Abstract: Provided herein are methods for purifying recombinant A Disintegrin-like and Metallopeptidase with Thrombospondin Type 1 Motif 13 (ADAMTS13) protein from a sample. The method comprises enriching for ADAMTS13 protein by chromatographically contacting the sample with hydroxyapatite under conditions that allow ADAMTS13 protein to appear in the eluate or supernatant from the hydroxylapatite. The methods may further comprise tandem chromatography with a mixed mode cation exchange/hydrophobic interaction resin that binds ADAMTS13 protein. Additional optional steps involve ultrafiltration/diafiltration, anion exchange chromatography, cation exchange chromatography, and viral inactivation. Also provided herein are methods for inactivating virus contaminants in protein samples, where the protein is immobilized on a support. Also provided herein are compositions of ADAMTS13 prepared according to said methods.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a collection of novel muteins derived from human ?1m (or a1m) polypeptide or a functional homologue thereof. The disclosure further refers to a ?1m mutein capable of specifically binding to one or more targets other than a target to which wild-type ?1m binds. The disclosure also relates to a method for producing such collection of muteins and a method for isolating a mutein capable of binding one or more such non-natural targets of wild-type ?1m polypeptide. These aspects are made possible due to, e.g, the structural elucidation of ?1m disclosed herein by the present inventors, an appreciation of ligand-binding sights thereof and, hence, an understanding of which amino acid positions are most suitable for mutagenesis for re-engineering specificity and affinity for any given target while maintaining the secondary and/or tertiary structure of ?1m.

Abstract: Methods for treatment and diagnosis of pervasive developmental disorders in humans are described.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a combination of a leucine source and at least one unsaturated fatty acid source for prophylactic or therapeutic treatment of hypercalcaemia. The invention further relates to a combination of a leucine source and at least one unsaturated fatty acid source for reducing or avoiding a reduction in bone mineral density in a subject or for in vivo regulating of the blood plasma calcium homeostasis.

Abstract: A method of improving the efficacy of a blood transfusion into a subject is provided comprising administering a composition comprising an EAF PEGylated-blood protein into the subject, prior to, during, or subsequent to the blood transfusion.

Abstract: The present invention relates to C5 binding polypeptides, comprising a C5 binding motif, BM, which motif consists of an amino acid sequence selected from i) EX2X3X4A X6X7EID X11LPNL X16X17X18QW X21AFIX23X26LX28D, and ii) an amino acid sequence which has at least 86% identity to the sequence defined in i), wherein the polypeptide binds to C5. The present invention moreover relates to C5 binding polypeptides for use in therapy, such as for use in treatment of a C5 related condition, and to methods of treatments.

Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of using AMG 900, a small molecule pan aurora kinase inhibitor, for the treatment of cancer, including solid tumors, hematologically derived tumors and the like. The invention further provides pharmaceutical compositions, dosage ranges and treatment regimens for administering AMG 900 to treat cancer.

Abstract: The present invention refers to the use of hemoglobin or myoglobin charged with a non-oxygen ligand for improved scarring of wounds.

Abstract: The present invention is related to a nucleic acid molecule binding to SDF-1, whereby the nucleic acid molecule influences migration of cells.

Abstract: Blood-derived plastic articles prepared from compositions including blood and, in some embodiments, at least one crosslinking agent and/or at least one biological response modifier, that can be useful for biological applications such as wound repair and tissue grafts; methods of making and using the same; methods for assessing the concentration of a biological response modifier in an article; and systems for preparing blood-derived plastic articles are provided.

Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition comprising an amphiphilic emulsifier, a polar liquid carrier and, optionally, a lipid component. The amphiphilic emulsifier form free-moving, optionally lipid-carrying, micelles (LMs) in the polar liquid carrier. The pharmaceutical composition is free of hemoglobin and fluorocarbon and can be used for treating conditions related to lack of blood supply and to raise the blood pressure and correct hypovolemia.

Abstract: An in situ gel-forming composition is disclosed. The in situ gel-forming composition comprises one or more absorbable polymers, solvents such as N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone, polyethylene glycol or DMSO, and optionally one or more bioactive agent. The composition forms a hydrogel or semi-solid mass on contact with an aqueous environment. The method of using in situ gel-forming composition for various applications is also disclosed.

Abstract: In certain aspects, the present invention provides compositions and methods for increasing red blood cell and/or hemoglobin levels in vertebrates, including rodents and primates, and particularly in humans.

Abstract: This invention relates to compositions and methods for treatment of vascular conditions. The invention provides arginine polymers and arginine homopolymers for the treatment and/or prevention of glaucoma, pulmonary hypertension, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, erectile dysfunction, Raynaud's syndrome, heparin overdose, vulvodynia, and wound healing. The invention also provides arginine polymers and arginine homopolymers for use in organ perfusate and preservation solutions.

