Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a packaging body that can stably store a pharmaceutical composition containing a succinate salt of (S,E)-N-(1-((5-(2-((4-cyanophenyl)amino)-4-(propylamino)pyrimidin-5-yl)-4-pentyn-1-yl)amino)-1-oxopropan-2-yl)-4-(dimethylamino)-N-methyl-2-butenamide. According to the present invention, there is provide a packaging body obtained by packaging a succinate salt of (S,E)-N-(1-((5-(2-((4-cyanophenyl)amino)-4-(propylamino)pyrimidin-5-yl)-4-pentyn-1-yl)amino)-1-oxopropan-2-yl)-4-(dimethylamino)-N-methyl-2-butenamide, together with zeolite, and a method for stabilizing a pharmaceutical composition.
Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a granulated product containing a succinate salt of (S,E)-N-(1-((5-(2-((4-cyanophenyl)amino)-4-(propylamino)pyrimidin-5-yl)-4-pentyn-1-yl)amino)-1-oxopropan-2-yl)-4-(dimethylamino)-N-methyl-2-butenamide (hereinafter, referred to as Compound A), which has excellent stability. According to the present invention, there is provided a granulated product containing a succinate salt of (S,E)-N-(1-((5-(2-((4-cyanophenyl)amino)-4-(propylamino)pyrimidin-5-yl)-4-pentyn-1-yl)amino)-1-oxopropan-2-yl)-4-(dimethylamino)-N-methyl-2-butenamide and at least one or more additives of the group consisting of magnesium stearate, sodium stearyl fumarate, and hydrogenated oil.
Abstract: This document provides methods and materials for improving arteriovenous fistula (AVF) maturation and/or maintaining AVF functionality. For example, methods and materials for using one or more senolytic agents to improve AVF maturation, to maintain AVF functionality, and/or to maintain the patency of an AVF are provided. Methods and materials for using one or more senolytic agents to maintain functionality and/or patency of a venous graft (e.g., a venous graft that bypasses an occluded artery) also are provided.
Type:
Application
Filed:
June 21, 2019
Publication date:
August 12, 2021
Inventors:
Karl A. Nath, James L. Kirkland, Tamar Tchkonia
Abstract: Provided herein are compositions and methods for treating myelofibrosis in a subject. The methods comprise administering to the subject an effective amount of compound which is which is N-tert-butyl-3-[(5-methyl-2-{[4-(2-pyrrolidin-1-ylethoxy)phenyl]amino}pyrimidin-4-yl)amino]benzenesulfonamide or a pharmaceutical salt thereof or a hydrate thereof.
Abstract: The present invention provides methods of treating cancer using pyrimidine and pyridine compounds which are inhibitors of Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK).
Type:
Application
Filed:
April 16, 2021
Publication date:
August 12, 2021
Applicant:
Merck Patent GmbH
Inventors:
Bayard R. HUCK, Samantha M. Goodstal, Claude Gimmi-McKim
Abstract: Inventors have shown that targeting DDR1 and DDR2 collagen receptors by Imatinib resensitizes melanoma tumors to BRAFV600E to targeted therapy and normalizes the fibrotic stromal reaction. These findings provide the rationale to combine Imatinib (or other DDR inhibitors) and MAPK-targeting agents to disrupt the influence of the matrix microenvironment in order to delay or prevent the emergence of therapy-resistant cells. They have shown that inhibition of DDR1 and DDR2 kinase activities by Imatinib suppressed the protection of melanoma cells against Vemurafenib (BRAFi) and Trametinib (MEKi) co-drugging and led to cell cycle arrest and cell death. Similar biochemical cell cycle and apoptotic events were promoted in presence of Nilotinib. They validated this anti-tumor activity of Imatinib combined with Vemurafenib in a pre-clinical xenograft model of melanoma and showed that targeting DDR1/2 signaling delays tumor relapse.
Type:
Application
Filed:
June 19, 2019
Publication date:
August 12, 2021
Inventors:
Sophie TARTARE-DECKERT, Marcel DECKERT, Ilona BERESTJUK
Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods of treating or preventing a disease caused by nonsense mutations, or ameliorating one or more symptoms associated therewith, that involve administering to a patient in need thereof a therapeutically or prophylactically effective amount of triamterene, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, hydrate, solvate, clathrate, prodrug, or polymorph thereof.
