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Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes September class, title,number 09/10

20100251392 - Methods for assessing the delivery of exogenous agents: This invention provides methods, compositions and kits for rapid determination of the delivery of exogenous agents both in vitro and in vivo, including without limitation siRNA, microRNA, a ribozyme or an antisence molecule, any of which may target, bind to, or inactivate the mRNA of the gene of interest expressed... Agent: Paul D. Yasger Abbott Laboratories

20100251393 - Transgenic animals: A transgenic animal such as a transgenic snake or other reptile that expresses a heterologous expression product is described, along with methods of making the same. In general, the animal comprises cells containing a sequence encoding the heterologous expression product. The sequence encoding the heterologous expression product is integrated into... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20100251394 - Treatment and prevention of ischemic brain injury: The invention provides methods of identifying agents for treating and preventing ischemic brain injury.... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20100251395 - Using cytosine deaminases to diminish retroelement transfer from pigs to humans: Transgenic pigs that express one or more non-porcine cytosine deaminases are described as well as methods of making and using such pigs.... Agent: Dardi & Herbert, PLLC

20100251396 - Transgenic mice expressing human formyl peptide receptor: The invention features a transgenic mouse that expresses human formyl peptide receptor and methods for producing this mouse. The invention also features methods for the measurement of an inflammatory response, particularly that associated with cystic fibrosis. The methods of the invention also feature methods for determining whether a compound inhibits... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20100251397 - Polyploid castor plants, compositions derived therefrom and uses of same: A polyploid castor plant being at least as fertile as a diploid castor plant isogenic to the polyploid castor plant when grown under similar conditions.... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan D/b/a Prtsi, Inc.

20100251404 - Plants and seeds of corn variety cv078625: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV078625. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV078625, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV078625 with itself... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100251403 - Plants and seeds of corn variety cv126038: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV126038. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV126038, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV126038 with itself... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100251409 - Plants and seeds of corn variety cv208554: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV208554. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV208554, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV208554 with itself... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100251406 - Plants and seeds of corn variety cv282996: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV282996. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV282996, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV282996 with itself... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100251412 - Plants and seeds of corn variety cv356957: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV356957. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV356957, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV356957 with itself... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100251401 - Plants and seeds of corn variety cv374246: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV374246. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV374246, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV374246 with itself... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100251408 - Plants and seeds of corn variety cv436696: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV436696. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV436696, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV436696 with itself... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100251399 - Plants and seeds of corn variety cv468110: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV468110. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV468110, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV468110 with itself... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100251398 - Plants and seeds of corn variety cv585594: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV585594. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV585594, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV585594 with itself... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100251410 - Plants and seeds of corn variety cv596742: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV596742. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV596742, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV596742 with itself... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100251411 - Plants and seeds of corn variety cv597869: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV597869. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV597869, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV597869 with itself... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100251407 - Plants and seeds of corn variety cv605722: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV605722. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV605722, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV605722 with itself... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100251405 - Plants and seeds of corn variety cv683810: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV683810. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV683810, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV683810 with itself... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100251400 - Plants and seeds of corn variety cv729740: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV729740. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV729740, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV729740 with itself... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100251402 - Plants and seeds of corn variety cv842141: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV842141. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV842141, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV842141 with itself... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100251413 - Cucumber hybrid px04914104: The invention provides seed and plants of cucumber hybrid PX04914104 and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of cucumber hybrid PX04914104 and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a cucumber plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves... Agent: Robert E. Hanson Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100251414 - Pea line 08270930: The invention provides seed and plants of the pea line designated 08270930. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of pea line 08270930, and to methods for producing a pea plant produced by crossing a plant of pea line 08270930 with itself or with another pea... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100251415 - Composition and method for modulating plant transformation: A plant culture medium composition for modulating plant transformation events, comprising a plant culture medium and an effective amount of at least one compound having a rare earth element component intermixed thereinto. The at least one rare earth element-containing compound is selected from the group comprising: CeCl3, LaCl3, and combinations... Agent: Arnold & Porter LLP Attn:IPDocketing Dept.