Abstract: The present invention relates to recombinant factor H and variants and conjugates thereof and methods of their production, as well as uses and methods of treatment involving the materials.

Abstract: The present invention provides a pharmaceutical composition containing hemoglobin-based therapeutic agent for treating cancer. The hemoglobin moiety can target cancer cells and the therapeutic moiety (i.e. active agent/therapeutic drug) can kill the cancer cells efficiently. The hemoglobin-based therapeutic agent used in the present invention can be used in the treatment of various cancers such as pancreatic cancer, leukemia, head and neck cancer, colorectal cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer, liver cancer, nasopharyngeal cancer, esophageal cancer, prostate cancer, stomach cancer and brain cancer. The composition can be used alone or in combination with other therapeutic agent(s) such as chemotherapeutic agent to give a synergistic effect on cancer treatment, inhibiting metastasis and/or reducing recurrence. The presently claimed hemoglobin-based 5FU-two-dye conjugate and/or hemoglobin-based 5FU-one-dye conjugate can also be used in live-cell imaging and diagnostic imaging.

Abstract: One aspect of the present invention provides a method of treating or preventing angioedema in a patient in need thereof comprising administering to the patient a therapeutically effective amount of an agent that is capable of inhibiting the interaction of HK with gC1q-R. One aspect of the present invention provides a method of treating or preventing vascular permeability in a patient in need thereof comprising administering to the patient a therapeutically effective amount of an agent that is capable of inhibiting the interaction of HK with gC1q-R.

Abstract: This invention generally relates to compositions and methods for treating myelodysplastic syndrome. In one embodiment, this invention relates to methods for treating myelodysplastic syndrome with ezatiostat or a salt thereof and lenalidomide.

Abstract: This disclosure demonstrates that blockade of TGF? signaling after a hematopoietic stress (e.g., chemotherapy, transplantation, and infection) accelerates hematopoietic reconstitution and delays the return of cycling hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) to quiescence. TGF? blockade in these settings promotes multilineage hematopoietic regeneration by prolonging HSPC cycling and by promoting HSC self-renewal, and is useful for treating hematologic deficiencies caused various hematopoietic stresses.

Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds for treatment that protects the endothelium, prevent pathologic thrombus formation in the microcirculation and preserve platelet number and function and thus may be related to minimizing or preventing development of organ failure, including multiple organ failure (MOF), and, hence, death in critically ill patients by administration of agent(s) limiting the platelets ability to aggregate and form clots and/or by agents modulating/preserving endothelial integrity and/or by agent(s) increasing the rate of thrombus lysis, and Another aspect of the invention related to by a cell-based whole blood viscoelastical haemostatic assay identifying critically ill patients at increased risk of development of organ failure, including multiple organ failure (MOF) and death.

Abstract: The present invention concerns the use of HYD1 peptides to reduce activated T-cell numbers and/or to promote bone preservation in vivo. The present invention concerns methods of treating a bone deficiency and/or an autoimmune disorder, comprising administering an effective amount of a HYD1 peptide. Another aspect of the invention concerns a pharmaceutical composition comprising a HYD1 peptide and another agent for treating a bone deficiency and/or another agent for treating an autoimmune disorder.

Abstract: Therapeutic peptides having guanylyl cyclase C agonist activity are disclosed. The therapeutic peptides are analogues of the E. coli STa peptide with non-natural amino acid, isosteric or D-amino acid substituents. The therapeutic peptides are useful in the treatment of chronic ideopathic constipation, inflammatory bowel disease, and other diseases. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising the therapeutic peptides are also disclosed.

Abstract: A modified hemoglobin oxygen transport agent useful in the treatment of hypoxia and related conditions is disclosed. The composition consists primarily of carbohydrate shielded hemoglobin or a hybrid hemoglobin molecule to deliver oxygen in hypoxia stage. The carbohydrate shielded hemoglobin therapy is based on oxidation physiology, which is believed to play key roles in ischemia, anemia and other conditions related to hypoxia.

Abstract: An active biological substance is disclosed for use in abnormal cellular and viral membrane physiologies in human and mammal organisms. The active substance has diagnostic and/or therapeutic properties and contains or consists of at least one component selected from the group of substances including: histones, covalently modified histones, histone-like polypeptides, biologically active histone sequences and histone-like polypeptides as agents for stopping the supply to solid tumours over their blood vessels, for killing cells infected by virus and for killing tumour cells with disturbed lipid asymmetry.

Abstract: In certain aspects, the present invention provides compositions and methods for increasing red blood cell and/or hemoglobin levels in vertebrates, including rodents and primates, and particularly in humans.

