Abstract: Provided is a cell packaging material having a high insulating performance and durability. A cell packaging material comprising a layered body provided with at least a substrate layer, a metal layer, an adhesive layer, and a heat-fusible resin layer in the stated order. The adhesive layer has a resin composition that contains an acid-modified polyolefin and an epoxy resin. In probe displacement amount measurements involving the use of a thermal mechanical analyzer, when a probe is placed on the surface of the adhesive layer at an end part of the cell packaging material and the probe is heated from 40° C. to 220° C., the position of the probe does not drop in relation to the initial value.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a stent delivery system and a stent delivery system that can reduce an insertion resistance of an outer tube relative to an inner wall surface of another medical appliance, such as a catheter. The method includes: deforming, by disposing an insertion member in a lumen of the inner-side tube, opposing two locations of the inner-side tube; disposing the respective operation wires in the pair on outer peripheral sides of the opposing two locations of the inner-side tube; disposing the outer-side tube at an outer peripheral side of the inner-side tube so as to surround the inner-side tube and the pair of the operation wires; and disposing, in a state where an insertion member is disposed in the lumen of the inner-side tube, a retaining member that retains a cross-sectional shape of the inner-side tube in a space formed between the inner-side tube and the outer-side tube.

Abstract: Provided is a cell packaging material having a high insulating performance and durability. A cell packaging material comprising a layered body provided with at least a substrate layer, a metal layer, an adhesive layer, and a heat-fusible resin layer in the stated order. The adhesive layer has a resin composition that contains an acid-modified polyolefin and an epoxy resin. In probe displacement amount measurements involving the use of a thermal mechanical analyzer, when a probe is placed on the surface of the adhesive layer at an end part of the cell packaging material and the probe is heated from 40° C. to 220° C., the position of the probe does not drop in relation to the initial value.

Abstract: A flexible tube assembly according to the present disclosure includes a multiple tube having at least a first tubular member that has an elongated shape and is hollow and a second tubular member that has an elongated shape and is disposed inside the first tubular member in such a manner as to be capable of advancing and retreating relative to the first tubular member; and a hand operation unit that is provided on a proximal side of the multiple tube and operates at least the first tubular member and the second tubular member.

Abstract: Employed is a roller-type continuous vapor-deposited film forming device in which a film-forming section and a preprocessing section provided with a plasma preprocessing device are arranged in series at a distance from each other. With a substrate transported at a high speed, plasma (P) is supplied to the substrate surface side while set to an electrically positive potential by a plasma preprocessing means for supplying the plasma toward the substrate (S) in a space enclosed in a preprocessing roller, and enclosed in a plasma supply means for supplying a plasma-forming gas and in a magnet (21), which is a magnetism formation means. An active preprocessed surface is formed on the surface of the substrate (S). An inorganic oxide vapor-deposited film having as a principal component thereof an aluminum oxide containing AL-C covalent bonds is immediately formed at high speed in succession on the preprocessed surface of the substrate to produce a highly adhesive transparent vapor-deposited film.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a medical elongated body including: a first channel through which a first liquid flows; a second channel through which a second liquid different from the first liquid in liquid composition flows; a mixing section at which the first channel and the second channel join and in which the first liquid and the second liquid are mixed; a gas channel through which a gas flows; a gas mixing-in section adapted to mix the gas into at least one of the first liquid flowing through the first channel and the second liquid flowing through the second channel or into a liquid mixture formed by mixing in the mixing section; a foaming member adapted to convert the liquid containing the gas mixed therein to a foamed material to be discharged; and a discharge port through which the foamed material to be discharged is discharged.

Abstract: Employed is a roller-type continuous vapor-deposited film forming device in which a film-forming section and a preprocessing section provided with a plasma preprocessing device are arranged in series at a distance from each other. With a substrate transported at a high speed, plasma (P) is supplied to the substrate surface side while set to an electrically positive potential by a plasma preprocessing means for supplying the plasma toward the substrate (S) in a space enclosed in a preprocessing roller, and enclosed in a plasma supply means for supplying a plasma-forming gas and in a magnet (21), which is a magnetism formation means. An active preprocessed surface is formed on the surface of the substrate (S). An inorganic oxide vapor-deposited film having as a principal component thereof an aluminum oxide containing AL-C covalent bonds is immediately formed at high speed in succession on the preprocessed surface of the substrate to produce a highly adhesive transparent vapor-deposited film.

Abstract: A flexible tube assembly according to the present disclosure includes a multiple tube having at least a first tubular member that has an elongated shape and is hollow and a second tubular member that has an elongated shape and is disposed inside the first tubular member in such a manner as to be capable of advancing and retreating relative to the first tubular member; and a hand operation unit that is provided on a proximal side of the multiple tube and operates at least the first tubular member and the second tubular member.

Abstract: A medical instrument is disclosed, which includes an elongated member having a plurality of joint members arranged side by side in an axial direction, the elongated member taking a first form that is bendable in a direction intersecting with the axial direction when the joint members are arranged with gaps therebetween in the axial direction and taking a second form having rigidity when the distance between the joint members is reduced in the axial direction to be narrower than the distance in the first form, a gripper capable of gripping an object to be gripped, and a first push-pull member and a second push-pull member each movable along the axial direction of the elongated member. Operating the first push-pull member and the second push-pull member enables the elongated member to be switched between the bendable first form and the rigid second form and enables an opening-closing operation of the gripper.

