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Disclosed are polypeptides that are analogs of urocortin 2 that have pharmacological activity similar to urocortin 2 but have improved water solubility compared to urocortin 2, and pharmaceutical compositions of the polypeptides of the present invention. Also disclosed are polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides, and methods of treating pathophysiological states employing pharmaceutical compositions of the polypeptides and polynucleotides of the present invention. In addition, disclosed are vectors and host cells that include a nucleic acid encoding a polypeptide of the present invention, and kits that include pharmaceutical compositions of the present invention.
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Provided herein is a method for treating cancer in a human by administering a high dose of corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) for a period of time exceeding 3 days.
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We describe methods of treatment of HIV using proopiomelanocortin (POMC) and corticotropin releasing factor (CRF) peptides and their products, as well as uses of such peptides in the preparation of medicaments.
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The invention relates to a method for identifying a compound that modifies the activity of the urotensin II receptors by influencing those genes or gene products that are associated with the composition, formation or degradation of the extracellular matrix.
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The present invention provides isolated nucleic acid molecules encoding CRF2 receptors, recombinant expression vectors and host cells suitable for expressing such receptors, as well as compositions and methods which utilize such receptors.
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The present invention provides isolated nucleic acid molecules encoding CRF2 receptors, recombinant expression vectors and host cells suitable for expressing such receptors, as well as compositions and methods which utilize such receptors.
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The present invention relates to a diagnostic test for testing susceptibility of individuals to inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and to means to evaluate potential treatment of arthritis with therapeutic agents directed at the central nervous system (CNS), designed to by-pass the CNS defect. The invention also provides means for evaluating and predicting response to stress in individuals. A counter-regulatory feedback loop exists between the immune and central nervous systems, in which the immune or pro-inflammatory mediators stimulate corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis hormonal cascade. The resultant increase in plasma glucocorticoids serves to restrain and limit the intensity of the inflammatory-immune response, through the potent immunosuppressive/anti-inflammatory actions of the glucocorticoids.
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L'administration d'un facteur (d'un sel ou d'un analogue de celui-ci) de libération de corticotropine diminue la fuite de composants du sang dans les tissus cérébraux, résultant de divers états médicaux défavorables, et réduit le saignement lorsque l'on coupe et lorsque l'on manipule des tissus musculaires par exemple en chirurgie plastique et réparatrice. Un procédé de traitement des lésions ou de maladies du cerveau, du système nerveux central, ou de la musculature d'un patient, dans lesquelles l'oedème constitue un facteur, consiste à administrer au patient un facteur (un sel ou un analogue) de libération de corticotropine en une quantité efficace pour réduire la perméabilité vasculaire dans le cerveau lésé ou malade, les tissus ou la musculature du système nerveux, et ainsi à réduire l'oedème. L'administration selon le procédé peut avoir lieu environ deux heures avant la chirurgie, et jusqu'à trois jours après les lésions.
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In alternative embodiments, the invention provides methods for treating, ameliorating or protecting (preventing) an individual or a patient against a disease, an infection or a condition responsive to an increased paracrine polypeptide level in vivo comprising: providing a paracrine polypeptide-encoding nucleic acid or gene operatively linked to a transcriptional regulatory sequence; or an expression vehicle, a vector, a recombinant virus, or equivalent, having contained therein a paracrine-encoding nucleic acid or gene, and the expression vehicle, vector, recombinant virus, or equivalent can express the paracrine-encoding nucleic acid or gene in a cell or in vivo; and administering or delivering the paracrine polypeptide -encoding nucleic acid or gene operatively linked to a transcriptional regulatory sequence, or the expression vehicle, vector, recombinant virus, or equivalent, to an individual or a patient in need thereof, thereby treating, ameliorating or protecting (preventing) the individual or patient against the disease, infection or condition responsive to an increased paracrine polypeptide level.
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Methods for treating or preventing tauopathies and/or A² amyloidosis by modulating CRF receptor signaling. Accumulation of hyperphosphorylated tau protein in the CNS may be reduced by administration of CRF-R1 selective antagonists and/or CRF-R2 selective agonists. For example, in some aspects, methods for preventing the onset of Alzheimer's disease by administration of CRF-R1 selective antagonists are provided.