Abstract: Provided herein is an amorphous form of a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of ezatiostat, for example, ezatiostat hydrochloride, compositions, uses and methods of preparation thereof.

Abstract: It has been found that high amounts of aspartate equivalents in combination with vitamin B12 and/or biotin, especially in relative absence of glutamate equivalents, improve the metabolism of ketobodies and/or lactate in a mammal's body, especially in diseased or traumatic conditions. As a result, levels of ketobodies and lactate can be decreased and unphysicologically high acidity normalised. Thus, it is an object of the invention to provide an enteral nutritional or a pharmaceutical composition for the treatment and/or prevention of disturbed ketone and lactate metabolism, i.e. elevated concentrations of ketone bodies, lactate and/or other organic acids and/or insufficient pH homeostasis, especially elevated concentrations of ketone bodies and/or lactate, in a mammal's blood, wherein the composition comprises high amounts of aspartate equivalents in combination with vitamin B12 and/or biotin, preferably in relative absence of glutamate equivalents.

Abstract: The invention relates to a recombinant factor VIII that includes one or more mutations at an interface of A1 and C2 domains of recombinant factor VIII. The one or more mutations include substitution of one or more amino acid residues with either a cysteine or an amino acid residue having a higher hydrophobicity. This results in enhanced stability of factor VIII. Methods for making the recombinant factor VIII, pharmaceutical compositions containing the recombinant factor VIII, and use of the recombinant factor VIII for treating hemophilia A are also disclosed.

Abstract: The invention provides methods, compositions, and medical kits comprising a nitrite-reductase promoter, such as an allosteric modulator of hemoglobin, for use in treating medical disorders and preservation of blood products. In one aspect, the invention provides methods, compositions, and medical kits comprising an inorganic nitrite salt and a nitrite-reductase promoter, such as an allosteric modulator of hemoglobin, for use in treating medical disorders, such as cancer, cardiovascular disorders, ischemic conditions, hemolytic conditions, and bacterial infections. Exemplary inorganic nitrite salts include sodium nitrite and arginine nitrite. Exemplary allosteric modulators of hemoglobin described herein include alkyl-substituted and acyl-substituted di-nitroheterocycles.

Abstract: A method of selectively introducing a substituent into a protein proximal to a binding site on the protein for a homing peptide, comprising: (a) contacting the protein with a compound comprising a homing peptide having the ability to bind to the binding site of the protein; and (b) allowing a moiety on the protein proximal to the binding site to react with the compound comprising the homing peptide, thereby to transfer the substituent G onto the protein.

Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions comprising biologically active proteins linked to extended recombinant polypeptide (XTEN), isolated nucleic acids encoding the compositions and vectors and host cells containing the same, and methods of using such compositions in treatment of glucose-related diseases, metabolic diseases, coagulation disorders, and growth hormone-related disorders and conditions.

Abstract: The invention includes methods and compositions for remodeling a peptide molecule, including the addition or deletion of one or more glycosyl groups to a peptide, and/or the addition of a modifying group to a peptide.

Abstract: The present application provides methods of preventing and treating the toxic effects of exposure to organophosphate agents. In embodiments, targeted cationic liposome complexes delivering nucleic acid molecules encoding butyrylcholinesterase and a polyproline rich peptide are administered. Suitably, the administration is via inhalation or via aerosol. Also provided are cationic liposome complexes and methods of making the complexes for such administration.

Abstract: This invention provides heme-containing peptides capable of binding molecular oxygen at room temperature. These compounds may be useful in the absorption of molecular oxygen from molecular oxygen-containing atmospheres. Also included in the invention are methods for treating an oxygen transport deficiency in a mammal.

Abstract: A preparation useful for, and a method for the prophylactic treatment of women post-childbirth in order to avoid immunization and antibody production, which could induce NAIT and fetal/neonatal bleeding in subsequent pregnancies comprising administering a preparation containing antibodies to HPA1a within 72 hours after delivery in the first non-compatible pregnancy.

Abstract: Disclosed are immunomodulatory polypeptides that elicit an unusual induced cytokine profile, compositions comprising such polypeptides, compositions comprising antibodies that specifically bind to such polypeptides, and methods of using the same, including in cancer treatment, in the treatment of autoimmune diseases, in organ transplantation and for reducing graft rejection, for promoting fertility, and for identifying a neutrophil subset and/or other cellular subset including by flow cytometry. Pharmaceutical compositions and kits, and treatment methods are also disclosed.