Abstract: Disclosed is an agent for improving at least one activity selected from the group consisting of the growth activity, adhesion activity and extension activity of mesenchymal stem cells, which comprises laminin-5 as an active ingredient. A method of culturing mesenchymal stem cells; a method of isolating mesenchymal stem cells; and a medium, vessel or sheet for use in culturing mesenchymal stem cells are also provided.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a medical elongated body including: a first channel through which a first liquid flows; a second channel through which a second liquid different from the first liquid in liquid composition flows; a mixing section at which the first channel and the second channel join and in which the first liquid and the second liquid are mixed; a gas channel through which a gas flows; a gas mixing-in section adapted to mix the gas into at least one of the first liquid flowing through the first channel and the second liquid flowing through the second channel or into a liquid mixture formed by mixing in the mixing section; a foaming member adapted to convert the liquid containing the gas mixed therein to a foamed material to be discharged; and a discharge port through which the foamed material to be discharged is discharged.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to find substances that can be used as skin aging markers, and the present invention provides a method for determining the degree of skin aging, including measurement of expression of secretory proteins and/or intracellular proteins and/or their genes in skin cells and/or skin tissues, wherein the secretory proteins and/or intracellular proteins change their expression with aging of skin. The present invention also provides a kit for determining the degree of skin aging and a method for identifying substances effective in the prevention of skin aging.

Abstract: For efficient proliferation of pluripotent stem cells in a system free from any animal-derived material such as feeder cells or serum, the present invention provides a method for proliferation of pluripotent stem cells, which comprises culturing the pluripotent stem cells in a medium free from both feeder cells and serum in a system containing laminin-5.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to find substances that can be used as disease markers for atopic dermatitis and the present invention provides a method for determining atopic dermatitis, including measurement of the expression of specific proteins and/or their genes in skin cells and/or skin tissues, wherein the specific proteins change their expression with inflammation caused by atopic dermatitis or change their expression according to the degree of predisposition to atopic dermatitis. The present invention also provides a kit for determining the degree of inflammation of atopic dermatitis or risk of developing atopic dermatitis, as well as a method for determining substances effective in the treatment and/or prevention of atopic dermatitis.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to find substances that can be used as skin aging markers, and the present invention provides a method for determining the degree of skin aging, including measurement of expression of secretory proteins and/or intracellular proteins and/or their genes in skin cells and/or skin tissues, wherein the secretory proteins and/or intracellular proteins change their expression with aging of skin. The present invention also provides a kit for determining the degree of skin aging and a method for identifying substances effective in the prevention of skin aging.

Abstract: Disclosed is an agent for improving at least one activity selected from the group consisting of the growth activity, adhesion activity and extension activity of mesenchymal stem cells, which comprises laminin-5 as an active ingredient. A method of culturing mesenchymal stem cells; a method of isolating mesenchymal stem cells; and a medium, vessel or sheet for use in culturing mesenchymal stem cells are also provided.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to find substances that can be used as disease markers for atopic dermatitis and the present invention provides a method for determining atopic dermatitis, including measurement of the expression of specific proteins and/or their genes in skin cells and/or skin tissues, wherein the specific proteins change their expression with inflammation caused by atopic dermatitis or change their expression according to the degree of predisposition to atopic dermatitis. The present invention also provides a kit for determining the degree of inflammation of atopic dermatitis or risk of developing atopic dermatitis, as well as a method for determining substances effective in the treatment and/or prevention of atopic dermatitis.

Abstract: A USB storage device having the function of preventing stored software from being deleted by mistake achieved with as simple a structure as possible. In the USB storage device, the storage area is divided into an area in which execution of reading, writing and deleting is allowed and an area in which only execution of reading is allowed. Information to make a USB mass storage class driver recognize these areas as areas corresponding, respectively, to logical unit numbers defined in the SCSI command set of the USB mass storage class driver owned by the host is stored in the USB storage device. The information includes logical unit numbers, formats, writing/deleting allowed/not allowed flag, logical block numbers and physical block numbers. By this, the USB mass storage class driver recognizes the USB storage device as a SCSI device having two logical units.

Abstract: A USB storage device having the function of preventing stored software from being deleted by mistake achieved with as simple a structure as possible. In the USB storage device, the storage area is divided into an area in which execution of reading, writing and deleting is allowed and an area in which only execution of reading is allowed. Information to make a USB mass storage class driver recognize these areas as areas corresponding, respectively, to logical unit numbers defined in the SCSI command set of the USB mass storage class driver owned by the host is stored in the USB storage device. The information includes logical unit numbers, formats, writing/deleting allowed/not allowed flag, logical block numbers and physical block numbers. By this, the USB mass storage class driver recognizes the USB storage device as a SCSI device having two logical units.

Abstract: A USB storage device having the function of preventing stored software from being deleted by mistake achieved with as simple a structure as possible. In the USB storage device, the storage area is divided into an area in which execution of reading, writing and deleting is allowed and an area in which only execution of reading is allowed. Information to make a USB mass storage class driver recognize these areas as areas corresponding, respectively, to logical unit numbers defined in the SCSI command set of the USB mass storage class driver owned by the host is stored in the USB storage device. The information includes logical unit numbers, formats, writing/deleting allowed/not allowed flag, logical block numbers and physical block numbers. By this, the USB mass storage class driver recognizes the USB storage device as a SCSI device having two logical units.