摘要:
The present invention relates to a method and pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating inflammatory diseases. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method for inhibiting lymphocyte adhesion to an endothelial cell, or a method for treating an inflammatory disease, which comprises administering to a subject in need thereof an inhibitor against lymphocyte adhesion to a FEX-2 polypeptide. A pharmaceutical composition comprising the inhibitor against lymphocyte adhesion to a FEX-2 polypeptide, and the use of the inhibitor against lymphocyte adhesion to a FEX-2 polypeptide are also disclosed. Further, a method for screening a medicament for inhibiting lymphocyte adhesion to a FEX-2 polypeptide or a medicament for treating an inflammatory disease, which comprises a step of selecting an inhibitor against lymphocyte adhesion to a FEX-2 polypeptide, is disclosed.
摘要:
The present invention relates to novel use of a ligand specific to a FEX-2 polypeptide. More specifically, the present invention relates to methods for modulating the secretion of an inflammation-associated cytokine and for treating or preventing an inflammatory disease using the FEX-2-specific ligand. The ligand specific to the FEX-2 polypeptide can bind to FEX-2 expressed on the surface of phagocytes so that it can stimulate the secretion of anti-inflammatory cytokine and inhibit the secretion of inflammatory cytokine, so as to treat or prevent inflammatory diseases.