摘要:
The invention provides isolated nucleic acid and amino acid sequences of hElk, antibodies to hElk, methods of detecting hElk, methods of screening for voltage-gated potassium channel activators and inhibitors using biologically active hElk, and kits for screening for activators and inhibitors of voltage-gated potassium channels comprising hElk.
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Human neuropeptide receptor polypeptides and DNA (RNA) encoding such polypeptides and a procedure for producing such polypeptides by recombinant techniques is disclosed. Also disclosed are methods for utilizing such polypeptides for identifying antagonists and agonists to such polypeptides and methods of using the agonists and antagonists therapeutically to treat conditions related to the underexpression and overexpression of the neuropeptide receptor polypeptides, respectively. Also disclosed are diagnostic methods for detecting a mutation in the neuropeptide receptor nucleic acid sequences and an altered level of the soluble form of the receptors.
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In accordance with the present invention, there are provided nucleic acids encoding human NMDA receptor protein subunits and the proteins encoded thereby. The NMDA receptor subunits of the invention comprise components of NMDA receptors that have cation-selective channels and bind glutamate and NMDA. In one aspect of the invention, the nucleic acids encode NMDAR1 and NMDAR2 subunits of human NMDA receptors. In a preferred embodiment, the invention nucleic acids encode NMDAR1, NMDAR2A and NMDAR2C subunits of human NMDA receptors. In addition to being useful for the production of NMDA receptor subunit proteins, these nucleic acids are also useful as probes, thus enabling those skilled in the art, without undue experimentation, to identify and isolate related human receptor subunits. Functional glutamate receptors can be assembled, in accordance with the present invention, from a plurality of one type of NMDA receptor subunit protein (homomeric) or from a mixture of two or more types of subunit proteins (heteromeric). In addition to disclosing novel NMDA receptor protein subunits, the present invention also comprises methods for using such receptor subunits to identify and characterize compounds which affect the function of such receptors, e.g., agonists, antagonists, and modulators of glutamate receptor function. The invention also comprises methods for determining whether unknown protein(s) are functional as NMDA receptor subunits.
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The invention is directed to a method for identifying substances acting as ligands for transfected receptors by using transfected markers to measure receptor/ligand interactions.
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In accordance with the present invention, there are provided nucleic acids encoding human metabotropic glutamate receptor subtype mGluR6, and the proteins encoded thereby. In addition to being useful for the production of metabotropic glutamate receptor subtype mGluR6, nucleic acids of the invention are also useful as probes, thus enabling those skilled in the art, without undue experimentation, to identify and isolate related human receptor subunits. In addition to disclosing a novel metabotropic glutamate receptor subtype, mGluR6, the present invention also comprises methods for using the invention receptor subtype to identify and characterize compounds which affect the function of such receptor subtype, e.g., agonists, antagonists, and modulators of glutamate receptor function.
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The present disclosure provides methods of detection and diagnosis of ectopic endometriosis. The disclosure further provides compositions, medicaments and methods for treating or preventing ectopic endometriosis.
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Disclosed herein, are decoy peptides or polypeptides capable of inhibiting binding of 5-HT2A autoantibodies to a second extracellular loop region of the 5-HT2A receptor, and a pharmaceutical composition containing the decoy peptides or polypeptides and methods of use.
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A soluble N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) protein construct includes one or more NMDAR autoantibody epitopes. The construct includes an extracellular domain (ECD) of the NMDAR subunit GluN1 or a fragment of the subunit and an ECD of at least one of the NMDAR subunits GluN2A, GluN2B, GluN2C or GluN2D, or fragment of these subunits. An in vitro method for the detection of NMDAR autoantibodies in a sample includes providing a sample suspected of including NMDAR autoantibodies, providing the NMDAR protein construct as a capture molecule, contacting the sample with the NMDAR protein construct, thereby binding NMDAR autoantibodies from the sample to the NMDAR protein construct, and determining the presence and optionally the amount of bound NMDAR autoantibodies. The method is applied for the diagnosis, prognosis, disease monitoring, patient stratification and/or therapy monitoring of a medical condition associated with autoantibodies against the NMDAR, preferably anti-NMDAR encephalitis.
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The présent invention relates to a method for manufacturing an analysis device including torpédo membrane fragments immobilized at the surface thereof, to the resulting analysis device, and to the use of said device for detecting, purifying, and characterizing molécules acting on nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. The présent invention is useful in the field of monitoring seafood, monitoring neurotoxic phytoplankton for the shellfish industry, monitoring the quality of bathing waters along tourist beaches, the field of monitoring fresh water reserves, the field of médical research, the field of the biological analysis and characterization of molécules, e.g., non-radioactive assays of the movement of the ligand-receptor bond on an ELISA-type microplate, thereby enabling compétitive agonists and antagonists of targets to be detected, e.g., of highly sensitive receptors.
摘要:
A compound having the following general formula (I): wherein: X is a nitrogen atom and Y is a carbon atom; or X is a carbon atom and Y is a nitrogen atom; the Ar group is an aryl or heteroaryl group; and the RN and RN′ groups, together with the carbon atoms to which they are bound, form a monocyclic or bicyclic azacycloalkane group. The pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, the hydrates or polymorphic crystalline structures thereof, and to the racemates, diastereoisomers, or enantiomers thereof are also described.