48 results about "Eosinophilia" patented technology

The present invention relates to the discovery, identification and characterization of nucleic acids that encode a novel protein differentially expressed within the TH2 cell subpopulation (hereinafter referred to as STIF). The invention encompasses STIF nucleotides, host cell expression systems, STIF proteins, fusion proteins, polypeptides and peptides, antibodies to the STIF protein, transgenic animals that express a STIF transgene, or recombinant knock-out animals that do not express the STIF protein, and compounds that modulate STIF gene expression or STIF activity that can be used for diagnosis, drug screening, clinical trial monitoring, and/or used to treat STIF based disorders, such as proliferative disorders and T-lymphocyte-related disorders including, but not limited to, chronic inflammatory diseases and disorders, such as Crohn's disease, reactive arthritis, including Lyme disease, insulin-dependent diabetes, organ-specific autoimmunity, including multiple sclerosis, Hashimoto's thyroiditis and Grave's disease, contact dermatitis, psoriasis, graft rejection, graft versus host disease, sarcoidosis, atopic conditions, such as asthma and allergy, including allergic rhinitis, gastrointestinal allergies, including food allergies, eosinophilia, conjunctivitis, glomerular nephritis, certain pathogen susceptibilities such as helminthic (e.g., leishmaniasis) and certain viral infections, including HIV, and bacterial infections, including tuberculosis and lepromatous leprosy.

The present invention provides a method for the treatment of allergic and inflammatory diseases or conditions by administering a compound of Formula (I). The invention provides a method of treatment that is particularly suited for patients with a high degree of airway eosinophilia in contrast to those with a lower degree of airway eosinophilia. The invention also provides a method of treatment that is particularly suited for patients with a high atopic status in contrast to those patients with a lower atopic status.

This invention relates to a method to protect a mammal from a disease associated with an inflammatory response, and in particular, from an inflammatory disease characterized by eosinophilia, airway hyperresponsiveness and/or a Th2-type immune response. The method includes administration of a heat shock protein to a mammal having such a disease. Formulations useful in the present method are also disclosed.

The present invention relates to a novel compound or a salt thereof, which is useful as a CRTH2 antagonist, especially as a medicament for disorder that participates eosinophil, for example, allergic disorder such as asthma, allergic rhinitis, allergic dermatitis, conjunctival inflammation, hives, eosinophilic bronchitis, food allergy, inflammation of the nasal sinuses, multiple sclerosis, angiitis, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and the like.

The invention relates to use of the cis-9, trans-11 isomer of conjugated linoleic acid or a salt or ester thereof (cis-9, trans-11 CLA) and vaccenic acid or a salt or ester thereof (VA) to treat or prevent conditions associated with one or more of leukocyte infiltration, eosinophilia, airway remodelling, bronchoconstriction, mucus hypersecretion, and lung and skin inflammation. The present invention also relates to a composition comprising cis-9, trans-11 CLA and VA and use of the composition to treat or pre-vent conditions associated with one or more of leukocyte infiltration, eosinophilia, airway remodelling, bronchoconstriction, mucus hypersecretion, and lung and skin inflammation. In particular, the medicinal uses, compositions and methods of the invention may be used to treat or prevent conditions such as asthma and dermatitis, and related disorders.

The present invention relates to a composition comprising an extract of Pseudolysimachion genus plant, and the catalpol derivatives isolated therefrom having anti-inflammatory, antiallergic and anti-asthmatic activity. The extractof Pseudolysimachion genus plantand the catalpol derivatives isolated therefrom shows potent suppressing effect on elevated IgE, IL-4 and IL- 13 levels and eosinophilia in the plasma and BALF, and mucus overproduction in the lung tissues in an OVA-induced asthmatic mouse model. Therefore, it can be used as the therapeutics or functional health food for treating and preventing inflammatory, allergic and asthmatic disease.

