Abstract: Solid and liquid pharmaceutical compositions comprising botulinum neurotoxin complex or high purity botulinum neurotoxin and a surfactant. The composition may comprise a crystalline agent.

Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions and methods for the treatment and prevention of canine influenza virus (CIV) and CIV-related pathology. The present invention is based in part upon the discovery that one or more mutations in segment 4 of the viral genome produces a single cycle infectious CIV (sciCIV). The sciCIV does not allow for the production of infectious progeny, but is able to induce a CIV-specific immune response.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the identification of subjects with a predisposition to recurrent depression, predicting a subject's responsiveness to therapy, and determining whether a subject has remitted from depression following therapy. In particular, provided herein are biomarkers, methods, and kits for such uses.

Abstract: The invention relates to use of a bacterium selected from a lactic acid bacterium, a Bifidobacterium or a mixture of any thereof for treating metabolic endotoxemia, inhibiting bacterial translocation and regulating lipid absorption in a mammal.

Abstract: Provided herein are novel compositions, specifically, caveolin modulators, and methods to treat and/or prevent autoimmune and/or inflammatory diseases/conditions using such compositions.

Abstract: The embodiment described herein are related nanoemulsions comprising botulinum toxins. In one embodiment, the nanoemulsions are prepared by high pressure microfluidization and comprise a particle size distribution exclusively between 10 and 300 nm. The nanoemulsions contemplated by the present invention are useful for the cosmetic and medical treatment of muscular contracture states. For example, botulinum toxin may relax facial muscles such that skin wrinkles become smoother and less noticeable. Further, the present invention contemplates a cosmetic formulation that may be self-administered, for example, in the privacy of one's home and without medical supervision.

Abstract: Glycosphingolipids (GSLs) compositions and methods for iNKT-independent induction of chemokines are disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention provides a vaccine composition comprising: (i) an adjuvant; and (ii) at least one fusion peptide conjugated to a carrier protein, wherein the carrier protein is the diphtheria toxin variant CRM-197 (GenBank Accession No. 1007216A) and wherein the at least one fusion peptide comprises two or more non-contiguous B cell epitopes of Her2/neu selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID Nos:1-7 and 15-60 and amino acid sequences that have at least 85% identity to any of the foregoing. The present invention also extends to pharmaceutical compositions and methods of using the vaccine and/or pharmaceutical compositions, as herein described, for the treatment or prevention of a cancer characterised by the expression or over-expression of Her2/neu in a patient in need thereof.

Abstract: A novel synthetic biology-based ADCC technology is provided that enhances or enables ADCC response. The novel ADCC technology can be used to prevent or treat cancers, infectious, inflammatory or autoimmune diseases, and other diseases where elimination of diseased cells is desirable.

Abstract: A method of producing a fusion protein is provided. The method includes: a) contacting a first protein with a second protein under conditions that enable the formation of an isopeptide bond between said proteins to form a linked protein; and b) contacting the linked protein from (a) with a third protein under conditions that enable the formation of an isopeptide bond between said third protein and said linked protein to form a fusion protein. Peptide linkers and the use of orthogonal pairs of said linkers in the synthesis of fusion proteins are also provided. Recombinant proteins comprising said linkers, nucleic acid molecules encoding said proteins and linkers, vectors comprising said nucleic acid molecules and host cells comprising said vectors and nucleic acid molecules are also contemplated.

Abstract: The present invention refers to a method for the production of live attenuated bacterial strains, suitable as vaccine candidates, comprising the steps of: A. providing a bacterial strain capable of expressing glutamate racemase and possibly D-amino acid transaminase and comprising a peptidoglycan cell wail, and B. inactivating the gene or genes encoding for the glutamate racemase enzyme and, if needed, the gene or genes encoding for the enzyme D-amino acid transaminase in such way that the bacterial strain is no longer capable of expressing a functional glutamate racemase and/or a functional D-amino acid transaminase; wherein the inactivation of said genes causes said bacterial strain to be auxotrophic for D-glutamate.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved process for synthesis of DNA, RNA, proteins and like molecules, in particular cell-free enzymatic synthesis of DNA, preferably in large scale. The present invention relates to the synthesis of DNA using strand-displacement replication and the addition of nucleotides to the reaction mixture is controlled, thus controlling yield. The reaction mixture contains a starting amount of nucleotides, polymerase and DNA template, to which further nucleotides are supplied in a controlled manner.

