition may especially be a cosmetic and / or dermatological composition.

A product for making up and / or caring for the skin, the lips or the integuments, containing a first and a second composition, the first composition being a W / O emulsion containing at least one wax and fibres, the second composition containing a fatty phase with at least one oil. The product may constitute a foundation, a makeup rouge, an eye shadow, a concealer, a blusher, a lipstick, a lip balm, a lip gloss, a lip pencil, an eye pencil, a mascara, an eye liner, a skincare, body, makeup or skin colouring product. Process using this product. Makeup kit containing the product.

The invention provides the use of silica for cosmetic and / or medical treatment of skin, including improving and enhancing the skin-barrier, anti-aging treatment and photo-protective treatment. The invention is based on the finding that silica exhibits a multi-faceted biological effect useful in the cosmetic and / or therapeutic treatment of skin for the above purposes. Specifically, it has been shown that silica induces markers (involucrin, filaggrin and transglutaminase-1) for skin barrier formation in keratinocytes, induces collagen expression in dermal fibroblasts and inhibits UVA-induced up-regulation of photo-aging markers (matrix metalloproteinase MMP-1 and cytokine IL-6).

The non-washing aqueous liquid cosmetic composition comprises, in a cosmetically acceptable medium, at least one gellan gum or a derivative thereof, at least one solid compound, and at least one monovalent salt. This invention relates to a method for shaping and holding a hair style by using the cosmetic composition. The cosmetic composition is used as a styling composition for fixing and holding the hair, as a hair conditioning composition, especially as a composition for imparting softness to the hair, or as a make-up composition for the hair or the integuments. This invention also relates to a combination of gellan gum or its derivative and a monovalent salt for shaping or holding the hair style.

The present invention relates to a composition preferably useful for topical application containing, or in the form of, a fine oil-in-water emulsion, to the process for preparing it and to its use especially for treating, caring for, making up and / or cleansing the skin, the integuments (hair, eyelashes or nails) and / or mucous membranes. In a preferred embodiment the invention emulsion is obtained without the input of energy. The composition may especially be a cosmetic and / or dermatological composition.

Systems and methods for achieving stabilization of medical devices, both invasive and non-invasive, are provided for human and veterinary subjects. The stabilization device comprises a platform for being positioned on a body part, a hooking apparatus positioned within an inner surface of the platform, and at least one securing strap attached to the platform. The durable stabilization device can be rapidly deployed under sterile and field emergency conditions to provide a high level of stability to medical appliances, and is easily removable from a body part of a subject without causing discomfort or damage to the integument or other tissues.

The invention provides an integument stripping machine which comprises a machine base. A left supporting frame and a right supporting frame are installed on a machine base platform. The integument stripping machine comprises a first shaft and a second shaft, wherein the first shaft and the second shaft stretch across and are supported by the supporting frames on the two sides. A rotating roller with a positioning notch formed in the surface is fixedly arranged on the first shaft, a skin graft compressing structure is arranged in the positioning notch, the second shaft is connected with a corresponding bearing block through a linear bearing, and a cutter assembly is installed on the second shaft. The cutter assembly is formed by connecting two supporting arms, two connecting rods A, a cutter rack and a cutter. The integument stripping machine comprises a cutter transverse motion driving mechanism composed of a third shaft, a connecting rod B and two leaf springs, the third shaft is supported by the supporting frame on one side, one end of the connecting rod B is eccentrically hinged to one end of the third shaft, the other end of the connecting rod B is hinged to the corresponding end of the second shaft, and the upper ends and the lower ends of the two leaf springs are fixedly connected with the second shaft and the machine base platform respectively. The integument stripping machine comprises a first gear motor and a second gear motor, wherein the first gear motor and the second gear motor are installed above the machine base platform. The two gear motors are in driving connection with the first shaft and the third shaft respectively through a first drive mechanism and a second drive mechanism. According to the integument stripping machine, integuments with different thicknesses can be stripped, and the stripping thicknesses are uniform and consistent.