A probiotic lactobacillus was discovered from lactobacilli of the Lactobacillus genus independently isolated from human adult feces. The probiotic lactobacillus was selected from other bacterial strains for: (1) being highly resistant to gastric acid/bile acid; (2) having a high promoting activity on IL-12 production from mouse derived spleen cells and a high Th1/Th2 balance-improving effect; (3) having a high ability to inhibit the production of antigen-specific IgE induced by intraperitoneally administering ovalbumin to BALB/c mice; (4) having a high ability to inhibit the production of antigen-specific IgE induced by orally administering a food antigen to C57BL/6N mice; (5) having a high Natural Killer cell-activating ability; (6) having a high IL-12 production-promoting activity on spleen cells and mesenteric lymph node cells derived from mice immunized with ovalbumin and a high Th1/Th2 balance-improving effect; and (7) having a high ability to suppress eosinophilia induced by a cedar pollen-extracted antigen. This discovery led to the completion of the present invention.

A method for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of an animal having a respiratory disease or condition associated with airway hyperresponsiveness, eosinophilia, neutrophilia, leukocytes or overproduction of mucus and/or with the expression of integrin α4 comprising administering to the animal a composition comprising from. 0.001 to 1000 μg per kg body weight of the animal of an antisense compound targeted to a nucleic acid molecule encoding integrin α4.

It has long been known that eosinopenia is observed during acute bacterial infection yet the mechanism remains undefined. Herein, we investigated the consequence of exposure to microbial products, specfically bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS), on eosinophil production. We demonstrate that developing murine eosinophils transiently express mRNA for six Toll-like receptors (TLR5) with highest expression of TLR2 and TLR4 throughout eosinophil development and nearly undetectable levels on mature eosinophils. LPS stimulation of eosinophil progenitors ex vivo markedly inhibited IL-5- mediated cellular proliferation and expansion Further LPS adrninistratwn in vivo reduced numbers of eosinophil progenitors in the bone marrow and blood in mice. Notably, LPS effectively reduced eosinophilia even in hypereosinophilic mice induced by the IL-S transgene. Taken together, these findings identify a mechanistic explanation for eosinopenia following bacterial infections and a novel therapeutic strategy for depleting eosinophil progenitors and inhibiting peripheral eosinophilia in eosinophil associated diseases.

The invention provides methods for diagnosing eosinophilic esophagitis in a patient using a biomarker based assay directed to KCNJ2/Kir2.1 and related compositions, kits, and computer program products.

The present invention provides a method of determining the susceptibility of a subject to treatment with a leukotriene modifier by determining the subject's cysteinyl leukotriene (CysLT) level and the subject's level of eosinophilic airway inflammation and identifying a subject with a high ratio of CysLT levels to eosinophilic airway inflammation as susceptible to treatment with the leukotriene modifier. Also discussed is a method of treatment of subjects who are susceptible to treatment that includes administering a leukotriene modifier to such a subject.

The present invention is directed to methods of identifying women at increased risk of having ovarian cancer. Identification is based upon the extent to which biological samples derived from the women exhibit elevated levels of eosinophil-derived neurotoxin (EDN).

This invention relates to modified IL-4 mutein receptor antagonists comprising an IL-4 mutein receptor antagonist coupled to polyethylene glycol. Related formulations and dosages and methods of administration thereof for therapeutic purposes are also provided. These modified IL-4 mutein receptor antagonists, compositions and methods provide a treatment option for those individuals afflicted with a respiratory disorder such as asthma by inhibiting IL-4 and IL-13-mediated airway hyperresponsiveness and eosinophilia. More particularly, these antagonists have an increased duration of effect versus unmodified IL-4RA by virtue of a greater plasma half-life.

This invention relates to modified IL-4 mutein receptor antagonists comprising an IL-4 mutein receptor antagonist coupled to polyethylene glycol. Related formulations and dosages and methods of administration thereof for therapeutic purposes are also provided. These modified IL-4 mutein receptor antagonists, compositions and methods provide a treatment option for those individuals afflicted with a respiratory disorder such as asthma by inhibiting IL-4 and IL-13-mediated airway hyperresponsiveness and eosinophilia. More particularly, these antagonists have an increased duration of effect versus unmodified IL-4RA by virtue of a greater plasma half-life.

