225 results about "Encephalopathy" patented technology

The present invention is in the field of transactive response DNA binding protein with a molecular weight of 43 kDa (TARDB or also TDP-43). The invention relates to humanized TDP-43 specific binding molecules, in particular to humanized anti-TDP-43 antibodies or antigen-binding fragment or a derivative thereof and uses thereof. The present invention provides means and methods to diagnose, prevent, alleviate and / or treat a disease, disorder and / or abnormality associated with TDP-43 aggregates including but not limited to Frontotemporal dementia (FTD), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD), Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), and limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE).

A chimeric autoantibody receptor (CAAR) that enables targeting of an immune cell to autoantibody producing B cells. The CAAR includes an autoantigen or fragment thereof that is bound by autoantibodies associated with neurological autoimmune disease primarily targeting the central nervous system. Also disclosed is a nucleic acid molecule encoding a chimeric autoantibody receptor (CAAR), the nucleic acid sequence encoding an autoantigen or fragment thereof that is bound by autoantibodies associated with a neurological autoimmune disease primarily targeting the central nervous system, a transmembrane domain, and an intracellular signaling domain, a vector comprising a nucleic acid molecule encoding a chimeric autoantibody receptor (CAAR), a genetically modified immune cell comprising the nucleic acid molecule encoding the CAAR and use of the immune cell in the treatment or prevention of a neurological autoimmune disease primarily targeting the central nervous system, such as an autoimmune encephalopathy or encephalomyelopathy, preferably anti-NMDAR encephalitis.

The invention discloses an intelligent feedback type encephalopathy rehabilitation guidance training system which collects physiological data of a patient in real time through a wearable device or a brain-computer interface, carries out accurate evaluation and generates a personalized training plan in combination with individual differences and rehabilitation progress of the patient. In the training process, the system provides immediate feedback and guidance, and correctness and effectiveness of training are ensured. Meanwhile, the system also integrates comprehensive rehabilitation guidance functions, including cognition, language and motion function recovery, psychological support, life skill training and the like; through the cloud data processing center, medical personnel can remotely monitor the rehabilitation condition of a patient and adjust a training plan in time. The system not only improves the pertinence and effectiveness of rehabilitation training, but also enhances the rehabilitation confidence and participation degree of the patient. In a word, the intelligent feedback type encephalopathy rehabilitation guidance training system provides all-around and personalized rehabilitation services for encephalopathy patients, and the rehabilitation effect and the satisfaction degree of the patients are remarkably improved.

Provided is a Bifidobacterium lactis. The Bifidobacterium lactis is Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis BL-11, and the preservation number of the Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis BL-11 is CGMCC No. 20847. The provided Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. Lactis can improve intestine metabolism disorder and normalize the composition of intestine microbiome so as to improve height, suppresses obesity, promote infant and youth physical development and mental development, and prevent and treat mental disorders, said mental disorders including anxiety, depression, attention-deficit / hyperactivity disorder, autism, schizophrenia, hepatic encephalopathy, anorexia, Tourette syndrome, and Asperger syndrome.

Aspects of the invention provide an AAV product that delivers an STXBP1 gene supplementation or replacement strategy throughout the human CNS at levels of DNA biodistribution, RNA expression, and hSTXBPlb protein levels expected to restore function in STXBP1 encephalopathy patients.

The present invention relates to the use of selective aquaporin inhibitors, e.g., of aquaporin-4 or aquaporin-2, e.g., certain phenylbenzamide compounds, for the prophylaxis, treatment and control of aquaporin-mediated conditions, e.g., diseases of water imbalance, for example edema (particularly edema of the brain and spinal cord, e.g., following trauma or ischemic stroke, as well as the edema associated with glioma, meningitis, acute mountain sickness, epileptic seizures, infections, metabolic disorders, hypoxia, water intoxication, hepatic failure, hepatic encephalopathy, diabetic ketoacidosis, abscess, eclampsia, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and lupus cerebritis, as well as edema consequent to microgravity and / or radiation exposure, as well as edema consequent to invasive central nervous system procedures, e.g., neurosurgery, endovascular clot removal, spinal tap, aneurysm repair, or deep brain stimulation, as well as retinal edema), as well as hyponatremia and excess fluid retention, and diseases such as epilepsy, retinal ischemia and other diseases of the eye associated with abnormalities in intraocular pressure and / or tissue hydration, myocardial ischemia, myocardial ischemia / reperfusion injury, myocardial infarction, myocardial hypoxia, congestive heart failure, sepsis, and neuromyelitis optica, as well as migraines, as well as to novel assays for identifying aquaporin inhibitors.

