Abstract: A heartbeat-signal detecting device, which is for detecting a heartbeat signal of a living body, includes: (a) a gas-flow sensor configured to detect a flow rate of exhalation and inhalation passing through a trachea of the living body; (b) a gas-flow calculation controlling portion configured to output a respiration signal that reflects a respiratory motion of the living body, based on a signal outputted from the gas-flow sensor; (c) a waveform analysis controlling portion configured to extract, from the respiration signal, frequency components which are in synchronization with a pulse of a heart of the living body superimposed on the respiration signal, and to output a heartbeat signal representing a heartbeat waveform of the living body; and (d) a heartbeat-signal evaluation controlling portion is configured to evaluate a functional abnormality or an anatomic abnormality of the heart, based on the heartbeat signal analyzed by the waveform analysis controlling portion.

Abstract: A flow sensor measures an amount of flow of a medium flowing inside a tubular organ of an organism by mounting a flexible substrate, upon which heaters are formed, inside a tube disposed in a manner so as to follow the tubular organ of the organism through which the medium is flowing, and by detecting a state of heat quantity generated from the heaters on the mounted flexible substrate being transmitted to the medium. In the flow sensor, at least the two heaters, formed upon the flexible substrate, respectively form symmetrical structures with identical heating capabilities under identical conditions, and the linear members, which supply power to the heaters from outside the organism, form symmetrical structures with identical heating capabilities under identical conditions, thereby allowing temperature distribution of the heaters and linear members inside the tube to he symmetrical. The plurality of linear members protrude in a manner so as to intersect from inside the tubular organ to outside the organism.

Abstract: Disclosed is a peptide immobilization technique which can achieve the immobilization of a satisfactory quantity of a peptide on a solid support. In the immobilization of a peptide on a solid support, a surfactant is allowed to coexist on the solid support together with the peptide. In this manner, the quantity of the peptide immobilized on the solid support can be increased.