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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 subject of this invention is an anti-UBE4A/Ufd2b polyclonal antibody. Moreover, this invention refers to the use of said antibody as a diagnostic and prognostic marker of alterations in the 11q23 region.
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The present invention relates to a process for the production of nanocrystalline oxides and mixed oxides of the lanthanides group, obtained products and their use.
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The invention relates to a method for the production of a crystal material with formula LIMPO4, where "M" is a transition metal, the method providing the steps of grinding and mixing at the solid state an organic phosphonate of a transition metal with a lithium salt and causing them to react together by pyrolysis at the solid state and high temperature by one or more heating cycles. It is thus obtained a micrometric size crystal material already containing carbon without the latter should be added thereafter. According to the invention, carbon forms inside the material during its pyrolysis directly to the surface of the lithium iron phosphate particles, interacting with the latter and ensuring an optimum electron drain.
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HCV vaccines are described which are capable of raising antibodies and/or helper T lymphocytes and/or cytotoxic T lymphocytes which are cross-reactive to the hypervariable 1 (HVR 1) region of the envelope protein E2 of different HCV strains. A preferred therapeutic vaccine for treatment of chronic HCV infection comprises a plurality of different groups of peptides, each peptide comprising a different known HVR 1 C-terminal sequence or a different consensus of known HVR 1 C-terminal sequences. The different groups of peptides are sequentially administered (preferably at intervals of 15-21 days) to raise antibodies, helper t lymphocytes, and cytotoxic T lymphocytes which are cross-reactive to the HVR 1 region(s) of the chronically infecting HCV strain(s). methods of selecting peptides for use in such vaccines are also described.
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The present invention relates to an echo-scintigraphic probe (1) for medical applications and the method of merging images. It is constituted by the union of an ultrasound probe (11) suitably integrated, both in geometric terms, and in terms of image processing, with a scintigraphic probe or gamma camera (3). With a single application of said probe (1), one is able to provide a double image of the object under examination. The ultrasound probe (11) is housed in the head (8), above the plane of the collimator (14) and kept projecting to favor the direct contact with the body part (20) of the patient (13) to be examined. The collimator (14) is able to obtain images of the biodistribution of a radiolabeled drug by radiation with frontal incidence, maintaining the characteristics of the ultrasound probe (11). The probe (1) is applicable to both clinical diagnosis and intraoperative diagnosis of cancer with the use of radio tracers. The invention also concerns a guided diagnostic method that realizes a functional integration of a pair of ultrasound and scintigraphic images concurrently obtained by the echo-scintigraphic probe (1) according to the invention.
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The present invention relates to a mixture of molecules comprising at least one miRNA and at least one siRNA, or at least two miRNAs, or at least two siRNAs for inducing hematopoietic differentiation or for treating leukemia wherein the miRNA is able to modulate hematopoietic differentiation and/or to act as oncosuppressor, and the siRNA is able to modulate hematopoietic differentiation or to inhibit the expression of a fusion product deriving from a chromosomic translocation associated to leukemia.
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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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The present invention relates to the field of fuel cell, in particular to electrode compositions for fuel cells (PEMFC - Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell) with low platinum content and discloses the use of a compound of formula M1
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Description of a sequence peptide isolated in the domain II type-immunoglobulin (Type-Ig) of the Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor receptor 1 (VEGF-1) binding integrin a5ß1, usable for the preparation of pharmacological agents having proangiogenic activity.