Abstract: Methods and products for diagnosing, treating and/or delaying onset of chronic allograft rejection, including cardiac allograft vasculopathy. The method for screening an allograft recipient (including pregnant women) for chronic allograft rejection comprises the steps of measuring an amount of a natural antibody within a biological sample and comparing the amount of the first natural antibody with the amount of the first natural antibody present within a control sample; wherein a decrease in the amount of the first natural antibody as compared to those levels seen in the control indicates a diagnosis of being at-risk for or experiencing chronic allograft rejection. Furthermore, in an embodiment of a composition for preventing or treating chronic allograft rejection, the composition comprises a therapeutically effective amount of phosphorylcholine sufficient to initiate the production of anti-phosphorylcholine natural antibodies in a mammal following administration thereto.

Abstract: Compounds of formula (I) wherein the substituents are as defined in claim 1, and the agrochemically acceptable salts salts, stereoisomers, enantiomers, tautomers and N-oxides of those compounds, and their uses as insecticides.

Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide a peptide of which both of binding forces to a Fc region and a Fab region are superior. In addition, the objective of the present invention is to provide a DNA which encodes the peptide, a vector which contains the DNA, and a transformant which is transformed by the vector. The problem can be solved by providing the peptide having the specific sequence.

Abstract: The present application generally relates to methods of genetically modifying a T-cell comprising a chimeric antigen receptor wherein the T-cell lacks a co-receptor for HIV. The application further relates to methods of making a nucleic acid encoding a chimeric antigen receptor, nucleic acids encoding a chimeric antigen receptor, and genetically modified T-cells comprising a chimeric antigen receptor disclosed herein. The application further relates to methods of treating, inhibiting, or ameliorating HIV in a subject including administering to the subject a cell disclosed herein.

Abstract: The present invention encompasses a vaccine composition and method of use for treating heartworm infestation in mammals. The vaccine composition includes chimeric antigens engineered and manufactured using the genetic code (i.e., the amino acid or protein sequence) of the target sequence. After introduction of the vaccine composition containing the target antigen into the host (e.g., a canine), the host will generate antibodies as part of its robust immune response to the antigen. As the antibodies circulate through the host's plasma, heartworm larvae will consume the antibodies as they feed on the plasma. The antibodies will then act on internal targets of the worm recognized as antigens.

Abstract: The present invention relates to, inter alia, a method of raising an immune response against a pathogen which comprises administering (i) one or more first immunogenic polypeptides derived from said pathogen; (ii) one or more adenoviral vectors comprising one or more heterologous polynucleotides encoding one or more second immunogenic polypeptides derived from said pathogen; and (iii) an adjuvant; wherein the one or more first immunogenic polypeptides, the one or more adenoviral vectors and the adjuvant are administered concomitantly. The invention also relates to vaccines, pharmaceutical compositions, kits and uses employing said polypeptides, adenoviral vectors and adjuvants.

Abstract: Provided are edible vaccines including transgenic microalgae expressing at least one exogenous antigen or an intervening organism including the transgenic microalgae. The antigen expressing microalgae are used for oral delivery of the antigen to a target organism in its intact and functional form. The exogenous antigen, expressed in the microalgae, is characterized by exerting at least one immunogenic response in the subject consuming the vaccine.

Abstract: An effective amount of botulinum toxin type B is administered to a subject in need thereof for treating Raynaud's phenomenon. Botulinum toxin type B may be in a form of an injection, and may be locally administered to a disease affected site, in a dose of 200 to 400 units per disease affected site.

Abstract: The present invention relates to single chain polypeptides comprising one or more immunoglobulin Fc domains. In particular the present invention relates to single-chain Fc polypeptides in which at least one functional Fc domain is formed within the polypeptide chain.

