Abstract: The present invention provides an electron microscope device, comprising a scanning electron microscope 2 and an optical microscope 3, wherein the scanning electron microscope has scanning means 10 for scanning an electron beam and an electron detector 12 for detecting electron 11 issued from a specimen 8 scanned over by the electron beam, and the scanning electron microscope acquires a scanning electron image based on a detection result from the electron detector, the optical microscope has a light emitting source 13 for illuminating an illumination light, and the optical microscope illuminates the illumination light to the specimen, and acquires an optical image by receiving a reflection light from the specimen, and wherein the electron detector has a fluorescent substance layer for electron-light conversion, a wavelength filter for restricting so that all or almost all of wavelength ranges of the fluorescent light from the fluorescent substance layer passes through, and a wavelength detecting element for r

Abstract: According to the biosensor and the blood component analytical method of the present invention, in a biosensor that is made of a single layer or plural layers of a porous material as shown in FIG. 1, having a reagent holding part and utilizing chromatography, a cell shrinkage reagent is carried on at least part of the reagent holding part, or at least part of a chromatographically developed part that is upstream of the reagent holding part. According to the biosensor having the above-mentioned structure and the blood component analytical method, even when whole blood is a sample, a high-accuracy blood component analysis cart be performed easily and quickly with less cost.

Abstract: This invention provides a compound of the formula (I): (I) These compounds are useful for the treatment of disease conditions caused by overactivation of the VR1 receptor, such as pain, or the like in mammalian. This invention also provides a pharmaceutical composition comprising the above compound.

Abstract: This invention provides a compound of the formula (I): wherein A and B are independently CR12 or N; D and E are each independently CR9 or N; R1 represents (C1-C6)alkyl; R2 represents hydrogen, halogen, hydroxy, (C1-C6) alkyl, halo(C1-C6) alkyl, hydroxy(C1-C6) alkyl, (C1-C6)alkoxy or (C1-C6)alkoxy-(C1-C6)alkyl; R3, R4, R5, R6, R10 and R11 each independently represent hydrogen, halogen, (C1-C6)alkyl, halo(C1-C6)alkyl, (C1-C6)alkoxy, hydroxy(C1-C6)alkyl or (C1-C6)alkoxy-(C1-C6)alkyl; or R3 and R4 are taken together with the carbon atom to which they are attached to form a 3- to 7-membered carbocyclic ring or heterocyclic ring in which one or two non-adjacent carbon atoms are optionally replaced by an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom or NH; R7 and R9 each independently represent hydrogen, halogen, (C1-C6)alkyl, halo(C1-C6)alkyl, hydroxy(C1-C6)alkyl, (C1-C6)alkoxy, hydroxy(C1-C6)alkoxy, (C1-C6)alkoxy-(C1-C6)alkyl, (C1-C6)alkoxy-(C1-C6)alkoxy, (C1-C6)alkylthio, (C1-C6)alkylsulfinyl, (C1-C6)alkylsulfonyl, NH2, [(C1-C6

Abstract: According to the biosensor and the blood component analytical method of the present invention, in a biosensor that is made of a single layer or plural layers of a porous material as shown in FIG. 1, having a reagent holding part and utilizing chromatography, a cell shrinkage reagent is carried on at least part of the reagent holding part, or at least part of a chromatographically developed part that is upstream of the reagent holding part. According to the biosensor having the above-mentioned structure and the blood component analytical method, even when whole blood is a sample, a high-accuracy blood component analysis cart be performed easily and quickly with less cost.

Abstract: Compounds are disclosed that have a formula represented by the following: The compounds may be prepared as pharmaceutical compositions, and may be used for the prevention and treatment of a variety of conditions in mammals including humans, including by way of non-limiting example, pain, inflammation, traumatic injury, and others.

Abstract: Hemoglobin in a sample solution is quickly and reliably denatured; at the same time, quick and accurate measurement of hemoglobin and a hemoglobin derivative is realized. In a method for measuring hemoglobin and a hemoglobin derivative, and a reagent composition, a measurement kit, an analysis device, and an analysis system used in the method, a sample solution containing a blood component is treated with a nonionic surfactant, an oxidizing agent, and a metal salt to denature hemoglobin in the sample solution to measure the hemoglobin, and thereafter the amount of a hemoglobin derivative in the sample is measured by an immunological method using an antibody specifically binding to a denatured site of the denatured hemoglobin derivative.

