Abstract: Anti-Tweak antibodies are described.

Abstract: Anti-Tweak antibodies are described.

Abstract: Methods of treating patients and evaluating patients for disease stage and/or severity are disclosed.

Abstract: Biomarkers of multiple sclerosis (MS) and of anti-TWEAK/TWEAK-Receptor therapy for MS are described.

Abstract: Methods of treating cancer using an agent that blocks interaction between TWEAK and its receptor are described.

Abstract: This invention provides binding proteins, including antibodies, antibody derivatives and antibody fragments, that specifically bind a CD154 (CD40L) protein. This invention also provides a chimeric, humanized or fully human antibody, antibody derivative or antibody fragment that specifically binds to an epitope to which a humanized Fab fragment comprising a variable heavy chain sequence according to SEQ ID NO: 1 and comprising a variable light chain sequence according to SEQ ID NO: 2 specifically binds. CD154 binding proteins of this invention may elicit reduced effector function relative to a second anti-CD154 antibody. CD154 binding proteins of this invention are useful in diagnostic and therapeutic methods, such as in the treatment and prevention of diseases including those that involve undesirable immune responses that are mediated by CD154-CD40 interactions.

Abstract: The present invention provides methods and agents for the treatment of TWEAK-related conditions, including cardiac, liver, kidney, lung, adipose, skeletal, muscle, neuronal, bone and cartilage conditions. The invention also provides methods for identifying TWEAK agonists or antagonists for the treatment of TWEAK-related conditions. Additionally, the invention provides transgenic animals that express an exogenous DNA encoding a TWEAK polypeptide, or fragments, analogs, or muteins thereof, and methods for using such animals to identify TWEAK agonists or antagonists. The invention further provides methods for diagnosing a disease based on TWEAK expression. The invention also provides methods for affecting cellular differentiation of progenitor cells using TWEAK polypeptides, agonists, or antagonists.

Abstract: Methods of treating neuronal disorders, such as mechanical neuronal traumas and neurodegenerative disorders, with TWEAK or TWEAK-R blocking agents are presented.

Abstract: Methods of treating stroke with blocking agents of TWEAK or TWEAK receptor are presented.

Abstract: Methods of treating patients and evaluating patients for disease stage and/or severity are disclosed.

Abstract: Methods of treating cancer using an agent that blocks interaction between TWEAK and its receptor are described.

Abstract: Anti-Tweak antibodies are described.

Abstract: Methods of treating inflammatory disorders, such as rheumatoid arthritis, by modulating TWEAK and TNF-? are disclosed, as are other methods.

Abstract: The invention relates to aglycosyl anti-CD154 antibodies or antibody derivatives, characterized by a modification at the conserved N-linked site in the CH2 domains of the Fc portion of said antibody. The invention also relates to the treatment of immune response related diseases and inhibition of unwanted immune responses with such aglycosylated anti-CD154 antibodies or antibody derivatives thereof.

Abstract: A method for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is disclosed. The method comprises administration of an antibody, polypeptide or other molecule recognizing VLA-4, a surface molecule expressed on most types of white blood cells and involved in leukocyte adhesion to endothelium and other tissus in the gut.

Abstract: The invention relates to antibodies which specifically bind to the gc chain of cytokine receptors, as well as to cell lines which produce such antibodies, pharmaceutical compositions, and methods of treating immunological diseases by treating patients with such antibodies.

Abstract: A method for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is disclosed. The method comprises administration of an antibody, polypeptide or other molecule recognizing VLA-4, a surface molecule expressed on most types of white blood cells and involved in leukocyte adhesion to endothelium and other tissus in the gut.

Abstract: The invention relates generally to the treatment and inhibition of immunological complications of the eye. Such complications include unwanted immune responses resulting in an ocular inflammatory disease, resulting from a corneal or retinal graft transplantation or resulting from ocular angiogenesis, particularly ocular neovascularization. The invention relates in particular to the inhibition, treatment, or reversal of immune-system driven rejection of grafted corneal or retinal tissue or cells in a recipient host and to the treatment or inhibition of ocular inflammatory disease or ocular neovascularization in a host.

Abstract: A method for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is disclosed. The method comprises administration of a VCAM-1/IgG fusion protein.

Abstract: The invention relates to antibodies which specifically bind to the gc chain of cytokine receptors, as well as to cell lines which produce such antibodies, pharmaceutical compositions, and methods of treating immunological diseases by treating patients with such antibodies.