20100251420 - Generation of plants with altered protein, fiber, or oil content: The present invention is directed to plants that display an improved oil quantity phenotype or an improved meal quality phenotype due to altered expression of an IMQ nucleic acid. The invention is further directed to methods of generating plants with an improved oil quantity phenotype or improved meal quality phenotype.... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20100251418 - Multi-gene expression constructs containing modified inteins: Methods and constructs for the introduction of multiple genes into plants using a single transformation event are described. Constructs contain a single 5′ promoter operably linked to DNA encoding a modified intein splicing unit. The splicing unit is expressed as a polyprotein and consists of a first protein fused to... Agent: Pabst Patent Group LLP

20100251419 - Novel nucleic acids from sesame plants: Novel nucleic acids derived from the 5′ untranslated regions of the 2S albumin and 11S globulin genes from sesame are disclosed. These novel nucleic acids can be used to direct expression of coding nucleic acids. Expression constructs can be introduced into a plant cell to generate a transgenic plant cell... Agent: Cargill, Incorporated

20100251416 - Plants with increased tolerance and/or resistance to environmental stress and increased biomass production: This invention relates generally to a plant cell with increased tolerance and/or resistance to environmental stress and increased biomass production as compared to a corresponding non-transformed wild type plant cell by increasing or generating one or more activities of polypeptides associated with abiotic stress responses and abiotic stress tolerance in... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20100251417 - Protein production in plants: A method for synthesizing a protein of interest within a plant or a portion of a plant is provided. The method involves introducing one or more than one nucleic acid sequence encoding a protein of interest operatively linked with a regulatory region obtained from a photosynthetic gene that is active... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20100251422 - Application of erf genes from bupleurum kaoi: The use of Bupleurum kaoi ERF gene in controlling diseases caused by pathogen is provided. The gene with pathogen-resistance is inserted into an appropriate vector, and transformed into plants to enhance the pathogen-resistance so as to attain the purpose of controlling the related diseases. This invention can be applied to... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20100251421 - Direct regeneration of plantlets in jatropha curcas: This invention provides an efficient process for in vitro propagation of Jatropha through direct regeneration of leaf disc without any intermediary callus phase. This process provides a commercially viable process for producing true-to-type plants of Jatropha on a large scale and also as a method to produce transgenics through Agrobacterium-mediated... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c

20100251424 - Plant regulatory sequences for selective control of gene expression: Promoters from male reproductive tissues are isolated from corn and wheat. These promoters can be used in plants to regulate transcription of target genes including genes for control of fertility, insect or pathogen tolerance, herbicide tolerance or any gene of interest.... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100251423 - Plants having improved growth characteristics under reduced nutrient availability and a method for making the same: The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for improving plant growth characteristics relative to wild type plants. More specifically, the present invention concerns a method for increasing yield in plants grown under reduced nutrient availability, relative to corresponding wild type plants, comprising... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20100251425 - Expression of human interferon in transgenic chloroplasts: A plastid transformation vector for a stably transforming a plastid genome is provided. The vector includes, as operably-linked components, a first flanking sequence, a DNA sequence coding for a therapeutic human IFN, which is capable of expression in the plastid and a second flanking sequence. The invention also provides isolated... Agent: Timothy H. Van Dyke

20100251427 - Compositions and methods for producing plants with improved stress tolerance: The invention provides compositions and methods useful for producing plant cells or plants with altered tolerance to at least one environmental stress selected from drought, cold, freezing, heat and salinity.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20100251426 - Extra-cellular matrix localized ferritin for iron uptake, storage, and stress tolerance: The present invention relates to environmental stress responsive protein ferritin (CaFer1) of chickpea. The invention discloses identification, isolation and cloning of ECM-localized ferritin (CaFer1) of chickpea and its multifunctional role in nutrient uptake, storage and stress tolerance. Comparative proteomic analysis of the chickpea extra-cellular (ECM) was performed to identify novel... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20100251428 - Compositions and methods for conversion of aldehydes to alkanes: The invention provides the discovery that SCD2 (Susceptible to Coronatine-Deficient Pst DC3118-2) protein converts aldehydes to alkanes, thereby changing the composition and/or amount of synthesized waxes. The invention additionally provides homologs, orthologs and paralogs of SCD2 protein, and nucleotide sequences encoding these proteins. Also provided are expression vectors, transgenic cells,... Agent: Peter G. Carroll Medlen & Carroll, LLP

20100251430 - Highly infectious nucleic acid molecules from pepper mottle virus and plant viral vector derived from the same: The present invention relates to a plant-infectious nucleic acid molecule from Pepper mottle virus, and a viral vector, a transformed cell and a transgenic plant having it. The present invention first achieves the cloning of the infectious full-length pepper mottle virus cDNA from virus-infected pepper, which enables to perform the... Agent: Clark & Elbing LLP

