Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Fujifilm Corporation

Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Fujinon Corporation

Meiji Seika Kaisha, Ltd.

Fuji Immunopharmaceuticals Corp.

Naoyuki Nishikawa

Mitsunori Ono

Hideto Mori

Masaki Okazaki

Hiroshi Kitaguchi

Tsutomu Miyasaka

Masato Nagura

Ichiro Azuma

Masayoshi Kojima

Makoto Ono

Tomotaka Tsuchimura

Makoto Suzuki

Nobutaka Fukagawa

Yoshio Ishii

Yoshihiro Ito

Hidenori Takahashi

Shigeki Uehira

Aiko Yoshida

Toyohisa Oya

Toru Tsuchihashi

Mamoru Sakurazawa

Nobuyuki Nakajima

Yoshiaki Hisakado

Naomi Masuda

Junichi Katada

Yoshihide Iwaki

Susumu Sugiyama

Satoshi Tanaka

Ryo Nishio

Keiichi Taguchi

Yoshihiro Aburaya

Katsuhiro Yamashita

Satoshi Shimamura

Takahiro Sekiguchi

Kazunobu Takahashi

Tetsuo Kawano

Yuji Tabata

Michitaka Matsuumi

Noriyuki Kasagi

Hideaki Satoh

Tetsuya Okumura

Hiroyuki Komazawa

Ikuo Saiki

Atsushi Orikasa

Takayasu Yasuda

Shigeru Yamazaki

Ryo Hamasaki

Atsuhiko Wada

Kenji Asai

Fumihiro Tanaka

Dai Ujihara

Shinsuke Umegaki

Tomohiro Ogawa

Kyoko Senga

Masaharu Sugai

Nobuyoshi Maezono

Fukuichi Ohsawa

Ayumi Ishiyama

Jiro Tanaka

Akihiro Maejima

Kenichi Moriwaki

Hai-jian Xu

Tadahiko Izushi

Yuuki Inoue

Yuko Igarashi

Yuya Watanabe

Nobukazu Kakui

Kozo Aoki

Akihiko Ikegawa

Kentaro Toyooka

Tatsuhiko Hagihara

Tatsuhiko Hagiwara

Katada Junichi

Wada Atsuhiko

Ujihara Dai

An immunochromatography including steps of mixing an antigen-containable specimen and modified magnetic particles, which are magnetic particles modified with a substance having a specific affinity to the antigen; collecting the magnetic particles using magnetism; dissociating the modified magnetic particles to obtain an antigen-concentrated solution by mixing the collected magnetic particles with a dissociation solution, an amount of which is smaller than the antigen-containable specimen; obtaining a neutralized antigen-concentrated solution; spreading gold particle composite bodies on an insoluble carrier having a reaction site at which a second binding substance has been immobilized, in a state where the gold particle composite bodies which are composite bodies of an antigen in the neutralized antigen-concentrated solution and modified gold particles which are gold particles modified with a first binding substance are formed; capturing the gold particle composite bodies at the reaction site; and silver-amplifying the gold particle composite body.

Immunochromatography

An object of the invention is to provide a method for detecting an objective substance, by which a plurality of kinds of objective substances can be detected by a single detection, in the detection of an objective substance from an analyte by utilizing magnetic force. In a case where an objective substance is detected by causing magnetic particles and labeling particles to bind to an objective substance and causing a conjugate thereof to move by magnetic force, the object is addressed by using a plurality of labeling particles including first labeling particles that bind to at least a first objective substance, and second labeling particles that bind to the first objective substance and bind to an objective substance to which the first labeling particles do not bind; and detecting an objective substance with a combination of bound labeling particles, the labeling particles satisfying at least one of a first condition that the particle sizes are different or a second condition that the signal lights generated upon light irradiation are different.

Method for detecting objective substance

An object of the present invention is to provide lipid particles which have low cytotoxicity, can stably hold nucleic acid molecules outside cells, and can promptly release nucleic acids in cytoplasm after escaping from endosome, and a nucleic acid delivery carrier. According to the present invention, there are provided lipid particles containing a compound represented by the following General Formula (1), sterol, at least one lipid selected from the group consisting of a neutral lipid and a lipid having a polyethylene glycol chain, and nucleic acids, and a nucleic acid delivery carrier.  In the formula, Rand Rare the same as or different from each other, and are alkyl groups having 10 to 22 carbon atoms.

Lipid particles and nucleic acid delivery carrier

Provided are a novel imidazole compound which has a high stability of the compound itself; and a novel imidazole compound which is useful as a membrane-constituting lipid of liposomes. Disclosed are a compound represented by the following General Formula (1), and a liposome containing the same compound.  In the formula, Z is an imidazolyl group which may be substituted, Lis an alkylene group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms which may be substituted, X is an oxygen atom or a nitrogen-containing substituent, n is an integer of 2 to 4, m is an integer of 1 to 20, Lis a divalent linking group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, Y is a nitrogen-containing group, Rand Rare a hydrogen group or an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, Ris a hydrogen atom or a substituent, and Rand Rare an alkyl group having 1 to 40 carbon atoms.

