BINDING PROTEINS USEFUL AGAINST ACE2-TARGETED VIRUSES

    公开(公告)号:US20230129210A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-04-27

    申请号:US17914000

    申请日:2021-04-05

    IPC分类号: C07K14/47 A61K47/68

    摘要: Described herein are binding proteins useful against ACE2-targeted viruses (e.g., SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2, etc.), and methods of using them. These binding proteins may include an extracellular portion of angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), excluding the collectrin domain, and a flexible polypeptide flexible linker coupling the ACE2 portion to a fragment crystallization (Fc) domain. These binding proteins dimerize, and the flexible linker may be chosen to be sufficiently long to permit concurrent interaction with multiple Spike (S) proteins on the ACE2-targeted virus.

    Inter-element matrix in ultrasound contrast agents populations to measure transport parameters

    公开(公告)号:US11607197B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-03-21

    申请号:US16767188

    申请日:2018-11-27

    摘要: Systems and methods for measuring micro-architectural properties of vascular networks are described herein. An example method can include injecting an ultrasound contrast agent into a medium, and transmitting a plurality of acoustic pulses into the medium using a ultrasound transducer array. Each respective acoustic pulse can be transmitted from one or more elements of the ultrasound transducer array. The method can also include receiving a plurality of backscattered signals with the ultrasound transducer array in response to each respective acoustic pulse, and obtaining a response matrix including the backscattered signals. The method can further include extracting a coherent or incoherent contribution to the backscattered signals from the response matrix, and quantifying a property of a vascular network based on the coherent or incoherent contribution to the backscattered signals.

    METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING WITH A ZERO ECHO TIME PULSE-SEQUENCE

    公开(公告)号:US20230042314A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-09

    申请号:US17882965

    申请日:2022-08-08

    IPC分类号: A61B5/055 G01R33/48

    摘要: This specification describes systems and methods for using Zero Echo Time (ZTE) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sequences for applications to functional MRI (fMRI). In some examples, a system for functional magnetic resonance imaging includes a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner and a control console implemented on at least one processor. The control console is configured for executing, using the MRI scanner, a zero echo time (ZTE) pulse sequence; acquiring, using the MRI scanner, magnetic resonance data in response to the ZTE pulse sequence; and constructing at least one MRI image using the magnetic resonance data and measuring tissue oxygenation (PtO2)-related T1 changes as a proxy of neural activity changes of a subject using the at least one MRI image.