Biomedical technology

Polymer latex particles are usually benign in the body and may be functionalised to improve biocompatibility. There are many potential biomedical applications of latexes. Emulsions have potential relevance in the area of controlled-release drug-delivery (246, 253, 259). Because emulsion polymers have substantial interfacial areas, they are potentially useful as supports for use in relatively low-temperature biocatalysis applications (171, 308). Fluorescent-dyed latex particles (218) are 

Emulsion polymer latexes are essential components in many of the commercial applications encountered daily. The emulsion polymerisation process is unique and involves many complex and interrelated chemical and physical phenomena. Emulsion polymerisation is a flexible process by which a wide range of practical materials can be made, and in each case, the process is tailored to optimise the performance properties of the final product. Although the emulsion polymers field is mature, there still exist many new possibilities for polymer colloids. 

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Materials. I-EGF was either made by iodinating mouse EGF (Biomedical Technologies Inc.) by the chloramine T method, to a specific activity of approximately 1-2 Ci/ xmol, using Na- I (Amersham) or purchased from New England Nuclear. Phorbol diterpene esters were purchased from Sigma. Palytoxin was isolated from Palythoa tuberculosa as previously described (1). 

Some new materials perspective for advanced biomedical technologies, especially carbon nanoparticles like fullerenes, are potentially mutagenic, carcinogenic and immunogenic [16,65], Therefore, standard tests of the morphological transformation of Syrian hamster embryonic cells in cultures on these materials (described in detail by [68,69]) can be performed. Immune activation of bone and vascular cells on the materials can be estimated by increased concentration of immunoglobulin and selectin adhesion molecules (ICAM-1, VCAM-1, ELAM-1), which bind cells of the immune system [15,16,18,19,23], as well as by the production of cytokines, such as tumor necrosis factor alpha or interleukins beta [55],... 

Lipoprotein-deficient serum (LPDS Biomedical Technologies). 

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These top five inventions at each university also are derived largely from biomedical technologies. At UC, because of the early importance of agricultural inventions, biomedical inventions account for only 34 percent of its licensing income from the five most lucrative inventions in 1970. But by the end of the period, all of the top five UC inventions were biomedical. For Stanford, the biomedical inventions accounted for 87 percent of the earnings of the top five inventions in FY 1975, a figure that... 

Uptake of acetylated LDL. Visualization of Ac-LDL uptake is attained by using the fluorescent probe l -dioctadecyl-3,3,3, 3 -tetramethyl- indocarbocyanide perchlorate conjugated to Ac-LDL (Dil-Ac-LDL, Biomedical Technologies Inc.) (Voyta et al., 1984 LietaL, 1991). 

Vainrub, A., et al. (2003). Theoretical Considerations for the Efficient Design of DNA Arrays. Biomedical Technology and Devices Handbook, eds. James, E., Moore, Jr. and George Zouridakis CRC Press. 

One interesting piece of equipment developed to measure oxygen content of the blood is produced by the Centre for Biomedical Technology in Australia [41]. It consists of five 1W lasers at wavelengths of 780, 800, 830, 850, and 980 nm and uses a photodiode receiver. It uses the hemoglobin/deoxy-hemoglobin absorbance differences mentioned earlier and throws in the S02 content of the blood for good measure. 

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is the world s largest biomedical library containing nearly 6 million books, reports, journals, photographs, manuscripts, and computer images.Located on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, this national resource houses material on the topics of medicine, healthcare, and biomedical technology. Information on physical, life, and social sciences is also a part of the NLM. In addition to storing this immense collection of medical literature, the NLM operates more than 40 online databases,the most popular of which is MEDLINE, the world s largest up-to-date online collection of biomedical... 

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Moore J, Zouridakis G. Biomedical Technology and Devices Handbook. 1st ed. Boca Raton, FL CRC Press Inc., 2004. The Mechanical Engineering Handbook Series Vol. 12. 

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