20100251431 - Method for producing preserved flower and processing solution therefor: A method for producing a preserved flower with its original natural flower color, particularly its original delicate color gradations, retained and a processing solution used in the method are provided. More specifically, the method for producing a preserved flower includes: immersing a fresh flower in a processing solution including a... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20100251429 - Novel protein, a gene encoding therefor and a method of using the same: Magnaporthe grisea and Rhizoctonia solani causing two major rice diseases at relatively low concentrations, and further to clone a gene for said protein. The present invention provides an antifungal protein which can be obtained from fraction(s) precipitated by ammonium sulfate precipitation using an aqueous extract from Pleurotus cornucopiae, wherein said... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100251433 - Arcelin-5 promoter and uses thereof: The present invention discloses Arcelin promoters capable of transcribing a heterologous nucleic acid sequence at high levels in plants. The promoters are particularly suited for use in soybean plants and plant cells. Methods of modifying, producing, and using the promoters are also disclosed. The invention further discloses compositions, transformed host... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100251432 - Novel herbicide resistance genes: The subject invention provides novel plants that are not only resistant to 2,4-D, but also to a pyridyloxyacetate herbicide. The subject invention also includes plants that produce one or more enzymes of the subject invention “stacked” together with one or more other herbicide resistance genes. The subject invention enables novel... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP- Dow Agrosciences

20100251436 - method for growing sugarcane: The present invention relates to a method of growing a gramineous crop plant comprising the steps of providing a stem section of a gramineous crop plant which section comprises at least one node, planting said section, and growing a gramineous crop plant from said planted stem section. It also relates... Agent: Syngenta Crop Protection , Inc. Patent And Trademark Department

20100251434 - Method for growing sugarcane: The present invention relates to a method of growing a gramineous crop plant comprising the steps of providing a stem section of a gramineous crop plant which section comprises at least one node, planting said section, and growing a gramineous crop plant from said planted stem section. It also relates... Agent: Syngenta Crop Protection , Inc. Patent And Trademark Department

20100251435 - Method for growing sugarcane: The present invention relates to a method of growing a gramineous crop plant comprising the steps of providing a stem section of a gramineous crop plant which section comprises at least one node, planting said section, and growing a gramineous crop plant from said planted stem section. It also relates... Agent: Syngenta Crop Protection , Inc. Patent And Trademark Department

20100242124 - Compositions and methods for the treatment and prevention of ulcerative colitis and colon cancer and screening methods to identify same: The instant invention is based, at least in part, on the discovery that T-bet maintains host commensal relationships in the gastrointestinal tract. Accordingly, this invention provides methods of treating and/or preventing ulcerative colitis, and/or colon cancer, and/or preventing colonization of a subject's gastrointestinal tract with commensal bacteria that promote ulcerative... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20100242123 - Models of atherosclerosis, hyperlipidemia, lipoprotein oxidation and blood vessel inflammation and methods for making and using them: The invention provides genetically altered fish of the family Cyprinidae, or genus Danio, including zebrafish (Danio rerio) and host cells from these animals, where the fish have been genetically altered to lack or have a modified gene related to lipid metabolism, for example, an ApoE, ApoAI and/or LDL-R gene. In... Agent: Joseph R. Baker, Apc Gavrilovich, Dodd & Lindsey LLP

20100242125 - Methods for correcting mitotic spindle defects and optimizing preimplantation embryonic developmental rates associated with somatic cell nuclear transfer in animals: The present invention is directed to various methodologies to make NT a practical procedure for animals, specifically, primates including human and non-human primates. Furthermore, the methods and molecular components provided by the present invention provide a practical means for producing embryos with desired characteristics. In a specific embodiment, the methodology... Agent: Don J. Pelto Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20100242127 - Methods to identify modulators of b-raf protein kinase and their use for the treatment of anxiety and depression: The present invention relates to a method for identifying a compound capable of modulating an anxiety or depression disorder comprising the steps of: (a) contacting a composition comprising a B-Raf protein or a B-Raf gene in expressible form or a transcript thereof with a compound under conditions that allow for... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20100242126 - Regulator of ephrin-eph receptor signaling and mouse having abnormal ephrin-eph receptor signaling mechanisms: It is intended to provide an agent for regulating axon extension during neuranagenesis by regulating ephrin-Eph receptor signaling mechanisms and to provide a mouse having abnormal ephrin-Eph receptor signaling mechanisms. The present invention relates to a regulator of axon extension, comprising an agent for promoting or suppressing the function of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100242128 - Method to produce modified plants with altered n-glycosylation pattern: Provided is a novel method to produce a plant cell or plant having an altered N-glycosylation pattern resulting, in particular, in a low level of β-1,2-xylose residues and core α-1,3-fucose residues on protein-bound N-glycans. The plant cell or plant is of particular interest for producing therapeutic glycoproteins with a low,... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20100242131 - Inbred corn line phehg: A novel inbred maize line designated PHEHG and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing inbred maize line PHEHG with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PHEHG through... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP Pioneer Hi-bred International, Inc.

