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Described are methods of producing an autologous composition useful for treatment of damaged and/or injured connective tissues, chronic tendinosis, chronic muscle tears and/or chronic degenerative joint conditions and skin inflammatory disorders in a mammal. The method comprises preparing an anti-inflammatory/anti-catabolic component of the autologous composition comprising IL-1ra and TIMPs. An anti-inflammatory/anti-catabolic component is prepared comprising: collecting blood from the mammal; delivering the blood to a tube; incubating the blood at a temperature of from about 37° C. to about 39° C. for about 24 hours, preferably in the presence of sodium citrate; centrifuging the blood to separate the blood into a supernatant component and a cellular fraction; and collecting the supernatant component. The method further comprises preparing a regenerative component of the autologous composition comprising: collecting blood from the mammal; delivering the blood to a tube in the presence of about 4% citric acid; centrifuging the blood to separate a platelet-rich plasma component from a whole blood; collecting the platelet-rich plasma component; and mixing the supernatant component with the platelet-rich plasma component to provide the autologous composition. Also provided is a method of treating damaged and/or injured connective tissues, chronic tendinosis, chronic muscle tears and/or chronic degenerative joint conditions and skin inflammatory disorders in a subject with the autologous composition, an autologous composition for treating damaged and/or injured connective tissues, chronic tendinosis, chronic muscle tears and/or chronic degenerative joint conditions and skin inflammatory disorders in a mammal and the use of the autologous composition for the treatment of damaged and/or injured connective tissues, chronic tendinosis, chronic muscle tears and/or chronic degenerative joint conditions and skin inflammatory disorders in a mammal.
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The present invention relates to recombinant ACE2 polypeptide, where the ACE2 polypeptide is present as a dimer. The dimer is formed specifically from glycosylated monomers and is used for producing pharmaceutical products with an extended half-life
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The present invention is directed to antibodies and fragments thereof and humanized versions thereof having binding specificity for IL-6. Another embodiment of this invention relates to the antibodies described herein, and binding fragments thereof, comprising the sequences of the VH, VL and CDR polypeptides described herein, and the polynucleotides encoding them. The invention also contemplates conjugates of anti-IL-6 antibodies and binding fragments thereof conjugated to one or more functional or detectable moieties. The invention also contemplates methods of making said anti-IL-6 antibodies and binding fragments thereof. Embodiments of the invention also pertain to the use of anti-IL-6 antibodies, and binding fragments thereof, for the diagnosis, assessment and treatment of diseases and disorders associated with IL-6. These antibodies may bind at least one of soluble IL-6, cell surface expressed IL-6, IL-6/IL-6R and/or prevent the association of IL-6 and IL-6R, the association of IL-6/IL-6R and gpl30 and or the formation of IL-6/IL-6R/gpl30 multimers and thereby inhibit a biological effect associated with any of the foregoing.
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Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) play an important role in morphogenesis, angiogenesis, wound healing, and in certain disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis, tumor invasion and metastasis. MMPs are thought to be regulated by a variety of cytokines, growth factors, hormones and phorbol esters. This regulation occurs on three levels; alteration of gene expression, activation of the latent zymogen and inhibition by the tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases (TIMP). We report here a new agent that regulates the level of MMPs.
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The present invention provides variants of serine proteases of the S1 class with altered sensitivity to one or more activity-modulating substances. A method for the generation of such proteases is disclosed, comprising the provision of a protease library encoding polynucleotide sequences, expression of the enzymes, screening of the library in the presence of one or several activity-modulating substances, selection of variants with altered sensitivity to one or several activity-modulating substances and isolation of those polynucleotide sequences that encode for the selected variants.
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The present invention relates to novel proteins. More specifically, isolated nucleic acid molecules are provided encoding novel polypeptides. Novel polypeptides and antibodies that bind to these polypeptides are provided. Also provided are vectors, host cells, and recombinant and synthetic methods for producing human polynucleotides and/or polypeptides, and antibodies. The invention further relates to diagnostic and therapeutic methods useful for diagnosing, treating, preventing and/or prognosing disorders related to these novel polypeptides. The invention further relates to screening methods for identifying agonists and antagonists of polynucleotides and polypeptides of the invention. The present invention further relates to methods and/or compositions for inhibiting or enhancing the production and function of the polypeptides of the present invention.
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Nucleic acids encoding various proteases, from a mammal, reagents related thereto, including specific antibodies, and purified proteins are described. Methods of using said reagents and related diagnostic kits are also provided.
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The present invention relates to transgenic animals, as well as compositions and methods relating to the characterization of gene function. Specifically, the present invention provides transgenic mice comprising mutations in an ADAM-like protease gene. Such transgenic mice are useful as models for disease and for identifying agents that modulate gene expression and gene function, and as potential treatments for various disease states and disease conditions.
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The present invention provides amino acid sequences of peptides that are encoded by genes within the human genome, the protease peptides of the present invention. The present invention specifically provides isolated peptide and nucleic acid molecules, methods of identifying orthologs and paralogs of the protease peptides, and methods of identifying modulators of the protease peptides.
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Glycosylated plasminogen activator (t-PA) having a glycosylation pattern significantly different than exhibited by t-PA from Bowes melanoma cells is obtained from cultured normal human colon fibroblast cells (CCD-18Co).