Phototherapeutic apparatus and protocol setting method for phototherapeutic apparatus

    公开(公告)号:US11338153B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-24

    申请号:US16387006

    申请日:2019-04-17

    IPC分类号: A61N5/06

    摘要: Provided is a phototherapeutic apparatus including: a probe that is held and operated by a user and provided with a photo-irradiation unit that performs irradiation with light beams; and a body provided with a control unit that controls the light beams. The body is provided with a read unit that reads a treatment protocol registered in an IC card (mobile memory medium), and a monitor (operation indication unit) that indicates a region to be irradiated with the light beams to the user, the region being set in the treatment protocol, and the control unit causes the monitor to indicate the region to be irradiated and causes the photo-irradiation unit to perform the irradiation with the light beams at a set value set in the treatment protocol. It is possible to perform the irradiation with the light beams in accordance with the treatment protocol and safely use the phototherapeutic apparatus.

    PREPARATION AND EXTENDED CULTURE OF VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL PROGENITOR CELL

    公开(公告)号:US20220125854A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-04-28

    申请号:US17436205

    申请日:2020-02-12

    IPC分类号: A61K35/44 C12N5/071

    摘要: It is a subject to provide a means of preparing highly pure vascular endothelial progenitor cells in a simple and low-cost manner. It is also a subject to provide a method for efficiently proliferating vascular endothelial progenitor cells. High-purity vascular endothelial progenitor cells are prepared by the process of differentiating pluripotent stem cells into vascular endothelial progenitor cells and purifying the vascular endothelial progenitor cells using a difference in adhesion ability between the vascular endothelial progenitor cells constituting the cell population obtained in the process and other cells. On the other hand, vascular endothelial progenitor cells are cultured and expanded in the presence of a ROCK inhibitor, a GSK-3β inhibitor, and a TGF-β receptor inhibitor in addition to basic fibroblast growth factor and epidermal growth factor.

    METHOD FOR PREPARING INTESTINAL ORGANOID DERIVED FROM PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL

    公开(公告)号:US20220033780A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-02-03

    申请号:US17290446

    申请日:2019-10-31

    IPC分类号: C12N5/071 G01N33/50 A61L27/38

    摘要: An object is to prepare an intestinal organoid having a characteristic close to the small intestine of a living body, from a pluripotent stem cell. An intestinal organoid is prepared from a pluripotent stem cell, by the following steps of: (1) differentiating the pluripotent stem cell into an endoderm-like cell; (2) differentiating the endoderm-like cell obtained in step (1) into an intestinal stem cell-like cell; (3) culturing the intestinal stem cell-like cell obtained in step (2) in the presence of an epidermal growth factor, a fibroblast growth factor, a TGF β receptor inhibitor, a GSK-3 β inhibitor, and a ROCK inhibitor; (4) culturing the cell obtained in step (3) to form a spheroid; and (5) differentiating the spheroid formed in step (4) to form an intestinal organoid, wherein the differentiation includes culturing in the presence of an epidermal growth factor, a BMP inhibitor, and a Wnt signal activator. Also, a plane culture system is prepared by subjecting the cells constituting the intestinal organoid formed in step (5) to plane culture in the presence of an epidermal growth factor and a TGF β receptor inhibitor. A highly functional evaluation system having the villi structure is constructed by using air-liquid interface culture in the plane culture.

    OPHTHALMIC DRUG SUSTAINED RELEASE DEVICE
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    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190099366A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-04-04

    申请号:US16094506

    申请日:2017-04-19

    发明人: Tsutomu Yasukawa

    IPC分类号: A61K9/00 A61F9/007 A61M31/00

    摘要: An object of the present invention is to provide a sustained drug release system useful for treating eye diseases. There is provided a device for sustained release of an ophthalmic drug, comprising a drug enclosing part and an intraocular retention gas enclosing part adjacent to the drug enclosing part, the enclosing parts being provided in a hollow container having at least one opening part, wherein the drug enclosing part is isolated from the opening part by the intervention of the intraocular retention gas enclosing part.

    INDUCTION OF DIFFERENTIATION OF INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS INTO INTESTINAL EPITHELIAL CELLS

    公开(公告)号:US20190079076A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-03-14

    申请号:US16083226

    申请日:2017-03-03

    IPC分类号: G01N33/50 C12N5/074 C12N5/071

    摘要: An object of the present invention is to provide a novel method which enables convenient preparation of cells exhibiting functions close to that of intestinal epithelial cells of living bodies, and use of the method. The differentiation of induced pluripotent stem cells into intestinal epithelial cells is induced by step of differentiating induced pluripotent stem cells into endoderm-like cells; step of differentiating the endoderm-like cells obtained in step into intestinal stem cell-like cells; and step of differentiating the intestinal stem cell-like cells obtained in step into intestinal epithelial cell-like cells, wherein step includes culture in the presence of a MEK1 inhibitor, a DNA methyltransferase inhibitor, a TGF-β receptor inhibitor, and EGF and under the condition that cAMP is supplied to the cells.