摘要:
Various biodegradable polyglutamate-amino acids comprising recurring units of the general formulae (I) and (II) are prepared. Such polymers are useful for variety of drug, targeting, stabilizing and/or imaging agent delivery applications.
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A cell transfection/culture device is disclosed which includes a solid support coated with a degradable polymer cation as a transfection reagent. The transfection/culture device is conveniently stored at room temperature until use. Cell transfection is accomplished easily by adding the nucleic acid of interest and the cells to be transfected to the transfection/culture device. Cell transfection is completed in less than one hour by using the transfection/culture device described herein.
摘要:
Methods and kits for transporting heterologous compounds into cells, particularly mammalian cells, are disclosed. The method involves the pretreatment of the cell with a polycation, cationic polymer and/or cationic peptide before transportation of the heterologous compound into the cell. The methods are particularly applicable to the transport of peptides and proteins.
摘要:
Complexes are disclosed which are a combination of a polynucleotide and a biodegradable polyacetal-peptide. The disclosed complexes are useful for cell transfection.
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A neural system is disclosed for processing an exogenous input process to produce a good outward output process with respect to a performance criterion, even if the range of one or both of these processes is necessarily large and/or keeps necessarily expanding during the operation of the neural system. The disclosed neural system comprises a recurrent neural network (RNN) and at least one range extender or reducer, each of which is a dynamic transformer. A range reducer transforms dynamically at least one component of the exogenous input process into inputs to at least one input neuron of said RNN. A range extender transforms dynamically outputs of at least one output neuron of said RNN into at least one component of the outward output process. There are many types of range extender and reducer, which have different degrees of effectiveness and computational costs. For a neural system under design, the types of range extenders and/or reducers are selected jointly with the architecture of the RNN in consideration of the neural system's processing performance with respect to the mentioned performance criterion, the RNN's size and the computational cost of selected range extenders and reducers so as to maximize the cost effectiveness of the neural system.
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Provided herein are variant alleles of a gene encoding a mu opioid receptor, along with cloning vectors for replicating such variant alleles, expressing vectors for expressing the variant alleles to produce variant mu opioid receptors, and antibodies to such variant receptors. Also disclosed are binding characteristics of such variant receptors regarding binding to opioid ligands, and the using of such binding characteristics to diagnose a subjects susceptibility to pain, susceptibility to an addictive disease, selecting an appropriate pain reliever along with a therapeutically effective amount of the reliever to administer to a subject suffering from pain. In addition, diagnostic methods for diagnosing a disease or disorder such as infertility, constipation, diarrhea, decreased immune response relative to a standard, and decreased ability to withstand stress relative to a standard, along with commercial kits for diagnosing such diseases or disorders. Furthermore, the invention is also directed to identification of targeted prevention methods, early therapeutic intervention, and improved treatment of opioid addiction, infertility, constipation, diarrhea, impaired immune responsiveness, and stress.
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A pump body of an oral irrigator includes a mount, a motor disposed at a rear end away from the mount, a pinion disposed on a shaft of the motor, an annular gear disposed on a shaft member to mesh with the pinion, a cam disposed in the annular gear and adjacent to one side, a linkage secured to the cam, front and rear plungers disposed on a front end of the linkage, and a cylindrical tube disposed on the plungers in the mount. The rotation of the cam only allows the linkage to repetitively moves in a back-and-forth linear motion. Wear between the plungers and the cylindrical tube is decreased to a minimum and leakage is prevented.
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System and method for automatically recognizing media contents comprise steps of capturing media content from the Internet and/or devices, extracting fingerprints from captured contents and transferring to the backend servers for identification, and backend servers processing the fingerprints and replying with identified result.