Abstract:
A method for reducing or alleviating inflammation in a subject includes administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of: (a) Ac-TMP-1 or a biologically active fragment or variant of Ac-TMP-1; (b) Ac-TMP-2 or a biologically active fragment or variant of Ac-TMP-2; or (c) a combination of (a) and (b), to thereby reduce or alleviate inflammation in the subject. A method for preventing or treating asthma or inflammatory bowel disease in a subject includes administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of: (a) Ac-TMP-1 or a biologically active fragment or variant of Ac-TMP-1; (b) Ac-TMP-2 or a biologically active fragment or variant of Ac-TMP-2; or (c) a combination of (a) and (b), to thereby prevent or treat asthma or inflammatory bowel disease in the subject. The subject may be a mammal, inclusive of humans.
Abstract:
In preferred embodiments, the present invention provides methods of treatment and pharmaceutical compositions for the suppression, alleviation and prevention of the often chronic, severe and debilitating pain that can accompany inflammatory diseases and neuropathic insults, pain that is often unresponsive to conventional analgesic treatment. The preferred embodiments of the present invention further relate to methods of treatment and pharmaceutical compositions using benzodiazepine derivatives that provide suppression, alleviation and prevention of neuropathic pain, migraine-related pain and inflammatory pain with reduced sedative and ataxic side effects.
Abstract:
Production of recombinant Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptor fused to the Fc region of an antibody (TNFRII-Fc fragment fusion protein) in a glycoengineered yeast strain that is capable of producing sialylated N-glycans and O-glycans is described. Compositions of TNFRII-Fc fragment fusion protein comprising dystroglycan type O-glycans and sialylated N- and O-glycans with only terminal N-acetylneuraminic acid (NANA) residues in an α2,6-linkage are provided. In particular aspects, methods are provided for modulating the in vivo pharmacokinetics of the TNFRII-Fc fragment fusion protein by altering the O-glycan structure on the molecule.
Abstract:
The present invention provides compounds of the formula Formula I or a salt thereof: and the uses of such compounds for the treatment of a disease or disorder involving oxidative damage, for preventing UV damage to the skin of a mammal and for preventing or reversing the effects of ageing, or for treating or preventing dry skin.
Abstract:
A financial institution can provide financial services to a plurality of remote devices, such as personal computers, personal data assistants, screen phones, automatic teller machines, external service providers, and internally to staff terminals and individual branches. By separating the components of the system into independent components, the system and method can be developed and tested on a component level rather than the entire system level, thereby reducing the development and maintenance cycle time. The system and method operate in sessions and can employ a dialog component for gathering information from a customer, a rule broker component for providing answers to the various legal and regulatory rules in a particular country, a language man component for selecting appropriate language, a transaction executor component for performing transactions, and a presentation manager component for formatting outputs to the customer.
Abstract:
The invention relates to an apparatus and a method for imaging the vascular structure and vascular blood flow of an organ or tissue and, in particular, relates to a selective wavelength epi-illumination endoscopic imaging apparatus to image vascular tissues and real time capillary blood flow in vivo. The invention also relates to determining the blood oxygen content of the organ or tissue.
Abstract:
A method is described for producing protein compositions having reduced amounts of O-linked glycosylation. The method includes producing the protein in cells cultured in the presence of an inhibitor of Pmt-mediated O-linked glycosylation and/or in the presence of one or more α-1,2-mannosidases.
Abstract:
Lower eukaryote host cells in which the function of at least one endogenous gene encoding a chaperone protein, such as a Protein Disulphide Isomerase (PDI), has been reduced or eliminated and at least one mammalian homolog of the chaperone protein is expressed are described. In particular aspects, the host cells further include a deletion or disruption of one or more O-protein mannosyltransferase genes, and/or overexpression of an endogenous or exogenous Ca2+ ATPase. These host cells are useful for producing recombinant glycoproteins in large amounts and for producing recombinant glycoproteins that have reduced O-glycosylation.
Abstract:
The invention provides isolated nucleic acids molecules, designated 27875, 22025, 27420, 16319, 55092 and 10218 nucleic acid molecules. The invention also provides antisense nucleic acid molecules, recombinant expression vectors containing 27875, 22025, 27420, 16319, 55092 and 10218 nucleic acid molecules, host cells into which the expression vectors have been introduced, and nonhuman transgenic animals in which a 27875, 22025, 27420, 16319, 55092 and 10218 gene has been introduced or disrupted. The invention still further provides isolated 27875, 22025, 27420, 17906, 16319, 55092 or 10218 proteins, fusion proteins, antigenic peptides and anti-27875, 22025, 27420, 17906, 16319, 55092 or 10218 antibodies. Diagnostic and therapeutic methods utilizing compositions of the invention are also provided.
Abstract:
A sliding window assembly for use with a motor vehicle such as the rear window of the cab of a pickup type truck. A guide structure mounts a sliding pane for longitudinal sliding movement generally parallel to the plane of the pane between an open position and a closed position, and a lateral thrust mechanism is provided to move the pane laterally relative to the plane of the pane into the closed position wherein the exposed face of the pane is flush with a surrounding vehicle surface.