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A surgical instrument (3), in particular for use in laparoscopy, comprises means for inducing the surface adsorption of ions in correspondence of said sheath (10) allowing to reducing burns due to electrical dispersions.
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The invention concerns new asymmetric liposomes and uses thereof in medical field transport lipids involved in antimicrobial or antiviral response, particularly at level of pulmonary target cells.
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The invention relates to the preparation of soluble forms of complexes of histone deacetylase inhibitors and cyclodextrins. The preparation process involves the formation of inclusion complexes with cyclodextrins with the aid of microwaves. Their use is in the pharmaceutical field.
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The present invention concerns a new immortalized cell line of mesenchymal murine stem cells, method for preparation and uses thereof, particularly as an experimental model.
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A distillation system (1 ) and method, for the distillation by evaporation of a liquid solution and subsequent condensation thereof. The system (1) comprises a control unit, suitable for managing production processes and controlling process parameters; a tank (10) for storage of said liquid solution; means (11 ) for collecting a given flow rate of said liquid solution from said tank (10) and inletting it into a fluid-dynamic circuit of said system (1 ); a phase separation chamber (100), apt to induct said given flow rate of liquid solution until attaining a corresponding hydrostatic column H in said separation chamber (100); a heat exchanger (30), in double fluid connection (a,b), respectively liquid and gaseous, with said phase separation chamber (100), apt to carry out a preliminary evaporation of a given fluid stream of said liquid solution, returned into said exchanger (30) from said phase separation chamber (100); power-generating means, apt to cooperate with said heat exchanger (30) so as to output thereto the power required to carry out said evaporation; an unit (50) for condensing said vapour (50) and extracting the distillate deriving therefrom by distillation ducts (6); wherein said power-generating means comprises a modular electromagnetic microwave generator (200), cooperating with said control unit in the sense of adjusting the power developed proportionally to the hydrostatic head that is established in said heat exchanger (30) at the transit of said fluid stream of said liquid solution.
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An electro-optical filter made of a support in which an optical guide with a diffused channel waveguide and of a cover, that are created in borosilicate glass, and which includes a gap obtained by the use of suitable spacers, filled with a grating constituted of alternating strips of polymer and liquid crystal called POLICRYPS (Polymer Liquid CRYstal Polymer Slices), and with first electrodes that are coplanar to the support and next to the optical guide with a channel, that electrically control the grating making the filter tunable, and a manufacturing process.
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The invention concerns benzodiazepine derivatives of formula (I) wherein Y it is SO 2 or NR, wherein R is H or C 1 -C 6 alkyl; X is H, C 1 -C 12 alkyl, -CO, -SO, -SO 2 , or - CO-R 2 , SO-R 2 , SO 2 - R 2 , wherein R 2 is selected from H, C 1 -C 12 alkyl, (C 3 -C 8 cycloalkyl) C 0 -C 6 alkyl, C 2 -C 6 alkenyl, C 2 -C 6 alkynyl, C2-C 6 alkoxycarbonyl, phenyl, benzyl, naphtyl, biphenyl, or heterocycle, each para-, meta- or ortho-substituted independently of each other with 0 to 3 substituents selected from halogen, -CN, -NH 2 , -OH, -NO 2 , COOR 3 , wherein R 3 is selected from H, C 1 -C 12 alkyl, (C 3 -C 8 cycloalkyl) C 0 -C 6 alkyl, C 1 -C 6 alkoxy, C 2 -C 6 alkenyl, C 2 -C 6 alkynyl, or C 2 -C 6 alkoxy carbonyl; phenyl, benzyl, naphtyl, biphenyl, or heterocycle, n is 0-6; R 4 is selected from H, OH, COOH, CN, C 1 -C 6 alkyl, C 1 -C 6 alkoxy, C 2 -C 6 alkenyl, C 2 -C 6 alkynyl, C 2 -C 6 alkoxycarbonyl, -CO, -SO, - SO 2 , or -CO-R 5 , SO-R 5 , SO 2 -R 2 , -OCO-R 5 , OSO-R 5 , OSO 2 -R 5 , COOR 5 , SOOR 5 , SO 2 OR 5 , NHR 5 , NHCOR 5 , NHSO 2 R 5 , SR 5 , SCOR 5 , wherein R 5 is selected from H, C 1 -C 6 alkyl, C 1 -C 6 alkoxy, C 2 -C 6 alkenyl, C 2 -C 6 alkynyl, or C 2 -C 6 alkoxycarbonyl, phenyl, benzyl, naphtyl, biphenyl, or heterocycle, each para-, meta- or ortho-substituted independently of each other with O to 3 substituents selected from halogen, -CN, -NH 2 , -OH, -NO 2 , COOR 5' , wherein R 5 is selected from H, C 1 -C 12 alkyl, (C 3 -C 8 cycloalkyl) C 0 -C 6 alkyl, phenyl, benzyl, naphtyl, biphenyl, or heterocycle, C 1 -C 6 alkyl, C 1 -C 6 alkoxy, C 2 -C 6 alkenyl, C 2 -C 6 alkynyl, or C 2 -C 6 alkoxy carbonyl; R 6 and R 7 independently of each other are selected from the group consisting of H, OH, halogen, CN, NH 2 , NO 2 , COOR 3 , C 1 -C 6 alkyl, C 1 -C 6 alkoxy, C 2 -C 6 alkenyl, C 2 -C 6 alkynyl, and C 2 -C 6 alkoxy carbonyl; R 3 is H, C 1 -C 6 alkyl, C 2 -C 6 alkenyl, C 2 -C 6 alkynyl or physiologically acceptable salts and uses thereof in medical field, particularly as anti-tumoral agents.
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The invention relates to a new alternative splicing isoform of OLR1 gene encoding for the LOX-1 protein, uses and methods related to the treatment and to the prediction of the risk of cardiovascular diseases.
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The authors describe an expression system for the correct, stable and effective expression in mammalian cells of a siRNA comprising: a) a polymerase II RNA-dependent promoter derived from the U1 RNA gene; downstream from the sequence b) suitable restriction sites for the cloning of the sequence transcribing the pre-siRNA; downstream from these sites c) sequences derived from the sequences at 3' of the gene for U1 snRNA that are necessary and sufficient for the correct formation of 3' of the presiRNA.