Abstract: In a biosensor having a developing layer for developing a sample solution, including a reagent part immobilized to a portion of the developing layer and a marked reagent part which is held in a dry state by a portion of the developing layer, and is dissolvable by developing the sample solution, and qualitatively or quantitatively analyzing an analyte in the sample solution by measuring the amount of the marker reagent bound to the reagent immobilization part; wherein plural reagent immobilization parts exist, and the respective reagent immobilization parts have different affinities for the analyte in the sample solution or the marker reagent, whereby a prozone phenomenon can be detected. Further, a biosensor with a high precision of measurement, which has a wider dynamic range for the concentration of the analyte in the sample solution, can be provided.

Abstract: An analysis device includes: a separation cavity 18 for separating a test liquid into a solution component and a solid component by using a centrifugal force; a higher specific gravity component quantitative cavity 23 for holding a portion of the separated solid component which has been transferred; a sample solution overflow cavity 22 arranged between the higher specific gravity component quantitative cavity 23 and the separation cavity 18 and connected to a connecting channel 21 for transporting the sample liquid from the separation cavity 18; and a capillary cavity 19 formed in the separation cavity 18 for temporarily holding a separated solution component (blood plasma) in the separation cavity 18. A blood plasma component 57a remaining in the separation cavity 18 is trapped by the capillary cavity 19.

Abstract: Herein disclosed is a liquid homogenizer for mixing two or more liquids, comprising: a rotator (1) rotatable around a rotation axis; at least two liquid-mixing chambers (6, 10) formed in the rotator, and being different from each other in distance from the rotation axis; and at least two channels (8) through which one of the liquid-mixing chambers is communicated with the other of the liquid-mixing chambers (6, 10), wherein the liquid-mixing chambers (6, 10) include an outer liquid-mixing chamber (10) and an inner liquid-mixing chamber (6) close to the rotation axis in comparison with the outer liquid-mixing chamber, when the rotator (1) is rotating around the rotation axis, the liquids are shifted by a centrifugal force to the outer liquid-mixing chamber from the inner liquid-mixing chamber through the channels (8), and agitated to be mixed by turbulent flows in the outer liquid-mixing chamber.

Abstract: This invention provides a compound of the formula (I). These compounds are useful for the treatment of disease conditions caused by overactivation of the VR1 receptor such as pain, or the like in mammal. This invention also provides a pharmaceutical composition comprising the above compound.

Abstract: This invention provides a compound of the formula (I): wherein A and B are independently CR12 or N; D and E are each independently CR9 or N; R1 represents (C1-C6)alkyl; R2 represents hydrogen, halogen, hydroxy, (C1-C6) alkyl, halo(C1-C6) alkyl, hydroxy(C1-C6)alkyl, (C1-C6)alkoxy or (C1-C6)alkoxy-(C1-C6)alkyl; R3, R4, R5, R6, R10 and R11 each independently represent hydrogen, halogen, (C1-C6)alkyl, halo(C1-C6)alkyl, (C1-C6)alkoxy, hydroxy(C1-C6)alkyl or (C1-C6)alkoxy-(C1-C6)alkyl; or R3 and R4 are taken together with the carbon atom to which they are attached to form a 3- to 7-membered carbocyclic ring or heterocyclic ring in which one or two non-adjacent carbon atoms are optionally replaced by an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom or NH; R7 and R9 each independently represent hydrogen, halogen, (C1-C6)alkyl, halo(C1-C6)alkyl, hydroxy(C1-C6)alkyl, (C1-C6)alkoxy, hydroxy(C1-C6)alkoxy, (C1-C6)alkoxy-(C1-C6)alkyl, (C1-C6)alkoxy-(C1-C6)alkoxy, (C1-C6)alkylthio, (C1-C6)alkylsulfinyl, (C1-C6)alkylsulfonyl, NH2, [(C1-C6)

