Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods of treating a tauopathy, involving administering an anti-Tau antibody. The present disclosure also provides anti-Tau antibodies, and formulations comprising same, for use in the methods.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 15, 2013
Date of Patent:
February 14, 2017
Assignee:
IPIERIAN, INC.
Inventors:
Irene Griswold-Prenner, Nancy E. Stagliano, Vu Cao Dang
Abstract: Isolated protein complexes are provided comprising keratinocyte growth factor and vitronectin, or at least domains thereof that enable binding to and activation of both a keratinocyte growth factor receptor and an integrin receptor for vitronectin. These protein complexes include synthetic proteins where the keratinocyte growth factor and vitronectin sequences are joined by a linker sequence. In particular forms, vitronectin sequences do not include a C-terminal heparin binding domain. Also provided are uses of these protein complexes for stimulating or inducing cell migration and/or proliferation in wound healing, tissue engineering, cosmetic and therapeutic treatments such as skin replacement, skin replenishment and treatment of burns where epithelial cell migration is required. In other embodiments, the invention provides inhibition of cancer cell metastasis, particularly in relation to breast cancer.
Abstract: The present invention pertains to improved FSH preparations which are capable of stimulating sex steroid release at much lower concentration than the commonly used urinary FSH or recombinant FSH obtained from CHO cells and which act independent of cAMP signaling These improved FSH preparations can be used in infertility treatment.
Abstract: The invention relates to GM-CSF for use in a method for the prevention of spontaneous abortion in a subject suffering from recurrent miscarriage, comprising administering to said subject an effective amount of GM-CSF as sole active substance, wherein said method also prevents or reduces the likelihood of embryo implantation failure in the subject undergoing an assisted reproduction procedure.
Abstract: Five tetra peptides corresponding to different active regions of brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) that are neurotrophic and can modulate BDNF signaling in a partial agonist/antagonist way. The peptides offer a therapeutic approach to neural pathologies where BDNF levels are dysregulated.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 11, 2013
Date of Patent:
December 6, 2016
Assignee:
Research Foundation For Mental Hygiene, Inc.
Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the isolation of proteins that comprise disulfide-bonds in their native conformation. Essentially, a method of the present makes the use of reducing agents such as ?-mercaptoethanol or dithiothreitol in protein isolation methods obsolete. A method of the present invention is particularly suitable for the isolation of precursor proteins such as proinsulin from recombinant cells.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 8, 2014
Date of Patent:
November 29, 2016
Assignee:
MSD OSS B.V.
Inventors:
Peter Van Der Meijden, Gijsbert Willem Karel Van Dedem, Michel Hendrikus Maria Eppink, Roeland Wilhelmus Wassenaar
Abstract: A method of treating an individual (i) having abnormal bone; or (ii) afflicted with a disease or disorder related to normal or abnormal FGF receptors or a skeletal disorder; or (iii) having dysplasic bone. The method includes administering to the individual a pharmaceutical composition comprising a therapeutically effective amount of a fibroblast growth factor 9 (FGF-9) variant comprising at least one amino acid substitution in the beta 8-beta 9 loop, wherein said FGF-9 variant incorporates one of the amino acid sequences set forth in SEQ ID NO: 11, 13, 14, 15, 16 or 17.
