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Stably-Transfected (HEK-293 cells) Human Serotonin Transporter (hSERT) Cell Line

HEK-293 cells stably-Transfected with Human Serotonin Transporter (hSERT)


Licensing Contact

Karen Rufus

615.322.4295

Inventors

Randy Blakely
Research Tools
Cell Line

System for Determining the Orientation of a Bone Implanted Post

A method for determining an orientation of a base to which a fiducial marker is detachably mounted. The method includes the steps of determining the axis of symmetry for the fiducial marker and choosing the determined axis of symmetry of the fiducial marker as the axis of symmetry of the base.


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Taylor Jordan

615.936.7505
Medical Devices

Optical Stimulation of the Auditory Nerve

A cochlear implant placed in a cochlea of a living subject for stimulating the auditory system of the living subject, where the auditory system comprises auditory neurons. In one embodiment, the cochlear implant includes a plurality of light sources, {L.sub.i}, placeable distal to the cochlea, each light source, L.sub.1, being operable independently and adapted for generating an optical energy, E.sub.i, wherein i=1, . . . , N, and N is the number of the light sources, and delivering means placeable in the cochlea and optically coupled to the plurality of light sources, {L.sub.i}, such that in operation, the optical energies {E.sub.i} generated by the plurality of light sources {L.sub.i} are delivered to target sites, {G.sub.i}, of auditory neurons, respectively, wherein the target sites G.sub.1 and G.sub.N of auditory neurons are substantially proximate to the apical end and the basal end of the cochlea, respectively.


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Ashok Choudhury

615.322.2503
Medical Devices

Integrated Device for Leaching Extraction and Assessment

The invention is a device which permits the direct quantification of leachable organic constituents from within solid materials. It is expected that the device will be used in landfills and in other environments where measurements are central to the evaluation of the environmental compatibility of solid materials (e.g., sediments, soils, solidified waste forms) containing organic constituents that have the potential to degrade water resources of to be taken up by biota and the food chain. The invention is designed to simplify current difficulties in assessing leaching of organic constituents with low aqueous solubility.


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Chris Harris

615.343.4433
Research Tools

Improved Piezoimmunosensor

An apparatus comprising one or more piezoelectric mass sensors for use in diagnostic and analytic processes, in particular for immunochemical detection of diagnostically relevant analytes in real time. Each piezoelectric mass sensor comprises a piezoelectric crystal with a receptor surface which has immobilized thereon a lawn of recombinant antibodies comprising single V.sub.H chain or single-chain Fv (scFv) polypeptides specific for a particular antigen. Binding of antigen to the recombinant antibodies results in a change in mass on the receptor surface which is detected as a change in resonant frequency. In a preferred embodiment, the receptor layer is a precious metal such as gold which facilitates self-assembly of the recombinant antibodies into a lawn on the receptor surface via a cysteine residue at the carboxy terminus of the attachment polypeptide.


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Mike Villalobos

615.322.6751
Diagnostics

Heterologous Expression System for Studying Recombinant Human Brain Voltage-Gated Sodium Channel, SCN1A

Isolated nucleic acids encoding human SCN1A polypeptides, recombinantly expressed and isolated human SCN1A polypeptides, heterologous expression systems for recombinant expression of human SCN1A polypeptides, assay methods employing the same, and methods and compositions for modulation of sodium channel function.


Licensing Contact

Karen Rufus

615.322.4295
Research Tools
Nucleic Acid/Plasmid

EP4 Transgenic Mice

EP4 Transgenic Mice are part of the Vanderbilt Research Tools Catalog.


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Karen Rufus

615.322.4295
Research Tools
Animal Model

Method for the Automatic Segmentation of the Facial Nerve and the Chorda Tympani in CT Images

This is a high resolution imaging device that can detect the fundamental functional units of cortical organization. Currently, with existing technology, we are able to monitor the activity of these units in the awake, head-fixed animal using large standard sized cameras mounted on heavy camera arms. However, we need a capability to conduct such monitoring in the awake and freely moving animal so that we can relate specific patterns of cortical activity to natural behaviors.


Licensing Contact

Taylor Jordan

615.936.7505
Medical Imaging

System for Determining the Orientation of a Bone-Implanted Anchor

A method for simplifying the process of designing a platform for minimally invasive surgery. The platform is designed to attach to a set of bone-implanted anchors attached to the patient. This method makes the fitting of the platform to the anchors simpler and easier.


Licensing Contact

Taylor Jordan

615.936.7505
Medical Devices

Software for Adaptive Basis Non-Rigid Registration Algorithm

This program permits the automatic non-rigid registration (spatial realignment) of 2D and 3D mono-and multi modal images.


Licensing Contact

Ashok Choudhury

615.322.2503