David J Stout

US Patent:

8342136, Jan 1, 2013

Filed:

Aug 12, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/660298

Inventors:

David B. Stout - Culver City CA, US
Robert W. Silverman - Sherman Oaks CA, US

Assignee:

The Regents of the University of California - Oakland CA

International Classification:

A01K 15/04

US Classification:

119755, 118756, 5601, 378174

Abstract:

An apparatus for imaging an animal includes a first mounting surface, a bed sized to support the animal and releasably secured to or integral with the first mounting surface. The apparatus also includes a plurality of straps, each having a first end in a fixed position relative to the bed and a second end for tightening around a limb of the animal. A method for in-vivo imaging of an animal includes providing an animal that has limbs, providing a first mounting surface, and providing a bed removably secured to or integral with the mounting surface and sized to support the animal as well as being coupled to a plurality of straps. The method also includes placing the animal on the bed between the plurality of straps and tightening at least two of the plurality of straps around at least two of the limbs such that the animal is substantially secured in place relative to the bed.

US Patent:

20130330284, Dec 12, 2013

Filed:

Aug 12, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/816874

Inventors:

Vincent R. Zurawski - Westtown PA, US
David M. Stout - Chardon OH, US
Theodore J. Nitz - Boyds MD, US
Moussa B.H. Youdim - Nesher, IL
Orly Weinreb - Haifa, IL

Assignee:

VARINEL INC - West Chester PA

International Classification:

C07D 215/26
C07D 215/28
C07D 405/06
C07D 215/32

US Classification:

424 59, 546177, 546174, 514311, 514314

Abstract:

8-Hydroxy-quinoline derivatives and 8-ethers, 8-esters, 8-carbonates, 8-acyloxymethyl, 8-phosphates, (phosphoryloxy)methyl, and 8-carbamates derivatives thereof are described that exhibit iron chelation, neuroprotective, neurorestorative, apoptotic and/or selective MAO-AB inhibitory activities.