摘要:
Disclosed is a novel renin-active substance by utilizing a anti-peptide antibody capable of specifically recognizing a specific amino acid sequence in the human propenin profragment exemplified, as a typical example, by a complex formed from human prorenin and an anti-peptide antibody capable of specifically recognizing an amino acid sequence consisting of at least 15 amino acid residues located within an amino acid sequence consisting of 33 amino acid residues between the isoleucine residue at the 11th site and the arginine residue at the 43rd site within human propenin profragment having an amino acid sequence consisting of 43 amino acid residues.
摘要:
Provided by the present invention are a human prorenin profragment N-terminated peptide antibody capable of specifically recognizing a peptide containing at least 15 amino acid residues from the first leucine residue to the 15th arginine residue in the N-terminated peptide of the human prorenin profragment and a complex of the same with human prorenin. The antibody can be used as a prorenin assay reagent. The human prorenin profragment N-terminated peptide antibody is useful as a reagent for the assay of human prorenin in blood.
摘要:
There are provided a method for selection of a substance which is capable of controlling activation of prorenin where an adjusting ability of the activation of prorenin by protein-protein interaction in a profragment region of prorenin as indicator is used; a prorenin activation controlling substance having a function of controlling the activation of prorenin based on protein-protein interaction by a profragment region of prorenin; and hypotensor, organ hypertrophy suppressor and arterial thickening suppressor containing the prorenin activation controlling substance as an effective ingredient.
摘要:
There are provided a method for selection of a substance which is capable of controlling activation of prorenin where an adjusting ability of the activation of prorenin by protein-protein interaction in a profragment region of prorenin as indicator is used; a prorenin activation controlling substance having a function of controlling the activation of prorenin based on protein-protein interaction by a profragment region of prorenin; and hypotensor, organ hypertrophy suppressor and arterial thickening suppressor containing the prorenin activation controlling substance as an effective ingredient.
摘要:
There are provided a method for selection of a substance which is capable of controlling activation of prorenin where an adjusting ability of the activation of prorenin by protein-protein interaction in a profragment region of prorenin as indicator is used; a prorenin activation controlling substance having a function of controlling the activation of prorenin based on protein-protein interaction by a profragment region of prorenin; and hypotensor, organ hypertrophy suppressor and arterial thickening suppressor containing the said prorenin activation controlling substance as an effective ingredient.
摘要:
A novel terminally modified imide oligomer having excellent solubility in organic solvents, excellent solution storage stability, and excellent molding properties such as low melt viscosity. Also, a varnish obtained by dissolving the terminally modified imide oligomer in an organic solvent; a cure product obtained by using the terminally modified imide oligomer and having excellent thermal and mechanical characteristics such as heat resistance, elastic modulus, tensile strength at break and tensile elongation at break; a prepreg; and a fiber-reinforced laminate. The soluble terminally modified imide oligomer is represented by general formula (1). In the formula, R1 and R2 each represents a divalent aromatic diamine residue; R3 and R4 each represents a tetravalent aromatic tetracarboxylic acid residue; R5 and R6 each represents a hydrogen atom or a phenyl group, with R5 or R6 being a phenyl group; m and n satisfy the following relations: m≧1, n≧0, 1≦m+n≦20 and 0.05≦m/(m+n)≦1; and the repeating units may be arranged in blocks or randomly.
摘要:
According to an embodiment, there is provided a heat spreader including an evaporation portion, a first condenser portion, a working fluid, and a first flow path. The evaporation portion is arranged in a first position. The first condenser portion is arranged in a second position, the second position being arranged apart from and higher than the first position. The working fluid evaporates from a liquid phase to a gas phase in the evaporation portion, and condenses from the gas phase to the liquid phase in the first condenser portion. The first flow path is made of a nanomaterial, has hydrophobicity on a surface, and causes the working fluid condensed to the liquid phase in the first condenser portion to flow to the evaporation portion by a gravitational force.
摘要:
According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a heat transport device including a working fluid, an evaporation portion, a condenser portion, a flow path portion, and an area. The working fluid includes pure water and an organic compound bearing a hydroxyl group. The evaporation portion causes the working fluid to evaporate from a liquid phase to a vapor phase. The condenser portion communicates with the evaporation portion, and causes the working fluid to condense from the vapor phase to the liquid phase. The flow path portion causes the working fluid condensed in the condenser portion to the liquid phase to flow to the evaporation portion. The area is made of a carbon material and provided on at least one of the evaporation portion, the condenser portion, and the flow path portion.
摘要:
Crystalline superfine particles capable of emitting light depending upon a time-rate-of-change of a stress and controlled in grain size in the range from 5 nm to 100 nm are complexed with another material such as resin. The crystalline superfine particles are manufactured by using aggregates of molecules, i.e. inverted micelles, which orient hydrophilic groups of surfactant molecules inward and hydrophobic groups outward in a nonpolar solvent and which contain metal ions of a metal for forming the crystalline superfine particles dissolved in water inside the inverted micelles. Alternatively, they are manufactured by using inverted micelles enveloping precursor superfine particles, in which precursor superfine particles are enveloped in water inside the inverted micelles. The crystalline superfine particles are excellent in dispersibility in another material to be complexed, enhanced in emission efficiency and usable to make a transparent stress emission material. The complex material obtained is used to manufacture artificial light-emitting hair structures, artificial light-emitting skin, artificial light-emitting bodies, artificial light-emitting fabrics, and others.
摘要:
A driving system using an intercalation substance as a novel mechanochemical system includes an actuator using the intercalation substance and driven by exchange of solutions or by changing concentration of a solution, and a solution supplier that supplies the actuator with the driving solution or solutions. The actuator is composed of one or more cylindrical or fiber-shaped elements each extending in the expanding and contracting direction of the intercalation substance, or one or more film-shaped or plate-shaped elements each having a major surface extending vertically of the expanding and contracting direction of the intercalation substance. The driving system is used as artificial muscle, for example.