Type:
Application
Filed:
June 14, 2019
Publication date:
August 12, 2021
Inventors:
David M. Bedwell, Kim M. Keeling, Ming Du, Steven M. Rowe, Venkateshwar Mutyam, Amna Siddiqui, James Robert Bostwick
Abstract: Described herein is a novel method for generation of recombinant poxviruses using an E3 and K3 double deletion mutant virus as the parental virus for generation of recombinant viruses. Following allowing for crossing over between the parental virus and an insertion cassette including an orthopox K3 peptide and the gene of interest, recombinant viruses are selected by infecting a host cell line permissive for the orthopox K3 peptide but not for the E3 and K3 double mutant parental virus. It is also demonstrated that a specific small molecule inhibitor of NEDD8 activating enzyme, MLN4924, can completely block poxvirus K3 family protein mediated PKR degradation and virus replication.
Abstract: Disclosed herein are compounds having antiviral activity, and, in particular, an inhibitory activity on the replication of Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV). Druggable target sites, including Px, in the RSV N protein are disclosed, as well as compounds targeting Px. The compounds can be used to treat patients with RSV infection.
Type:
Application
Filed:
May 3, 2019
Publication date:
August 12, 2021
Inventors:
Richard PLEMPER, Julien SOURIMANT, Edgars JECS, Dennis LIOTTA, Stephen PELLY, Robert WILSON, Zackery Will DENTMON
Abstract: Methods for treating eye diseases associated with inflammation and/or vascular proliferation in subjects are disclosed. The methods include administering therapeutically effective amounts of a tranilast compound, in particular (E)-2-[[3-(3-Methoxy-4-propargyloxy)phenyl)-1-oxo-2-propenyl]amino]benzoic acid or (E)-2-[[3,4-Bis(difluoromethoxy)phenyl)-1-oxo-2-propenyl]amino]benzoic acid or pharmaceutically acceptable salts or solvates thereof.
Abstract: The present disclosure provides a safe method for opioid abuse deterrence, anesthesia or the treatment of pain by safely administering an amount of active agent to a patient while reducing the incidence or severity of suppressed respiration. The present disclosure provides a pharmaceutical composition comprising a therapeutic agent and a chemoreceptor respiratory stimulant In one aspect, the compositions oppose effects of respiratory suppressants by combining a chemoreceptor respiratory stimulant with an opioid receptor agonist or other respiratory-depressing drug. The combination of the two chemical agents, that is, the therapeutic agent and the respiratory stimulant, may be herein described as the “drugs.” The present compositions may be used to treat acute and chronic pain, sleep apnea, and other conditions, leaving only non-lethal side effects. When the novel pain medication contains doxapram and an opioid, it can also be used as an opioid abuse deterrent.
Abstract: The present invention relates to PIKfyve inhibitors, such as apilimod, and related compositions and methods for treating or preventing coronavirus infections.
Type:
Application
Filed:
February 3, 2021
Publication date:
August 12, 2021
Inventors:
Sean Landrette, Peter R. Young, Henri Lichenstein, Murat Gunel
Abstract: Provided herein are methods and compositions for treating liver disorders, including without limitation non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, and symptoms and manifestations thereof, in a patient. Accordingly, utilized herein are compounds of formulas (I), (II), etc., as disclosed herein.
Abstract: The present invention provides compositions comprising bisfluoroalkyl-1,4-benzodiazepinone compounds, including compounds of Formula (I) or prodrugs thereof; in combination with an additional cancer therapeutic agent, and methods of use thereof for treating diseases and disorders such as cancer.
Abstract: Compositions and methods that can be used to treat or prevent a viral infection are described herein. Prostacyclin/prostaglandin analogs can be used to treat infection by viruses such as SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV, and SARS-CoV-2. For example, pharmaceutical compositions containing beraprost or salts thereof can be used to treat infection by SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes the “COVID-19” disease).
Abstract: This disclosure provides pharmaceutical compositions for delivering estradiol to a subject in need thereof, as well as methods of administering the compositions, and methods of using them.