The disclosure concerns compositions and methods for treatment of encephalopathies, including encephalopathies caused by, or associated with, and STXBP1 haploinsufficiency or mutation. Compositions and methods provided herein encompass AAV particles that encapsidate the STXBP1 transgene and allow for STXBP1 expression, including expression of STXBP1 in central and / or peripheral nervous system cells.

Provided are compounds, methods, and pharmaceutical compositions for reducing the amount or activity of SCN2A RNA in a cell or subject, and in certain instances reducing the amount of SCN2A protein in a cell or subject. Such compounds, methods, and pharmaceutical compositions are useful to ameliorate at least one symptom or hallmark of a disease or disorder associated with a voltage-gated sodium channel protein, such as, for example, a Developmental and Epileptic Encephalopathy, an intellectual disability, or an autism spectrum disorder. Such symptoms and hallmarks include, but are not limited to seizures, hypotonia, sensory integration disorders, motor development delays and dysfunctions, intellectual and cognitive dysfunctions, movement and balance dysfunctions, visual dysfunctions, delayed language and speech, gastrointestinal disorders, neurodevelopmental delays, sleep problems, and sudden unexpected death in epilepsy.

Aspects of the disclosure relate to oligosaccharide compositions and methods of making the same. Also provided are methods of using oligosaccharide compositions as microbiome metabolic therapies for reducing ammonia levels and for the treatment of hyperammonemia-related diseases (e.g., urea cycle disorders and hepatic encephalopathy).

The invention relates to the field of biomedical application of inorganic materials, in particular to application of lanthanum carbonate in preparation of a medicine for treating hepatic encephalopathy. According to the application of lanthanum carbonate in preparation of the medicine for treating hepatic encephalopathy, the medicine comprises lanthanum carbonate and pharmaceutically acceptable auxiliary materials, the lanthanum carbonate comprises any one or more of lanthanum carbonate hydrate and basic lanthanum carbonate, the medicine is ground and then mixed with food to prepare a medicine mixture, and the medicine mixture is prepared into the medicine for treating hepatic encephalopathy. The mass ratio of the lanthanum carbonate in the medicine mixture is 1-10%. According to the application, the blood ammonia is reduced based on the glutaminase, the hepatic encephalopathy is reversed by reducing the blood ammonia and systemic inflammation, and the liver function is recovered by regulating the inflammation, so that the hepatic encephalopathy is favorably cured, a good treatment effect is shown, and a new candidate medicine is provided for clinically treating the hepatic encephalopathy.

The invention belongs to the field of cross-subject electroencephalogram emotion recognition, and discloses an electroencephalogram emotion recognition method and system based on multi-branch feature fusion, and the method comprises the steps: 1, obtaining electroencephalogram data; 2, preprocessing the data; 3, five-frequency-band features are extracted; 4, obtaining a target domain and a source domain; 5, dividing a data set; step 6, inputting a feature fusion network; step 7, obtaining time domain-frequency domain features and spatial features; 8, obtaining an advanced time domain-frequency domain feature; step 9, obtaining an output; 10, obtaining adapter fine tuning data output; 11, obtaining a prediction emotion probability; 12, calculating a cross entropy loss function; step 13, obtaining a model trained by the current testee; and step 14, obtaining a trained model of all testees. According to the method, transfer learning among different samples is more accurately achieved, and the overall effect of cross-subject electroencephalogram emotion recognition is effectively improved.

