AN OPTICAL INTERFEROMETER SENSOR ARRAY
    33.
    发明公开
    AN OPTICAL INTERFEROMETER SENSOR ARRAY 有权
    光学干涉仪传感器阵列

    公开(公告)号:EP1218734A1

    公开(公告)日:2002-07-03

    申请号:EP00962662.3

    申请日:2000-09-14

    IPC分类号: G01N29/24 G01H9/00

    摘要: An interferometer sensor has a two-dimensional sensor head (1) comprising a polymer film (4) of substantially uniform thickness. An interrogating signal (12) is provided to the sensor head, the interrogation signal extending across the area of the sensor head and being incident normally to the sensor head (1). An optical sensing device (16) is arranged to receive an optical output signal from the sensor head at a location remote from the sensor head. The sensor converts ultrasound signals appearing over a two dimensional surface to an optical signal pattern, using a polymer interferometer sensing film. Spatial discretisation of the ultrasound signal pattern is performed by an optical sensing device. Such optical devices can be arranged having sufficiently high resolution to enable beam-steering imaging to be performed, including imaging outside the footprint of the sensor head.

    摘要翻译: 干涉仪传感器具有包括厚度基本均匀的聚合物膜(4)的二维传感器头(1)。 询问信号(12)被提供给传感器头,询问信号延伸穿过传感器头的区域并正常地入射到传感器头(1)。 光学感测装置(16)被布置成在远离传感器头的位置处接收来自传感器头的光学输出信号。 该传感器使用聚合物干涉仪感测膜将出现在二维表面上的超声信号转换为光学信号图案。 超声信号图案的空间离散化由光学传感装置执行。 这样的光学装置可以被布置为具有足够高的分辨率以使得能够执行光束转向成像,包括在传感器头的占地面积之外的成像。

    SCREEN FOR NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE MODULATORS
    34.
    发明公开
    SCREEN FOR NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE MODULATORS 审中-公开
    测试在搜索硝酸还原酶的调节剂

    公开(公告)号:EP1203095A2

    公开(公告)日:2002-05-08

    申请号:EP00948183.9

    申请日:2000-07-28

    摘要: A method for identifying a modulator of NOS activity comprises: (i) providing a polynucleotide construct which comprises: (a) a promoter operably linked to a coding sequence, wherein the promoter is responsive to ecdysone or an analog thereof and the coding sequence encodes a nitric oxide synthase (NOS) or a functional variant thereof; or (b) a promoter operably linked to one or more tetracycline operator site sequences and a coding sequence in that order, wherein the coding sequence encodes a nitric oxide synthase (NOS) or a functional variant thereof; (ii) contacting a test substance with the construct under conditions that would permit the expression and activity of the NOS encoded by the coding sequence in the absence of the test substance; and (iii) determining thereby whether the said substance modulates NOS activity. Modulators of nitric oxide synthase activity can be used in the treatment of conditions in which the abnormal metabolism of nitric oxide is implicated.

    Use of REG-2 as a Schwann cell mitogen
    36.
    发明公开
    Use of REG-2 as a Schwann cell mitogen 审中-公开
    Verwendung eines REG-2 als MitogenefürSchwannzellen

    公开(公告)号:EP0903147A3

    公开(公告)日:2002-02-27

    申请号:EP98307522.7

    申请日:1998-09-16

    IPC分类号: A61K38/17 A61K38/18 C12N5/06

    CPC分类号: C07K14/474 A61K38/00

    摘要: A Schwann cell mitogen that is capable of being upregulated during regeneration of neuronal cells or tissue is described. In a particular embodiment, there is provided the use of a protein comprising the sequence presented as SEQ ID No. 1 or a variant, derivative or homologue thereof in the manufacture of a medicament to act as a Schwann cell mitogen.

    摘要翻译: 描述了能够在神经元细胞或组织再生期间被上调的雪旺细胞丝裂原。 在一个具体实施方案中,提供了包含SEQ ID No.1所示序列或其变体,衍生物或同系物的蛋白质在制备用作施万细胞丝裂原的药物中的用途。

    HUMAN GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL SPECIFIC PHOSPHOLIPASE D VARIANTS AND USES THEREOF
    40.
    发明公开
    HUMAN GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL SPECIFIC PHOSPHOLIPASE D VARIANTS AND USES THEREOF 有权
    人类糖基特异性磷脂酶D和使用的变型

    公开(公告)号:EP1141334A2

    公开(公告)日:2001-10-10

    申请号:EP99963641.8

    申请日:1999-12-23

    IPC分类号: C12N15/55

    CPC分类号: C12N9/20 A61K38/00

    摘要: Glycosyl phosphatidy linositol specific phospholipase D (GPI-PLD) proteins and their medical uses are disclosed, in particular in the treatment and diagnosis of diabetes and complications of diabetes such as insulin resistance, liver dysfunction, disorders involving pancreatectomies and conditions mediated by a product of an infectious organism which is capable of inhibiting GPI-PLD, such as septic shock. The present invention further relates to variant GPI-PLD polypeptides modified at the phosphorylation site at amino acids 689-692 of the mature human wild-type protein.