Abstract: This invention provides a compound of the formula (I): wherein A1 is N and A2 is CR7, or A1 is CR7 and A2 is N; Y1, Y2 and Y3 are each independently CH or N, Y4 and Y5 are each independently CR8 or N, with the proviso that when one of Y1, Y2, Y3, Y4 and Y5 is N, the others are not N; R1 and R2 are each independently hydrogen, halogen, (C1-C6)alkyl, halo(C1-C6)alkyl or hydroxy(C1-C6)alkyl; R3 and R8 are each independently hydrogen, halogen, hydroxy, (C1-C6)alkyl, hydroxy(C1-C6)alkoxy, (C1-C6)alkoxy-(C1-C6)alkyl, (C1-C6)alkoxy-(C1-C6)alkoxy, halo(C1-C6)alkyl, (C1-C6)alkylthio, (C1-C6)alkylsulfinyl or (C1-C6)alkylsulfonyl; R4 is halogen, (C1-C6)alkyl, (C3-C6)cycloalkyl, halo(C1-C6)alkyl, hydroxy(C1-C6)alkyl, halo(C1-C6)alkoxy, hydroxy(C1-C6)alkoxy, (C1-C6)alkoxy-(C1-C6)alkyl, (C1-C6)alkoxy-(C1-C6)alkoxy, halo(C1-C6)alkylsulfonyl, halo(C1-C6)alkylsulfinyl, halo(C1-C6)alkylthio, [(C1-C6)alkyl]NH— or [(C1-C6)alkyl]2N—; and R5, R6 and R7 are each independently hydrogen, halogen, (C1-C6)alkyl, hydroxy(C1-C6)alkyl, or

Abstract: This invention provides a compound of the formula (I): wherein, variables A, B, D, E, and R1 to R11 are as defined in the specification.

Abstract: This invention provides a compound of the formula (I): And their use for the treatment of disease conditions caused by overactivation of the VR1 receptor such as pain, or the like in mammal. This invention also provides a pharmaceutical composition comprising the above compound.

Abstract: A biosensor is provided with an area in which a reagent having bleaching action is carried in a state where it can be dissolved, at least in a part of a sample application area to which an inspection target solution is applied or the downstream of the sample application area in the direction of the inspection target solution permeating, in a development layer. In the so-constituted biosensor, a colored component in the inspection target solution can be faded by the bleaching reagent, so that the color in parts other than a reactive area is reduced in consequence, whereby a visual judgment is possible and a more accurate measurement result in which a reading error by a measuring device is extremely suppressed can be obtained.

Abstract: A biosensor is provided with a development layer for developing an inspection target solution, that has a reagent immobilization part where an antibody for a measurement target in the inspection target solution is immobilized and a reagent holding part which marks in a dry state and holds an antibody which can be eluted by development of the inspection target solution in parts of the development layer. The biosensor measures a bonding amount of the marker reagent bonded to the reagent immobilization part, thereby qualitatively or quantitatively measuring components to be measured in the inspection target solution, and is further provided with a space forming material that forms a cavity part, which is a space into which the inspection target solution flows, between the development layer for developing the inspection target solution and the space forming material.

Abstract: This invention provides compounds of the formula (I) useful for the treatment of disease conditions caused by over activation of Vr1 receptors such as pain or the like in mammals as well as compositions comprising them.

Abstract: A sample solution including blood components is processed with a denaturalization reagent comprising a nonionic surface-activating agent and an oxidizing agent to denaturalize a hemoglobin derivative in the sample solution, and thereafter, an immunoassay is performing utilizing an antibody that is specific to a denaturalized site of the hemoglobin derivative to measure the amount of the hemoglobin derivative in the sample. Therefore, when performing assay of hemoglobin derivative, denaturalization of hemoglobin can be performed speedily and reliably while minimizing adverse effects of the denaturalization reagent on immune reaction.

Abstract: Herein disclosed is a liquid homogenizer which can evenly mix liquids with small space. There is provided a liquid homogenizer for mixing two or more liquids, comprising: a rotator (1) rotatable around a rotation axis; at least two liquid-mixing chambers (6, 10) formed in the rotator, and being different from each other in distance from the rotation axis; and at least two channels (8) through which one of the liquid-mixing chambers is communicated with the other of the liquid-mixing chambers (6, 10), wherein the liquid-mixing chambers (6, 10) include an outer liquid-mixing chamber (10) and an inner liquid-mixing chamber (6) close to the rotation axis in comparison with the outer liquid-mixing chamber, when the rotator (1) is rotating around the rotation axis, the liquids are shifted by a centrifugal force to the outer liquid-mixing chamber from the inner liquid-mixing chamber through the channels (8), and agitated to be mixed by turbulent flows in the outer liquid-mixing chamber.