Abstract:
The present invention relates to prevention and treatment of thromboembolic diseases by administration of a therapeutically effective dose of an active trisaccharide comprising an iduronic acid, a glucopyranosyl or glucopyranosylamine unit and a hexuronic acid selected from iduronic acid and glucuronic acid. The specific trisaccharides of the present invention have potent activity towards thrombin and also potentiate the inhibition of FXa, even if the trisaccharides lack sulfate groups. With the present invention, safe and potent anticoagulants with a potentially high oral absorption are achievable, due to the much smaller molecular size and presence of very few, if any, sulfate groups compared to presently available anticoagulants.
Abstract:
A method is disclosed for treatment of acute renal failure which comprises administering to a warm-blooded mammal manifesting acute renal failure a small but effective amount of zaprinast sufficient to effect acceleration of recovery from said acute renal failure.
Abstract:
Cell lines and methods are disclosed for detecting the presence of RNA viruses in a specimen. The cell lines are stably transformed with a DNA molecule that includes a promoter capable of being recognized by the DNA dependent RNA polymerase of the cell capable of directing the transcription of a cDNA of a structurally defective RNA virus genome operably coupled to the promoter. The cDNA contains a structural coding sequence encoding a selected reporter gene product. The RNA molecules transcribed by the DNA dependent RNA polymerase are not capable of causing the translation of the reporter gene in the cell except when an active related virus that provides the necessary trans-acting enzymes to cause the increased replication of the RNA containing the reporter gene which is then translated into the reporter gene product is provided. Methods utilizing the cell lines of this invention to detect RNA viruses in a specimen by incubating the specimen with the cell line and assaying for expression of the reporter gene and a kit containing a supply of the cells and a supply of the reagents necessary for the detection of the reporter gene product are also provided.
Abstract:
Analogs of regulators of complement activation (RCA) proteins which have altered specificities and affinities for the targets C3b and/or C4b are described. These analogs are obtained by substituting amino acids which affect the complement inhibitory activities of these proteins, substituting, rearranging or adding SCRs or SCR regions to the proteins, deleting amino acid sequences, and combinations thereof.
Abstract:
A multi-channel, multi-casting switch (20) for an ATM network utilizes a particular nonblocking condition of the Flip Network (28), which is exploited to realize a multi-channel switching architecture that supports an arbitrary number of channel groups. Using a single Flip Network (28) recursively, the resulting architecture becomes efficent in the sense that the crosspoint complexity is 0(N log2N) for N inputs. The number of times the Flip Network (28) is used recursively is a function of the number of channel groups only. The architecture is internally nonblocking and bufferless. In multi-channel switching, cells belonging to a single session can traverse over multiple channels and the architecture maintains cells in order by assigning a specific Gray code to each data cell in each group.
Abstract:
A head assembly and method for maintaining the head assembly on a data encoded track of a magnetic medium is disclosed. The head assembly includes a main head (22) for reading the encoded data, a left track edge auxiliary head (26/42) and a right track edge auxiliary head (26/44). The outputs of each of the three heads are used to create a differential power frequency spectrum which, in excess of a threshold value, indicates misalignment of the head assembly with respect to the track. The disclosed head assembly and method eliminates the requirement for guard bands between adjacent tracks of a magnetic medium, eliminates the encoded burst at the beginning of a track used in the prior art to align a head prior to its sweeping through a track sector, and thereby reduces the overhead or wasted space in a magnetic recording medium.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus is disclosed for using the remanent noise of a magnetic medium (38) as a fingerprint for benchmark testing of the magnetic medium as it is both manufactured and used. A cross-correlation is made between the fingerprint at various times as the magnetic medium is manipulated and is indicative of the integrity thereof. This cross-correlation media may be used to control manufacturing and recording processes, including tape tensionning and channel equalization. This cross-correlation between fingerprints can be used to control (43) the tension applied to a thin film magnetic medium during record and/or playback.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus is disclosed for determining the remnant noise in a magnetic medium (104) by DC saturation (102) of a region thereof and measurement (106) of the remaining DC magnetization. Conventional recording transducers may be used to determine the remnant noise. Upon determination, the remanent noise may then be compensated for in either or both of the record (110) and playback modes for all varieties of magnetic media including videotapes, cassette tapes, etc.