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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6841644 | Biopolymers obtained by solid state irradiation in an unsaturated gaseous atmosphere Disclosed are modified naturally occurring biocompatible biopolymers of plant and animal origin made by subjecting same to ionizing radiation in the presence of a mediating gas, typically acetylene to enable one to selectively enhance and modify one or more of the p... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6627404 | Methods for improving the recovery of troponin I and T in membranes, filters and vessels A method to facilitate recovery troponin I and/or troponin T from a sample comprising addition of troponin C to the sample or to a surface from which the troponin I and/or troponin T are recovered.... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6492327 | Isolation of purified TGF- 댡 and TGF -댢 from bone tissue A method for purifying bone-derived TGF-ଲ proteins including an anion exchange process, a cation exchange process, and a reverse phase HPLC process, and optionally, a filtration process, a Heparin-Sepharose process, and/or a reverse phase HPLC desal... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6268481 | Covalently coupled troponin complexes Stabilized compositions for use in clinical assays for troponin are disclosed. The compositions are covalently coupled complexes of cardiac troponin I, cardiac troponin T, and/or troponin C.... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6124430 | Human brain natriuretic peptides The present invention provides reagents and assays for the quantification of hBNP in biological fluid samples such as plasma or serum. Antibodies are provided which are monospecific to epitopes comprising the amino acid sequences 5-13, 1-10 and 15-25 of h... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6114180 | Synthetic calibrators for use in immunoassays, comprising the analytes or partial sequences thereof which are conjugated to inert carrier molecules The invention relates to synthetic calibrators for immunological tests, analyte-specific epitopes being coupled to other proteins or to synthetic carriers.... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6072040 | Stabilized conjugates of uncomplexed subunits of multimeric proteins The present invention provides methods for preparing, and compositions comprising, stabilized protein-polymer conjugates. More particularly, the present invention relates to the stabilization of individual subunits of multisubunit protein complexes by con... | 06/06/2000 |
| 5939270 | Markers for organ rejection Provided herein are human proteins or xenogeneic homologs thereof, which are predictive markers for acute allograft rejection, processes for obtaining the proteins of the invention, nucleotide sequences which encode the proteins, and antibodies to the pro... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5869611 | Markers for detection of chromosome 16 rearrangements The breakpoints of the pericentric inversion of chromosome 16 have been cloned. Two genes, one at each breakpoint, have also been identified, as well as several forms of the inversion 16 fusion gene. Diagnostic applications for chromosome 16 abnormalities... | 02/09/1999 |
| 5618725 | Oleophilic biodegrading additive and method of treating hybrocarbon polluted medium Biodegradation additive characterized in that it consists of a mixture of (i) at least one assimilable nitrogen source composed of at least one unsubstituted or substituted amino acid; (ii) at least one phosphorus source, the ratio of nitrogen to phosphor... | 04/08/1997 |
| 5583200 | Stabilized composition of troponin for immunoassays and process for stabilizing troponin for immunoassays Stabilized composition of troponin I or T for immunoassays, comprising an aqueous solution containing troponin I or troponin T, 1 to 10 molar equivalents of troponin C per molar equivalent of troponin I or T, and Mg++ and/or Ca++ i... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5573957 | Monoclonal antibody to human cardiac myoglobin A monoclonal antibody having high affinity to human cardiac myoglobin, which has undergone a conformational change resulting from the binding of the molecule to another molecule is described. This monoclonal antibody can be used in a rapid format double a... | 11/12/1996 |
| 5549904 | Biological adhesive composition and method of promoting adhesion between tissue surfaces A formulated biological adhesive composition utilizes tissue transglutaminase in a pharmaceutically acceptable aqueous carrier. The tissue transglutaminase is used in an effective catalytic amount to promote adhesion between tissue surfaces upon treatment... | 08/27/1996 |
| 5461034 | Osteogenic growth polypeptides identified from regenerating bone marrow A biochemically pure polypeptide(s), termed osteogenic growth polypeptide (OGP), which exhibits stimulatory effects on osteoblastic cells, in vivo bone formation and hemopoietic reconstruction. OGP, identified from regenerating bone marrow, has an amino a... | 10/24/1995 |
| 5281700 | Method of recovering endothelial membrane from tissue and applications thereof A process is disclosed which makes possible the isolation of the luminal endothelial cell membrane from associated tissue. It is particularly applicable to vasculature, but broadly is applicable to all tissue cavities which are accessible from adjacent pe... | 01/25/1994 |
