Antibiotic substance named "Pholipomycin" which is useful as a growth promoting agent for domestic animals, poultries and the like and produced by the cultivation of a new microorganism, Streptomyces lividoclavatus strain No. 3176, NRRL 8022.

Improved safety is achieved in blasting fuse manufacture by utilizing unincorporated black powder confined within the core of the fuse by fibrillated polypropylene yarn. The unincorporated black powder is produced by premixing the sulfur and charcoal components and separately pregrinding the mixture and the alkali metal nitrate to a particle size of about 45 microns or less. The preground material is then blended immediately prior to its formation into the powder train of the fuse and is enclose...

Systems and methods for localizing a shape in a space represented by pixel data forming a multidimensional space i, j, evolving with time, and represented at a succession of instants T, wherein the data is associated with a temporal parameter A, B, . . . in the form of digital signals DATA(A), DATA(B), . . . composed of a sequence A.sub.ijt, B.sub.ijt, . . . of binary numbers of n bits associated with synchronization signals defining the instant T of the space and the position i, j in this space...

What are disclosed are a protein, PP.sub.9, useful for the diagnosis and monitoring of diseases involving tissue degradation, and a method for its isolation, said protein having: (a) a content of carbohydrates of 5.57.+-.1.35%, of which are 4.9.+-.1.0% hexoses, 0.1.+-.0.1% hexoseamines, 0.07.+-.0.05% fucose and 0.5.+-.0.20% neuraminic acid; (b) a sedimentation coefficient S.sub.20,W of 3.2.+-.0.2 S; (c) a molecular weight of 35,100.+-.3,800 determined in the ultracentrifuge; (d) a molecular weig...

Process for the manufacture of a collagen solution and its use for the manufacture of collagen fibrillae for adsorbing coagulation factors, as diagnostic agent, for the manufacture of a collagen sponge and for use in a cosmetic preparation.

The invention relates to the provision of an antimicrobial antibiotic obtained by culturing Actinoplanes strain ATCC 31440 under aerobic conditions in the presence of sources of carbon and nitrogen and in the presence of trace amounts of minerals. In addition to their use as antimicrobials, the antibiotics of the invention can be used for improving the growth and feed utilization in animals.

What are disclosed are a new protein, PP.sub.11, obtainable from placental tissue, methods for isolating the protein in concentrated form, methods for making an antiserum to said protein, and methods for using said antiserum for monitoring pregnancy and for detecting and monitoring tumors and/or their therapy.

A biaxially oriented polyolefin film having more than one layer and made from a base layer and from at least one outer layer. The base layer include a fatty amide and the outer layer include at least 80% by weight of a linear olefin polymer. The film is suitable, for example, for producing a film laminate by melt extrusion of a polyethylene layer.

An electrophoretic particle including: a pigment particle having an average particle diameter of 1 .mu.m or smaller; and a polymer layer having an average thickness of 1 to 500 nm formed on a surface of the pigment particle, wherein 50% or higher of an entire surface of the pigment particle is coated with the polymer layer. The electrophoretic particle can be produced by radical polymerization using a polymerization initiator in a state where a pigment particle and monomer components are present...

This application relates to novel blood serum fractions, Ichorin, Ichorin.sub.1 and Ichorin.sub.2, capable of transferring cell mediated immunity, and to the methods for the preparation and use thereof.