Abstract: The invention relates to the identification and quantification of proteins differentially expressed during adipogenesis. More specifically, the invention relates to methods for identifying and/or quantitating proteins differentially expressed in one or more specific stage(s) of adipocyte differentiation, using mass spectrometry. The invention also provides those differentially expressed genes as marker genes of adipogenesis. The invention further provides treatment methods for patients suffering from conditions associated with hyper- or hypo-adipogenesis.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for flamme fancy yarn manufacture for textile production of various number of effects along the length and in a given length of ready-made yarn, irrespective of the length of the fibres of the inlet product both from short staple and long staple material as the flamme fancy yarn is obtained by simultaneous feeding of two slivers with one and the same staple fibres length, as one of the slivers may not be subjected to a permanent force in the draft zone, it may be drawn normally without breaking to be used for the formation of a core thread. The apparatus for achieving the method has the advantage of an easy readjustable construction, and the ability to change the range of products without replacement of the performing elements.

Abstract: Apparatus for the formation of packages of elongated flexible material wound upon a pirn supported and rotated in the apparatus, the apparatus having an operating carriage mounted for reciprocation parallel to the axis of the pirn, mechanism for reciprocating the operating carriage with a basic reciprocating movement lengthwise of the pirn, a vibrator mounted upon the operating carriage, a thread guide vibrated by the vibrator in a direction lengthwise of the pirn with an amplitude which is a fraction of the amplitude of reciprocation of the operating carriage, and a controlling mechanism for insuring the periodic translational shifting of the thread guide to the top of the pirn.