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Cornell University

The University of Chicago

Fernando E Martinez

Imre Noth

Justin Oldham

Aspects of the disclosure relate to a method for treating idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) in a patient with N-acetylcysteine (NAC) comprising administering NAC to a patient after a sample from the patient has been genotyped and determined to be any one of: a) homozygous or heterozygous for a thymine at the single nucleotide polymorphism rs3750920; b) homozygous or heterozygous for guanine at the single nucleotide polymorphism rs5743894; or c) homozygous or heterozygous for thymine at the single nucleotide polymorphism rs35705950.

Method for treating idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

Carrying case for video cassettes

A board game including a playing board, with an outer perimeter track defined by a series of spaces coextensive with the outer perimeter of the game board. A central portion of the game board includes a series of contiguous spaces defining a pyramid configuration, with the uppermost part of the pyramid configuration defined as a goal space, with a gateway space within the perimeter spaces permitting entrance into the pyramid configuration of spaces. Players sequentially utilizing dice members are directed about the perimeter spaces to receive and use playing cards from a deck mounted within the central portion of the playing board. A player being first to deposit an appropriately designated playing card on the goal space is declared a winner or alternatively, depletion of the cards from the deck of cards designates a winner having a greatest number of a designated category of the cards of the deck of playing cards.

Method of playing a board game

A combined information retrieval device comprises an elongated strip of material. A coating of an adhesive is applied to one surface of the strip. Holes are formed along the edges of the strip which are sized and spaced apart so they can be interlocked with the rings of the binder of a loose leaf notebook to identify and conveniently locate a page containing information that must be dealt with. Status indicting devices, in the form of loops which can be interlocked together, are interlocked with a hole in the strip. The adhesive holds the strip in position on a page in the binder to indicate both a page and a line on the page containing information that must be dealt with. The number of loops attached to the strip indicate the operations that have been completed and the next operation required.

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West Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Fernando E Martinez