Abstract: These invention relates to metal-complexing, cysteine-free peptides which may be coupled to an organ-specific probe directly or via a linker and are thus enriched as conjugates specifically in tumors, organs, tissues or centers of inflammation. The organ-specific probes used are, for example, antibodies or part-sequences of antibodies against tumor-associated antigens, e.g. the carcino-embryonal antigen (CEA, which are thus specifically enriched in tumors. The invention also relates to processes for producing the metal-complexing cysteine-free peptides and their conjugates. The present invention also relates to the use of the conjugates as components of a kit for in vivo diagnosis or in vivo therapy and radio-pharmaceuticals containing these conjugates together with radio-isotopes. The organ-specific conjugates are used to image tumors, organs or centers of inflammation.

Abstract: An apparatus for measuring fluid flow has a measuring device operating in accordance with the Coriolis principle. The measuring device has an oscillating conduit wherein the fluid to be measured flows through the conduit, and a sensor for sensing the movement of the conduit and generating output signals indicative of the movement. The measuring device generates a measurement signal based on the sensor signal indicative of the flow rate of fluid through the conduit. A counting device is coupled to the measuring device for receiving the measurement signal and calculating the flow rate of fluid through the conduit based on the measurement signal.

Abstract: Aqueous formulations containing a copolymer of monoolefinically unsaturated monomers having an acid number of 5 to 150 mg of KOH/g of substance and/or a polyurethane having an acid number of 5 to 150 mg of KOH/g of substance as the binder and a triglycidyl isocyanurate having an epoxy value of 0.5 to 1.01 as the cross-linker are suitable for dressing fill grain, buffed or split leathers.

Abstract: Seasoning agents for leather and leatherlike materials contain solutions of cellulose acetobutyrate having a butyryl content.gtoreq.45% by weight.

Abstract: Formulations containing pigments and/or delustrants, a solution of a pigment binder and, if appropriate, additives, characterized in that the pigment binder is a copolymer of, relative to the weight of the copolymer,10-40% by weight of an acrylic acid ester having 1-12 C atoms in the alcohol chain,10-40% by weight of a methacrylic acid ester having 1-4 C atoms in the alcohol chain,10-30% by weight of N-vinylpyrrolidone,5-15% by weight of acrylic acid and10-20% by weight of a vinyl ester having 1-4 C atoms in the acid chain,which have been prepared in an organic solvent which is miscible with water in the presence of a regulator and of a per-compound or an azo compound which donates free radicals at the polymerization temperature, and the use of these formulations for pigmenting and/or delustring dressing agents for leather and leather imitations.

Abstract: Advantages in the dressing of leather, especially of split leather, with a synthetic rubber latex are obtained if in the leather dressing, the rubber latex is reacted with from 0.5 to 50% by weight, based on solid rubber, of one or more oxides and/or hydroxides of one or more bivalent metals and the leather is treated with a non-polymerized rubber latex which is produced in a one-stage process up to a monomer conversion of from 70 to 95% by weight, by emulsion polymerization of:(A) from 1 to 10 parts by weight of one or more .alpha.,.beta.-monoethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acids; and(B) from 90 to 99 parts by weight of a mixture of(a) from 10 to 90 parts by weight of butadiene and(b) from 10 to 90 parts by weight of styrene and/or acrylonitrile, wherein the quantity of acrylonitrile in the mixture amounts to a maximum of 50 parts by weight.

Abstract: Pigment preparations containing 2-70 % by weight, relative to the total preparation, of an inorganic or organic pigment dispersed in a solution of 10 to 49% by weight, relative to the total preparation, of a water-insoluble copolymer in an organic solvent, the copolymer containing 40-60% by weight of acrylic acid ethyl ester, 30-50% by weight of methacrylic acid methyl ester and 5-15 % by weight of acrylic acid hydroxyethyl and/or hydroxypropyl ester or methacrylic acid hydroxyethyl and/or hydroxypropyl ester and being prepared at 50.degree.-170.degree. C. in the presence of 0.5-5.0% by weight, relative to the sum of the monomers, of an organic per-compound or an azo compound which supplies free radicals at 50.degree.-170.degree. C., in an organic solvent, and their use for pigmenting dressing agents for leather and imitation leathers.