20100242130 - Soybean variety d5247567: The invention relates to the soybean variety designated D5247567. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety D5247567. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety D5247567 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100242129 - Soybean variety d5632454: The invention relates to the soybean variety designated D5632454. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety D5632454. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety D5632454 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100242132 - Reversible male sterility in transgenic plants by expression of cytokinin oxidase: Methods for the production of reversibly male-sterile plants by introduction of a polynucleotide encoding a cytokinin oxidase are disclosed along with nucleic acid constructs and transformed cells useful in the production of such plants. Also disclosed is the use of plants containing recombinant nucleic acid sequences in preventing pollination of... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP (mtc)

20100242133 - Manipulation of the function of atdbp1 in order to generate potyvirus resistance: The invention relates to the use of a mutation for the generation of virus-resistant mutant plants and, specifically, to the use of mutation 8.1 of the AtDBP1 gene of Arabidopsis thaliana in order to modify the phenotype of the plant as a regulator of plant potyvirus resistance, as well as... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20100242135 - Etp1 and etp2 regulate plant ethylene response: ETP1 and ETP2 bind to EIN2 and modulate plant ethylene sensitivity.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20100242134 - Methods and polynucleotides for improving plants: The invention provides methods for producing a plant with altered tillering time, the methods comprising transformation of a plant with a genetic construct including a polynucleotide encoding of a polypeptide with the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 or a variant or fragment thereof. The method also provides... Agent: Greenlee Sullivan P.C.

20100242137 - Polynucleotides encoding proteins involved in plant metabolism: The invention provides isolated pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase nucleic acids and their encoded polypeptides. The present invention provides methods and compositions relating to altering pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase levels in plants. The invention further provides recombinant expression cassettes, host cells, transgenic plants, and antibody compositions.... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20100242136 - Udp-glucose modifiers: This invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid fragment encoding a UDP-galactose 4-epimerase. The invention also relates to the construction of a chimeric gene encoding all or a portion of the UDP-galactose 4-epimerase, in sense or antisense orientation, wherein expression of the chimeric gene results in production of altered levels... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20100242138 - Odp1-2 genes and uses thereof in plants: Methods are provided for altering plant characteristics by introducing into plants, isolated nucleic acid molecules that can be used to produce transgenic plants characterized by altered oil levels within the seed. Also provided are isolated nucleic acids that encode AP2 domain transcription factor proteins and fragments thereof, vectors capable of... Agent: Pioneer Hi-bred International, Inc.

20100242140 - Modulation of plant cell wall deposition: The present invention is predicated, in part, on the functional characterisation of a homeodomain/leucine zipper (HD-Zip) polypeptide which modulates various aspects of cell wall deposition in plant cells, including secondary cell wall deposition. The present invention provides, among other things, methods for modulating cell wall deposition in plant cells; plant... Agent: Brown & Michaels, PC 400 M & T Bank Building

20100242139 - Xenohormesis based compositions and methods: The present invention provides methods and compositions for improving the health of subjects, such as their resistance to stress.... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20100242141 - Composition for production of plant body having improved sugar content, and use thereof: The composition, in accordance with the present invention, for producing a plant body having an improved sugar content includes glutathione, a polynucleotide encoding γ-glutamylcysteine synthetase, or a polynucleotide encoding glutathione-binding plastid type fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase. The composition preferably includes oxidized glutathione. This allows provision of a composition for easily producing a... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20100235926 - Hairless transgenic animal: The present invention provides a hairless transgenic nonhuman animal used in the development of a therapy for dermatitis such as human atopic dermatitis and drug discovery. Specifically, the present invention provides a transgenic nonhuman animal, into which recombinant DNA comprising a heparin-binding EGF gene and a type 2 keratin gene... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100235927 - Non-human animal model for lung carcinoma: A transgenic mouse expressing JSRV Env transgene that is operably linked to a surfactant protein C promoter (SPCp) is disclosed. The transgenic mouse is prone to developing a lung tumor and serves as an animal model for human lung carcinoma.... Agent: Ipc Intellectual Property Connections, Inc.

20100235928 - Transgenic animals for assessing drug metabolism and toxicity: The present invention relates to transgenic non-human animals, tissues or cells derived therefrom and methods of producing them. The transgenic non-human animals or tissues or cells derived therefrom provide a system capable of expressing human proteins responsible for drug metabolism in place of the homologous endogenous non-human animal proteins and... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20100235929 - Compositions and methods for producing antibodies having human idiotypes in transgenic birds: The invention relates to compositions and methods for producing antibodies having human idiotypes in non-human animals.... Agent: Arnold & Porter LLP Attn:IPDocketing Dept.

