Abstract:
Methods of decreasing, reducing, inhibiting, suppressing, limiting or controlling an undesirable or aberrant immune response, immune disorder, inflammatory response, or inflammation in a subject; decreasing, reducing, inhibiting, suppressing, limiting or controlling an autoimmune response, disorder or disease in a subject; and decreasing, reducing, inhibiting, suppressing, limiting or controlling an adverse cardiovascular event or cardiovascular disease in a subject, are provided. Methods include, for example, administering a Nur77 polypeptide or subsequence thereof, a Nur77 agonist, or CD14+ CD16+ monocytes or CD14dimCD16+ (CD115+CD11b+GR1− (Ly6C−)) monocytes or macrophages to a subject to decrease, reduce, inhibit, suppress, limit or control the underlying condition or an adverse symptom or pathology of the condition.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to novel methods and compositions for gene therapy. The invention also provides methods for treating diseases or disorders of the central nervous system associated with dopaminergic hypoactivity, disease, injury or chemical lesioning, including Parkinson's disease, manic depression, and schizophrenia.
Abstract:
The invention provides methods, pharmaceutical compositions and kits for treating a subject having a carcinoma that is resistant to an antiprogestin. In particular, the methods comprise increasing the molar amount of progesterone receptor isoform A (PR-A) so that it is greater than that of isoform B (PR-B) and administering a therapeutically effective amount of an antiprogestin to the subject, thereby treating the carcinoma.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method of treating a condition in a subject comprising administering an effective amount of an agent to said subject wherein said agent modulates one or more components of the retinoid signaling pathway.