| 5242692 | Anti-metastatic factor A factor isolable from muscle tissue or muscle cell culture inhibits proliferation of tumor cells, such as ESB, HT-29 and B-16 F1 cell lines, as well as the peripheral white blood cells of a patient with chronic myeloid leukemia. The active fraction has a... | 09/07/1993 |
| 4923696 | Method to prepare a neurotrophic composition The present invention is based on the discovery that amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Parkinson disease and Alzheimer disease are due to lack of disorder-specific neurotrophic factors. Specific neurotrophic factors of ~20-22 kD and ~16-18 kD have been... | 05/08/1990 |
| 4895807 | Membrane channel protein and related therapeutic compounds A channel protein has a molecular weight of approximately 280 kD and is capable of affecting K+ and Cl- membrane transport. Furosemide and quinine derivatives, and polysaccharide or monosaccharide gels incorporating such derivatives,... | 01/23/1990 |
| 4843063 | Polypeptide cartilage-inducing factors found in bone Two proteins that are found in bone and that have in vivo chondrogenic/osteogenic activity in combination with a co-factor are described. Both proteins also were active in combination with EGF in the in vitro TGF-ଲ assay. Each has a molecular weight... | 06/27/1989 |
| 4810691 | Polypeptide cartilage-inducing factors found in bone Two proteins that are found is bone and that have in vivo chondrogenic/osteogenic activity in combination with a co-factor are described. Both proteins also were active in combination with EGF in the in vitro TGF-ଲ assay. Each has a molecular weight... | 03/07/1989 |
| 4789734 | Vitronectin specific cell receptor derived from mammalian mesenchymal tissue A method of isolating cell surface receptors utilizing a short peptide sequence bound to an affinity column. Cell surface receptors which bind selectively to the short peptide and which are specific to various adhesion proteins may be isolated therewith f... | 12/06/1988 |
| 4751284 | Cardiodilatin, a new peptide hormone and process for its preparation There is described a new peptide hormone (cardiodilatin) and a process for its preparation, with the amino acid sequence: Asn-Pro-Val-Tyr-Gly-Ser-Val-Ser-Asn-Ala-Asp-Leu-Met-Asp-Phe-Lys-Asn-Leu-Le u-Asp-His-Leu-Glu-Asp-Lys-Met-Pro-Leu-Glu-Asp-Glu-Ala-Met-P... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4507233 | Colored molecular weight marker Colored proteins having a known molecular weight of 1800 to 321200 are prepared by coupling monomers of a colored protein having a known molecular weight or by coupling a colored protein having a known molecular weight with a colorless protein having a kn... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4446064 | Insulin mediator substance An insulin mediator substance produced by the process comprising: contacting muscle tissue with insulin; deproteinizing the muscle tissue; removing the major nucleotides from the deproteinized muscle tissue; chromatographing the so-treated product on a Se... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4406831 | Meat protein product and process A soluble meat protein product in the form of a dry protein powder or concentrated solution is produced from any meat muscle. The preferred route is via pre-rigor meat finely comminuted, in the presence of a solution of sodium chloride and food phosphate.... | 09/27/1983 |
| 4343734 | Protein diagnostic for atherosclerosis Compositions and processes featuring, in one aspect, a process of purifying a protein diagnostic for atherosclerosis comprising separating out of primate and human atherosclerotic tissue a Gla-containing protein of molecular weight of about 80,000.... | 08/10/1982 |
| 4328252 | Production of protein fibres Elastic and rubbery protein fibres are formed by injection of a protein micellar mass through a screen or die into hot water or other fluid medium having a pH of about 5.5 to about 7.5 and a temperature above about 90° C. The protein fibres have characte... | 05/04/1982 |
| 4301064 | Ubiquitary tissue protein PP8 A new soluble tissue protein (PP8) and a process for isolating it from human organs is described. The protein has antigenic properties. In the case of diseases which involve tissue disintegration its presence in the blood in increased concentra... | 11/17/1981 |
| 4237044 | Antibodies against creatinekinase-M8 and process for the production thereof Antibodies against the M subunit of CK isoenzymes having a molecular weight between about 130,000 and 210,000, and inhibiting the enzymatic activity of the M subunit, optionally also in the presence of CK substrates, without inactivating the enzymatic act... | 12/02/1980 |
| 4218335 | Stabilizer for an immunochemical measuring reagent A stabilizer consisting principally of cytochrome c or a thermally modified matter of cytochrome c for maintaining constant over an extended period the sensitivity of measurement and specificity of a measuring reagent on the basis of the immunochemical ag... | 08/19/1980 |
| 4137335 | Recovery of fat and meat meal from animal raw material Animal raw material is boiled at least mainly by indirect heating and then divided into stick water and solids, the solids being separately dried to form a first meat meal fraction. The stick water, preferably after separating a sludge component and a fat... | 01/30/1979 |
