Abstract:
Novel silyl alcohols having bulky substituents bonded to the silicon, and the silyl group attached to a carbon include the preferred 2-silyl-ethan-1-ols. A method for synthesizing silyl substituted alcohols include hydrosilation of a vinylic ester, especially vinyl acetate, followed by hydrolysis in mild base. The silyl alcohols are useful in preparing phosphorylating reagents for phosphorylating an oligonucleotide. The phosphorylated intermediate bearing the silyl group may be separated from failure product on the basis of bulky substituents on the silyl protecting group, which is later removed, e.g. by fluoride ion.
Abstract:
Container systems employing a diluent container (14) having an extractor (56) that is helically threaded and is used to engage a resilient undercut vial stopper (18) of an additive container (12).
Abstract:
An improved method for detecting antibodies is disclosed. The method involves the steps of a) mixing the specimen with a diluent comprising superoxide dismutase, and b) contacting the diluted specimen with at least one recombinant antigen expressed as a fusion protein with superoxide dismutase.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a substantially optically pure hapten, useful in an immunoassay for cotinine. The hapten corresponds to a specified structural formula (I). In formula (I) X is a straight or branched chain, saturated or unsaturated, divalent radical covalently bonded to a pyridyl ring at the number 2-, 4-, 5- or 6- position. The divalent radical, X, has from 1 to 10 carbon atoms wherein the chain of the divalent radical optionally may contain 1 or 2 hetero atoms selected from members of the group consisting of S, O and NZ in which Z represents a C1 to C3 alkyl group. In formula (I), n = 1 or 0, and Q is a functional group selected from -COOH, -NH2 (provided that n does not equal 0), -C(O)NHNH2, -O(CO)Cl, -CHO, -NCS or -NCO. Also disclosed is an immunogen derived from the hapten as well as an antibody raised in response to an immunogen derived from the hapten. Also disclosed is a fluorescent tracer derived from a substantially optically pure compound corresponding to the hapten, the tracer being useful in an immunoassay for cotinine. Also disclosed is an improved immunoassay for determining cotinine in a biological sample involving a step of contacting the sample with antibodies raised in response to the immunogen. Also disclosed is a fluorescence polarization immunoassay (FPIA) for determining cotinine involving a step of contacting the sample with antibodies raised in response to the immunogen, and/or involving a step of contacting the sample with a fluorescent tracer.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for maintaining the patency of a vein access device (14) in which a dilute solution of an anticoagulant drug is slowly infused into the vein access device (14). The patency device includes a self-energized container (12) and means for adding a medicament without disconnecting the patency device from the vein access device (14). In accordance with a preferred embodiment, a self-energized container (12) delivers a heparin solution to the vein access device (14) at a concentration from about .01 to about 0.99 international heparin units per milliliter of diluen at a flow rate from about .01 to about 1.0 milliliters per hour.
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Oligopeptide compounds or oligopeptide analogue compounds of the formula A-B-D-E-G-J-L-M-Q are ligands for the anaphylatoxin receptor and are useful in the treatment of inflammatory disease states. Also disclosed are anaphylatoxin receptor ligand compositions and a method for modulating anaphylatoxin activity.
Abstract:
Novel antibacterial compounds are disclosed having formula (I) as well as pharmaceutically acceptable salts, esters, amide and prodrugs thereof, wherein R1 is selected from the group consisting of (a) lower alkyl, (b) halo(lower alkyl), (c) lower alkyl(alkynyl), (d) lower cycloalkyl, (e) lower alkylamino, (f) nitrogen-containing aromatic heterocycle, (g) bicyclic alkyl and (h) phenyl; R2 is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, lower alkyl, a pharmaceutically acceptable cation, and a prodrug ester group; R?3 and R4¿ are independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, halogen, amino, and lower alkyl; R5 is either a nitrogen-containing heterocycle or a nitrogen-containing spiro-bicyclic-heterocycle; and A is N or C-R6, wherein R6 is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, halogen, lower alkyl, and lower alkoxy, or R?1 and R6¿ taken together with the atoms to which they are attached form a 6-membered ring which may contain an oxygen or sulfur atom and which may be substituted with lower alkyl; as well as pharmaceutical compositions comprising such novel compounds and the therapeutic use thereof.
Abstract:
Monoclonal antibodies which specifically bind to human nerve growth factor receptor, human truncated nerve growth factor receptor, monkey truncated nerve growth factor receptor, and which do not significantly bind to rat or chick nerve growth factor receptor, and hybridomas which produce these monoclonal antibodies. Also provided are assays which utilize these monoclonal antibodies to determine the presence of human nerve growth factor receptor or human truncated nerve growth factor receptor in a test sample, and asssay kits containing these monoclonal antibodies.
Abstract:
A chemiluminescent signal amplification method in which the desired reaction signal is amplified by use of a probe reagent which contains an enhancer compound such as a hapten and by the use of a conjugate which contains a chemiluminescent signal generating compound. Kits for performing such an amplified chemiluminescent assay are also provided.