Abstract: A method for treating Alzheimer's Disease (AD) by administering an efficacious amount of artemisone. It is hypothesized that the treatment counters AD by inhibiting the production of the amyloid protein which has been implicated as a contributing factor to the onset of AD and the associated AD dementia and memory loss. Additionally, artemisone acts to reduce inflammation in the brain associated with AD by inhibiting tumor necrosis factor (TNF). Artemisone is a particularly useful AD treatment as it is able to cross the blood-brain barrier whereas many other TNF inhibitors are unable to do so. Artemisone may be administered via the following routes: subcutaneous, intravenous, intrathecal, intramuscular, intranasal, oral, transepidermal, parenteral, by inhalation, or intracerebroventricular.

Abstract: The present invention teaches a new and innovative pharmaceutical composition and method for the treatment of age-related macular degeneration in a patient in need thereof. In particular, the present invention teaches the administration of artemisone for the treatment and/or prevention of AMD in a patient in need thereof. This invention relates to one certain extract of the Artemisia annua plant, both in its crude and refined form composed substantially of Artemisone, a compound that is chemically classified as a sesquiterpene with an endo-peroxide group [FIG. 1]. The present invention teaches a for the treatment of either wet or dry age-related macular degeneration. The invention provides for an initial treatment using an intravitreal injection of Artemisone followed by the use of an oral dosage form which is designed to maintain the therapeutic concentration of Artemisone in the eye without having to perform constant intravitreal injections into the eye.

Abstract: A system that is gravity forced for distributing wastewater to plant material (107, 108), composing a water receiving means (105), a lint trapping means (508) within the receiving means (105), inlet and outlet devices of the receiving means (105) and an irrigation means (109, 110) for transporting water from the receiving means to specified parts of a garden as determined by an operator.

Abstract: A system for monitoring the passage of people through a controlled location, the system comprising: a security access device for selectively allowing and preventing the passage of one or more people through the controlled location; an array of imaging sensors which, in use, emit a curtain of light and detect reflected light from people through the curtain of light to generate image data; and, processing means for analysing characteristics of the reflected image data for each sensor in the array and controlling the operation of the security access device in dependence on the analysis, wherein the processing means determines at least one of the following characteristics for the array of sensors; duration of signal from each sensor, number of signals for each sensor and the saturation of the array.

Abstract: The present invention relates to chromatography, and provides in a chromatography column new end fittings and an insert. Each end fitting is a plastics plug which is screwed to the end of the column tube, and inside the end fitting is a shoulder which is engaged by an insert. The insert fits neatly into the column tube so that it can be used to press against the column packing. The insert also embodies a cavity for a frit, and the end of the insert which projects into the column and seats against the column packing, has a skirt which is flared so that the pressure inside the column will spread the skirt which is of flexible plastics material into sealing contact with the column inner wall forming an effective seal. The insert may be in one piece plastics material component, or it may be in two pieces, a plastic piece embodying the skirt and stainless steel piece has the portion which engages the shoulder.

Abstract: A container for radioactive counting which is essentially a tube of organic plastics material which has a radiation shield extending up to the side of the tube to a uniform height. The container has a reaction zone of from 1 to 10ml with a tapered portion towards its lower end. From 1% to 10% of the reaction zone has within the zone surrounded by the radiation shield.