1. A method for producing IL-1Ra in a syringe, where the syringe is filled with a body fluid from an organism and incubated, and the IL-1Ra is formed in the body fluid.
2. The method as claimed in claim 1, where the syringe consists of glass, plastic, corundum andor quartz or contains this or these.
3. The method as claimed in claim 2, where the plastic is polystyrene, polyvinyl chloride, polyethylene or polypropylene.
4. The method as claimed in any of claims 1, 2 or 3, where the syringe has a modified internal structure.
5. The method as claimed in any of claims 1 to 4, where the syringe has an internal structure modified by means of a corrosive agent.
6. The method as claimed in any of claims 1 to 3, where the syringe has an unmodified internal structure.
7. The method as claimed in any of the preceding claims, where the internal structure of the syringe is formed by its internal surface, in particular formations enlarging the surface area.
8. The method as claimed in any of the preceding claims, where the internal structure is formed by beads, spheres, gels, wool, powder, granules or particles made of glass, plastic, corundum andor quartz present in the syringe.
9. The method as claimed in any of claims 4 to 8, where the internal structure consists of polystyrene, polyvinyl chloride, polyethylene, polypropylene or contains this.
10. The method as claimed in any of the preceding claims, where the corrosive agent is an alkali or acid, in particular chromicsulfuric acid.
11. The method as claimed in any of the preceding claims, where the body fluid is blood.
12. A method for producing a syringe suitable for in vitro induction of IL-1Ra, where the syringe is filled with a corrosive agent and incubated, and the agent is removed.
13. The method as claimed in claim 12, where the internal structure of the syringe consists of polystyrene, polypropylene, polyvinyl chloride, polyethylene, corundum, quartz or glass or contains this.
14. The method as claimed in either of claims 12 or 13, where the corrosive agent is an alkali or acid, in particular chromicsulfuric acid.
15. The method as claimed in any of claims 12 to 14, where, after removal of the corrosive agent, the internal structure of the syringe is washed and, where appropriate, sterilized.
16. A syringe, in particular produced as claimed in any of claims 12 to 15, characterized in that the internal structure of the syringe consists of plastic, in particular polystyrene, polyvinyl chloride, polyethylene or polypropylene, corundum, quartz or glass, or contains this, and has been treated by means of a corrosive agent to generate a modified surface of the internal structures.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
What is claimed is:
1. A method of performing N-dimensional error reductioncorrection on a stream of one dimensional transmit symbols, comprising:
assigning a transmit output to a transmit symbol;
concurrently assigning a subset label to said transmit symbol;
storing N-1 subset labels for N-1 transmit symbols; and
forming an Nth transmit symbol such that an associated Nth subset label is partially determined by a combination of an output of an error reductioncorrection algorithm and said N-1 stored subset labels.
2. The method recited in claim 1, wherein N-dimensional is 4 dimensional.
3. The method recited in claim 1, wherein said error reductioncorrection algorithm is performed by a trellis encoder.
4. The method recited in claim 1, wherein said error reductioncorrection algorithm is performed by a systematic convolutional encoder.
5. The method recited in claim 1, wherein assigning to said transmit symbol a subset label comprises:
ordering transmit outputs by value; and
assigning subset labels to said transmit outputs in sequence.
6. The method recited in claim 5, wherein ordering transmit outputs by value is performed according to increasing value of said transmit outputs.
7. The method recited in claim 5, wherein assigning subset labels in sequence is performed according to ascending values of said subset labels.
8. The method recited in claim 1, wherein forming said Nth transmit symbol further comprises:
computing U0 as a combination of a previous output of an error reductioncorrection encoder performing said error reductioncorrection algorithm and said N-1 stored subset labels; and
forming said Nth transmit symbol such that a bit 0 of said associated Nth subset label is determined by U0.
9. The method recited in claim 8, wherein said error reductioncorrection encoder is a trellis encoder.
10. The method recited in claim 8, wherein a previous output of said error reductioncorrection encoder is determined using said N-1 stored subset labels and said Nth subset label.
11. The method recited in claim 8, wherein computing U0 comprises determining a sum modulo 2 of said previous output of said error reductioncorrection encoder and said N-1 stored subset labels.
12. The method recited in claim 8, wherein said Nth transmit symbol is formed such that bit 0 of its associated Nth subset label is equal to U0.
13. The method recited in claim 8, wherein a previous output of said error reductioncorrection encoder is determined by:
mapping said N-1 stored subset labels and said Nth subset label to inputs of said error reductioncorrection encoder; and
calculating an output of said error reductioncorrection encoder based on said inputs.
14. The method recited in claim 8, wherein a previous output of said error reductioncorrection encoder is determined by:
mapping said N-1 stored subset labels and said Nth subset label to secondary subset labels;
mapping said secondary subset labels to inputs of said error reductioncorrection encoder; and
calculating an output of said error reductioncorrection encoder based on said inputs.
15. The method recited in claim 8, wherein a previous output of said error reductioncorrection encoder is determined by:
mapping pairs of said N-1 stored subset labels and said Nth subset label to secondary subset labels;
mapping said secondary subset labels to inputs of said error reductioncorrection encoder, and;
calculating an output of said error reductioncorrection encoder based on said inputs.
16. The method recited in claim 1, wherein forming said Nth transmit symbol further comprises:
generating a verification sequence bit V0;
computing U0 as a combination of a previous encoder output of an error reductioncorrection encoder, said N-1 stored subset labels and a verification sequence bit V0; and
forming said Nth transmit symbol such that a bit 0 of its associated subset label is determined by U0.
17. A method of performing 4-dimensional error reductioncorrection on a stream of one dimensional transmit symbols, comprising:
assigning a transmit output to a transmit symbol;
concurrently assigning a subset label to said transmit symbol, wherein transmit outputs are ordered by increasing value and subset labels are in ascending order;
forming a first transmit symbol at a time 4m0, where m is an integer, from input data and storing a subset label associated with said first transmit symbol as r(4m0);
forming a second transmit symbol at a time 4m1 from input data and storing a subset label associated with the second transmit symbol as r(4m1);
forming a third transmit symbol at a time 4m2 from input data and storing a subset label associated with the third transmit symbol as r(4m2);
computing U0(m) as a sum modulo 2 of a previous output of a trellis encoder, Y0(m) and said stored subset labels r(4m0), r(4m1) and r(4m2), according to the equation U0(m)Y0(m)r(4m0)r(4m1)r(4m2);
forming a fourth transmit symbol at a time 4m3 from input data and U0(m) such that a bit 0 of a subset label r(4m3) associated with the fourth transmit symbol is determined by U0(m);
mapping a pair of subset labels r(4m0) and r(4m1) to a secondary subset label s(2n0) and further mapping a pair of subset labels r(4m2) and r(4m3) to a secondary subset label s(2n1), where 2n4m;
mapping a pair of secondary subset labels s(2n0) and s(2n1) to inputs of said trellis encoder Y1(m), Y2(m), Y3(m) and Y4(m), and;
calculating an output of said trellis encoder Y0(m1) from said input bits Y1(m), Y2(m), Y3(m) and Y4(m).