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The present invention provides a bacterial microorganism having the ability to degrade or detoxify moniliformin or structurally related mycotoxins. The present invention further provides a method for detoxification or grain pre- or post-harvest using microbes having the ability to degrade or detoxify moniliformin or derivatives or analogs of moniliformin.
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The present invention provides isolated bovine Neospora cultures. The cultures are used to develop diagnostic assays for the detection of Neospora infections in cattle and other animals. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment and prevention of Neospora infections.
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The present invention relates to pharmacologically active compounds which are capable of binding to nuclear hormone receptors and are useful for the stimulation of osteoblast proliferation and ultimately bone growth. This invention also relates to the use of such compounds for the treatment or prevention of diseases and/or disorders associated with nuclear hormone receptor families.
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The present invention provides for immunoliposomes that optimizes internalization of a drug into target cells bearing a characteristic cell surface marker. The immunoliposomes comprise a Fab' domain of an antibody that specifically binds the characteristic marker, an amphipathic vesicle-forming lipid, and a polyethylene glycol derivatized lipid. The invention also provides for growth-inhibiting immunoliposomes that lack growth-inhibiting therapeutic agents and yet are capable of inhibiting the growth and proliferation of target cells.
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Fluorenes and polyfluorenes having one or two polar-group-containing alkyl substituents on their '9' carbon methylenes are disclosed together with the polymers' use as luminescent materials in organic light-emitting diodes and light-emitting electrochemical cells.
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Methods of making and using, as prophylatics or therapeutics for preventing or treating certain diseases including cancer, O-desulfated heparin compositions, preferably 2-O, 3-O desulfated heparin compositions, wherein the methods permit regulating the degree of 2-O, 3-O desulfation to produce compositions that are variably desulfated including about 99 % and 75 % desulfated at the 2-O and 3-O positions, respectively.
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The present invention relates to polysubstituted benzimidazoles, having formula (I), wherein Q is substituted benzimidazole group attached at the benzimidazole 1-position; R is a halogen or atomic number 9 to 53, inclusive (i.e., -F, -Cl, -Br, or -I); azido (i.e., -N3); or -X-R1, wherein X is a chalcogen of atomic number 8 to 16, inclusive (i.e., -O- or -S-), and R1 may be straight or branched chain alkyl of 1 to 8 carbon atoms; and R2 and R3 may be the same or different and are separately -O-C(=O)CH3 (i.e., -OAc) or hydroxy (i.e., -OH); and pharmaceutically acceptable salts and operative combinations thereof. Also provided by this invention are compositions comprising a polysubstituted benzimidazoles as defined above and methods of use thereof.
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The assay described herein is predicated on an observation that when acridinium ester labeled tracers are bound to their corresponding binding conjugate immobilized on a metal oxide solid phase, the measurable chemiluminescent light emission of the labeled tracer bound to the solid phase is quenched as compared to the free fraction tracer that is unattached to the solid phase. According to the invention, a non-separation specific binding assay to detect or quantify the presence of an analyte is provided where the entire reaction mixture is flashed (including unreacted tracer) and modulated signal (because of the quench effect) is associated with a reference, thus determining the amount or presence of said analyte in said sample. Disadvantages inherent in heterogeneous assays employing multiple separations may be avoided using this non-separation method.
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The present invention provides apparatus and methods for determining the concentration of sample components of a sample by an analytical technique that yields a spectrum that can be written as Y(φ) = P(φ) . C. The apparatus and methods of the invention account for experimental errors that give rise to distortions in the observed spectrum and that consequently result in inaccurate determinations of sample component concentrations. The invention accounts for such errors by modeling the total experimental error as the sum of one or more types of errors that can be written as κ . K. The spectrum is then modeled as Y = P . C + κ . K. Using the observed spectrum, known values for P, and a mathematical model for κ, this equation can be solved for the best fit value of the sample component concentrations, C, and the magnitudes of the errors, K. The method can be used for any error that can be modeled in the foregoing manner, such as a shift in the spectrum. Particular types of shift include constant shift as well as linear shift across the entire spectrum. The apparatus and methods are advantageously used in absorbance spectroscopy and chromatography.
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The present invention is a novel system and method for automatically identifying borders of regions of interest within an image of a patient's organ or tissue. The system generates images - before, during and after the administration of a contrast agent. Once the set of images have been taken, the system begins automatic processing of the images. The steps of the processing include the identification of baseline image frames, identification of baseline intensities for each given pixel in the ROI, baseline subtraction on a per-pixel basis, determining a probability of signal-to-noise ratio for each pixel, and thresholding each pixel to determine if a pixel belongs to an area inside the border region or an area outside the border region. To exactly determine which pixels that are at the border, the method refines the set by locally minimizing a total cost function that relates a low value to points typically found on a contrast enhanced image. The border of the region of interest is thereby determined.