The invention relates to anti-TDP-43 binding molecules and uses thereof. The present invention is in the field of trans-activation responsive DNA binding proteins (TARDB or also referred to as TDP-43) having a molecular weight of 43 kDa. The present invention relates to TDP-43 specific binding molecules, in particular to anti-TDP-43 antibodies or antigen binding fragments or derivatives thereof, and uses thereof. The present invention provides means and methods for diagnosing, preventing, ameliorating and / or treating diseases, disorders and / or abnormalities associated with TDP-43 aggregates, including, but not limited to, frontotemporal dementia (FTD), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD), chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), and edge-dominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE).

The invention pertains to a new computer-implemented method for processing an EEG signal, that makes it possible to extract information about cerebral damage in full-term babies, born in asphyxia context, for help in an indication for treatment of hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), by computing a power spectral density (PSD) of an EEG signal, transforming the PSD by a mathematical function, processing the transformed values by data binning, and creating a probability distribution of the durations of the binned values.

The invention discloses a pharmaceutical composition for treating KCNQ2 developmental epileptic encephalopathy, a nucleic acid construct and application of the pharmaceutical composition and the nucleic acid construct. According to the invention, by introducing a nucleic acid construct carrying the hKCNQ2 gene into a KCNQ2A294V / + developmental epileptic encephalopathy animal model and a human forebrain neuron model, the effectiveness of the nucleic acid construct in improving the expression level of the KCNQ2 and improving related neuropathological mechanisms is verified. Not only is a new hope provided for treatment of KCNQ2-related developmental epileptic encephalopathy provided, but also a new direction is opened up for application of gene therapy in neurodevelopmental diseases.

The present disclosure provides freeze-dried and liquid compositions that include an extract of human feces. Also provided are methods for making and using such compositions, including methods for replacing or supplementing or modifying a subject's intestinal microbiota, and methods for treating a disease or condition such as hepatic encephalopathy.

The invention relates to methods of assessing a patient' s risk of developing Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML).

Disclosed are compounds of the formula (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein Ring A, Ring B, R1, R2, R3, R12, and L are as defined herein. The compounds are antagonists of the resistant (R-type) voltage-gated calcium ion channel Cav 2.3. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds; and the compounds for use in the treatment of diseases modulated Cav 2.3, including epilepsy, neurodegenerative conditions such as Parkinson's disease, focal, drug-resistant forms of epilepsy, and other neurological disorders such as developmental and epileptic encephalopathies and Phelan-McDermid and Fragile X syndromes.

This invention discloses a polyethylene glycol-modified magnesium boride nanosheet and its application in treating acute liver failure and hepatic encephalopathy caused by acetaminophen. The nanosheet uses magnesium boride nanosheets as a core, with polyethylene glycol modified on the surface to improve biocompatibility. The nanosheet of this invention exhibits good antioxidant properties and can be used to prepare nanomedicines for treating acute liver failure and / or hepatic encephalopathy caused by acetaminophen. It generates reducing hydrogen gas through a hydrolysis reaction, effectively scavenging reactive oxygen species at the site of liver failure, thereby inhibiting inflammatory responses and effectively alleviating symptoms caused by acute liver failure.

The utility model is suitable for the technical field of rehabilitation training gloves, and provides an auxiliary glove for rehabilitation training of encephalopathy. The male magic tape is sewn on the outer wall of one side of the wrist strap through a needle and a thread; the female magic tape is sewn on the outer wall of the other side of the wrist strap through a needle and a thread; the corrugated telescopic band is fixed at the top of the wrist band; the connecting belt is fixed at the top of the corrugated telescopic belt; the palm sleeve is fixed at the top of the connecting band; the fingerstalls and the palm center belt are integrally formed on the inner side wall of the palm sleeve, and the fingerstalls are located above the palm center belt; expansion and contraction of the first air bag and the second air bag are achieved by controlling inlet and outlet of air in the first air bag and the second air bag, angle adjustment of the wrist strap and the palm sleeve is achieved through pushing force and pulling force generated by deformation of the first air bag and the second air bag, and therefore wrist movement is controlled, and rehabilitation training of hand wrist joints is facilitated. Manual auxiliary training is not needed, and manpower is greatly saved.

