Abstract: The invention relates to a CD84 inhibitor for use in treating or preventing of an ischemic disease and/or ischemic tissue damage, the use of a CD84 inhibitor for inhibiting CD84 mediated T cell migration in vitro and a method for screening for a CD84 inhibitor.

Abstract: Silent brain ischemia (SBI) or ischemia of other organs can result from an embolism that is introduced into the arterial system during a medical procedure. The application provides a method of administering a FXII inhibitor in a patient receiving a medical procedure and animal models useful for studying ischemia including SBI and ischemia in other organs, and for evaluating candidate therapeutics.

Abstract: The subject of the present invention is, in the most general aspect, the prevention and/or treatment of a secondary edema. In particular, the present invention relates to a C1-Inhibitor for use in a method of preventing the formation and/or reducing the size of a secondary edema of the central nervous system (CNS) in a subject wherein the subject has or has had at least one disorder selected from the group consisting of stroke, ischemic stroke, hemorrhagic stroke, perinatal stroke, traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injury. Preferably the secondary edema of the CNS is a secondary brain edema. Another subject of the present invention is the treatment of disorders associated with an increased permeability of the blood brain barrier or the blood spinal cord barrier. And a third subject is a plasma-derived C1-inhibitor for use in a method of preventing, reducing or treating brain ischemia-reperfusion injury.

Abstract: The subject of the present invention is, in the most general aspect, the prevention and/or treatment of a secondary edema. In particular, the present invention relates to a C1-Inhibitor for use in a method of preventing the formation and/or reducing the size of a secondary edema of the central nervous system (CNS) in a subject wherein the subject has or has had at least one disorder selected from the group consisting of stroke, ischemic stroke, hemorrhagic stroke, perinatal stroke, traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injury. Preferably the secondary edema of the CNS is a secondary brain edema. Another subject of the present invention is the treatment of disorders associated with an increased permeability of the blood brain barrier or the blood spinal cord barrier. And a third subject is a plasma-derived C1-inhibitor for use in a method of preventing, reducing or treating brain ischemia-reperfusion injury.

Abstract: Silent brain ischemia (SBI) or ischemia of other organs can result from an embolism that is introduced into the arterial system during a medical procedure. The application provides a method of administering a FXII inhibitor in a patient receiving a medical procedure and animal models useful for studying ischemia including SBI and ischemia in other organs, and for evaluating candidate therapeutics.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising an inhibitor of STIM2 or an inhibitor of STIM2-regulated plasma membrane calcium channel activity and optionally a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, excipient and/or diluent. Furthermore, the present invention relates to an inhibitor of STIM2 or an inhibitor of STIM2-regulated plasma membrane calcium channel activity for the treatment and/or prevention of a neurological disorder associated with pathologically increased cytosolic calcium concentrations. Also disclosed are methods of treating and/or preventing a neurological disorder associated with pathologically increased cytosolic calcium concentrations comprising administering a pharmaceutically effective amount of an inhibitor of STIM2 or of an inhibitor of STIM2-regulated plasma membrane calcium channel activity to a subject in need thereof.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising an inhibitor of stromal interaction molecule 1 (STIM1) or an inhibitor of STIM1-regulated plasma membrane calcium channel activity, in particular an inhibitor of Orai1 (also designated as CRACM1), and optionally a pharmaceutically active carrier, excipient or diluent. The invention further relates to an inhibitor of stromal interaction molecule 1 (STIM1) or an inhibitor of STIM1-regulated plasma membrane calcium channel activity, in particular an inhibitor of Orai1 (also designated as CRACM1), for treating and/or preventing a disorder related to venous or arterial thrombus formation.

Abstract: The invention relates generally to an anti-thrombotic treatment of occlusive syndromes in the cerebral vascular system causing cerebral infarct due to stroke or ischemic stroke, which is a major cause of death and permanent disability in industrialized countries. More particularly, the invention relates to a system and method of preventing and treating such occlusive syndromes in the cerebral vascular by inhibiting initial adhesion/attachment of platelets to the endothelium by preventing or inhibiting binding of von Willebrand factor to platelet glycoprotein Ib by administration of a subject in such need anti-glycoprotein Ib monovalent antibodies and/or anti-vWF monovalent antibodies, rather than by blocking the common pathway of platelet aggregation by blockade of platelet aggregation with anti-glycoprotein IIb/IIIa.