Abstract: A method for extracorporeal elimination of one or more components from blood where whole blood or blood plasma is added to a blood treatment device containing an adsorbent which binds the one or more components is disclosed. The adsorbent comprises at least one matrix to which at least one ligand having specific binding affinity to said one or more component is covalently bound. The ligand comprises a glycosidically bound aglycon and at least one saccharide, preferably blood group determinant A, blood group determinant B, blood group H determinant, a P antigen, or a Pk antigen; or said ligand is an amino acid, a peptide or an antibody. Methods for treatment of transplant recipients, and to use a blood treatment device is also disclosed.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides solid forms of a compound of formula I. In some embodiments, the present disclosure provides crystalline forms of Compound I. In some embodiments, the present disclosure provides solvate forms of Compound I. In some embodiments, the present disclosure provides amorphous Compound I.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a hydrogel composition and methods of using the same. The hydrogel composition may include precursors that react with each other upon contact as well as precursors that react upon contact with an initiator. In embodiments, the resulting hydrogels may have varying levels of crosslinking with both denser and less dense regions.

Abstract: Factor VIII variants and methods of use thereof are disclosed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a chimeric protein comprising at least one clotting factor and at least a portion of an immunoglobulin constant region. The invention relates to a method of treating a hemostatic disorder comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of a chimeric protein wherein the chimeric protein comprises at least one clotting factor and at least a portion of an immunoglobulin constant region.

Abstract: There is provided in accordance with the practice of this invention a demannosylated Factor VIII, the immunogenicity of which is substantially decreased or abolished in Human. The modified factor VIII is disclosed together with the modified amino acid sequence, changed by at least one substitution. The modified factor VIII is useful for hemophiliacs, either to avoid or prevent the action of inhibitory anti-FVIII antibodies.

Abstract: The present invention relates to treating a tissue in a mammal from the effects of reperfusion using flagellin

Abstract: Provided is a hydrogel which comprises water as the main component at a high water content and has mechanical strength suitable for practical use and which exhibits high transparency and self-healing and shape-retaining properties. Also provided are both a material for the hydrogel and a novel polyionic dendrimer. A polyionic dendrimer which comprises a hydrophilic linear polymer as the core and polyester dendrons attached to both terminals of the linear polymer and in which cationic groups are bonded to the surfaces of the dendrons, said cationic groups being selected from the group consisting of guanidine group, thiourea group, and isothiourea group; a material for a hydrogel, which comprises the polyionic dendrimer and clay; and a hydrogel prepared using the material.

Abstract: The present invention refers to a composition, comprising hemoglobin or myoglobin, wherein in at least 40% of said hemoglobin or myoglobin the oxygen binding site is charged by a non-O2 ligand, and at least one further ingredient, a method for preparing said composition and the use of hemoglobin or myoglobin charged with a non-oxygen ligand for external treatment of wounds.

Abstract: Provided are a hemoglobin-containing liposome having a specific membrane composition which secures high encapsulation efficiency of hemoglobin and exhibits excellent physical stability and in-vivo stability; and a method for producing the hemoglobin-containing liposome. A hemoglobin-containing liposome includes a hemoglobin solution as an internal fluid of a liposome, in which the membrane of the liposome is constituted of a lipid mixture of a phospholipid, cholesterol, and a saturated higher fatty acid, and a molar ratio of the cholesterol to the phospholipid (cholesterol/phospholipid) is 0.7 to 1.0, and the content of stearic acid in the lipid mixture is 25 to 30 mol %. Preferably, the membrane of the liposome further contains a polyethylene glycol-bound phospholipid in an amount of 0.8 mol % or more relative to the total amount of the lipids constituting the membrane, and the polyethylene glycol-bound phospholipid is bound onto the outer surface of the membrane.

Abstract: The present invention relates to treatment of an inflammatory bowel disease by simultaneous or successive parental and oral administration of a mammalian beta defensin.

Abstract: Conjugates between Factor IX and PEG moieties. are disclosed in the present application. The conjugates are linked via a glycosyl linking group interposed between and covalently attached to the peptide and the modifying group. Conjugates are formed from glycosylated peptides by the action of a glycosyltransferase. The glycosyltransferase ligates a modified sugar moiety onto a glycosyl residue on the peptide. Also provided are methods for preparing the conjugates, methods for treating various disease conditions with the conjugates, and pharmaceutical formulations including the conjugates.

Abstract: The invention relates to a viral inactivated biological liquid or dry mixture and to its preparation. Principally, the invention relates, but is not limited, to a mixture derived from a platelet source.

Abstract: A fibrin wound dressing is made by mixing quantities of fibrinogen solution and thrombin solution with air. The resulting foam is very light weight, and with the proper attention to the amount of thrombin, is also sufficiently viscous to rest on a vertical surface without dripping. The wound dressing may also be formulated for its ability to continue migration of healing substances, such as PDGF, from the dressing to the wound site. Thrombin substitutes, such as other clotting proteins, may be used instead of thrombin. The resulting foam may also be lyophilized or ground and lyophilized for later reconstitution. A therapeutic drug or other additive may also be added to the wound dressing.