Abstract: The present invention is directed to novel formulations and methods for the improved delivery and administration of hydrophobic therapeutic compounds that are substantially insoluble and/or susceptible to precipitation in aqueous solution at physiological pH, including, e.g., growth and differentiation factor-5 and related proteins. Many therapeutic compounds are hydrophobic at physiological pH levels.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 23, 2007
Date of Patent:
November 1, 2016
Assignees:
Biopharm Gesellschaft zur biotechnologischen Entwicklung von Pharmaka mbH, HealthPartners Research Foundation
Inventors:
Leah R. Hansom, William H. Frey, II, John D. Hoekman, Jens Pohl
Abstract: The present invention provides a method for inducing twin calving. The method according to the present invention comprises firstly treatment to inducing atresia of the antral follicles on ovary so as to initiate the development of new follicular wave, inducing the development of codominant follicles and further achieving double ovulations by exactly controlling the dosage and time points of hormone injections, and performing artificial insemination to induce the cow to deliver twin calves. The method according to the present invention has relative independent on the technical skills, and a person skilled in the art or a common worker can practice it according to specified operation methods; and during practical application, it does not require special equipment, thus saving cost, as well as improving the social benefit and economic benefit of cow breeding.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 22, 2014
Date of Patent:
October 11, 2016
Assignee:
China Agricultural University
Inventors:
Jianhui Tian, Weibin Zeng, Lei An, Shumin Wang, Zhonghong Wu
Abstract: A method of using a fertility enhancement food to improve human fertility. This fertility enhancement food consists of transfer factor, lactic acid generating bacteria, and/or glucans in appropriate combinations. The fertility food, administered correctly, reduces cortisol levels. High cortisol interferes with conception and stable pregnancies. Dosage amounts are adjusted for client weight. Consumption frequency may be adjusted in response to cortisol measurements. Typically, consumption of the fertility food begins seven or more days before planned conception.
Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition comprising Insulin Growth Factor I (IGF-I) or an analog thereof in combination with Insulin Growth Factor Binding Protein (IGFBP) or an analog thereof, said combination having a molar ratio of IGF-I to IGFBP 5 being lower than equimolar, preferably in the range from 1:20 to 1:3.33, for use in the treatment of a patient suffering from complications of preterm birth, very preterm birth and/or extremely preterm birth, as well as a method for treating a patient suffering from complications of preterm birth, very preterm birth and/or extremely preterm birth.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 9, 2015
Date of Patent:
October 11, 2016
Assignee:
PREMACURE AB
Inventors:
Ann Hellstrom, Chatarina Lofqvist, Lois Smith
Abstract: Isolated SAA peptides, fusion proteins and compositions comprising such are provided as are domain-specific SAA antibodies. Methods of treating sepsis and endotoxemia are also provided.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 9, 2014
Date of Patent:
October 4, 2016
Assignee:
The Feinstein Institute For Medical Research
Inventors:
Haichao Wang, Andrew E. Sama, Wei Li, Kevin J. Tracey
Abstract: In one aspect, the present invention relates to a mammalian cell-based high-throughput assay for the profiling and screening of human epithelial sodium channel (hENaC) cloned from a human kidney c-DNA library and is also expressed in other tissues including human taste tissue. The present invention further relates to amphibian oocyte-based medium-throughput electrophysiological assays for identifying human ENaC modulators, preferably ENaC enhancers. Compounds that modulate ENaC function in a cell-based ENaC assay are expected to affect salty taste in humans. The assays described herein have advantages over existing cellular expression systems. In the case of mammalian cells, such assays can be run in standard 96 or 384 well culture plates in high-throughput mode with enhanced assay results being achieved by the use of a compound that inhibits ENaC function, preferably an amiloride derivative such as Phenamil.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 9, 2004
Date of Patent:
October 4, 2016
Assignee:
Senomyx, Inc.