To provide stabilization of a retromer for treating Alzheimer disease and other neurodegenerative disorders.SOLUTION: Provided is a method and a composition for increasing and stabilizing a retromer in order to treat and / or prevent Alzheimer disease and other neurodegenerative disorders. Furthermore, provided is treatment of an adenovirus base for treating Alzheimer disease (AD), and other neurodegenerative states, which are Parkinson disease (PD), neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (NCL), and transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE or prion disease), multiple system atrophy (MSA), Down syndrome, and hereditary spastic paraplegia for example, and which are progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), frontotemporal dementia linked to chromosomes 17q21 to 22 and subtype (FTLD-17 / FTLD-Tau) thereof, Lewy body disease (LBD), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (AES), frontotemporal degeneration (FTD), ALS-FTD and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) for example.SELECTED DRAWING: None

The application discloses application of a Fructus Mume pill in preparation of a medicine for treating diabetic encephalopathy, and finds that there is a clear correlation between the Fructus Mume pill and the diabetic encephalopathy. Research results show that the Fructus Mume pill can improve the abnormal metabolic state of a diabetic model mouse, reduce learning and memory dysfunction and cognitive impairment under a diabetic state, and has a good prevention and treatment effect on the diabetic encephalopathy. The application clearly defines the pharmacological effect of the Fructus Mume pill in preventing and treating the diabetic encephalopathy and a possible action mechanism, and provides an experimental basis for TCM intervention on the diabetic encephalopathy. The application provides a new train of thought for research and development of a medicine related to the diabetic encephalopathy, and has a good application prospect.

The invention belongs to the technical field of medicines, and particularly relates to application of penicillin tenuipes in preparation of a product for preventing or treating ischemic encephalopathy, cell experiments and animal experiments show that penicillin tenuipes has a good treatment effect on cerebral thrombosis and middle artery embolism, can obviously improve behavioral scores after ischemia, and can be used for preparing a medicine for preventing or treating ischemic encephalopathy. And cerebral thrombus and blood vessel diameter conditions. The penicillin tenuipes also has an anti-inflammatory effect. Therefore, the compound can be used for preparing medicines for preventing or treating ischemic encephalopathy.

Nanocomplex for targeted repairing of neurovascular lesion. The nanocomplex comprises a lipid, an apolipoprotein and a targeted peptide, the targeted peptide formed by covalently linking, through a bridge structure, a nanocarrier linking end and a peptide chain targeting RAGE, which specifically binds to cerebrovascular lesion site. Based on AD and the high expression of RAGE in cerebrovascular and brain parenchyma in diabetic encephalopathy, the nanocomplex, as modified by the targeted peptide, can mainly bind, in a targeted manner, to cerebrovascular endothelium by linking the targeted peptide, to repair vascular endothelial cells, promote removal of Aβ plaque near blood vessels, and repair cerebrovascular and neurovascular unit components such as microglial cells, astrocytes and neurons. Ameliorating cognitive impairment is achieved by combined repairing of multiple components and restoring cerebrovascular functions and cerebral blood flow. The nanocomplex has a disease repair effect and can carry drugs, which are delivered to cerebrovascular lesion site.

The invention belongs to the technical field of medicines, and discloses application of cystamine in preparation of a medicine for treating sepsis encephalopathy. Wherein the sepsis encephalopathy is sepsis encephalopathy simulated by an endotoxemia model or an in-vitro reactive astrocyte model. It is found for the first time that cystamine can inhibit the pathological process of sepsis encephalopathy through multiple ways, and the death rate and cognitive impairment of sepsis model mice are remarkably improved. The invention provides a new thought for preparing a sepsis encephalopathy treatment product, and has a wide application prospect.

