摘要:
Bioassay equipment which prevents a variation in concentration of a medium or deposition/bonding of a substance in the medium to be caused by drying of the medium being stored or held in a reaction region providing an inter-substance interaction field. The bioassay equipment (2) comprises at least a means for supplying a medium containing a substance pertaining to the interaction to the reaction region R providing the field of inter-substance interaction such as hybridization, and a means for supplying required water automatically. The bioassay equipment (2) may comprises a means for automatically detecting the volume of the medium held in the reaction region R.
摘要:
A holder for holding optical fibers has pin inserting holes to which corresponding positioning pins are pierced from one end to another. An optical fiber fixing plate has fixing holes corresponding to the optical fibers and pin inserting holes corresponding to the positioning pins. On an equipping surface of the fixing plate is formed a reinforcement layer having piercing holes corresponding to the fixing holes and pin piercing holes corresponding to the pin inserting holes. Each optical fiber is fixed and adhered by inserting to each fixing hole while the pins are inserted to the pin inserting holes of the holder, pin piercing holes of the reinforcement layer and the pin inserting holes of the fixing plate. A front surface of the fixing plate is planarized by polishing the surface. Positions of the optical fibers are easily defined at an end surface of the optical fiber holder with high precision.
摘要:
The present invention pertains to a DNA encoding a polypeptide comprising an entire sequence of the amino acid sequence as shown by SEQ ID NO:2 of Sequence Listing or a partial sequence thereof, or a polypeptide comprising the polypeptide described above, wherein any of the polypeptides has an activity of a receptor capable of binding to a murine PBSF/SDF-1; a polypeptide encoded by the DNA described above, wherein the polypeptide has an activity of a receptor capable of binding to a murine PBSF/SDF-1; cells expressing the polypeptide described above and a human CD4 protein; and a method of screening an AIDS onset inhibitor or an HIV-1 infection inhibitor, characterized by the use of the cells described above. According to the present invention, there can be provided a novel murine CXC chemokine receptor gene, a method of screening an HIV-1 infection inhibitor, and the like, each of which is useful in studies of a therapeutic agent for AIDS and the functional mechanism of HIV-1 infection.
摘要:
An anisotropic light diffusion adhesive layer includes an adhesive material, and an acicular filler whose refractive index is different from that of the adhesive material, wherein the acicular filler is dispersed as oriented substantially in the same direction. It is desirable for the acicular filler to be colorless or white colored. An anisotropic light diffusion adhesive laminated assembly may also be manufactured by adhering together several such anisotropic light diffusion adhesive layers. This anisotropic light diffusion adhesive layer and anisotropic light diffusion adhesive laminated assembly may suitably be employed as an illumination device such as a backlight for a liquid crystal display device or the like.
摘要:
A positive resist layer formed on a translucent substrate is subjected to exposure and development to form circular resist patterns disposed near each other at a predetermined distance. The exposure pattern has an opening of a plurality of circular ring shape surrounding the plurality of resist patterns. The opening may have a width equal to the predetermined distance. Since the width of the opening is constant over the whole outer periphery of each resist pattern, uniform exposure can be realized at all positions along the periphery to form a perfect circle shape. After a convex lens shape is given to each resist pattern by heating and reflow process, the convex lens shape is transferred to the substrate by dry etching process using the resist patterns as a mask to form a microlens array with convex lenses.
摘要:
A thermal processing unit is connected to a substrate position detector, which is in turn connected to a bake unit controller. The thermal processing unit includes a temperature control plate and a lifting device. The temperature control plate and lifting device are connected to the bake unit controller. The operations of the temperature control plate and lifting device are controlled by the bake unit controller. A pressure measuring pipe is provided at a lower part of at least one of a plurality of pin inserting holes in the temperature control plate. The pressure measuring pipe is connected to a low differential pressure sensor. The low differential pressure sensor detects the pressure in an airflow exhausted from a space surrounded by a substrate and an upper face of the temperature control plate via the pressure measuring pipe.
摘要:
A substrate heat treatment apparatus includes a heat treatment furnace of a flat configuration, and having a cavity in which a substrate is accommodated. The heat treatment furnace includes a gas supply unit at one side end face, an opening for communication between the cavity and the outside world, and a gas discharge unit in the vicinity of the opening for discharging gas from the cavity at the other side end face. The heat treatment furnace further includes a cover for shutting the opening allowing opening/closing thereof. In the gas exhaust unit, an exhaust chamber is formed on the other side end face along the opening with a partition wall between the opening and the exhaust chamber. An exhaust portion is formed in communication with the outside world in the exhaust chamber. The partition wall is formed so that the edge of the partition wall is displaced away from the inside surface of the cover, whereby a slit-like vent passage extending in the direction of the width of the cavity is formed between the cover and the edge of the partition wall when the opening is shut. The gas flow is uniform in the vicinity of the vent passage when a substrate is loaded/unloaded into and/from the heat treatment furnace, and also during heat treatment. The outside air will not enter the furnace, and no stagnation of the process gas occurs in the furnace.
摘要:
Annular reflecting rings are removably mounted on the upper and lower sides of a chamber side portion of a chamber. An annular recessed portion is formed sandwiched between the lower end face of the upper reflecting ring and the upper end face of the lower reflecting ring to surround a holding part for holding a semiconductor wafer. The outer peripheral surface of the recessed portion communicates with a transport opening. The formation of the recessed portion prevents the light emitted from halogen lamps and flash lamps from being non-uniformly reflected around the holding part to enter a semiconductor wafer, thus improving the uniformity of the in-plane temperature distribution in the semiconductor wafer during heat treatment.
摘要:
A micro lens array has a translucent substrate of glass or the like and convex lenses formed on a principal surface of the substrate. Guide pin insertion holes are formed through the substrate 30 on opposite sides of a line of lenses. A metal layer 38 with at least three metal projections is formed only in an inner wall section of each of the holes by a plating process so as to gradually increase an opening size of the hole at higher positions. The inner wall section has a depth of about 50 to 100 μm from the opening end on the guide pin insertion side. The metal layer may be omitted. Instead of the metal projections, a metal layer forming the hole having a polygonal shape may be used.
摘要:
The present invention provides a decoy nucleic acid for the Synoviolin gene promoter. Also provided is the decoy nucleic acid can inhibit the promoter activity by binding to the transcription factor of the Synoviolin gene promoter. It also provides a decoy nucleic acid as expressed in (a) a decoy nucleic acid consisting of a nucleotide sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 11 or 12; and it also provides (b) a decoy nucleic acid consisting of a nucleotide sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 11 or 12 having deletion, substitution or addition of one or several nucleotides and has the function of inhibiting Synoviolin gene promoter activity.
摘要翻译:本发明提供了用于滑膜炎基因启动子的诱饵核酸。 还提供了诱饵核酸可以通过与滑膜素基因启动子的转录因子结合来抑制启动子活性。 它还提供如(a)由如SEQ ID NO:11或12所示的核苷酸序列组成的诱饵核酸所表达的诱饵核酸; 并且还提供(b)由SEQ ID NO:11或12所示的具有缺失,取代或添加一个或几个核苷酸的核苷酸序列组成的具有抑制滑膜素基因启动子活性的功能的诱饵核酸。