Inventors:
Guy Servant, Hong Chang, Cyril Redcrow, Sumita Ray, Imran Clark, Bryan Moyer
Abstract: The present invention relates to novel analogs of PYY that have an improved therapeutic profile when compared to native human PYY. These novel PYY analogs are useful in the treatment of obesity, diabetes, and other disorders.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 30, 2014
Date of Patent:
September 13, 2016
Assignee:
GLAXOSMITHKLINE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT LIMITED
Inventors:
Steven Thomas Dock, Andrew James Carpenter, Robert Neil Hunter, III, Yulin Wu, Ved P. Srivastava
Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition using natural gonadotropin—releasing hormone (GnRH), and/or some of its mimetic peptides, indistinctly bound by its amino or carboxyl extremes to a carrier molecule; in one case by its carboxyl extreme and in the other case by the amino terminal extreme, thus eliciting a faster and more potent immunological response against the endogenous GnRH hormone. This finally leads to the ablation of the GnRH and consequently of the rest of the involved hormones in the stream GnRH/LH-FSH/Testosterone-(estrogens). An advantage of this formulation consists on facilitating the exposition to the immune system of a greater number of epitopes of the GnRH or its mimetics, minimizing thus the steric hindrance produced by the carriers.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 19, 2015
Date of Patent:
June 14, 2016
Assignee:
CENTRO DE INGENIERIA GENETICA Y BIOTECNOLOGIA
Inventors:
Jesus Arturo Junco Barranco, Osvaldo Reyes Acosta, Eddy Emilio Bover Fuentes, Franklin Fuentes Aguilar, Eulogio Pimentel Vazquez, Roberto Basulto Baker, Gerardo Enrique Guillen Nieto, Yovisleidys Lopez Saez, Hilda Elisa Garay Perez, Lesvia Calzada Aguilera, Maria Castro Santana, Niurka Oneysi Arteaga More, Luis Alberto Aguero Barrocal
Abstract: Antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof that bind to human PAC1 are provided. Nucleic acids encoding the antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof, vectors, and cells encoding the same are also provided. The antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof can inhibit binding of PAC1 to PACAP, and are useful in a number of PAC1 related disorders, including the treatment and/or prevention of headache disorders, including migraine.
Abstract: The application reports that perlecan domain V (DV) or the LG3 domain thereof reduces deposition and toxicity of A? peptide, the major component of plaques in Alzheimer's disease. Methods of using DV, LG3 and related molecules in treatment of amyloidogenic diseases, particularly Alzheimer's disease, are provided.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 6, 2011
Date of Patent:
June 7, 2016
Assignee:
THE TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM
Inventors:
Gregory J. Bix, Sarah Wright, Irene Griswold-Prenner
Abstract: The present invention relates to a long acting biologically active luteinizing hormone (LH) compound comprising an LH agonist linked to a pharmaceutically acceptable molecule providing an in vivo plasma half-life of the LH agonist or LH compound which is increased substantially compared to the in vivo plasma half-life of an LH agonist administered in the same manner as the LH compound. The present invention relates to methods for controlled ovarian stimulation which can be used in conjunction with assisted reproduction technologies such as in vitro fertilization, intra cytoplasmatic sperm injection, intra uterine insemination and in vitro maturation. In other aspects the invention relates to methods for inducing folliculogenesis and methods for providing luteal support for the corpora lutea.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 9, 2012
Date of Patent:
May 31, 2016
Assignee:
ARTS BIOLOGICS A/S
Inventors:
Peter Nordkild, Svend Lindenberg, Claus Yding Andersen, Kim Vilbour Andersen
Abstract: A method for synchronizing ovulation in sows and gilts by a single injection of hormones is disclosed. A hormone, gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH), luteinizing hormone (LH), follicle stimulating hormone (FSH), human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), analogs, derivatives, agonists or combinations thereof is administered to an open sow post weaning at a specific time to stimulate ovulation of mature responsive follicles. The sow is then bred, without heat detection, at a specific subsequent timed interval after injection with hormone, with one or two artificial or natural breedings. In gilts, the hormone is injected at a timed interval from onset of estrus or at a specific timed interval following Prostaglandin F2a for those gilts which have been held in a state of pseudopregnancy.
Abstract: In certain aspects, the present invention provides compositions and methods for decreasing FSH levels in a patient. The patient may, for example, be diagnosed with an FSH-related disorder or desire to delay or inhibit germ cell maturation.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 30, 2013
Date of Patent:
May 31, 2016
Assignee:
Acceleron Pharma Inc.
Inventors:
John Knopf, Jasbir Seehra, Matthew L. Sherman