Abstract:
A process for producing substantially radio-impurity-free Bi-212 is disclosed. An acidic feed solution containing Pb-212 is contacted with an extraction medium to bind the Pb-212 thereto. The extraction medium is rinsed with a second acid solution to remove impurities therefrom, leaving a substantially impurity-free Pb-212-laden extraction medium. The Pb-212 grows on the extraction medium to form Bi-212 by radioactive decay. The Bi-212 is then eluted from the extraction medium with an acid solution to form a substantially radio-impurity-free Bi-212 acid solution. An apparatus for carrying out this process and a process for the therapeutic use thereof are also disclosed.
Abstract:
A process for increasing the circulating levels of gene products in a primate for extended period of time is provided. In accordance with that process, muscle cells of the mammal are transformed with an expression vector that contains a polynucleotide that encodes the gene product and which vector drives expression in the muscle.
Abstract:
A system (10) and method for monitoring an industrial process and/or industrial data source (10). The system (10) includes a time correlation module (20), a training module (30), a system state estimation module (40) and a pattern recognition module (50). The system (10) generating time varying data sources, processing the data to obtain time correlation of the data (20), determining the range of data, determining learned states of normal operation (30) and using these states to generate expected values to identify a current state of the process closest to a learned, normal state (40); generating a set of modeled data, and processing the modeled data to identify a data pattern and generating an alarm (50) upon detecting a deviation from normalcy.
Abstract:
This invention relates to methods for the prevention or treatment of programmed cell death, or apoptosis, in neuronal cells for therapy in connection with neurodegenerative diseases, as well as methods of treatment of cancer and other tumorigenic diseases and herpesvirus infection. The invention also relates to assay methodologies allowing for the identification of substances capable of modulating the effects of the gamma 134.5 gene or modified gamma 134.5 gene or their protein expression products (ICP34.5) or modified, i.e., substances capable of potentiating, inducing, or inhibiting their effects. Additionally, the invention also relates to assay methodologies desinged to identify candidate substances able to mimic either gamma 134.5 expression or the activity of ICP34.5. The invention also relates to methods of delivering genes to cells for gene therapy.
Abstract:
The present invention provides isolated and purified polynucleotides that encode plant and cyanobacterial polypeptides that participate in the carboxylation of acetyl-CoA. Isolated cyanobacterial and plant polypeptides that catalyze acetyl-CoA carboxylation are also provided. Processes for altering acetyl-CoA carboxylation, increasing herbicide resistance of plants and identifying herbicide resistant variants of acetyl-CoA carboxylase are also provided.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to the use of gene transfer to inhibit non-neoplastic pathological cell proliferation. An eukaryotic expression vector comprising a polynucleotide sequence that codes for a dominant-negative cell cycle regulatory protein is delivered to a proliferating cell. Delivery is accomplished by infusing the expression vector into an artery that perfuses or contains the proliferating cell.
Abstract:
A method and system for the automated detection of lesions in computed tomographic images, including generating image data from at least one selected portion of an object, for example, from CT images of the thorax. The image data are then analyzed in order to produce the boundary of the thorax. The image data within the thoracic boundary is then further analyzed to produce boundaries of the lung regions using predetermined criteria. Features within the lung regions are then extracted using multi-gray-level thresholding and correlation between resulting multi-level threshold images and between at least adjacent sections. Classification of the features as abnormal lesions or normal anatomic features is then performed using geometric features yielding a likelihood of being an abnormal lesion along with its location in either the 2-D image section or in the 3-D space of the object.
Abstract:
A method for the automated detection of gross abnormalities and asymmetries in chest images (10), including generating image data from radiographic images of the thorax. The image data are then analyzed in order to produce the boundaries of the aerated lung regions in the thorax. This analysis comprises location of the mediastinum and lung apices, iterative global thresholding (11) with centroid testing of contours, local thresholding (12) on regions along initial contours of the aerated lung, correction (13) for regions near the costo and cardiophrenic angles in the chest, analysis (15) of the areas and density distribution within the aerated lung regions in the chest and determination (16) of the likelihood of the presence of a gross abnormality or asymmetry. Finat ouptut could be the computer determined contours of the lungs or the likelihood for abnormality.
Abstract:
A computerized method and system for the radiographic analysis of bone structure. Techniques include texture analysis for use in quantitating the bone structure and risk of fracture. Texture analysis of the bone structure incorporates directionality information, for example, in terms of the angular dependence of the RMS variation and first moment of the power spectrum of a ROI in a bony region. The system includes using dual energy imaging to obtain measures of both mass and bone structure with one exam. Specific applications are given for the analysis of regions within the vertebral bodies on conventional spine radiographs. Techniques include novel features that characterize the power spectrum of the bone structure and allow extraction of directionality features with which to characterize the spatial distribution and thickness of the bone trabeculae. These features are then merged using artifical neural networks in order to yield a likelihood of risk of future fracture.
Abstract:
The invention relates generally to compositions of and methods for obtaining ubiquitous, nuclear receptor (UR) polypeptides. The invention also relates to polynucleotides encoding UR polypeptides, recombinant host cells and vectors containing UR-encoding polynucleotide sequences, and recombinant UR polypeptides. By way of example, the invention discloses the cloning and functional expression of at least two different UR polypeptides. The invention also includes methods for using the isolated, recombinant receptor polypeptides in assays designed to select substances which interact with UR polypeptides for use in diagnostic, drug design and therapeutic applications.