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The present invention provides a treatment apparatus. The apparatus contains a reservoir or generator for a treatment solution, a mechanism for delivering the treatment solution to a wound site, and a mechanism for applying the solution to a wound, tissue, bone or surgical cavity for treatment. The apparatus may apply the solution (e.g., a solution containing hypohalous acid) with, for example, an occlusive wound dressing, pulsative lavage device, hydrotherapy, hydrosurgical device, and / or ultrasound. A waste container may be operably connected to the apparatus for collecting waste from the wound by run-off, or by applying negative pressure (e.g. a vacuum). Because the apparatus of the invention can optionally be portable or mobile, the invention is suitable for use in hospitals and nursing homes, as well as for home wound care. The invention also provides a method for treating a wound (or other area needing treatment), and / or for reducing wound bioburden, by supplying a hypochlorous acid solution to the site, such as a wound colonized or infected with drug resistant bacteria, before, during, or after negative pressure wound therapy.

Methods of making a hybrid biologic / synthetic scaffold for repairing damaged or diseased tissue are provided. The methods include the step of suspending pieces of an extracellular matrix material in a liquid to form a slurry, and coating a synthetic mat with the slurry, or mixing or layering the slurry with a synthetic polymer solution. The liquid is subsequently driven off so as to form a foam. Porous implantable scaffolds fabricated by such a method are also disclosed.

A bioprosthetic device is provided for soft tissue attachment, reinforcement, and or reconstruction. The device comprises a naturally occurring extracellular matrix portion and a synthetic portion.

The invention provides synthetic heparin-binding growth factor analogs of formulas I or II as given in the specification, having two peptide chains branched from a dipeptide branch moiety composed of at least one and preferably two trifunctional amino acid residues, which peptide chain or chains bind a heparin-binding growth factor receptor. The synthetic heparin-binding growth factor analogs are useful as pharmaceutical agents, soluble biologics or as surface coatings for medical devices.

This invention provides fully human monoclonal antibodies that recognize HER2. The invention further provides methods of using such monoclonal antibodies in a variety of therapeutic, diagnostic, and prophylactic indications.

A stretch-resistant occlusive device having an elongated, substantially cylindrical porous elastomeric structure and at least one of an elongated stretch-resistant tube and at least one stretch-resistant filament. The porous structure lies within an elongated outer embolic structure such as a helically wound embolic coil.

Physiological substrates of mammalian glutaminyl cyclase (QC, EC 2.3.2.5), new effectors of QC, methods for screening for such effectors, and the use of such effectors and pharmaceutical compositions comprising such effectors for the treatment of conditions that can be treated by modulation of QC-activity. Preferred compositions additionally comprise inhibitors of DP IV or DP IV-like enzymes for the treatment or alleviation of conditions that can be treated by modulation of QC- and DP IV-activity.

Methods for stimulating proliferation and inhibiting death of cells in the epidermis and dermis of wounded and non-wounded as well as transplanted mammalian skin and transplanted skin cell suspensions are described. The methods include the steps of administering to an area of wounded or non-wounded skin therapeutically effective amounts of α1-antitrypsin, alkaline phosphatase (such as placental alkaline phosphatase), transferrin, and α1-acid glycoprotein in compositions that contain at least two of these proteins, or their active derivatives, as the major active components. The compositions can be administered topically and / or by injection, or both. The invention also provides regimens for restoring or maintaining the strength and thickness of wounded, non-wounded and transplanted skin as well as developing new skin from skin cell suspensions comprising periodically administering one or more compositions topically and / or by injection.