The application discloses a kind of based on brain structure image's hepatic encephalopathy evaluation method and system, the method includes: obtaining the brain structure image data of subject brain;Based on brain structure image data, the feature parameter of characterizing brain tissue morphology is extracted;The characteristic parameter is handled by pre-training disease progression evaluation model, and the space-time progression trajectory of brain structure abnormality is inferred;Based on space-time progression trajectory, the disease subtype and disease progression stage to which the subject belongs are determined;Based on disease subtype and disease progression stage, evaluation information for characterizing the disease state of hepatic encephalopathy is generated.The space-time progression trajectory of brain structure abnormality is inferred based on cross-sectional image data, which overcomes the dependence on massive longitudinal tracking data, realizes the objective typing and staging of hepatic encephalopathy based on neurobiology, thereby effectively solving the technical problems of difficult to track disease evolution and individualized evaluation.

The present invention discloses a preparation method of rhein / berberine / glycyrrhizic acid hydrogel, which comprises the following steps: dispersing the rhein / berberine nanoparticle solution, glycyrrhizic acid and PBS solution uniformly, and standing to obtain the rhein / berberine / glycyrrhizic acid hydrogel; the concentration of glycyrrhizic acid in the hydrogel is 0.01-0.04 g / mL. The rhein / berberine / glycyrrhizic acid hydrogel prepared by the present invention has the characteristics of anti-inflammation, reducing edema, neuroprotection, etc., solves the limitation of poor curative effect of single-component drugs, realizes in-situ injection administration of three small-molecule drugs, and has synergistic effect, and is applied in drugs for treating inflammatory or edematous encephalopathy accompanied by traumatic brain injury, cerebral edema, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, etc., and has obvious therapeutic effect.

A TIPS (Transient Invasive Stent) for flow restriction includes a bare stent with a fixed stent connected to one side. A flow-restricting stent is disposed inside the fixed stent. The flow-restricting stent has a conical structure, with the larger end of the conical stent connected to the inner side of the fixed stent, and the smaller end of the conical stent facing the other end of the fixed stent. A drug-eluting layer is disposed inside the fixed stent. In this application, the flow-restricting stent is a streamlined cone shape with a diameter that gradually decreases from one end to the other. This conical design reduces blood flow turbulence and recirculation, lowers the risk of thrombosis, maintains high stent patency, and more rationally balances the relationship between portal hypertension and hepatic encephalopathy, thus improving patients' quality of life. In some patients, it can more stably maintain the postoperative portal vein pressure gradient within the safe range of 10-12 mmHg. The conical structure achieves a smooth pressure gradient change through a gradually decreasing diameter, which is more in line with the principles of fluid dynamics and has high clinical value in preventing hepatic encephalopathy.

The invention provides an image-clinical characterization-combined multi-endpoint prognosis evaluation method for transjugular vein intrahepatic portal vein shunt, which comprises the following steps of: constructing a few-label portal vein segmentation module to obtain a preoperative CT portal vein label of a full-dose patient, and extracting deep learning features and radiomics features of the region; establishing a multi-modal interactive representation learning module for implementation, and performing cross-modal fusion with clinical features to form unified representation; and designing a multi-endpoint prognosis prediction module, inputting the data to a plurality of prognosis task decoders for postoperative survival, portal vein pressure gradient, hepatic encephalopathy prediction and the like, and adopting a multi-task learning optimization model to obtain a postoperative multi-endpoint prognosis evaluation result. According to the method, efficient fusion and multi-endpoint prognosis prediction of images and clinical information can be realized under limited labeling, clinical doctors can be assisted in preoperative patient screening and treatment scheme making, and the method has good clinical application value.

Disclosed are compounds of the formula (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein Ring A, Ring B, R1, R2, R3, R12, and L are as defined herein. The compounds are antagonists of the resistant (R-type) voltage-gated calcium ion channel Cav 2.3. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds; and the compounds for use in the treatment of diseases modulated Cav 2.3, including epilepsy, neurodegenerative conditions such as Parkinson's disease, focal, drug-resistant forms of epilepsy, and other neurological disorders such as developmental and epileptic encephalopathies and Phelan-McDermid and Fragile X syndromes.