Abstract: This invention relates to a method of inhibiting FC receptor binding of immunoglobulin comprising the use of a Fc receptor modulating compound which binds to defined surfaces on a Fc receptor. The present invention also relates to a method for treating a variety of diseases using a Fc receptor modulating compound.

Abstract: Nucleotide sequences encoding a protein with Fc receptor activity or a fragment thereof that is capable of binding the Fc region of immunoglobulin and polypeptides with Fc receptor activity are provided. Proteins which exhibit enhanced or reduced immunoglobulin binding ability relative to native Fc receptors and nucleotides encoding these proteins also are provided. The invention also provides methods of determining the presence of immunoglobulin, detecting an immune complex, removing immunoglobulin from a body fluid and treating disease using the proteins.

Abstract: An elongated, tapered seamless and hollow tubular member of net shape is disclosed. The tubular member is made by a method comprising providing an elongated, tapered mandrel, applying a composite material consisting of reinforced fibers with a resin on the mandrel, providing a shell having an elongated, tapered bore, inserting the mandrel with the composite material applied thereon into the bore of the shell to provide a mold assembly, heating the mold assembly, displacing the mandrel and shell longitudinally toward each other to compress the composite material of the article being formed by simultaneously applying a tensile force at one end of the mandrel and a compressive force at the other, allowing the mold assembly to cool, and then separating the shell and mandrel from the molded article.

Abstract: A method of molding an elongated, tapered seamless and hollow member or tubular of net shape comprising providing an elongated, tapered mandrel, applying a composite material consisting of reinforced fibers with a resin on the mandrel, providing a shell having an elongated, tapered bore, inserting the mandrel with the composite material applied thereon into the bore of the shell to provide a mold assembly, heating the mold assembly, displacing the mandrel and shell longitudinally toward each other to compress the composite material of the article being formed by simultaneously applying a tensile force at one end of the mandrel and a compressive force at the other, allowing the mold assembly to cool, and then separating the shell and mandrel from the molded article.

Abstract: A receptor for the Fc portion of immunoglobulin, derived from mouse or human cells, the receptor exhibiting the ability to bind to the Fc portion of mouse and human immunoglobulin and comprising a transmembrane proteins having about 280-301 amino acids including two substantially regularly spaced pairs of Cys residues and two or four potential N-linked glycosylation sites. The present invention also provides for a nucleotide sequence, gene, cDNA clone or a vector containing same capable of encoding the above receptor.

Abstract: An apparatus and method of using same to form tubular tapered shafts particularly adapted for golf clubs, ski poles, fishing rods and the like. The material used in forming the shafts is a thermo-setting resin sheet that has a number of elongate, laterally spaced, parallel fibers of graphite carbon, boron or like material therein, which fibers have a tensile strength comparable to steel, but are only a fraction of the weight of the latter. The apparatus and method of using the same is characterized by the tubular shaft being formed with exterior and interior cylindrical wall surfaces that are truly concentric, and with the fibers embedded in the polymerized resin being pre-tensioned and spaced from one another.