20100235930 - Methods of selecting host resistant animals: The present invention is directed to a method of selecting animals that are genetically resistant to one or more intestinal parasite infections by testing mucus samples for the presence of an antibody against one or more of said intestinal parasites and segregation and selecting the animals that test positive. The... Agent: Greenlee Winner And Sullivan P C

20100235931 - Novel neurological function of mpkci: Wildtype and mice lacking the gene encoding PKCI/HINT 1 (PKC−/−) were used to assess the involvement of PKCI/HINT1 in regulating basal locomotor activity and the behavioral activating effects of the psychostimulant, amphetamine. PKCl−/− mice displayed low level of spontaneous locomotion relative to WT littermates. Acute administration of amphetamine significantly increased... Agent: University Of Maryland, Baltimore/pratt

20100235932 - Animal models carrying tumors expressing human liver cancer-specific antigen and method for analyzing prevention and treatment efficacy of dendritic cells-derived immunotherapeutics using the above: The present invention relates to a method for analyzing the prevention and treatment efficacy of a dendritic cell-derived immunotherapeutic for liver cancer using an animal model carrying tumors expressing a human liver cancer-specific antigen, which comprises the steps of: (a) (a1) administering to a normal animal other than human dendritic... Agent: Clark & Elbing LLP

20100235934 - Hydrocarbon-producing genes and methods of their use: The invention provides isolated nucleic acids and isolated polypeptides involved in the synthesis of hydrocarbons and hydrocarbon intermediates. Homologs of, conservative variants of, and sequences having at least about 35% sequence identity with nucleic acids involved in the synthesis of hydrocarbons and hydrocarbon intermediates are also provided. The invention further... Agent: Ls9, Inc.

20100235933 - Kaspp (lrrk2) gene, its production and use for the detection and treatment of neurodegenerative disorders: The present invention refers to a newly discovered gene named KASPP for Kinase Associated with Parkinsonism with Pleiomorphic Pathology or alternatively named LRRK2 for Leucine-Rich Repeat Kinase 2, its production, biochemical characterization and use for the detection and treatment of neurodegenerative disorders, such as Parkinson disease (PD) including, without limitation,... Agent: Clark & Elbing LLP

20100235935 - Plasma anti-diabetic nucb2 peptide (pladin) and uses thereof: The present invention provides pladin (plasma anti-diabetic nucb2 peptide) polypeptide and functional equivalent thereof that are useful for treating diabetes. The present invention provides a method of treating diabetes by administering to a subject nesfatin-1, pladin, or a functional equivalent thereof. The present invention also provides a method of treating... Agent: Law Offices Of Albert Wai-kit Chan, PLLC

20100235936 - Zinc-finger nuclease and rna interference mediated inactivation of viral genomes: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods for targeted inactivation of viral genomes. In one embodiment, zinc-finger proteins in which DNA binding sites are altered such that they recognize and bind different, desired DNA sequences contained in hepatitis B virus (HBV) and that include nuclease domains are used for inactivation.... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing - Intellectual Property

20100235937 - Production of transgenic avian organisms employing embryonic stem cells: b

20100235938 - Nicotiana nucleic acid molecules and uses thereof: The present invention features Nicotiana nucleic acid sequences such as sequences encoding constitutive, or ethylene or senescence induced polypeptides, in particular cytochrome p450 enzymes, in Nicotiana plants and methods for using these nucleic acid sequences and plants to alter desirable traits, for example by using breeding protocols.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20100235939 - Inbred corn line ph8bc: A novel inbred maize line designated PH8BC and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing inbred maize line PH8BC with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH8BC through... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP Pioneer Hi-bred International, Inc.

20100235941 - F.oxysporum f.sp. melonis race 1,2-resistant melons: Methods for conveying Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. melonis (FOM) race 1,2 resistance into non-resistant melon germplasm are provided, in some embodiments, the methods include introgressing FOM race 1,2 resistance into a non-resistant melon using one or more nucleic acid markers for marker-assisted selection among melon lines to be used in a... Agent: Syngenta Biotechnology, Inc. Patent Department

20100235940 - Inbred corn line bb36: An inbred corn line, designated BB36, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of inbred corn line BB36, to the plants and plant parts of inbred corn line BB36 and to methods for producing a corn plant, either inbred or hybrid, by crossing the inbred line BB36 with itself... Agent: Jondle & Associates P.C.

20100235942 - Methods for corn transformation: The present invention relates to a novel transformation system for generating transformed corn plants. In particular, the invention relates to a rapid selection system at an elevated temperature that allows faster and more efficient transformation.... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100235944 - Grain quality through altered expression of seed proteins: The present invention is directed to compositions and methods for altering the levels of seed proteins in cereal grain. The invention is directed to the alteration of seed protein levels in plant grain, resulting in grain with increased digestibility/nutrient availability, improved amino acid composition/nutritional value, increased response to feed processing,... Agent: Pioneer Hi-bred International, Inc.