Abstract: Provided herein are materials for the promotion of tissue regeneration, and methods of promoting tissue regeneration and wound healing therewith. In particular, materials displaying laminin-derived peptide sequences that facilitate cell migration into the material, and methods of use thereof, are provided.

Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating ophthalmopathy is described. More particularly, a composition comprising a peptide derived from telomerase and being effective in treating and preventing ophthalmopathy is described. The peptide derived from telomerase, a peptide having a sequence 80% identical to the sequence thereof, or a peptide as a fragment thereof is superiorly effective in treating ophthalmopathy.

Abstract: Described are vaccines having one or more antigens cholesterol and CpG. Aspects of the invention relate to the use of the vaccines of the invention for the treatment and/or prevention of human and animal disorders.

Abstract: A new species of circovirus, porcine circovirus type 3 (PCV3), was identified from sows with clinical symptoms normally associated with porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) infection and in aborted fetuses. Molecular and serological analysis suggest PCV3 commonly circulates in U.S. swine. The present disclosure provides immunological compositions and methods related to the production and administration of such compositions.

Abstract: The present invention provides a cancer vaccine composition for transdermal administration for inducing cellular immunity, comprising (i) a WT1 peptide and/or a modified WT1 peptide; and (ii) a cellular immunity induction promoter. The composition efficiently induces cellular immunity against a cancer in a subject.

Abstract: Immunological diagnostic methods that use the whole-length molecule of plasminogen or its peptide fragments as universal detectors of proteolysis products having a C-terminal lysine are proposed. The method of this immunological diagnostic is to identify the human diseases associated with increased activity of proteolytic enzymes. A diagnostic test system comprised of a detector—the full-length molecule and its presented peptide fragments—is disclosed. The technical result includes achieving the required degree of dissociation of the antigen-antibody complex in a sample from the subject, as well as changing the conformation of proteins using an incubation buffer containing organic solvents in the disclosed ratios, that can significantly increase the sensitivity of the method for determining the concentration of proteolytic fragments with a C-terminal lysine binding with plasminogen or fragments thereof.

Abstract: The invention generally relates to the field of veterinary medicine and can be used for bovine leukemia prevention. The invention expands the range of means of the claimed application and provides lifelong resistance of animals to the leukemia virus. The invention is aimed at solving the problem of expanding the range of preventive medications and forming new approaches to the problem of preventing bovine leukemia, which allow ensuring lifelong resistance of the animals to leukemia infection. The technical result consists in the design of a remedy and use thereof for bovine leukemia prevention, which would allow providing a targeted immune response, efficiently and with minimal costs, by activating cellular immunity against bovine leukemia virus by increasing the number of killer cells.

Abstract: The invention relates to a bone and joint protection composition and use thereof. According to the composition, the four Chinese medicinal herbs Eucommiae Cortex, Achyranthis Bidentatae Radix, Astragali Radix and Chuanxiong Rhizoma are used, and the effects of enhancing the bone density, preventing and relieving osteoporosis, restraining the activity of osteoclast, promoting the function of bone cells, increasing the formation of calcified bone, promoting cartilage repair, delaying joint recession and repairing joint damage are achieved through multiple approaches and multiple levels. On the basis, by adding glucosamine hydrochloride, chondroitin sulfate and/or collagen, the bone density can be enhanced, the osteoporosis can be prevented and treated; the activity of the osteoclast can be restrained, the function of bone cells can be promoted, the formation of calcified bone can be increased, the cartilage repair can be promoted, joint recession can be delayed, and the joint damage can be repaired.

Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment of respiratory tract infections. More particularly, the present invention relates to a TLR5 agonist for use in a method for treating a respiratory tract infection.

Abstract: Methods for treating a patient suffering from a medication overuse headache disorder are provided. The methods comprise administering to a patient suffering from a medication overuse disorder a Clostridial toxin. The toxin is administered to the frontalis, corrugator, procerus, occipitalis, temporalis, trapezius and cervical paraspinal muscles of the patient.

Abstract: Methods of immunizing older adult subjects against Streptococcus pneumoniae infection are provided. Provided methods comprise immunization of naive adult subjects with a conjugated pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine. Optionally, initial immunization may be followed by additional immunization doses comprising conjugated pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine or unconjugated pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine composition.

