Abstract:
The present invention provides compositions and methods related to expression of protease inhibitors and variants thereof in bacterial species. The present invention further provides fusion nucleic acids, vectors, fusion polypeptides, and processes for obtaining the protease inhibitors.
Abstract:
The present invention provides complexes containing an ARTS protein and an IAP protein, compounds that disrupt same, and use of the compounds in treating neuro-degenerative disease, ischemic injury, myelodysplasia, atherosclerosis, various auto-immune diseases, cytopenia, pancreatitis, and periodonitis, and in decreasing susceptibility of a cell to apoptosis. The present invention also provides methods for identifying biologically active regions of ARTS protein, and use of mimetic compounds of same in treating apoptosis-related disorders, cancer, and other neoplastic diseases and disorders.
Abstract:
A kit for the treatment of retinitis pigmentosa containing the enzymes glutathione peroxidase, prolidase, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase and, optionally, aldose reductase in aliquot parts and interactive quantities appropriate for administering said enzymes in accordance with a predetermined time sequence.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to methods for decreasing or inhibiting disorders associated with vascular hyperpermeability and to methods of screening for compounds that affect permeability, angiogenesis and stabilize tight junctions. In one aspect of the present invention there is provided a method of decreasing or inhibiting vascular hyperpermeability in an individual in need of such treatment. The method includes administering to the individual an effective amount of an antiangiogenic compound selected from the group consisting of endostatin, thrombospondin, angiostatin, tumstatin, arrestin, recombinant EPO and polymer conjugated TNP-470. Other antiangiogenic compounds are disclosed herein.
Abstract:
The present application pertains to the use of bromelain preparing a medicament for increasing the IL-(8) level in an individual so as to reduce or prevent inflammation in said individual and as an adjuvant therapy during wound healing processes.
Abstract:
Protein markers of toxicity and efficacy for drugs are determined. For example, methods and reagents are disclosed for determining whether a patient receiving an antilipemic drug, especially a statin or HMGCoA reductase inhibiting drug, is experiencing drug efficacy and/or toxicity. Individual susceptibility is also determined prior to treatment. Also, drug discovery of similar acting candidates and their likelihood of being toxic or effective is determined by analysis of all proteins in a sample simultaneously by 2-dimensional gel elecrotphoresis.
Abstract:
Compositions and methods able to reduce opioid-related symptoms in a human patient of an exorphin selected from the group consisting of a gluteomorphin and a caseomorphin, comprising a physiologically effective amount of a purified casomorphin inhibitor selected from the group consisting of a casomorphinase and a casomorphin ligand, a physiologically effective amount of a purified gluteomorphin inhibitor selected from the group consisting of a gluteomorphinase and a gluteomorphin ligand, and at least one of the group consisting of a physiologically acceptable carrier, adjuvant, excipient, buffer and diluent. In some embodiments, the compositions and methods further comprise a physiologically effective amount of an enkephalin inhibitor, preferably an enkephalinase, and a physiologically effective amount of an endorphin inhibitor, preferably an endorphinase.
Abstract:
The invention relates to the use of physiologically acceptable enzyme mixtures with lipolytic, proteolytic and amylolytic activity, of microbial or animal origin, but especially to the use of digestive enzyme mixtures such as pancreatin or digestive enzyme mixtures containing pancreatin, for treating diabetes. The invention also relates to the production of medicaments suitable for this treatment. One variant of the invention relates to the use of this enzyme mixture with lipolytic, proteolytic and amylolytic activity, especially digestive enzyme mixtures such as pancreatin or digestive enzyme mixtures containing pancreatin, for the adjuvant treatment of Type I and Type II Diabetes mellitus.
Abstract:
Described herein are methods for using asparaginases and/or glutaminases to treat patients with asparagine and/or glutamine-dependent diseases. Some diseases specifically envisioned to be treated by the methods of the invention include Graft versus Host disease and auto-immune diseases, including SLE, RA, diabetes, and AIDS. The glutaminases and asparaginases can be native or recombinant, and can be modified by acylation or pegylation, for example.
Abstract:
The invention relates to the utilization of at least one proteolytic enzyme to influence hyperactive T cells. Preferred proteolytic enzymes are trypsin, bromelain and papain. Rutin can additionally be utilized.