20100235943 - Methods and genetic compositions to limit outcrossing and undesired gene flow in crop plants: The present invention relates to methods to control the spread of recombinant DNA molecules between sexually compatible plants of differing genetic composition. The invention describes the production of transgenic plants that comprise recombinant traits of interest or concern linked to repressible lethal genes. The lethal genes are blocked by the... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20100235945 - Nicotiana nucleic acid molecules and uses thereof: The present invention features Nicotiana nucleic acid sequences such as sequences encoding constitutive, or ethylene or senescence induced polypeptides, in particular cytochrome p450 enzymes, in Nicotiana plants and methods for using these nucleic acid sequences and plants to alter desirable traits, for example by using breeding protocols.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20100235946 - Plant transcriptional factors as molecular markers: The present invention discloses methods for identification and use of nucleotide sequences associated with loci encoding plant transcription factors as markers for genetic mapping and breeding in plant species including legume species such as Medicago spp., Lotus japonicus, Glycine max, Pisum sativum, Phaseolus vulgaris, Vigna radiata, V. unguiculata, Trifolium spp.,... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100235947 - Rice pollen-preferential promoters and uses thereof: The present invention relates to rice genomic promoter sequences which promote transcription preferentially in microspores and/or pollen of plants. Also provided are chimeric genes comprising these promoter sequences, and plant transformation vectors comprising these chimeric genes. The present invention also discloses plant cells, plant tissues, plants, seeds and grains comprising... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20100235948 - Plants modified with mini-chromosomes: The invention is generally related to methods of generating plants transformed with novel autonomous mini-chromosomes. Mini-chromosomes with novel compositions and structures are used to transform plants cells which are in turn used to generate the plant. Methods for generating the plant include methods for delivering the mini-chromosome into plant cell... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (chromatin)

20100235949 - Seed treatment with prf: The invention relates to a method to enhance germination of seeds and/or growth of plants or plant parts and/or plant yield by subjecting seeds to a pulsed radiofrequency electrical field (PRF).... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20100235950 - Pesticidal plant extract containing loline derivatives: This invention relates to a pesticidal compositions containing at least one pyrrolizidine alkaloid compound derived from a plant and endophyte combination, and applying the pesticidal compositions to another plant without pesticidal protection, where upon application of the composition, the plant confers pest protection. The pyrrolizidine alkaloid compound is of Formula... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20100235951 - Novel genes encoding insecticidal proteins: The present invention relates to novel gene sequences encoding insecticidal proteins produced by Bacillus thuringiensis strains. Particularly, new chimeric genes encoding a Cry1C, Cry1B or Cry1D protein are provided which are useful to protect plants from insect damage. Also included herein are plant cells or plants comprising such genes and... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20100235952 - Nicotiana nucleic acid molecules and uses thereof: The present invention features Nicotiana nucleic acid sequences such as sequences encoding constitutive, or ethylene or senescence induced polypeptides, in particular cytochrome p450 enzymes, in Nicotiana plants and methods for using these nucleic acid sequences and plants to alter desirable traits, for example by using breeding protocols.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20100235953 - Celery variety stix (pyc 6651): A new variety of celery designated as STIX (PYC 6651) and whose seed has an ATCC accession number PTA-9654 is presented. STIX has long petioles that make it well suited for making celery sticks.... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20100229249 - Identification of group of hypertension-susceptibility genes: Provided in the present invention is a genetic marker including a SNP which can be used for assessing the risk of developing hypertension, a polynucleotide for assessing the risk of developing hypertension which can be used as a primer or probe for detecting the genetic marker, a method for assessing... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20100229251 - Methods and compositions for detecting and treating end-stage cardiomyopathy using claudin-5: The present invention provides a method for diagnosis end-stage cardiomyopathy includes measuring expression of claudin-5 levels in a patient suspected of suffering from end-stage cardiomyopathy as well as a method for treating end-stage cardiomyopathy includes administering an effective amount of a composition effectively upregulates the claudin-5 or inhibits degradation of... Agent: Macmillan Sobanski & Todd, LLC