Abstract: The present invention includes a method of suppressing systemic immune response in a subject, the method comprising topically administering a pharmaceutically effective amount of a vitamin D analog to a subject in need thereof. The present invention further includes a method of treating an autoimmune disease in a subject, the method comprising topically administering a pharmaceutically effective amount of a vitamin D analog to a subject in need thereof.
Abstract: This invention relates to solid oral dosage forms of the HIV inhibitor darunavir and/or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof, and combination formulations thereof.
Type:
Application
Filed:
April 27, 2021
Publication date:
August 12, 2021
Inventors:
Urbain Alfons C. DELAET, Philip Erna H. HEYNS, Eugeen Maria Jozef JANS
Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition to be used for increasing the blood-brain barrier permeability, the composition including a nitric oxide donor, and a use of the composition. More particularly, the invention relates to a composition to be used for increasing the blood-brain barrier permeability, the composition including a nitric oxide donor capable of carrying nitric oxide (NO), wherein the nitric oxide delivered to a site adjacent to the blood-brain barrier by the nitric oxide donor activates matrix metallopeptidase-9 (MMP-9), and the activated MMP-9 weakens a tight junction between a cerebrovascular endothelial cell and a cerebrovascular endothelial cell to increase the blood-brain barrier permeability, and to a use of the composition.
Abstract: Described are methods for preventing or inhibiting genomic instability and in cells affected by diagnostic radiology procedures employing ionizing radiation. Embodiments include methods of preventing or inhibiting genomic instability and in cells affected by computed tomography (CT) radiation. Subjects receiving ionizing radiation may be those persons suspected of having cancer, or cancer patients having received or currently receiving cancer therapy, and or those patients having received previous ionizing radiation, including those who are approaching or have exceeded the recommended total radiation dose for a person.
Abstract: Provided herein are polymer-drug conjugates with enhanced antibacterial efficacy. These conjugates include a polymer comprising a plurality of masked cationic functional groups and an antibiotic drug linked to the cationic polymer by a pH-sensitive linker. The masked cationic functional groups may be converted in aqueous solution to free cationic functional groups faster at a pH below 7 than a pH above 7. The cationic functional groups may be masked as either an uncharged functional group or by an ion pair with a neighboring anionic functional group attached to the polymer. The pH-sensitive linker releases the drug faster in aqueous solution at or below a pre-determined pH value selected from a range of 4.5 to 7 than a pH value above 7.
Abstract: Provided herein is technology relating to predicting a subject's resistance or responsiveness to a decitabine based therapy and particularly, but not exclusively, to methods, compositions, and related uses for predicting a subject's resistance or responsiveness to a decitabine based therapy wherein the subject is diagnosed with chronic myelomonocytic leukemia.
Type:
Application
Filed:
February 11, 2021
Publication date:
August 12, 2021
Inventors:
Maria Figueroa, Kirsten M. Plasseraud, Tingting Qin, Valeria Santini
Abstract: The invention relates generally to a pharmacological therapy for human genetic diseases, specifically those characterized by unbalance nucleotide pools, more specifically mitochondrial DNA depletion syndromes, and more specifically, thymidine kinase 2 (TK2) deficiency. The pharmacological therapy involves the administration of at least one deoxynucleoside, or mixtures thereof. For the treatment of TK2 deficiency, the pharmacological therapy involves the administration of either deoxythymidine (dT) or deoxycytidine (dC), or mixtures thereof. This administration of deoxynucleosides is applicable to other disorders of unbalanced nucleotide pools, especially those found in mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome.
Type:
Application
Filed:
April 28, 2021
Publication date:
August 12, 2021
Inventors:
Michio Hirano, Caterina Garone, Ramon Marti
Abstract: A compound useful for treating leukemia or myelodysplastic syndrome, having the structure of formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein R is H or —C(?O)—O—R3, and R2 is H or —C(?O)—O—R4, provided R1 and R2 are not both H; and R3 and R4 are each independently selected from the group consisting of alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, aryl, arylalkyl, cycloalkyl, cycloheteroalkyl, and heteroalkyl. In an exemplary compound of formula (I), R1 is —C(?O)—O—CH2—CH3, and R2 is H.
Abstract: A method of placing a glove onto a user's hand. In a first step, the user's hand is coated in foam. In a second step, the user's hand is inserted into the glove, while the user's hand is coated in the foam. The foam may contain ozone in a concentration that is selected to treat and/or prevent dermatitis. The foam may also contain alcohol for disinfecting the user's hand.
