Abstract: This application includes, in part, methods of preparing antibodies that specifically bind to methylation-controlling J (MCJ) polypeptide. In some aspects, the application also includes, hybridoma cell lines that produce antibodies that specifically MCJ polypeptide; antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof produced with the methods of the application, and methods of using antibodies and antigen-binding fragments that specifically bind MCJ polypeptide for diagnosis and treatment of cancer.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 1, 2008
Date of Patent:
January 15, 2013
Assignee:
University of Vermont and State Agriculture College
Abstract: The invention involves methods of regulating cell growth and division to control disease processes by manipulating mitochondrial metabolism and the expression of cell surface immune proteins. The invention also involves related compositions and screening assays.
Type:
Application
Filed:
December 29, 2011
Publication date:
December 27, 2012
Applicant:
University of Vermont and State Agricultural College
Abstract: The invention relates to methods and products for treatment of a neurological defect such as a subarachnoid hemorrhage or cerebral vasospasm. Specifically, R-type voltage-gated calcium channel inhibitors and related compositions and kits are described.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 24, 2010
Date of Patent:
September 18, 2012
Assignee:
University of Vermont and State Agricultural College
Abstract: Selective, radically initiated oxidative decarboxylation may produce low viscosity renewable fuels from biologically derived fats and oils. Fatty acids and triglycerides may be decarboxylated using oxidants at a water/oil interface. The oxidants may be produced using photo-Fenton reagents. The reaction advantageously can be carried out at room temperature and pressure and has fewer unwanted byproducts than traditional decarboxylation techniques.
Type:
Application
Filed:
October 25, 2010
Publication date:
August 16, 2012
Applicant:
University of Vermont and State Agricultural College
Abstract: Control devices and kits of components of control devices are provided. The subject invention also provides systems for designing control devices and/or kits of components of control devices. A system user can provide data about an end user to an expert system via a user interface, and the expert system can use the data and a method for selecting appropriate components to design a control device and/or kit. The control device can be a self-referenced control device and can include a controller and a wearable interface.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 13, 2008
Date of Patent:
August 14, 2012
Assignees:
University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc., University of Vermont and State Agricultural College
Abstract: Disclosed are antibodies that selectively bind to blood coagulation factor FVIII, and highly sensitive immunological assays comprising these antibodies. Preferred assays can detect FVIII at about 3500-fold below the normal physiological levels, and have a wide array of applications including accurate monitoring of FVIII concentration in pharmaceutical products for treatment of blood coagulation disorders, and determination of FVIII levels in plasma of human patients, including those with blood coagulation disorders such as hemophilia.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 13, 2006
Date of Patent:
August 7, 2012
Assignee:
The University of Vermont and State Agriculture College
Inventors:
Behnaz Parhami-Seren, Kenneth G. Mann, David N. Fass
Abstract: The invention provides a genipin cross-linked fibrin gel. The ratio of genipin to fibrin in the gel ranges from about 0.1:1 to about 10:1 (genipin:fibrin). The gel can be hydrogel. Also provided is method for repairing tissue defects by administering the gel to site of tissue defect.
Type:
Application
Filed:
December 2, 2011
Publication date:
July 26, 2012
Applicant:
University of Vermont and State Agricultural College
Inventors:
Rachel Schek, Arthur J. Michalek, James C. Iatridis
Abstract: Wood adhesives and methods of production and application of wood adhesives are provided. The adhesives may contain proteins, and specifically may include whey proteins derived from dairy processing. Products utilizing whey-based wood adhesives are also provided as are paper adhesives that include whey protein.
Type:
Application
Filed:
April 13, 2010
Publication date:
July 19, 2012
Applicant:
The University of Vermont and State Agricultural College
Inventors:
Mingruo Guo, Michael E. Vayda, Zhenhua Gao
Abstract: The invention features compositions comprising agents having cardiac protective activity isolated from epicardial progenitor cells and derivatives thereof, and methods for the use of such compositions.
Type:
Application
Filed:
August 29, 2011
Publication date:
June 21, 2012
Applicant:
The University of Vermont and State Agriculture College
Abstract: A system for exposing a target material to small particles. The system includes an exposure chamber that receives the target material. A stream of charged particles is directed via an inlet into the exposure chamber toward the target material. One or more electrodes are located relative to the target material and the inlet, and are electrically charged, so as to cause at least some of the charged particles to impact upon the target material. The system can be used to expose the target material to small, for example, nanoscale, particles in a gas environment.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 23, 2007
Date of Patent:
May 15, 2012
Assignee:
The University of Vermont and State Agricultural College
Abstract: The atypical antipsychotic drugs (AAPDs) have markedly enhanced the treatment of schizophrenias but their use has been hindered by the major weight gain elicited by some AAPDs. We found that orexigenic AAPDs potently and selectively activate hypothalamic AMP kinase (AMPK), an action abolished in mice with deletion of histamine H1 receptors. These findings afford a means of developing better therapeutic agents and provide insight into the hypothalamic regulation of food intake.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 10, 2007
Date of Patent:
April 3, 2012
Assignees:
The Johns Hopkins University, The University of Vermont College of Medicine
Inventors:
Solomon H. Snyder, Alex Huang, Cory Teuscher, Sangwon Kim
Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and uses of systems operating between fully quantum coherent and fully classical states. Such systems operate in what is termed the “Poised realm” and exhibit unique behaviors that can be applied to a number of useful applications.