Imidazole compound and liposome containing same

Image processing apparatus and method capable of performing high-speed printing while suppressing an increase of memory size are provided. The image processing apparatus comprises: a page processing unit to perform processes of a plurality of pages in parallel; a load deciding unit to detect a load level in the page processing unit, for each page; and a controlling unit to control the page processing unit depending on a detection result by the load deciding unit, wherein the page processing unit assigns a thread of an edge extraction process to one or more image data in the page to be processed, and synthesizes an edge of each image data extracted by the thread, and the controlling unit comprises a thread priority order designating unit configured to designate priority order of the thread assigned by the page processing unit, depending on a result of the detection by the load deciding unit.

Image processing apparatus, including load deciding, and image processing method

A page containing a large number of graphics and therefore having a high process load can be processed in parallel and quickly by dividing an edge extraction process into a plurality of threads. In this case, if the number of cores is eight, the edge extraction process is performed by allocating four cores to one of regions obtained by dividing a page and the remaining four cores to the other region.

Image processing method and image processing apparatus

The present invention provides a lipid particle which has low cytotoxicity, can stably hold a nucleic acid molecule outside a cell (in blood), and can escape from an endosome and rapidly release the nucleic acid in the cytoplasm; a nucleic acid transfer carrier; a compound for manufacturing a nucleic acid transfer carrier; a method for manufacturing a lipid particle; and a gene transfer method. The lipid particle contains, as constituents, a phospholipid having one or more amino groups and one or more nitrogen-containing heterocyclic groups, a neutral lipid not containing a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic group, a sterol, and a nucleic acid.

Lipid particle, nucleic acid transfer carrier, compound for manufacturing nucleic acid transfer carrier, method for manufacturing lipid particle, and gene transfer method

A method for image processing executed by an image processing apparatus includes sequentially receiving PDL data and transferring a figure included in the PDL data to processing in a subsequent stage, assigning edge extraction processing as a unit of processing for extracting edge information for each transferred figure, merging the edge information extracted from each figure, spooling the merged data in a tile format as intermediate data, and reading out the intermediate data in the tile format from spooling process and performing processing on each tile to generate a pixel from the intermediate data.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium

A radiation-sensitive composition including a compound (P) having a partial structure (A) having an ionic structural site and capable of decomposing upon irradiation with an actinic ray or radiation to generate an acid and a partial structure (B) having at least one phenolic hydroxyl group, a part or all of hydrogen atoms of the hydroxyl group or groups each being protected by a group capable of leaving by the action of an acid, wherein the ionic structural site of the partial structure (A) contained in the compound (P) is a structure capable of generating an acid anion in the compound (P) upon irradiation with an actinic ray or radiation; a pattern-forming method using the same; and a resin which is used in the composition.

Photosensitive composition, pattern-forming method using the composition, and resin used in the composition

An optical performance humidity dependency improving agent for cellulose acylate film, which contains a compound having a nucleic acid base skeleton, is capable of preventing the fluctuation of Re and Rth of the film against the humidity change in usage environments.

Optical performance humidity dependency improving agent for cellulose acylate film

A protective film of polarizer comprising an organic acid that has a solubility in water at 25&#xb0; C. of at most 0.1% by mass and has an acid dissociation constant in a mixed solvent of tetrahydrofuran/water=6/4 by volume at 25&#xb0; C. of from 2 to 7 can improve polarizer durability.

Protective film of polarizer, polarizer and liquid crystal display device

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium for realizing high-speed rendering processing

An image processing apparatus for performing rendering processing includes an input unit configured to input information relating to an object, a classification unit configured to classify a graphic type of the object based on the information relating to the object, and a processing unit configured to switch a processing procedure according to the graphic type classified by the classification unit to generate edge information relating to the rendering processing.

Image processing apparatus and image processing method

A compound having a triptycene moiety represented by formula (1) is disclosed. In the formula, Aand Arepresent &#x2014;S&#x2014;, &#x2014;O&#x2014;, &#x2014;CO&#x2014;, or &#x2014;NR&#x2014;; Rand Rrepresent a substituent; n is an integer from 0 to 2; Rand Ran electron-withdrawing group having a Hammett's substituent constant &#x3c3;of equal to or more than 0; L, L, Land Lrepresent a single bond or a divalent group selected from the group consisting of &#x2014;O&#x2014;, &#x2014;S&#x2014;, &#x2014;S(&#x2550;O)&#x2014;, &#x2014;CO&#x2014;, &#x2014;OCO&#x2014;, &#x2014;COO&#x2014;, &#x2014;OCOO&#x2014; and &#x2014;NR&#x2014; where Rrepresents a Calkyl group or hydrogen atom, &#x2014;CH&#x2014; and any combinations thereof; Zand Zrepresent a divalent 5- or 6-membered cyclic linking group; Rand Rrepresent a hydrogen atom or substituted or non-substituted alkyl group; and m1 and m2 each respectively represent an integer of from 0 to 2. 

Compound having a triptycene moiety

There is provided an image processing method for, when performing color space transformation from a first color space to a second color space for an object such as characters and graphics, performing synthesis color processing for objects in different colors, in which matching processing is performed for the objects in different colors by different matching methods; and synthesis color processing is performed for the objects in different colors for which the matching processing has been performed by the different matching methods.

Image processing using first and second color matching

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Naoyuki Nishikawa