Abstract: The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition for treating cancer. More specifically, it relates to a pharmaceutical composition for treating cancer: which comprises an ionic compound in which two compounds selected from ascorbic acid, dichloroacetic acid and lactate are combined with one metal ion; has better therapeutic effect by overlapping and complex disturbances of cancer cell metabolism because different compounds are simultaneously uptake into cancer cells and each acts through different mechanisms on cancer cells, compared to the conventional anticancer drugs focusing on one specific mutation or cancer cell growth signal; and can more effectively inhibit the proliferation, invasion and metastasis of cancer cells because it is less susceptible to drug.
Abstract: Use of phosphorus-based material in preparation of medicament for treating tumors. The phosphorus-based material is selected from a material which is convertible to produce phosphate ions in an acidic environment, and the phosphorus-based material can be converted by tumor cells phagocytosis to produce a large number of phosphate ions to change the intraceullar environment and extracellular environment, thereby inhibiting proliferation of tumor cells and inducing death of tumor cells. This process has no significant effect on normal cell activities. By applying the phosphorus-based material to the preparation of a medicament for treating tumor in a manner as mentioned above, the amplification and metastasis of tumor cells can be effectively inhibited, thereby the metastasis of the tumor cells and recurrence of the tumor can be prevented more effectively, improving the therapeutic effect of the tumor.
Type:
Application
Filed:
July 20, 2018
Publication date:
August 12, 2021
Applicant:
HUBEI MOPHOS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
Inventors:
Xuefeng Yu, Wenhua Zhou, Ting Pan, Haodong Cui
Abstract: The present invention provides a method of identifying a target for preparing an inhibitory chimeric antigen receptor (iCAR) or a protective chimeric antigen receptor (pCAR) capable of preventing or attenuating undesired activation of an effector immune cell. Also provided are a list of iCAR targets, as well as vectors and transduced effector immune cells comprising the nucleic acid molecule and methods for treatment of cancer comprising administering the transduced effector immune cells are further provided.
Type:
Application
Filed:
February 12, 2021
Publication date:
August 12, 2021
Inventors:
Gideon Gross, Will Gibson, Dvir Dahary, Merav Beiman
Abstract: Disclosed are compositions and methods for targeted treatment of infections and cancers expressing cancers. In particular, tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) a genetically engineered to express chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) polypeptides to produce CAR-TILs that can be used with adoptive cell transfer to target, penetrate, and kill solid tumor masses. Therefore, also disclosed are methods of providing an immunotherapy in a subject with an infection or cancer that involves adoptive transfer of the disclosed CAR-TILs.
Abstract: The present invention relates to a cell which comprises a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) or transgenic T cell receptor (TCR) and secretes an antibody which binds a transforming growth factor beta receptor (T?R).
Type:
Application
Filed:
May 10, 2019
Publication date:
August 12, 2021
Inventors:
Martin Pulé, Shaun Cordoba, Shimobi Onuoha, Alex Kinna, Simon Thomas, Mathieu Ferrari, Marco Della Peruta, Phillip Wu
Abstract: The present disclosure provides distinct therapeutic populations of cells that form a pharmaceutical composition useful in hematopoietic stem/progenitor cell transplant. For example, the present disclosure provides a therapeutic population of cells, comprising an enriched population of hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells, memory T cells, regulatory T cells, and wherein the population of cells is depleted of naïve conventional ??-T cells. The present disclosure further provides methods of treatment using the therapeutic population of cells. In other embodiments, the present disclosure provides methods of producing a therapeutic population of cells.
Type:
Application
Filed:
November 6, 2020
Publication date:
August 12, 2021
Inventors:
Ivan K. Dimov, Nathaniel Fernhoff, Kevin Sheehan
Abstract: Described herein are polypeptides, systems, and methods that relate to using domains that bind specifically to a biotinylamide to control receptor and cellular activity.
Abstract: The present invention relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules.
