Abstract: An inserter for a medical device, where the inserter includes a housing having a first end with an opening therein, an actuator connected to a first gear, an actuator biasing element, a cam gear assembly including a cam member and a second gear, a cam bridge follower in contact with the cam member, and a first plunger assembly having a first plunger and a first biasing element.

Abstract: An inserter for a medical device, where the inserter includes a housing having a first end with an opening therein, an actuator connected to a first gear, an actuator biasing element, a cam gear assembly including a cam member and a second gear, a cam bridge follower in contact with the cam member, and a first plunger assembly having a first plunger and a first biasing element.

Abstract: An inserter for a medical device, where the inserter includes a housing having a first end with an opening therein, an actuator connected to a first gear, an actuator biasing element, a cam gear assembly including a cam member and a second gear, a cam bridge follower in contact with the cam member, and a first plunger assembly having a first plunger and a first biasing element.

Abstract: The invention disclosed relates to the detection of the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB), Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire (Coleoptra: B-prestidae) and in particular to the use of contact sex phenomones therefor. Analysis of the elytral hydrocarbons from male and female emerald ash borer, that were freshly emerged vs. sexually mature (>10 days old) revealed a female-specific compound, 9-methyl-pentacosane (9-Me-C25), only present in sexually mature females. This material was synthesized by the Wittig reaction of 2-decanone with (n-hexadecyl)-triphenylphosphonium bromide followed by catalytic reduction to yield racemic 9-Me C25, which matched the natural compound by GC/MS (retention time and EI-mass spectrum). In field bioassays with freeze-killed sexually mature A. planipennis females, feral males spent significantly more time in contact and attempting copulation with unwashed females than with females that had been washed in n-hexane to remove the cuticular hydrocarbons.

Abstract: The invention disclosed relates to the detection of the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB), Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire (Coleoptra: B-prestidae) and in particular to the use of contact sex phenomones therefor. Analyses of the elytral hydrocarbons from male and female emerald ash borer, that were freshly emerged vs. sexually mature (>10 days old) revealed a female-specific compound, 9-methyl-pentacosane (9-Me-C25), only present in sexually mature females. This material was synthesized by the Wittig reaction of 2-decanone with (n-hexadecyl)-triphenylphosphonium bromide followed by catalytic reduction to yield racemic 9-Me C25, which matched the natural compound by GC/MS (retention time and EI-mass spectrum). In field bioassays with freeze-killed sexually mature A. planipennis females, feral males spent significantly more time in contact and attempting copulation with unwashed females than with females that had been washed in n-hexane to remove the cuticular hydrocarbons.