摘要:
Provided are antagonists of FXR activity for use as medicament for the prevention, reduction or inhibition of scarring. This use may preferably be to prevent, reduce or inhibit scarring formed on healing of wounds. The invention also provides corresponding methods of treatment. Preferred antagonists of FXR activity include guggulsterone (Z); guggulsterone (E); a scalarane; 80-574; and a 5α-bile alcohol. In advantageous embodiments, up to 32 μM of the antagonist of FXR activity may be provided per linear cm of wound, or cm2 of a wound or fibrotic disorder, over a 24 hour period in order to inhibit scarring.
摘要:
There is provided the use of WNT5A, or a therapeutically effective fragment or derivative thereof, in the preparation of a medicament for use in the prevention, reduction or inhibition of scarring. There is also provided the use of WNT5A, or a therapeutically effective fragment or derivative thereof, in the preparation of a medicament for use in the prevention and/or treatment of a fibrotic disorder. Further aspects relate to methods by which scarring may be prevented, reduced or inhibited, and by which fibrotic disorders may be prevented and/or treated. Therapeutically effective amounts of WNT5A, or its fragments or derivatives, that may be used in the medicaments or methods of the invention are also provided.
摘要:
Provided is WNT3A, or a therapeutically effective fragment or derivative thereof, for use as a medicament for accelerating wound healing. Also provided is a method of accelerating wound healing, the method comprising providing a therapeutically effective amount of WNT3 A, or a therapeutically effective fragment or derivative thereof, to a site where wound healing is to be accelerated. The medicaments and methods of the invention may be of particular use in accelerating the healing of skin wounds.
摘要:
Provided is secreted Frizzled Related Protein 3 (sFRP3), or a therapeutically effective fragment or derivative thereof, for use as a medicament for the prevention, reduction or inhibition of scarring. The scarring may be associated with the healing of a wound, or with a fibrotic disorder. The scarring may be associated with surgical wounds. The scarring may be scarring of the skin. The medicament may be a topical medicament, and may be suitable for local injection. Also provided is a method of preventing, reducing or inhibiting scarring, the method comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of sFRP3, or a therapeutically effective fragment or derivative thereof, to a patient in need of such prevention, reduction or inhibition.
摘要:
Compositions for use in the treatment of wounds and fibrosis comprising a therapeutically effective amount of a compound that modulates actin assembly and organization intracellularly and/or extracellularly and a pharmaceutically acceptable vehicle; such a compound promotes the rate of wound healing and also prevents or reduces fibrosis. A preferred compound is gelsolin.
摘要:
A method of hatching eggs of avian species, especially chickens, which comprises carrying out at least one cycle of steps (a) and (c) as follows: (a) incubating the eggs in a first, baseline ambient environment which is normal for hatchery incubation of the eggs of the avian species in the prevailing climatic conditions and then during a sex-sensitive time window of embryonic development, (b) altering the ambient environment to shifted conditions for a period of time effective to bias the normal phenotypic sex ratio of the embryos, without significant adverse effect on the average mortality rate, and (c) thereafter restoring the incubation conditions to or towards normal and allowing the eggs to hatch. Preferably the ambient environment comprises a temperature of 37.5.degree.-38.degree. C. and the shifted conditions comprise reduced temperature, especially a temperature maintained at about 22.degree. C. for a period of from 18 to 42 hours. The method may be used to produce birds which are chromosomally male (ZZ) but phenotypically female or chromosomally female (ZW) but phenotypically male.
摘要:
The use of Matrix Metalloproteinase Inhibitors in the prevention or treatment of connective tissue softening and also for the maintenance of sutures in such connective tissues. The connective tissue may be a tendon, ligament or cartilage.
摘要:
Mannose-6- and 1-phosphates and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts and bioprecursors thereof are useful in the treatment of fibrotic disorders. They accelerate wound healing and the 6-phosphate prevents or mitigates scar formation. The invention includes particular, appropriate formulations of the mannose phosphate.
摘要:
The present invention concerns analogues of M6P for use in promoting the healing of wounds or fibrotic disorders with reduced scarring, together with methods for doing same.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a method for quantifying the amount of active transforming growth factor beta (TGF-β) in biological samples. In particular the method comprising incubating cryosections of a tissue with cells which contain a TGF-β responsive expression vector having a structural region encoding an indicator protein and measuring the amount of said indicator protein expressed from the cells.