Abstract: This invention provides methods and compositions for modulating movement of eukaryotic cells with migratory capacity. More specifically, the invention provides anti-fugetactic agents and methods for the use thereof in enhancing an immune response.

Abstract: Provided are a liposome composition which has a practically required long-term preservation stability, and which has a release rate of a drug on the order of several tens of hours due to releasability of a drug being able to be suitably controlled by rendering an inner water phase hyper-osmotic; and a method for producing the same. According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a liposome composition, including liposomes each of which has an inner water phase and an aqueous solution which constitutes an outer water phase and in which the liposomes are dispersed, in which the content of cholesterols is 10 mol % to 35 mol % with respect to the total amount of lipid components in the liposome composition, and each of the liposomes encapsulates a drug in a dissolved state, and an osmotic pressure of the inner water phase is 2-fold to 8-fold relative to the osmotic pressure of the outer water phase.

Abstract: The invention discloses a FSBM recombinant protein for conferring protection against group C streptococcus infection in an animal subject, comprising: a first peptide fragment, having an amino acid sequence set forth as SEQ ID NO. 5; a second peptide fragment, having an amino acid sequence set forth as SEQ ID NO. 6; a third peptide fragment, having an amino acid sequence set forth as SEQ ID NO. 7; and a fourth peptide fragment, having an amino acid sequence set forth as SEQ ID NO. 8. The invention also discloses a method of protecting an animal subject against group C streptococcus infection.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for detecting and diagnosing Chlamydia suis infections in a subject, and a diagnostic kit therefor.

Abstract: Customized whole cell cancer vaccines can be produced from autologous (ex vivo or in situ) or allogeneic human or veterinary patient cell lines. Cells are transformed with S. pyogenes DNA that expresses an Emm protein on the cell surface and cytosol. Treatment of cancer patients with an Emm vector vaccine induces an immunologic response to the cancer by enhancing immunogenicity of a tumor. Emm vaccines can be used in patients where the cancer is not identified due to lower tumor burden or used to treat a specific cancer and subsequently treat for a second type that may have arisen through metastasis.

Abstract: This invention provides novel carbonic anhydrase (CAIX) nucleic acid and peptide sequences, as well as related methods and compositions, including anti-cancer immunogenic agent(s) (e.g. vaccines and chimeric molecules) that elicit an immune response specifically directed against cancer cells expressing a CAIX antigenic marker. The novel CAIX variant and related compositions are useful in a wide variety of treatment modalities including, but not limited to protein vaccination, DNA vaccination, and adoptive immunotherapy.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides immunomodulatory compositions comprising heat-killed Caulobacter crescentus (HKCC). Immunomodulatory compositions of the present disclosure are useful for modulating an immune response in an individual. The present disclosure thus provides methods of modulating an immune response in an individual, involving administering an immunomodulatory composition comprising HKCC to the individual.

Abstract: Mesothelin can be used as an immunotherapeutic target. It induces a cytolytic T cell response. Portions of mesothelin which induce such responses are identified. Vaccines can be either polynucleotide- or polypeptide-based. Carriers for raising a cytolytic T cell response include bacteria and viruses. A mouse model for testing vaccines and other anti-tumor therapeutics and prophylactics comprises a strongly mesothelin-expressing, transformed peritoneal cell line.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to methods of preventing reactivation of active and latent M. tuberculosis infections by administering a pharmaceutical composition comprising a nucleic acid encoding a Mtb72f fusion protein, or a Mtb72f fusion protein or an immunogenic fragment thereof, for example together with an adjuvant. The Mtb72f nucleic acid or fusion protein can be administered with one or more chemotherapeutic agents effective against a M. tuberculosis infection. The methods also provide for shortening the time course of a chemotherapeutic regimen against a M. tuberculosis infection.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to anti-PVRIG antibodies and methods of using same.