20100229250 - Treatment and prevention of ischemic brain injury: The invention provides methods of identifying agents for treating and preventing ischemic brain injury.... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20100229252 - Meganuclease variants cleaving a dna target sequence from the human hemoglobin beta gene and uses thereof: An I-CreI variant, wherein one of the two I-CreI monomers has at least two substitutions, one in each of the two functional subdomains of the LAGLIDADG core domain situated respectively from positions 26 to 40 and 44 to 77 of I-CreI, said variant being able to cleave a DNA target... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100229253 - Characterization of the i-spomi endonuclease from fission yeast: Isolated DNAs encoding the enzyme I-Spoml and its recognition and cutting site are provided. The DNA sequences can be incorporated in cloning and expression vectors, transformed cell lines and transgenic animals. The vectors are useful in gene mapping and site-directed insertion of genes.... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100229254 - Method for targeted cell ablation: The present technology relates to a method for causing cell death. The method comprises the step of genetically manipulating chromosomal DNA of a cell such as by, for example, using a recombinase system, to lose an autosome during cell division and wherein loss of the autosome results in death of... Agent: Smart & Biggar

20100229255 - Lettuce variety emerson: The present invention relates to a new lettuce (Lactuca sativa) variety, seed designated as 79-11 RZ, which exhibits a combination of an extraordinary high number of leaves, resistance to many Bremia-races, and an extraordinary low number of apices under many growing conditions, the representative seed having been deposited with the... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20100229256 - Propagation of transgenic plants: Methods for increasing the product yield from plants, preferably transgenic plants, are provided. It has been discovered that in vitro cultures from donor plants produce plants that have two or three fold increase in product yield. One embodiment provides a method for increasing product yield from a transgenic plant by... Agent: Pabst Patent Group LLP

20100229257 - Inbred corn line phcpr: A novel inbred maize line designated PHCPR and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing inbred maize line PHCPR with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PHCPR through... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP Pioneer Hi-bred International, Inc.

20100229258 - Stable, fertile, high polyhydroxyalkanoate producing plants and methods of producing them: Transgenic plants that produce high levels of polyhydroxybutyrate and methods of producing them are provided. In a preferred embodiment the transgenic plants are produced using plastid transformation technologies and utilize genes which are codon optimized. Stably transformed plants able to produce greater than 10% dwt PHS in tissues are also... Agent: Pabst Patent Group LLP

20100229259 - Plants having improved growth characteristics and method for making the same: The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for improving plant growth characteristics. More specifically, the present invention concerns a method for improving plant growth characteristics by modulating expression in a plant of a plant nucleic acid encoding a cyclin dependent kinase (CDK)... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20100229260 - Optimized t-dna transfer and vectors therefor: The present invention relates to T-DNA vectors and methods for obtaining transgenic eukaryotes using said vectors. The transgenic eukaryotes are characterized in that they contain the T-DNA but not the illegitimately transferred vector backbone sequence. This is achieved by modifying the T-DNA borders such that they are more efficiently nicked... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20100229261 - Novel brassica plants: The present invention relates to novel brassica plants, in particular to novel cauliflower plants. In one embodiment, the novel cauliflower plants provided herein comprise a long stem and are suitable for mechanical harvesting. The application also further discloses seeds the cauliflower plants of the present invention and parts thereof, for... Agent: Syngenta Biotechnology, Inc. Patent Department

20100223678 - protein isoforms of the pif-family and uses thereof: (b) comparing the abundance of said Protein Isoform(s) in the test sample or the abundance of said Protein Isoform(s) relative to another Protein Isoform with the abundance or relative abundance of said Protein Isoform(s) in a test sample from one or more persons free from neurological disorder, or with a... Agent: Klauber & Jackson

20100223679 - Targeted and regional cellular ablation in zebrafish: A system including: (i) a methodology for targeted cellular ablation in zebrafish; (ii) a methodology for regional cellular ablation in zebrafish. These methodologies are used to identify genetic components that regulate cellular regeneration and to identify drug compounds that influence cellular regeneration for the purpose of developing therapies for degenerative... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche (15060) Armstrong Teasdale, LLP

20100223680 - Methods for the identification of agents that inhibit mesenchymal-like tumor cells or their formation: The present invention provides tumor cell preparations for use as models of the EMT process for use in the identification of anti-cancer agents, wherein said tumor cell preparations comprise cells of the epithelial tumor cell line CFPAC-1, which are stimulated by receptor ligands to induce EMT, or which have been... Agent: Osi Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