Type:
Application
Filed:
July 20, 2011
Publication date:
March 22, 2012
Applicants:
TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT
Inventors:
Stuart Kauffman, Samuli Niiranen, Gábor Vattay
Abstract: The invention provides a method of treating a target area with an ultrasound wave pattern, including: providing an ultrasound apparatus having an ultrasound wave generator operatively attached to a plurality of transducers, coupled to an immersible support and configured to emit an ultrasound wave; immersing the apparatus into a water environment; positioning the apparatus proximate to a target area to treat at least one in situ organism; and emitting a pattern of ultrasound waves from the transducers, the pattern of ultrasound waves additive in effect and emitted onto the target area to threat an in situ underwater organism.
Type:
Application
Filed:
November 21, 2011
Publication date:
March 15, 2012
Applicants:
The Research Foundation of State University of New York, Montclair State University, University of Vermont and State Agricultural College
Abstract: Diagnostic assessment and therapeutic treatment of pelvic pain disorders, including bladder disorders, bowel disorders, and/or reproductive tissue or organ disorders that are characterized by increased expression of the neuropeptides CGRP and/or PACAP. Additionally, applicants have developed a transgenic non-human model for pelvic pain disorders, where the transgenic animal expresses in bladder sensory neurons a recombinant neuropeptide implicated in the pelvic pain disorder.
Type:
Application
Filed:
November 11, 2011
Publication date:
March 8, 2012
Applicants:
University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
Inventors:
Ronald W. Wood, Jay Reeder, Edward M. Schwarz, Edward M. Messing, Susan R. Schoen, Margaret A. Vizzard, Ian Dickerson
Abstract: A system and method of identifying relational patterns across a plurality of databases using a data structure and the data structure itself. The data structure including one or more data node branches, each of the one or more data node branches including one or more data nodes, each of the one or more data nodes representing a data item of interest and corresponding data item support values for the data item across the plurality of databases in relation to other data items represented in the data node branch. The data structure can be used to mine one or more relational patterns considering pattern support data across the plurality of databases at the same time.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 14, 2008
Date of Patent:
February 7, 2012
Assignee:
The University of Vermont and State Agricultural College
Abstract: The invention provides compositions and methods for permeabilizing insect embryos by removing the waxy layer of the shell using a solution containing a non-toxic cyclic terpene and a non-toxic surfactant, preferably a non-ionic surfactant. The invention further provides kits to practice the method of the invention. The invention also provides methods for toxicology and other high throughput screening method including the compositions and methods of embryo permeabilization provided herein.
Type:
Application
Filed:
January 11, 2010
Publication date:
January 12, 2012
Applicant:
The University of Vermont and State Agriculture College
Abstract: Algorithms and concepts for maintaining uniform random samples of streaming data and stream joins. These algorithms and concepts are used in systems and methods, such as wireless sensor networks and methods for implementing such networks, that generate and handle such streaming data and/or stream joins. The algorithms and concepts directed to streaming data allow one or more sample reservoirs to change size during sampling. When multiple reservoirs are maintained, some of the algorithms and concepts periodically reallocate memory among the multiple reservoirs to effectively utilize limited memory. The algorithms and concepts directed to stream joins allow reservoir sampling to proceed as a function of the probability of a join sampling operation. In memory limited situations wherein memory contains the sample reservoir and a join buffer, some of the stream join algorithms and concepts progressively increase the size of the sampling reservoir and reallocate memory from the join buffer to the reservoir.
Type:
Application
Filed:
May 8, 2008
Publication date:
December 22, 2011
Applicant:
The University of Vermont and State Agricultural College
Inventors:
Mohammed Al-Kateb, Byung Suk Lee, Xiaoyang Wang
Abstract: Recombinant transferrin, non-glycosylated recombinant transferrin, transferrin half-molecules and mutant transferrins having altered metal-binding or other properties are described. The recombinant transferrin molecules are expressed in functional form by stable eukaryotic cell lines such as baby hamster kidney cells transformed with an expression vector encoding the recombinant molecule. The recombinant transferrins can be used in metal chelation therapy to bind and clear excess toxic metals in patients suffering from metal overloads or as tissue culture medium supplements or replacements.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 8, 2004
Date of Patent:
December 20, 2011
Assignees:
University of Vermont, The University of British Columbia
Inventors:
Walter D. Funk, Robert C. Woodworth, Anne B. Mason, Ross T. A. MacGillivray
Abstract: Vibrational energy harvesting (VEH) structures that include resonant beams each having a fundamental resonance frequency and a parametric mode frequency and including at least one piezoelectric layer for generating electrical charge in response to each of fundamental-resonance excitation and parametric-mode excitation of that beam. Circuitry is provided for harvesting the electrical charge from the resonant beam. In some embodiments, the parametric mode frequency of the beam is tuned to be close to its fundamental resonance frequency so as to increase the effective bandwidth of a VEH structure. The effective bandwidth of a VEH structure can be further increased by tuning ones of multiple parametric-mode-enabled resonant beams to slightly different fundamental resonance frequencies and parametric mode frequencies.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 21, 2008
Date of Patent:
December 20, 2011
Assignee:
The University of Vermont and State Agricultural College