Type:
Application
Filed:
April 13, 2021
Publication date:
August 12, 2021
Inventors:
Heiko SCHUSTER, Franziska HOFFGAARD, Jens FRITSCHE, Oliver SCHOOR, Toni WEINSCHENK, Daniel Johannes KOWALEWSKI, Chih-Chiang TSOU
Abstract: The present invention provides a pharmaceutical composition for healing tissue, said pharmaceutical composition comprising adherent cells originating from mesenchymal tissue treated with a physiologically active polypeptide or an LPS, or culture supernatant thereof, and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, and a method for producing the pharmaceutical composition.
Type:
Application
Filed:
June 17, 2019
Publication date:
August 12, 2021
Applicants:
OSAKA AIR MACHINE SERVICE, LTD., Regene Pharm Co., Ltd.
Abstract: The present invention refers to a composition comprising a conditioned cell culture medium obtained or obtainable by a process which comprises culturing a population of mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs), in which at least about 25%, at least about 30%, at least about 35%, at least about 40%, at least about 45%, at least about 50%, at least about 55%, at least about 60%, at least about 65%, at least about 70%, at least about 75%, at least about 80%, at least about 85%, at least about 90%, at least about 95%, at least about 96%, at least about 97%, at least about 98%, or at least about 99%, of said population by number of cells are MSCs obtained from a mammal pertaining to the genus canis, in a nutrient rich liquid prepared for cell culture, preferably a basal media; and collecting the conditioned cell culture medium, wherein preferably the nutrient rich liquid is an animal/human serum-free media or a chemically defined animal/human serum-free and xeno free media designed to grow MSCs, for use in therapy.
Type:
Application
Filed:
June 14, 2019
Publication date:
August 12, 2021
Inventors:
Luis MARIÑAS PARDO, Manuel HERMIDA PRIETO
Abstract: This invention relates to compositions and methods for the transplantation of GABAergic neurons. GABAergic neurons and compositions comprising the same according to the present invention may be used as cell-based therapies for restoring or reinforcing central inhibition in the nervous system of a subject and for the treatment of neurological conditions, diseases and disorders associated with impaired or aberrant neural function. In a preferred embodiment, the transplant composition comprise of GABAergic neurons, a GFR-alpha agonist, and at least one cell death inhibitor, and that the GABAergic neurons are generated by differentiating pluripotent stem cells, multipotent stem cells, or progenitor cells.
Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure include methods and compositions for treatment or prevention of pain in an individual. In specific embodiments, the methods and compositions encompass fibroblasts and/or fibroblast derivatives for the treatment of any kind of pain, including back pain. In particular aspects, exosomes and/or lysate and/or conditioned media from the fibroblasts are provided to an individual in need thereof.
Abstract: The present invention concerns a method of generating a population of skeletal muscle derived human muscle precursor cells. For this purpose, a specialized FBS-free cell growth medium is used. The invention further concerns a composition comprising such a population of hMPCs for use as a medicament, especially in the treatment of skeletal muscle dysfunction.
Type:
Application
Filed:
May 6, 2019
Publication date:
August 12, 2021
Applicant:
UNIVERSITÄT ZÜRICH
Inventors:
Daniel EBERLI, Deana MOHR, Souzan SALEMI, Fahd AZZABI ZOURAQ
Abstract: This document provides methods and materials for treating nerve injuries and/or neurological disorders. For example, compositions including an amnion tissue preparation and/or a stem cell preparation as well as methods for using such compositions to treat a nerve injuries and/or neurological disorders are provided.
Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods for the treatment of autism spectrum disorders. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to methods of using cord blood for the treatment of autism spectrum disorders.
Type:
Application
Filed:
February 8, 2021
Publication date:
August 12, 2021
Applicant:
DUKE UNIVERSITY
Inventors:
Joanne Kurtzberg, Geraldine Dawson, Jesse Troy, Jessica Sun
Abstract: The disclosure relates to dental pulp stem cells, method of preparing dental pulp stem cells, and methods of treating a patient with nervous tissue injuries by using dental pulp stem cells.
Abstract: Disclosed herein are therapeutic compositions containing non-pathogenic, germination-competent bacterial spores, for the prevention, control, and treatment of gastrointestinal diseases, disorders and conditions and for general nutritional health.