The invention discloses a reagent kit for quantitatively testing mRNA (messenger ribonucleic acid) level of FIP1L1-PDGFRA (feline infectious peritonitis 1 like 1-platelet-derived growth factor receptor alpha) fusion genes. The test reagent contains upstream primers I, downstream primers I and TaqMan probes I which are used for real-time quantitative PCR (polymerase chain reaction) testing for mRNA of the FIP1L1-PDGFRA fusion genes. The upstream primers I include at least one of single-chain DNA (deoxyribose nucleic acid) shown as sequences 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 in a sequence table, the downstream primers I include at least one of two single-chain DNA as shown in sequence 9 and 10 in the sequence table, and the TaqMan probes I include at least one of two single-chain DNA as shown in sequences 9 and 10 in the sequence table. The reagent kit has the advantages of speediness, simplicity, convenience and the like in testing, common types of FIP1L1-PDGFRA fusion genes can be covered in one experiment, and the mRNA level of the FIP1L1-PDGFRA fusion genes can be tested. The reagent kit can be used for FIP1L1-PDGFRA fusion gene screening and therapeutic evaluation for eosinophilia patients, and further can be used for monitoring minimal residual diseases.

The invention discloses application of tetrahydrocurcumin in treating allergic asthma. The therapeutic action of the tetrahydrocurcumin (THC) on allergic asthma is firstly found and proved; from the perspective of immunity, the THC can be beneficial to alleviating nose allergy and itching, inhibiting lung eosinophilic granulocyte infiltration, reducing lung goblet cell grume generation, reducing lung collagen deposition, and inhibiting Th2 cell factor production, can provide beneficial information for clinic disease evaluation, and has a favorable application prospect in asthma treatment.

The present invention relates to lidocaine derived compounds, which present less anesthetic activity than lidocaine itself, but with more anti-inflammatory and spasmolytic activity than said lidocaine as well as pharmaceutical compositions with at least one of these compounds or a salt of those as active principle and to the use of such compositions to treat, prevent or inhibit atopic diseases including asthma, rhinitis, allergic urticaria, chronic lung inflammation associated with eosinophilia, following the example of atopic asthma and chronic intestinal inflammation, as colitis for instance. The pharmaceutical composition may be available in spray form, solution, suspension, emulsion destinated to be applied by nebulization, or in any of the pharmaceutical available forms for oral or injectable use.

The present invention relates to use of c-9, t-11 CLA or a salt, ester or precursor thereof or CLA-enriched milk fat comprising milk fat enriched with c-9, t-11 CLA or a salt, ester or precursor thereof for treating or preventing conditions such as those associated with one or more of leukocyte infiltration, eosinophilia, IgE secretion, airway remodelling, bronchoconstriction and mucus hypersecretion. The invention also relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising CLA-enriched milk fat.

The invention discloses a traditional Chinese medicine preparation for treating infantile eosinophilia. The traditional Chinese medicine preparation comprises the following raw materials by weight: 30-50 g of fresh rhizoma phragmitis, 20-30 g of fructus forsythiae, 10-20 g of isatis root, 10-20 g of lophatherum gracile, 10-20 g of folium isatidis, 10-20 g of liquorice, 10-20 g of cortex lycii radicis, 10-20 g of adenophora stricta, 10-20 g of root of rehmannia, 8-15 g of concha arcae, 8-12 g of turtle shell, 8-12 g of agastache rugosus, 8-12 g of earthworm, 8-12 g of chrysanthemum, 8-12 g of blackend swallowwort root and 8-12 g of curcuma aromatica. According to the traditional Chinese medicine preparation, the raw materials are uniquely mixed, are fine in drug flavor and have the effects of tonifying the spleen-stomach and vital energy, freeing the lung, nourishing yin, benefiting the spleen, removing dampness and clearing heat and toxic materials; the traditional Chinese medicine preparation has the advantages of quickness for action, short treatment course, no side effects, high healing rate, low possibility of relapsing and the like for treating the infantile eosinophilia caused by various etiological factors, and is worthy of clinical popularization and application.