Abstract: In its many embodiments, the present invention provides certain C5-C6-carbocyclic fused iminothiazine dioxide compounds, including compounds Formula (I): and tautomers thereof, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts of said compounds and said tautomers, wherein R1, ring A, RA, m, -L1-, ring B, RB, n, q, ring C, RC, and p are as defined herein. The novel compounds of the invention are useful as BACE inhibitors and/or for the treatment and prevention of various pathologies related thereto. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising one or more such compounds (alone and in combination with one or more other active agents), and methods for their preparation and use, including for the possible treatment of Alzheimer's disease, are also disclosed.

Abstract: The invention provides, inter alia, immunoinhibitory glycosphingolipids and immunoinhibitory alpha-galactosylceramides and compositions and preparations thereof, and methods of use thereof including in the treatment of conditions characterized by increased iNKT cells and/or activity.

Abstract: The present invention is related to development of the improved cell-permeable (CP)-?SOCS3 recombinant protein which disrupt the interaction of leptin receptor (ObR) and suppressor of cytokine signaling 3 (SOCS3), as protein-based anti-obesity or anti-diabetes agent by utilizing the platform technology for macromolecule intracellular transduction.

Abstract: The present invention relates to: a novel cell penetrating peptide; a cell penetrating botulinum toxin recombinant protein composition in which the cell penetrating peptide and the light chain of a botulinum toxin are fused; and a use thereof and, more specifically, to a composition enabling the transdermal delivery of a cell penetrating botulinum toxin recombinant protein and capable of being locally used for various treatments of the skin and cosmetic purposes. The cell penetrating peptide-botulinum toxin recombinant protein of the present invention can be transdermally delivered, thereby having the intrinsic effect of a botulinum toxin and simultaneously having greater convenience of use, and thus can be effectively applied as a local agonist for the treatment of various diseases and aesthetic and/or cosmetic purposes.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a subunit vaccine platform based on multimeric ribonucleoproteins (RNPs) comprising nucleoproteins of a non-segmented negative-strand ribonucleic acid (RNA) virus as carriers of heterologous polypeptides. The present invention also relates to multimeric RNPs resulting from the assembly of at least 200 fusion proteins with a cellular RNA, or to recombinant yeasts or yeast lysates expressing these multimeric RNPs. It also concerns a process for the preparation of these multimeric RNPs or recombinant yeasts or yeast lysates. In particular, the present invention relates to their use as active ingredient for the in vitro production of an immunogenic composition or in eliciting a protective prophylactic or a therapeutic immune response against said heterologous polypeptide in a host in need thereof. Recombinant yeasts or yeast lysates of the invention can also be used as expression and vector systems for delivery to a host.

Abstract: A method of improving intestinal integrity and reducing the effects of heat stress, enteric disease challenges and other intestinal stress conditions in humans and animals by feeding an efficacious amount of a salt of zinc and butyric acid.

Abstract: The invention relates to an RNA comprising at least one open reading frame (ORF) and comprising at least one modification, which increases the expression of the encoded peptide or protein. Furthermore, the invention relates to the medical use of such a modified RNA administered to a subject by jet injection. The invention relates further to a pharmaceutical composition and to a kit of parts comprising said modified RNA for administration by jet injection, preferably for use in the field of gene therapy and/or genetic vaccination. Additionally, the invention relates to a method for enhancing the (localized) expression of RNA-encoded peptides or proteins in the dermis or muscle (of a mammal) comprising administering the modified RNA by jet injection. And finally, the invention relates to a method of treatment comprising administering the modified RNA by jet injection to a subject in need thereof.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel polypeptide for binding to a complement protein C5a. More particularly, the present invention relates to polypeptide which can be bound to a complement protein C5a and inhibit the activation of same, polynucleotide which codes for the polypeptide, a recombinant vector which comprises the polynucleotide, a recombinant microorganism to which the recombinant vector has been introduced, a method for producing the polypeptide by means of the recombinant microorganism, and a pharmaceutical composition, for treating immune diseases or sepsis, containing the polypeptide. A polypeptide, according to the present invention, can be bound to a complement protein C5a, with higher affinity compared to being bound to a complement protein C5a receptor which is present in nature, and inhibits the activation of same, thus being widely utilized for development of formulation for preventing or treating diseases related to a complement protein C5a.