| UNIVERSIDAD DE BARCELONA Patent applications |
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| 20120104765 | DEVICE FOR GENERATING ELECTRIC POWER FROM SMALL MOVEMENTS - This invention describes a device for the generation of electric energy from small movements which comprises: a magnet with the shape of a solid of revolution which comprises at least a couple of poles (N, S) placed around an axis of revolution; a tube whose transversal section is complementary to the shape of the magnet, and which comprises a winding rolled transversally around it, with the magnet placed in the interior of the tube so that an inclination of the tube causes the magnet to roll, traveling along the interior of the tube and inducing tension on the winding. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120003624 | STANDARDIZED METHOD AND KIT FOR THE QUANTIFICATION OF HEPATITIS A VIRUS - The present invention provides a standardized method and a kit for an accurate quantification of HAV in clinical and food samples. The general approach is based on the use of several controls to measure the efficiency of those critical steps of the quantification: the nucleic acids extraction and the RT-PCR reactions. The kit comprises: a Mengo virus mutant strain with the same growth properties than those of the wild-type Mengo virus and with no pathogenic capacity; a single stranded RNA molecule corresponding to a fragment of the HAV genome; primers that specifically bind to regions of the 5′ non coding region of the HAV genome; a detectable labeled probe that specifically binds to the amplimer resulting from the RT-PCR; and an appropriate molecule to generate an standard curve for the quantification of HAV. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20110129814 | PROCESS AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING AND/OR QUANTIFYING BACTERIOPHAGES, USE OF A MICROELECTRONIC SENSOR DEVICE FOR DETECTING SAID BACTERIOPHAGES AND MICROELECTRONIC SENSOR DEVICE FOR CARRYING OUT SAID PROCESS - The present invention relates to a process and system for detecting and/or quantifying bacteriophages capable of infecting a predetermined bacterial host strain, which is based on the surface plasmon resonance technique that takes place on the conductive material surface of an optical sensor device, and also relates to a microelectronic sensor device for carrying out this process and to the use of this microelectronic sensor device for detecting and/or quantifying bacteriophages. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110126322 | Plant having resistance to low-temperature stress and method of production thereof. - The present invention relates to a method of production of plants having improved resistance to low-temperature stress, comprising a stage of conversion of the cells of a plant with a sequence of exogenous arginine decarboxylase gene ADC1 under control of a promoter capable of functioning in the plant. Plants thus obtained show resistance to low-temperature stress without the phenotype being affected when compared with the phenotype of plants of the wild type. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110027296 | ANTIBODIES FOR TREATING CANCER - The invention relates to the use of an antibody or a fragment thereof, specific against substance P, for the manufacture of a medicament for therapeutic treatment of a cancer expressing NK1 receptor and/or a ErbB receptor family member (i.e. the epidermal growth factor receptors family), by direct administration to a mammal, including a human. The administration of an antibody against substance P to a panel of breast cancer cell lines, inhibits HER2 activation and expression, causing a downregulation of different genes involved in cell cycle progression, like cyclin D1, cyclin E, cdk4 and cdk2. A decrease in proliferation and an arrest in G | 02-03-2011 |
| 20100255459 | CONTROL FOR VIRUS DETECTION ASSAYS BASED ON REVERSE-TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION - A method for the accurate quantification of a virus in a sample, by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), includes: adding a known concentration of a Mengo virus to the sample as control for the nucleic acids extraction step, the Mengo virus being a mutant strain with the same growth properties than those of the wild-type Mengo virus, and with non-pathogenic capacity; performing a nucleic acids extraction to obtain a nucleic acids suspension; analyzing the nucleic acids suspension by RT-PCR with primers and probes; quantifying the amplimers resulting from the RT-PCR; determining the concentration of the virus in the sample by comparison of the value obtained with an appropriate standard curve; and determining the concentration of the Mengo virus by comparison of the value obtained with an appropriate standard curve. | 10-07-2010 |
| 20100105622 | Protein Product for Treatment of Infectious Diseases and Related Inflammatory Processes - The inventors have found that CD6, a member of the Scavenger Receptor Cysteine-Rich (SRSR) superfamily expressed on human lymphocytes binds to Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, as well as to other microbial structures. Thus, a CD6 product is useful for the manufacture of a medicament for therapeutic and/or preventive treatment of an infectious disease or of an inflammatory condition related to an infectious disease or to the presence of a product derived from an infectious agent in a mammal including a human. Examples of such inflammatory conditions are systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS), sepsis, severe sepsis and septic shock. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20080260100 | Radiochemical Sensor for Fluids - The apparatus for the determination of radionuclides in a continuous flow of a fluid comprises an alpha-beta chamber that converts alpha, beta and gamma radiation into photons; a gamma chamber that converts gamma radiation into photons; an external covering shield that isolates the alpha-beta chamber and the gamma chamber from environmental UV-visible light; and means for separatedly sending photons generated in the chambers to an analyzing unit. It permits determinations on-line, remotely, and continuously. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080227809 | Arylalkylamine Vanadium (V) Salts for the Treatment and/or Prevention of Diabetes Mellitus - This invention provides compounds and pharmaceutical compositions thereof for treating human type 1 and type 2 diabetes, particularly insulin-resistant diabetes. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080206356 | Pharmaceutical Compositions for the Treatment of Neurodegenerative Disorders - Pharmaceutical compositions comprising an effective amount of a tungsten (VI) compound, preferably of a tungstate salt, and more preferably of sodium tungstate (Na | 08-28-2008 |