Type:
Application
Filed:
April 5, 2021
Publication date:
August 12, 2021
Applicant:
Seres Therapeutics, Inc,
Inventors:
Gregory MCKENZIE, Mary-Jane LOMBARDO MCKENZIE, David N. COOK, Marin VULIC, Geoffrey VON MALTZAHN, Brian GOODMAN, John Grant AUNINS, Matthew R. HENN, David Arthur BERRY, Jonathan WINKLER
Abstract: A probiotic composition and method for activating probiotic spores for consumption by a human to reduce inflammation in or treat inflammatory conditions in the gut. A probiotic composition comprises a nutrient-germinant composition, one or more species of Bacillus spores, and optionally a food or beverage product, which are mixed or pre-mixed in any combination. A nutrient-germinant composition comprises one or more L-amino acids, optionally a source of potassium ions, and optionally one or more buffers, if the source of potassium ions is not also a buffer. A method of activating the spores comprises heating the probiotic composition or food or beverage containing the probiotic composition to a temperature range of around 42° C.-100° C., more preferably 70° C.-85° C. prior to being administered to ingested. Dosing the probiotic composition at around 1 to 4 grams per day over a treatment cycle can reduce indicators of inflammation by at least 10-20% or more.
Type:
Application
Filed:
February 8, 2021
Publication date:
August 12, 2021
Inventors:
Gabriel F.K. Everett, Jordan E. Church, Charles J. Greenwald, Amanda K. Rosmarin
Abstract: Methods of formulating live biotherapeutics are disclosed in which a deficiency or excess of a specific bacterial strain in a person's microbiome is identified by comparing a gene-specific characterization of the person's microbiome against a comprehensive, non-redundant reference gene catalog, and the biotherapeutic is formulated by selecting bacteria to address the deficiency or excess. Embodiments include the formulation of live biotherapeutics for improving the health of a person's vaginal microbiome, i.e. using a vaginal reference gene catalog, and may be suitable for ameliorating, treating, or preventing a malignancy such as a cancer of the female genitourinary system.
Type:
Application
Filed:
April 6, 2021
Publication date:
August 12, 2021
Inventors:
Jacques Ravel, Michael France, Lindsay Rutt, Bing Ma
Abstract: Provided are beneficial bacteria that can be beneficially applied across a wide range of age groups and a composition containing the same. Bifidobacterium longum subspecies longum NITE BP-02564 and/or Bifidobacterium longum subspecies longum NITE BP-02565; bacteria classified as Bifidobacterium longum subspecies longum, having utilization ability for sialic acid; and a composition containing the bacteria are also provided. More preferably, a composition containing sialic acid is also provided. More preferably, a composition containing at least one carbohydrate selected from the group consisting of arabinoxylan, arabinan, pectic galactan, and oligosaccharides derived therefrom or containing at least a carbohydrate derived from a gramineous plant or a carbohydrate derived from a solanaceous plant are also provided.
Abstract: This invention relates to the use of a bacterium of the genus Bifidobacterium, particularly, but not exclusively, a bacterium of the Bifidobacterium animalis ssp. lactis strain 420 (B420) for use in reducing food, energy and/or fat intake.
Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition comprising Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG (LGG) (ATCC 53103) and/or a bioactive extract of LGG to increase the expression of filaggrin or profilaggrin, for use in treating skin or mucosa barrier dysfunctions or defects. The present invention also comprises the use of a composition comprising Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG (LGG) (ATCC 53103) and/or a bioactive extract of LGG to increase the expression of filaggrin or profilaggrin, for use in the manufacture of a medicament for use in treating skin barrier dysfunctions. Also disclosed is a use of a composition comprising Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG (LGG) (ATCC 53103) and/or a bioactive extract of LGG to increase the expression of filaggrin or profilaggrin, for use in the manufacture of a cosmetic composition for use in improving the appearance and/or texture of the skin.
Abstract: An agent for modulating expression of a heat shock protein gene, comprising a Lactobacillus sp. derived from Artemisia indica var. maximowiczii or Angelica keiskei. Also described are compositions comprising the same, as well as methods of making and using such agents and compositions.
Abstract: Provided are superabsorbent materials composed of one or more water-soluble polysaccharides, such as gelling polysaccharides and gelling-compatible polysaccharides, and one or more insoluble fibers. The disclosed superabsorbent materials have a porous network structure and highly stable gelling properties as well as high absorption ratio and volume expansion capacity upon hydration or rehydration. Also provided are methods for preparing such superabsorbent materials and uses thereof.