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Embodiments provide methods and compositions related to detecting neoplasia in ulcerative colitis patients by detection and analysis of the methylation state of miR-1, -9, -124, miR-137 and/or miR-34b/c in samples from UC patients.
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The present invention includes methods for early detection of a treatment response in a patient suspected of being infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis . Changes in the blood transcriptome are detectable within two weeks of the initiation of antituberculosis therapy.
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Biomarkers of Kawasaki Disease (KD) are provided. In certain aspects, methods are provided for detecting KD biomarkers, such as elevated PDGFC expression. Likewise, methods of treating a subject having a biomarker of KD are described.
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Compositions comprising viral antigens and antigenic peptides corresponding to or derived from Hepatitis C virus (HCV) proteins or fragments thereof, fused to heavy and/or light chain of antibodies, or fragments thereof specific for dendritic cells (DCs) are described herein. Included herein are immunostimulatory compositions (HCV vaccines, HCV antigen presenting dendritic cells, etc.) and methods for increasing effectiveness of HCV antigen presentation by an antigen presenting cell, for a treatment, a prophylaxis or a combination thereof against hepatitis C in a human subject, and methods of providing immunostimulation by activation of one or more dendritic cells, methods to treat or prevent hepatitis C.
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The present invention includes compositions and methods for designing, making and using modular recombinant antibodies or fragments thereof with one half of a cohesin-dockerin pair that permits the rapid assembly of multivariant antigen conjugates.
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The present invention includes compositions, systems and methods for the early detection and consistent determination of metastatic melanoma and/or immunosuppression using microarrays by calculating one or more expression vectors from the expression of one or more genes.
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Immunostimulatory compositions and methods comprising an ITIM motif-containing DC immunoreceptor (DCIR) to mediate potent crosspresentation are described herein. The inventors evaluated human CD8+ T cell responses generated by targeting antigens to dendritic cells (DCs) through various lectin receptors. A single exposure to a low dose of anti-DCIR-antigen conjugate initiated antigen-specific CD8+ T cell immunity by all human DC subsets including ex vivo generated DCs, skin-isolated Langerhans cells and blood mDCs and pDCs. Enhanced specific CD8+ T cell responses were observed when antigens like, FluMP, MART-1, viral (HIV gag), etc. were delivered to the DCs via DCIR, compared to those induced by a free antigen, or antigen conjugated to a control mAb or delivered via DC-SIGN, another lectin receptor. Addition of Toll-like receptor (TLR) 7/8-agonist enhanced DCIR-mediated crosspresentation as well as crosspriming. Thus, antigen targeting via the human DCIR receptor allows activation of specific CD8+ T cell immunity.
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Novel therapies for the treatment of Fabry disease by using androgen/androgen receptor (AR) pathway-related molecules as biomarkers and use of approaches targeting androgen/AR pathway are presented herein. The involvement of aberrant androgen/AR pathway in Fabry disease has never been previously described. The present invention describes, (i) use of approaches that target androgen/AR pathway as therapeutic treatments for Fabry disease and (2) use of the levels of androgen/AR pathway-related molecules in body fluids or tissues as biomarkers for evaluation of disease progression and efficacy of treatments in Fabry patients.
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The present invention includes compositions and methods for increasing the effectiveness of antigen presentation using a DCIR-specific antibody or fragment thereof to which an antigen is attached that forms an antibody-antigen complex, wherein the antigen is processed and presented by a dendritic cell that has been contacted with the antibody-antigen complex.