摘要:
The invention relates to a measuring device (10) for measuring physical characteristics of cells. The device (10) comprises: a microfluidic chip (20) provided with a flow channel (22) for allowing cells to flow through; a manipulator (24) configured to apply deformation force to a cell in a continuous flow; and a sensor (26) configured to sense a physical characteristic of the cell. The manipulator (24) and the sensor (26) are configured to define a width (W2) of the flow channel (22) as a gap formed between them. The manipulator (24) is configured to apply the deformation force to the cell by compressing the cell against the sensor (26).
摘要:
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Acute exacerbation of COPD (AE-COPD) in patients are mostly due to respiratory infection and are associated with an inexorable decline in lung function, enhanced oedema as well as airway and systemic inflammation. Previous results show that treatment with anti-IL-20Rb blocking antibodies increased the bacterial clearance in control mice infected by S. pneumoniae and protected CS-exposed mice from bacterial infection, by decreasing the bacterial burden and the inflammatory infiltrate. Therefore there is an interest for generating monoclonal antibodies specific for IL-20Rb with a neutralizing activity for their use in the treatment of AE-COPD. The present invention fulfills this need by providing antibodies having specificity for IL-20Rb.
摘要:
The present invention relates to the use of Guanabenz or derivates thereof for the treatment of type I IFN-dependent pathologies. The inventors investigate here how pharmacological interference with the eIF2α-P pathway can be beneficial for the treatment of immune pathological conditions. Using both mouse and human DCs, as well as B cells, they show that GBZ prevents endosomal toll-like-receptor 9 (TLR9) activation by CpG ODN or DNA-Immunoglobulin complexes, as well as TLR3, TLR7 and RIG-I like receptors (RLR, RIG-I or MDA5), by RNAs or small compounds. In vivo, GBZ treatment protects mice from CpG-dependent cytokine shock and decreases anti-nucleic acid auto-antibodies production in the TMPD-induced systemic lupus erythematosus model. The present invention thus relates to a method of treating a type I IFN-dependent pathology in a subject comprising administering the subject with Guanabenz or a derivative thereof.
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The present invention relates to a new process for preparing a polypropylene using new bis(metallocene) compounds in catalyst compositions. The bis(metallocene) compounds of the invention are homo- or hetero bis(metallocene) molecules in which same or different metallocene moieties are connected by a phenylene bridge. The phenylene bridge is either para-substituted, meta-substituted or ortho-substituted by the two metallocene moieties
摘要:
The present invention relates to methods and pharmaceutical compositions for the prophylactic treatment of bacterial superinfections post-influenza. In particular, the present invention relates to an interleukin 22 (IL-22) polypeptide for use in the prophylactic treatment of bacterial superinfections post-influenza in a subject in need thereof.
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Lipin-1 deficiency is a rare, life-threatening condition that causes severe rhabdomyolysis episodes (RM) triggered by febrile illness and effort. Now, the inventors treated 10 patients with LPIN1 mutations with hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) in an off open-label use phases 1 and 2 study, to assess safety, clinical, and biological effects of the drug. A first inclusion group of patients were treated with oral HCQ at a dose of 6.5 mg/Kg/day in one intake, not exceeding 400 mg/day. Five patients have not presented any new acute RM under treatment, except for 2 patients experimented one and two episodes of RM respectively despite HCQ in a context of gastroenteritis. Plasma levels of HCQ were in the range of 400 ng/ml except in the two patients who experimented RM, in whom the plasma HCQ levels were higher (1000 ng/ml). With a therapeutic adjustment, in order to maintain plasma levels of HCQ under 700 ng/ml, in a new group of patients, two patients did not suffer from new acute RM under treatment. HCQ had not seem to have benefit effect for one patient. Thus, the inventors describe the first human experience with HCQ for Lipin-1 disease. The results allow the inventors to propose low doses of HCQ as a long-term treatment to prevent further relapses in this severe disease.
摘要:
The present invention relates to methods for expanding a population of alveolar macrophages in a long term culture. In particular, an object of the present invention relates to a method of expanding a population of alveolar macrophages in a long term culture comprising culturing the population of alveolar macrophages in a culture medium supplemented with an amount of GM-CSF.
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The present invention relates to a method for predicting whether a patient with a cancer is likely to respond to an epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) inhibitor, which method comprises determining the expression level hsa-miR-31-3p miRNA in a sample of said patient. The invention also relates to therapeutic uses of an EGFR inhibitor in a patient predicted to respond to said EGFR inhibitor.