Abstract:
A water-developable photosensitive resin composition which comprises:(1) a particulate copolymer comprising, as recurring units in the copolymer, (a) 10 to 95 mole % of an aliphatic conjugated diene unit, (b) 0.1 to 30 mole % of a monomer unit having at least one polymerizable unsaturated group and at least one functional group selected from the group consisting of carboxyl group, amino group, hydroxyl group, epoxy group, sulfonic acid group and phosphoric acid group, and (c) 0.1 to 20 mole % of a monomer unit having at least two polymerizable unsaturated groups;(2) at least one copolymer selected from the group consisting of (i) a block-like copolymer composed of two or more polymeric segments having a sulfonic acid group in at least one of the polymeric segments, (ii) a block-like copolymer composed of two or more polymeric segments having a polyurethane segment in at least one of the polymeric segments, and (iii) a copolymer of ethylene and an .alpha.-olefin having 3 to 20 carbon atoms;(3) a photopolymerizable unsaturated compound; and(4) a photopolymerization initiator.
Abstract:
A thermal decomposition apparatus for plastics wherein plastics are melted and thermally decomposed, and the resulting decomposition gas is cooled for condensation and recovered in the form of a thermal decomposition oil. The apparatus comprises a thermal decomposition reactor for melting and thermally decomposing the plastics therein, an extraneous matter discharge duct having one end opened in a melt of plastics within the reactor, an extraneous matter collecting container connected to the other end of the discharge duct, and an aspirator for aspirating extraneous matter within the reactor together with the melt through the discharge duct into the container.
Abstract:
An aqueous ink-jet recording sheet capable of recording clear, brilliant color images, and having a high water resistance, storage durability and resistance to curling and undulations, comprises a neutral paper substrate sheet having a Stoechigt sizing degree of 1 to 15 seconds; and an aqueous ink image-receiving layer in a basis weight of 0.5 to 10 g/m.sup.2 and comprising (a) fine, oil absorbing silica particles, (b) polyvinyl alcohol binder and (c) a water resisting agent comprising a cationic, water-soluble acrylic copolymer having side chains attached to a vinyl backbone chain and each having at least two cationic radicals.
Abstract:
A dye image-receiving sheet for thermal transfer printing systems, comprising a substrtate sheet composed of a support paper sheet, a front coated layer comprising a thermoplastic resin, and optionally, a back coated layer comprising a thermoplastic resin; and a dye image-receiving layer comprising a resinous material capable of being dyed with a sublimating dye, and characterized in that the front coating layer has a Bekk smoothness of 100 seconds or more and the substrate sheet has a rigidity of 700 mgf or less.
Abstract:
An ink jet recording sheet having an enhanced ink-absorbing property and bright color image-forming property and an excellent surface hardness has a specific coating layer formed on a surface of a substrate sheet, which comprises a pigment and a resinous binder composed of a cationic copolymer prepared by copolymerizing (a) 99.95 molar % or less of a principal copolymerization component comprising at least one fatty acid vinyl ester comonomer with (b) 0.05 to 0.4 molar % of a cationic copolymerization component comprising at least one cationic comonomer having an ethylenically unsaturated hydrocarbon radical and a cationic radical selected from tertiary amino radicals and quaternary ammonium radicals and, optionally, a member selected from (c) an additional copolymerization component comprising at least one polymerizable non-ionic comonomer different from the fatty acid vinyl ester and (d) a graft copolymerization component comprising polyvinyl alcohol.
Abstract:
A DNA inspecting apparatus including driving means for relatively changing positions of the multi-spot lights and a position of the DNA chip so as to detect the fluorescent lights in such a manner that a desired area on the DNA chip is irradiated with the multi-spot lights, and a control system for determining and inspecting DNA information about the to-be-inspected DNA chip from fluorescent light intensities and fluorescent light positions of the desired area on the DNA chip, the fluorescent light intensities and the fluorescent light positions being detected by the driving means and the fluorescent light detecting means.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a method and apparatus for process cell cultures. The apparatus comprises a micro-chamber comprising no more than one absorption layer and at least one gel layer, in this order, laminated on a transparent base plate having no conspicuous absorbency in visible and infrared regions, and at least one light source, said absorption layer having absorbency in visible and infrared regions, and said gel-like material being a substance which has a gel dissolution temperature of 100 degree C. or less, solates when heated and is in a gel state at room temperature and has absorbency for a specific wave length of visible and infrared regions, and said light source having a monochromatic light in said specific wave length, wherein said light source is disposed such that it irradiates on said absorption layer and/or said gel layer, with the exception that when no absorption layer is provided, at least two layers each composed of a gel-like material are laminated on said transparent base plate.
Abstract:
A microchamber including a glass substrate which is transparent to a specific wavelength, an absorbent region which absorbs the specific wavelength, and a melting substance region which does not absorb the specific wavelength, is solid at room temperature and melts when heated, which regions are layered on the glass substrate. The absorbent region, is irradiated with a focused light beam of the specific wavelength and locally heated in the vicinity of the converging rays, so that the melting substance region is locally melted at a portion adjacent to the absorbent region, thereby forming a cavity as the focused light beam moves. Accordingly, the shape of the microchamber can be arbitrarily changed in accordance with the process of cell culture.
Abstract:
The present invention provides an apparatus for evaluating a drug effect enabling on-chip evaluation of the effect of a drug while the drug is acting on hERG-expressing cells. The present invention also provides a myocardial toxicity test apparatus and method therefor enabling in vitro myocardial toxicity testing that has previously been performed in vivo.A pulsating cell population and hERG-expressing cells (target model cells) are suitably isolated and arranged on a transparent substrate so that the two form gap junctions. The hERG-expressing cells are arranged on transparent electrodes provided on the transparent substrate. The hERG-expressing cells are exposed to a flow of a liquid containing a drug such that the drug acts thereon. The difference between the normal pulsation of hERG-expressing cells and the pulsation when a drug is acting thereon is captured via electric signals obtained from electrodes, and the properties of the change in potential are evaluated.
Abstract:
In labeling a cell, and separating and collecting the cell according to a degree of the labeling using a cell separator, effects on the cell is minimized and the use of the collected cell is facilitated, thereby, when labeling a cell, the cell is labeled in the state where interaction of each cell is retained. In the labeling, a specific labeling material present on a surface of a target cell is taken in the cell via a transporter, and the cell is dispersed one by one to separate the same with a cell separator. Immediately after the separation, the cell is put in a solution not containing the specific labeling substance to remove the specific labeling substance taken in the cell. This series of steps is continuously conducted with a cell separation chip.