摘要:
Methods of suppressing or preventing an infection of a subject by a pathogen that involve administering to the subject a composition that includes a therapeutically effective amount of an MDA-7 polypeptide or a nucleic acid encoding the MDA-7 polypeptide, and a pharmaceutically acceptable preparation suitable for delivery to the subject, wherein the MDA-7 suppresses or prevents the infection, are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods of suppressing or preventing a viral infection of a cell, including obtaining an MDA-7 polypeptide or a nucleic acid encoding the MDA-7 polypeptide, and contacting the cell with the MDA-7 polypeptide or the nucleic acid encoding the MDA-7 polypeptide, wherein the MDA-7 suppresses or prevents infection of the cell.
摘要:
This invention relates to the field of therapeutics. Disclosed are methods of conditionally expressing erythropoietin under the control of an ecdysone receptor-based gene expression modulation system in the presence of activating ligand and uses for therapeutic purposes in animals. The methods of the invention cause an in vivo increase in the expression of erythropoietin and an increase in the hematocrit or volume percentage of red blood cells in blood after administration of the ligand.
摘要:
The present invention relates to the identification of various prognostic factors that predict response in patients with hyperproliferative disease such as cancer to gene therapy, and their use in methods of treating such patients with an anti-hyperproliferative disease gene therapy. Also described are methods of treatment for Li Fraumeni syndrome, and for assessing anti-cancer gene therapy using PET scans.
摘要:
The present invention relates to compositions and methods involving MDA-7. More specifically, the present invention is directed to diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic treatment compositions and methods for treatment of cancer and other angiogenesis-related disorders (anti-angiogenesis therapy). The present invention is also directed to methods of purification of MDA-7.
摘要:
The present invention relates to immunotherapy methods for treating hyperproliferative disease or pathogen-induced diseases in humans. More specifically, the invention is directed, in one embodiment, to methods for treating a subject with a hyperproliferative disease in which the expression of a self gene is upregulated in hyperproliferative cells. In another embodiment, an adenoviral expression construct comprising a self gene under the control of a promoter operable in eukaryotic cells is intradermally administered to said hyperproliferative cells. In another embodiment of the present invention, a pathogen-induced disease in which the pathogen gene expression is increaed or altered, is treated by intradermally administered a pathogen gene under the control of a promoter operable in eukaryotic cells. The present invention thus provides immunotherapies for treating hyperproliferative and pathogen diseases by attenuating the natural immune systems CTL response against hyperproliferative cells or overexpressing mutant p53 antigens.
摘要:
Retroviral vector constructs are described which have a 5′ LTR, a tRNA binding site, a packaging signal, one or more heterologous sequences, an origin of second strand synthesis and a 3′ LTR, wherein the vector construct lacks retroviral gag/pol or env coding sequences. In addition, gag/pol, and env expression cassettes are described wherein the expression cassettes lack a consecutive sequence of more than 8 nucleotides in common. The above-described retroviral vector constructs, gag/pol and env expression cassettes may be utilized to construct producer cell lines which preclude the formation of replication competent virus.
摘要:
Retroviral vector constructs are described which have a 5' LTR, a tRNA binding site, a packaging signal, one or more heterologous sequences, an origin of second strand synthesis and a 3' LTR, wherein the vector construct lacks retroviral gag/pol or env coding sequences. In addition, gag/pol, and env expression-cassettes are described wherein the expression cassettes lack a consecutive sequence of more than 8 nucleotides in common. The above-described retroviral vector constructs, gag/pol and env expression cassettes may be utilized to construct producer cell lines which preclude the formation of replication competent virus.
摘要:
Lamboid bacteriophage capable of specifically interacting with and delivering nucleic acid molecules to eukaryotic cells are disclosed. Such bacteriophage-derived gene transfer systems target one or more specific receptors on eukaryotic cells, for instance by incorporating mutant tail fiber proteins or by incorporating known ligands for specific eukaryotic receptors into lambda phage. Also disclosed are methods for identifying and producing modified bacteriophage tail fiber polypeptides capable of specifically interacting with eukaryotic transmembrane proteins. Methods of treating diseases using such gene transfer systems are also disclosed.
摘要:
This invention relates to the field of therapeutics. Most specifically, the invention provides methods of generating conditionally expressing one or more proteins under the control of a gene expression modulation, system in the presence of activating ligand and uses for therapeutic purposes in animals. The vector may be provided to treat or prevent disease.
摘要:
This invention relates to the field of therapeutics. Most specifically, the invention provides methods of generating conditionally expressing vectors for one or more immunomodulators under the control of a gene expression modulation system in the presence of activating ligand and uses for therapeutic purposes in animals. These vector may be provided to treat a variety of disorders, e.g., neoplastic disorders, through direct injection or through in vitro engineered cells, such as dendritic cells.