20100223681 - Assessment method: A method of assessing the viability of a cell comprises incubating the cell in a culture medium. The culture medium includes a plurality of amino acids and the change in concentration in the medium of at least one amino acid is determined.... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20100223682 - Casein and methods of use thereof: This invention provides an altered kosher kappa casein polypeptide having at least one altered amino acid in a defined amino acid stretch. The defined amino acid stretch contributes to an allergic reaction induced by a kosher wild-type casein polypeptide in a human subject. Moreover, the defined amino acid stretch is... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20100223683 - Isolated polynucleotide sequence with ires activity: Provided herein is an isolated polynucleotide sequence with internal ribosome entry site (IRES) activity, which directs translation initiation in an insect expression system in a cap-independent manner. In particular, the invention relates to an isolated polynucleotide comprises the 5′ UTR of perina nuda Picorna-like virus (PnV) that possesses IRES activity.... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20100223684 - Humanin receptor or humanin-like polypeptide receptor: One aspect of the present invention is directed to search receptors based on the information of HN signaling pathways in order to find Humanin receptor or Humanin-like polypeptide receptor (HNR), and to reveal a mechanism of promoting or suppressing the intracellular signal transduction for neuroprotecting activity of HN and identify... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20100223685 - Il-21 receptor knockout animal and methods of use thereof: A transgenic non-human mammal with a disruption in its IL-21 receptor gene is provided, along with methods of using the transgenic non-human mammal.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20100223686 - Mouse in which genome is modified: A mouse or progenies thereof in which genome is modified so as to have decreased or deleted activity of an enzyme relating to modification of a sugar chain in which the 1-position of fucose is bound to the 6-position of N-acetylglucosamine in the reducing end through α-bond in a complex... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20100223687 - Compositions and methods for diagnosis of genetic susceptibility, resistance, or tolerance to infection by mycobacteria and bovine paratuberculosis: Provided are methods for determining resistance or tolerance of a subject to Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (Map) infection, comprising determining, a presence or absence of a mutation, or the genotype of a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) within Map infection linkage disequilibrium region SEQ ID NO:46 that segregates with resistance or... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP/seattle

20100223688 - Generation of plants with improved pathogen resistance: The present invention is directed to plants that display a pathogen resistance phenotype due to altered expression of a PPR2 nucleic acid. The invention is further directed to methods of generating plants with a pathogen resistance phenotype.... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20100223689 - Plants with enhanced size and growth rate: Polynucleotides and polypeptides incorporated into expression vectors have been introduced into plants and were ectopically expressed. The polypeptides of the invention regulate transcription in these plants and have been shown to confer at least one regulatory activity that results in increased size, biomass, growth rate, and/or yield as compared to... Agent: Mendel Biotechnology C/o Mofo Sf

20100223690 - Compositions and methods for modulating plant disease resistance and immunity: Provided are methods for enhancing plant cell disease resistance, comprising (1) generating a homozygous gene modification of AtSR1 (or AtSR1 ortholog or homolog) in a plant or plant cell characterized by sialic acid-mediated systemic acquired resistance (SA-mediated SAR), wherein said gene modification reduces or eliminates the calmodulin-binding activity of the... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP/seattle

20100223691 - Targeted nucleotide exchange with improved modified oligonucleotides: A method and oligonucleotides for targeted nucleotide exchange of a duplex DNA sequence, wherein the donor oligonucleotide contains at least two modified nucleotides, at least one of which is a propynylated purine and/or pyrimidine and at least one of which is a LNA having a higher binding affinity compared to... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20100223692 - Transgenic plants with increased stress tolerance and yield: Polynucleotides are disclosed which are capable of enhancing a growth, yield under water-limited conditions, and/or increased tolerance to an environmental stress of a plant transformed to contain such polynucleotides. Also provided are methods of using such polynucleotides and transgenic plants and agricultural products, including seeds, containing such polynucleotides as transgenes.... Agent: Basf Corporation

20100223693 - Methods of using plants containing the gdha gene: Disclosed are new effects of increased gdhA gene expression on plants that are susceptible to Aspergillus and Fusarium virguliforme infection. Plants transformed with the gdhA gene are resistant to aflatoxin accumulation following Aspergillus infection, and to root rot following F. virguliforme infection. The resistance to aflatoxin accumulation and root rot... Agent: Polsinelli Shughart PC

20100223694 - Recombinant dna constructs and methods for controlling gene expression: The present invention provides molecular constructs and methods for use thereof, including constructs including heterologous miRNA recognition sites, constructs for gene suppression including a gene suppression element embedded within an intron flanked on one or on both sides by non-protein-coding sequence, constructs containing engineered miRNA or miRNA precursors, and constructs... Agent: Monsanto Company

20100223695 - Nac transcriptional activators involved in abiotic stress tolerance: The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of nucleotide sequences in a plant. Compositions comprise novel nucleic acid sequences encoding a transcriptional activator involved in modulating gene expression in response to abiotic stress such as cold or drought. Methods for expressing the nucleic acid sequence in a... Agent: Pioneer Hi-bred International, Inc.

20100223696 - Maize cellulose synthases and uses thereof: The invention provides isolated cellulose synthase nucleic acids and their encoded proteins. The present invention provides methods and compositions relating to altering cellulose synthase levels in plants. The invention further provides recombinant expression cassettes, host cells, and transgenic plants comprising said nucleic acids.... Agent: Pioneer Hi-bred International, Inc.