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20130005589 | HIGHLY SENSITIVE METHOD FOR DETECTING MUTATED GENE - Various highly sensitive detection methods, particularly improved PNA-LNA-PCR clamp methods, are provided as methods for detecting the presence or absence of a mutated gene contained in a gene pool rapidly, in a simple manner, with high accuracy, and with high sensitivity. As a step before the main step for detection, a pre-amplification step comprising allowing (1) a clamp primer consisting of PNA which hybridizes with all or part of a target site having a sequence of a wild-type gene or a sequence complementary to the wild-type gene, (2) a primer capable of amplifying a region comprising a target site having a sequence of the mutated gene, and (3) the gene pool to coexist in a reaction solution for gene amplification, and selectively amplifying the region comprising a target site of the mutated gene by a gene amplification method. | 01-03-2013 |
20130085081 | RISK PREDICTION OF DEVELOPING DRUG-INDUCED LUNG INJURY AND DETECTION METHOD AND KIT OF GENE FOR RISK PREDICTION - Disclosed are a method of detecting the presence or absence of a single nucleotide polymorphism of a gene, for prediction of the risk of developing drug-induced lung injury, or for improving a therapeutic method, and a kit for carrying out the detection method. The detection method is characterized by comparing an ABCB1 gene in a biological sample with a wild-type ABCB1 gene to detect the presence or absence of a single nucleotide polymorphism in the ABCB1 gene in the biological sample, in particular, by determining the nucleotide at position 3751 of the CDS of the ABCB1 gene. The kit comprises an oligonucleotide probe which specifically binds to a single nucleotide polymorphism in an ABCB1 gene under selective binding conditions, or an oligonucleotide primer which amplifies a nucleic acid sequence comprising a single nucleotide polymorphism in an ABCB1 gene. | 04-04-2013 |
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20080218723 | LIGHT AMOUNT CONTROL, OPTICAL WRITING, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUSES - A light-amount control apparatus for controlling an output light amount of light sources used for optical writing is disclosed. The apparatus includes one or more drive units for supplying a drive current to the light source; one or more drive-current setting units for determining an amount of the drive current provided to the light source from the drive unit; a light-amount detecting unit for detecting an output light from the light source; and outputting a voltage according to the detected light amount; and a processing unit for setting the drive current amount based on the detected value detected with the light-amount detecting unit. | 09-11-2008 |
20090059255 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A dividing unit divides image data that is formed with a plurality of pixels each including an image dot in a main scanning direction and a sub scanning direction in units of pixel, and divides a target pixel, which is a pixel to be corrected from among divided pixels, into a plurality of image blocks including a plurality of image dots. A correcting unit corrects the image dots of the image blocks, based on contrast of densities of adjacent pixels adjacent to the target pixel, by shifting the image dots in a density direction that is a direction toward an adjacent pixel having a higher density. | 03-05-2009 |
20100067069 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes a VCSEL that includes a plurality of light sources emitting light beams, an image processing unit, and write control units that send a sub-scanning start reference signal indicating a reference for starting image formation in a sub-scanning direction and start a control of driving the light sources for each of a plurality of colors when receiving image data from the image processing unit. The write control units perform a control of outputting the sub-scanning start reference signal at timing of any of a plurality of areas divided by the number of lines scanned simultaneously in a scan cycle in a main-scanning direction. | 03-18-2010 |
20110063401 | OPTICAL WRITING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND OPTICAL WRITING METHOD - An optical writing device includes two or more light sources. The two or more light sources can be driven independently, are placed away from each other in a sub-scanning direction of a photoreceptor, and each distance of beams emitted from the light sources to the photoreceptor is different. A phase control unit causes a difference in phase among timing control data of two or more beams emitted from the two or more light sources by a phase change amount, which is determined on the basis of beam position of the each beam on the photoreceptor in a main scanning direction and varies depending on the beam position. The modulating unit modulates the timing control data of the respective phase-controlled beams by a same clock. | 03-17-2011 |
20110279622 | OPTICAL SCANNING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING THE OPTICAL SCANNING DEVICE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE OPTICAL SCANNING DEVICE, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR EXECUTING THE METHOD - The optical scanning device performs a first control operation that when the scanning speed of a deflector is stabilized, a light source is turned on, and when a detection signal is received from a photodetector, the light source is turned off while starting counting the scanning period in the main scanning direction from zero; a second control operation that when the count reaches a first value, the light source is turned on, and when a detection signal is received, the light source is turned off while starting counting the scanning period; and a third control operation that when the count reaches a second value, the light source is turned on, and when a detection signal is received, the light source is turned off while starting counting the scanning period, followed by repetition of the third control until scanning is completed. | 11-17-2011 |