Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha

Nec Corporation

Osaka University

Fujifilm Corporation

Tadashi Sameshima

Kentaro Nakamura

Yoshitaka Ohmura

Yoshiki Sawa

Shinya Sano

Yuichi Yamamoto

Shigeru Miyagawa

Atsuhiro Saito

Miyuki Koyama

Noboru Taguchi

Yosuke Kuruma

Masakazu Ishida

Kazuyoshi Warita

Miyuki Shimizu

Mayumi Ito

Fumiya Oohashi

Ryouhei Takeuchi

Toshihide Tanaka

An information processing apparatus and a method for performing speech training in speech rehabilitation are disclosed. A report about content to be uttered in an utterance training is made to a trainee of the utterance training and the volume of a voice uttered by the trainee in response to the report is obtained. Then, the result of comparison between the obtained volume and a volume predetermined as a target volume is reported.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method

A laminate of a sheet-shaped cell culture is disclosed, which has excellent operability and is suitable for implantation. A method is disclosed for producing a laminate of a fibrin gel and a sheet-shaped cell culture, including a step of dripping a liquid containing fibrinogen onto an upper surface of a sheet-shaped cell culture, a step of spraying a liquid containing thrombin onto the surface, and a step of forming a fibrin gel layer on the surface by a reaction between fibrinogen and thrombin; and a laminate of a fibrin gel and a sheet-shaped cell culture produced by the method are disclosed.

Method for producing laminate of sheet-shaped cell culture and fibrin gel

There is proposed an apparatus for isolating and recovering an objective cell, which comprises, a filtering device having a filtering member which is capable of setting a porosity thereof to two or more different porosity, a first line for feeding a priming liquid to the filtering device, a second line for feeding a liquid to be treated containing the cell aimed to isolate to the filtering device, and a third line provided with a storage container for storing the priming liquid that has been passed through the filtering device, wherein the priming liquid stored in the storage container is employed for washing the filtering device. There is also proposed a method for isolating and recovering an objective cell using the aforementioned apparatus.

Apparatus and method for isolating and recovering cells

A method of separating cells from blood by using a filter apparatus having first and second ports and a filter member therebetween having a changeable porosity. The filter member includes a stack of porous polymer sheets that preferably has a gradient of a physical or chemical characteristic in the direction of stacking. This can include a gradient in porosity, hydrophilicity or zeta potential. In a first step, blood is filtered through the apparatus when the filter member is set to a compressive state having a first porosity capable of capturing the objective cells. In a later step, the filter member is then set to a non-compressive state having a second porosity, higher than the first, for recovering the objective cells. The change in porosity results from the enlargement or reduction of the diameter of the pores of the filter member. The method can also include washing the filter member when the member is set to a porosity that is higher than the first porosity but lower than the second porosity.

Method of separating cells from blood using a filter having a changeable

A body fluid purification medium comprises a support, and an adsorbent including at least one sulfa drug and fixed on a surface of said insoluble support for adsorbing and removing a pathogenic substance in a body fluid. The medium can be provided in a body fluid flow path provided in a container between body fluid inlet and outlet ports.

Body fluid purification medium and apparatus

For the treatment of various diseases including autoimmune diseases such as myathenia gravis, articular rhematism, lupus erythematosus, etc., immunity-related diseases such as glumerulonephritis, bronchial asthma, polyneuritis, etc., organ transplantation such as transplanted kidney rejection, AOB incompatibility bone marrow transplantation, etc., tumor, hypertension, and hepatic insufficiency, immunoglobulin adsorbents comprising a hydroxyl-containing water-insoluble carrier to which a diamine compound having the general formula:

Immunoglobulin adsorbent and adsorption apparatus

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Isehara, Japan

Tadashi Sameshima