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5545820 Insect control using lectins having specific mannose-binding ability
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PATENT ABSTRACTS
increased expression in the plastids of a plant or plant cell of the Bacillus thuringiensis insecticidal protein.
5545819 TRANSGENIC PLANTS EXPRESSING A PROKARYOTIC AMMONIUM DEPENDENT ASPARAGINE SYNTHETASE Dudits Dacu enes; Panlovics Katalin; Kalman Katalin; Gyuml orgyey Jacu ants; Nagy Ferenc; Bako Lacu aszlacu o Horvath Gacu abor; Eckes Peter; Donn Guml unter Szeged, HUNGARY Assigned to Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft The gene asnA which encodes a prokaryotic ammonium-specific asparagine synthetase (ASN-A) can be introduced into plant ceils. Such transformed cells and plants developed therefrom not only tolerate glutamine synthetase inhibitors but are effectively stimulated by such herbicides.
5545820 INSECT CONTROL USING LECTINS HAVING SPECIFIC MANNOSE-BINDING ABILITY
An apparatus and method for measuring the thickness of a tissue section with an automated image analysis system, preferably using polyploid nuclear DNA content, for subsequem use in analyzing cell objects of a specimen cell sample for the diagnosis and treatment of actual or suspected cancer or monitoring any variation in the nominal thickness in a microtome setting. An image of a measurement material, such as a rat liver tissue section, having known cell object attributes is first digitized and the morphological attributes, including area and DNA mass of the cell objects, are automatically measured from the digitized image. The measured attributes are compared to ranges of attribute values which are preestablished to select particular cell objects. After the selection of the cell objects, the operator may review the automatically selected cell objects and accept or change the measmeM cell object atwibute values. In a preferred embodiment, each selected cell object is assigned to one of three classes corresponding to diploid,tetraploid and octoploid cell morphology and the measured DNA mass of the identified cell object fragments in the rat liver tissue section sample may be corrected. Next, the selected cell objects of the measurement material, e.g., DNA Mass, are then graphically displayed in a histogram and the thickness of the rat liver tissue section can be measured based upon the distribution.
5547841 Gatehouse Angharad; Hilder Vaughan; Van Damme Els; Peumans Willy; NeweU Christine; Hamilton William Durham, UNITED KINGDOM Assigned to Agricultural Genetics Company Limited The invention relates to the use of lectins having specific mannose-binding ability and/or derived from Amaryllidaceae or Alliaceae for the control of insect pests. Transgenic plants containing and capable of expressing foreign genes coding for such lectins are also disclosed.
5546323 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING TISSUE SECTION THICKNESS Bacus James; Bacus James Hinsdale, IL, UNITED STATES Assigned to Cell Analysis Systems lnc
IN VITRO METHOD FOR SCREENING FOR DRUGS THAT INHIBIT PRODUCTION OR DEGRADATION OF HUMAN A4-AMYLOID Marotta Charles A; Zain Sayeeda Cambridge, MA, UNITED STATES Assigned to The Mclean Hospital Corporation; University of Rochest The invention relates to an in vitro method of screening for drugs, potentially useful for treatment of Alzheimer's Disease. The method involves contacting a drug with a host transformed with a DNA construct which contains at least the DNA coding for human A4-amyloid peptide and overexpresses the peptide and then detecting the prevention of production or increased degradation of the A4-peptide due to the drug.
PATENT ABSTRACTS
increased expression in the plastids of a plant or plant cell of the Bacillus thuringiensis insecticidal protein.
5545819 TRANSGENIC PLANTS EXPRESSING A PROKARYOTIC AMMONIUM DEPENDENT ASPARAGINE SYNTHETASE Dudits Dacu enes; Panlovics Katalin; Kalman Katalin; Gyuml orgyey Jacu ants; Nagy Ferenc; Bako Lacu aszlacu o Horvath Gacu abor; Eckes Peter; Donn Guml unter Szeged, HUNGARY Assigned to Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft The gene asnA which encodes a prokaryotic ammonium-specific asparagine synthetase (ASN-A) can be introduced into plant ceils. Such transformed cells and plants developed therefrom not only tolerate glutamine synthetase inhibitors but are effectively stimulated by such herbicides.
5545820 INSECT CONTROL USING LECTINS HAVING SPECIFIC MANNOSE-BINDING ABILITY
An apparatus and method for measuring the thickness of a tissue section with an automated image analysis system, preferably using polyploid nuclear DNA content, for subsequem use in analyzing cell objects of a specimen cell sample for the diagnosis and treatment of actual or suspected cancer or monitoring any variation in the nominal thickness in a microtome setting. An image of a measurement material, such as a rat liver tissue section, having known cell object attributes is first digitized and the morphological attributes, including area and DNA mass of the cell objects, are automatically measured from the digitized image. The measured attributes are compared to ranges of attribute values which are preestablished to select particular cell objects. After the selection of the cell objects, the operator may review the automatically selected cell objects and accept or change the measmeM cell object atwibute values. In a preferred embodiment, each selected cell object is assigned to one of three classes corresponding to diploid,tetraploid and octoploid cell morphology and the measured DNA mass of the identified cell object fragments in the rat liver tissue section sample may be corrected. Next, the selected cell objects of the measurement material, e.g., DNA Mass, are then graphically displayed in a histogram and the thickness of the rat liver tissue section can be measured based upon the distribution.
5547841 Gatehouse Angharad; Hilder Vaughan; Van Damme Els; Peumans Willy; NeweU Christine; Hamilton William Durham, UNITED KINGDOM Assigned to Agricultural Genetics Company Limited The invention relates to the use of lectins having specific mannose-binding ability and/or derived from Amaryllidaceae or Alliaceae for the control of insect pests. Transgenic plants containing and capable of expressing foreign genes coding for such lectins are also disclosed.
5546323 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING TISSUE SECTION THICKNESS Bacus James; Bacus James Hinsdale, IL, UNITED STATES Assigned to Cell Analysis Systems lnc
IN VITRO METHOD FOR SCREENING FOR DRUGS THAT INHIBIT PRODUCTION OR DEGRADATION OF HUMAN A4-AMYLOID Marotta Charles A; Zain Sayeeda Cambridge, MA, UNITED STATES Assigned to The Mclean Hospital Corporation; University of Rochest The invention relates to an in vitro method of screening for drugs, potentially useful for treatment of Alzheimer's Disease. The method involves contacting a drug with a host transformed with a DNA construct which contains at least the DNA coding for human A4-amyloid peptide and overexpresses the peptide and then detecting the prevention of production or increased degradation of the A4-peptide due to the drug.