The invention provides the nanometer integument powder which is made at the machinery-chemical action. It has inner core and integument, or inner, shell and integument. The inner core is composed by oxide compound or inorganic oxy salt, shell is composed by inorganic oxy salt, and the integument is composed by aluminum orthophosphate. The powder surface can be carried out anchorage solvating chain segment. The invention also provides the preparing method. The integument powder can be used as coloring agent, strengthening agent, powdered material to be used in coating mixture, rubber, plastic, admixture, ceramics, paper and magnetic material.

The invention provides an expansible coronary stent provided with a collagen tectorial membrane. The expansible coronary stent comprises a net tube-like stent and an integument attached to the net tube-like stent, wherein both the net tube-like stent and the integument have an elongation rate. The integument is arranged in grids, the outer side surface and the inner side surface of the net tube-like stent in a coating manner. The net tube-like stent is coated with collagen which is a main component of connective tissues such as skin, blood vessels, bones, teeth and cartilages, so the net tube-like stent is relatively good in biocompatibility and adaptability, can be used for fully isolating a lesion location from blood flow, can be degraded, absorbed and utilized by the human body and does not affect the endothelialization time of the blood vessels, so the expansible coronary stent has a quite important significance.

The invention provides the inorganic super fine with aluminum phosphate integument. The atom rate of aluminium and phosphor is 0.33:1-3:1; the powder surface can be carried out anchorage solvating chain segment; the powder comprises oxidate, hydroxy compound, microcosmic salt, metasilicate, aluminosilicate, clay mineralogy, silicides, nitride and metal dust. The invention also provides the dry-type preparing method. The integument powder can be used as coloring agent, strengthening agent, powdered material to be used in coating mixture, rubber, plastic, admixture, ceramics, paper and magnetic material.

The invention discloses a modified sulfur composite integument-typed slow release fertilizer, which is composed of fertilizer core 1 and integument on the outer surface of fertilizer core, wherein the integument contains (a) sulfur film layer2, (b) high-permeability resistance organic film layer 3 and (c) high-polarity polymer film 4, wherein the sulfur film layer is the most inner film layer or middle film layer of entire integument; the outer film layer of integument is high-polarity polymer film layer; the high-permeability organic film layer is low-molecular organics and or non-polarity monomer with carbon and hydrogen atom weigh fraction not less than 50% in the total polymer film layer; the high-polarity polymer is heat solidity polymer and or heat plastic polyurethane.

Cosmetic compositions are provided, which are capable of forming a cosmetic film on a human integument when applied thereto. Cosmetic compositions according to the invention typically include a cosmetically acceptable vehicle, optionally, one or more colorants, and a pH-dependant film-forming polymer of poly(methacrylic acid-co-methyl methacrylate) having a ratio of methacrylic acid to methyl methacrylate of about 1:1 to about 1:2, an acid value of from about 150 to about 350 mg KOH / g, and a weight average molar mass between about 100,000 and about 150,000 g / mol. The compositions are capable of forming an adherent film on the integument that is substantially resistant to removal by water at a first pH, but readily dispersible or soluble in water at a second pH higher than said first pH.

Cosmetic compositions are provided, which are capable of forming a cosmetic film on a human integument when applied thereto. Cosmetic compositions according to the invention typically include a cosmetically acceptable vehicle, optionally, one or more colorants, and a pH-dependent film-forming polymer of poly(methacrylic acid-co-methyl methacrylate) having a ratio of methacrylic acid to methyl methacrylate of about 1:1 to about 1:2, an acid value of from about 150 to about 350 mg KOH / g, and a weight average molar mass between about 100,000 and about 150,000 g / mol. The compositions are capable of forming an adherent film on the integument that is substantially resistant to removal by water at a first pH, but readily dispersible or soluble in water at a second pH higher than said first pH.

The invention provides a method of quickly observing ovule morphology and counting number of outer integument cells of arabidopsis thaliana. In the method, ovules of the arabidopsis thaliana are treated with a fluorescent bleaching agent, so that the number of the integument cells of ovules of the arabidopsis thaliana can be counted quickly, rapidly and timely under a confocal microscopy and an ordinary optical microscope. Compared with a common section and interference contrast-transparence method, the method is simple and has better effect.

