[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 74 (Wednesday, April 17, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 18863]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-9336]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Application for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instrument

    Pursuant to section 6(c) of the Educational, Scientific and 
Cultural Materials Importation Act of 1966 (Pub. L. 89-651; 80 Stat. 
897; 15 CFR part 301), we invite comments on the question of whether an 
instrument of equivalent scientific value, for the purposes for which 
the instrument shown below is intended to be used, is being 
manufactured in the United States.
    Comments must comply with 15 CFR 301.5(a)(3) and (4) of the 
regulations and be filed within 20 days with the Statutory Import 
Programs Staff, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, DC 20230. 
Applications may be examined between 8:30 A.M. and 5:00 P.M. in Suite 
4100W, U.S. Department of Commerce, Franklin Court Building, 1099 14th 
Street, NW, Washington, DC.
    Docket Number: 02-010.
    Applicant: University of New Mexico, Department of Pathology, 915 
Camino de Salud NE, Albuquerque, NM 87131-5226.
    Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model H-7500-1.
    Manufacturer: Hitachi Ltd., Japan.
    Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used for research in 
the following categories and projects:

1. Signal tranduction, adhesion and trafficking

    (a) Signaling through the high affinity IgE receptor of basophils 
and mast cells.
    (b) Functional analysis of Rabs in Polycystic Kidney Disease.
    (c) Membrane lipid topography and signal transduction/intracellular 
trafficking of cytokines.
    (d) Localizing the formylpeptide receptor by gold labeling and 
electron microscopy.
    (e) Relationship of the membrane topography of adhesion molecules 
to leukocyte adhesive activity.

2. Neuroscience

    (a) Effect of peroxynitrite on myelin compaction.
    (b) Role of RNA-protein interactions in the control of GAP-43 mRNA 
stability.
    (c) SNAP-25 expression of hyperactivity in Coloboma mice.

3. Molecular genetics and molecular virology

    (a) Function of mRNA binding proteins in mRNA 3'' end formation and 
intranuclear trafficking.
    (b) Human papillomavirus synthesis and early infection events.
    (c) Structure of mammalian DNA replication complexes. Application 
accepted by Commissioner of Customs: March 18, 2002.

Gerald A. Zerdy,
Program Manager, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 02-9336 Filed 4-16-02; 8:45 am]
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