Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a method for producing a cartilage tissue, which enables production of a cartilage tissue having an appropriate thickness, form, and mechanical strength, and a cartilage tissue produced by the method for producing a cartilage tissue. Provided is a method for producing a cartilage tissue including a step of seeding a collagenase-treated cartilage tissue piece in the form of a block 50 to 1,000 ?m on a side onto a porous substrate composed of a bioabsorbable material.

Abstract: A pump assembly including a gerotor pump having an inlet and an outlet, and comprising an annulus and a lobed rotor, one, but not both, of the rotor or annulus being split axially into two parts, the pump further comprising indexing means for angularly shifting one part relative to the other part, the indexing means comprising a chamber having a first indexing port and a second indexing port, and a partition which divides the chamber into a first portion including the first indexing port and a second portion including the second indexing port, wherein the partition comprises a part which is pivotally mounted within the chamber for angular movement within the chamber.

Abstract: “The present invention relates to DNA sequences, comprising nucleic acid fragments encoding dehiscence zone-selective proteins, particularly cell wall hydrolases such as polygalacturonases, and their use for modifying dehiscence properties in plants, more particularly pod dehiscence properties in Brassica napus.

Abstract: A plant is provided which contains at least one dehiscence zone (DZ)-selective chimeric gene incorporated in the nuclear genome of its cells, wherein said DZ-selective chimeric gene comprises the following operably linked DNA fragments:

Abstract: A plant is provided which contains at least one dehiscence zone (DZ)-selective chimeric gene incorporated in the nuclear genome of its cells, wherein said DZ-selective chimeric gene comprises the following operably linked DNA fragments: a) a transcribed DNA region encoding: 1) a RNA which, when produced in cells of a particular DZ of the plant, prevents, inhibits or reduces the expression in DZ cells of an endogenous gene of the plant encoding a cell wall hydrolase, particularly an endopolygalacturonase, or, 2) a protein or polypeptide, which when produced in DZ cells, kills or disables them or interferes with their normal metabolism, physiology or development; b) a plant expressible promoter which directs expression of transcribed DNA region at least in DZ cells, provided that if transcribed DNA region encodes a protein or polypeptide, or encodes an antisense RNA or ribozyme directed to a sense RNA encoded by an endogenous gene that is expressed in plant in cells other than DZ cells, plant expressible promot