An emulsion composition of the invention has macro-sized (0.01 to 5 mm) lipid capsule particles and it is for a skin cosmetic composition. An emulsion composition of the invention exhibits improved stability for its particle size by adjusting a size of the particle through a combination of liquid phase oil and integument lipid or lipoid material and encapsulating the liquid phase oil with the integument lipid. The emulsion composition of the invention has unique outward appearance and use feeling due to the macro-sized particles in it, also exhibits excellent skin safety and moisture persistence by containing no surfactant and maintains an activity of an oleophilic effective ingredient which is apt to be oxidized for a long time.

This invention relates to a method for modifying cell proliferation in a plant which comprises the step of transforming a plant, or plant propagating material, with a nucleic acid molecule comprising at least one regulatory sequence capable of directing expression within the integuments and / or seed coat and at least one nucleic acid sequence whose expression or transcription product is capable of directly or indirectly modulating cell proliferation, whereby on expression of that nucleic acid sequence cell proliferation is modified. The invention also relates to a plant which includes a nucleic acid molecule comprising at least one regulatory sequence capable of directing expression within integuments and / or seed coat an at least one nucleic acid sequence whose expression or transcription product is capable of directly or indirectly modulated cell proliferation, whereby on expression of that nucleic acid sequence cell proliferation is modified. The invention also relates to reproducible plant material including a nucleic acid molecule comprising at least one regulatory sequence capable of directing expression within integuments and / or seed coat and at least one nucleic acid sequence whose expression or transcription product is capable of directly or indirectly modulated cell proliferation, whereby expression of that nucleic acid sequence cell proliferation is modified. According to another aspect of the invention, there is provided a method for modifying cell proliferation in a plant which comprises the step of modulating the response of the plant to an auxin in which cell proliferation is modified to produce larger or smaller seeds than wild-type.

A method and system are provided for measuring post-translational modification of proteins in a subject. The method comprises recording of infrared radiation within a predetermined wavenumber range and attenuated by an integument of the subject, such that the integument is still attached to the subject. The method further comprises the step of comparing the attenuation of infrared radiation to a predetermined value for deriving information regarding post-translational modification of proteins in the integument.

This invention relates to methods for altering cell proliferation in a plant by modulating the expression of an endogenous plant gene whose expression product affects cell proliferation. These methods can be used to modify plant characteristics, such as seed size. In particular, the invention provides methods for modifying cell proliferation in the integuments and / or seed coats of a plant by inhibiting expression of endogenous gene encoding Auxin response factor 2 (ARF2 / MNT) or an orthologue thereof, such that the number of cells in the integuments and / or seed coat is increased, resulting in increased seed size. The plant or plant propagating material can be transformed, e.g., with a nucleic acid construct, to increase or decrease the expression of endogenous genes or the orthologues thereof that affect cell proliferation. The invention also relates to modified plants and reproducible plant material produced by the methods, and nucleic acid constructs for use in such methods.

The invention discloses a method for separating Chinese white poplar ovule from nucellus, wherein female flower of the Chinese white poplar is picked and put on a gel block, bract and floral disc of the female flower are removed with the help of an anatomical lens, the ovary of the female flower is longitudinally cut open along a dorsal suture on the sidewall of the ovary, so funicle and ovule can be separated off from carpel; when the nucellus is separated, the separated funicle and the ovule can still be put on the gel block, integument of the ovule is cut open longitudinally and upwards, picked and lifted from bottom to top from the juncture of the ovule and the funicle, the step of cutting, picking and lifting the integument is repeated so that the nucellus can be exposed gradually, and in the end, the nucellus is cut off at the junction of the ovule and the integument so as to be completely separated from the integument. The method can not only avoid the influence of enzymatic method on the cultivation and growth performance of plant materials, but can also reduce the damage brought by non-enzymatic method and outstandingly maintain the original shape of materials to be separated.