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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a neuronal avalanche assay.SOLUTION: A method and a system for determining a cognitive enhancement and/or anti-epileptic effect comprise detecting synchronized neuronal activity in neuronal tissue (601), monitoring spreading of the synchronized neuronal activity (602), determining a parameter (604, 605) indicative of the closeness of the synchronized neuronal activity to the critical state and comparing (613) the parameter to a predetermined value. The parameter is a slope of a size distribution of the synchronized neuronal activity and the predetermined value can be -3/2. The parameter is a ratio of successively propagated synchronized neuronal activity and the predetermined value can be 1.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide use of antagonists of IL-23 and IL-17 to treat autoimmune ocular inflammatory disease.SOLUTION: Novel methods and drug products for treating autoimmune ocular inflammatory disease are disclosed, which involve administration of agents that antagonize one or both of IL-17 and IL-23 activity. The present invention is based on the discoveries that (1) blocking interleukin-23 (IL-23) or interleukin-17 (IL-17) activity prevents induction of EAU; (2) after induction, neutralization of IL-17 activity inhibits or reverses progression of EAU, but neutralization of IL-23 activity has little to no effect; and (3) IL-17 activity is not necessary for induction of EAU.
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Tumor suppressor genes play a major role in the pathogenesis of human lung cancer and other cancers. Cytogenetic and allelotyping studies of fresh tumor and tumor-derived cell lines showed that cytogenetic changes and allele loss on the short arm of chromosome 3 (3p) are most frequently involved in about 90% of small cell lung cancers and greater than 50% of non-small cell lung cancers. A group of recessive oncogenes, Fus1, 101F6, Gene 21 (NPRL2), Gene 26 (CACNA2D2), Luca 1 (HYAL1), Luca 2 (HYAL2), PL6, 123F2 (RaSSFI), SEM A3 and Beta* (BLU), as defined by homozygous deletions in lung cancers, have been located and isolated at 3p21.3.
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The present invention relates to novel sequences for use in detection, diagnosis and treatment of bowl disease (BD). The invention provides BD-associated polynucleotide sequences whose expression is associated with BD. Provided herein are diagnostic compositions and methods for the detection of BD. The present invention provides monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies specific for the BD polypeptides. The present invention also provides diagnostic tools and therapeutic compositions and methods for screening, prevention and treatment of BD.