264 results about "Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis" patented technology

Methods are provided herein for selectively killing senescent cells and for treating senescence-associated diseases and disorders by administering a senolytic agent. Senescence-associated diseases and disorders treatable by the methods using the senolytic agents described herein include cardiovascular diseases and disorders associated with or caused by arteriosclerosis, such as atherosclerosis; idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis; chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; osteoarthritis; senescence-associated ophthalmic diseases and disorders; and senescence-associated dermatological diseases and disorders.

There is provided a method of treating pulmonary hypertension in a patient in need thereof, said method comprising: administering a therapeutically effective amount of ambrisentan to the patient with pulmonary arterial hypertension, wherein the patient has been determined not to have idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

Disclosed herein are methods and compositions for preventing and treating pulmonary fibrotic disorders, and for reducing or reversing the symptoms of pulmonary fibrotic disorders, such as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. The compositions include inhibitors of the LOXL2 protein, and the methods include methods for making and using the inhibitors.

Methods for treating fibrotic disease, such as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and scleroderma, with antagonists of IL-33 are disclosed.

Provided herein are compounds according to Formulas (I) or (II) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and compositions comprising the same, for use in various methods, including treating cancer, abnormal cellular proliferation, angiogenesis, Alzheimer's disease, lung disease, osteoarthritis, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and neurological conditions/disorders/diseases.

The present invention discloses an application of pentacyclic triterpenoid saponin represented by formulas (I) to (XIII) for the preparation of a medicine for preventing or treating AMPK-mediated diseases including fatty liver disease, inflammatory bowel disease, respiratory disease, diabetic complications and polycystic kidney disease. The compounds of formula (I) to (XIII) are especially usefulfor nonalcoholic simple fatty liver, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis-induced cirrhosis, ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, chronic obstructive Pulmonary diseases, asthma,idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, cystic fibrosis, allergic rhinitis, diabetic nephropathy, diabetic cardiomyopathy, diabetic ulcers, and autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease. A pharmaceutical composition for preventing and treating the AMPK-mediated diseases of the present invention comprises a therapeutically effective amount of the compounds of the formula (I) to (XIII) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or a solvate thereof as an active ingredient and a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient.

The present application provides methods of treating idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF); methods of increasing survival time in an individual with IPF, and methods of reducing risk of death in an individual with IPF. The methods generally involve administering a therapeutically effective amount of IFN-γ to an individual with IPF.

Disclosed herein are methods, constructs, kits, and the like, which can be used for detecting and/or differentiating interstitial lung disease. For example, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and nonspecific interstitial pneumonia (NSIP) can be detected and/or differentiated using at least one biomarker.

The invention encompasses methods and compositions for increasing or decreasing collagen 1A1 expression and/or α-smooth muscle actin expression in lung fibroblasts using SERPINE2 and antagonists of SERPINE2. The invention also encompasses methods and compositions for increasing or decreasing the formation of myofibroblasts. The invention further provides methods and compositions for treatment of lung diseases, such as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

The invention relates to a medicament for treating idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Dried ginger, schisandra, seed of snakegourd, cassia twig, bupleurum, pinellia, codonopsis pilosula, radix glycyrrhizae preparata, ginger and jujube are used as raw material medicaments and can be prepared into any common oral preparation. The medicament of the invention has the efficacy of removing evil diseases, conditioning cold and heat, relating lung qi and relieving cough and asthma, and can be used for treating the idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Animal test results show that the medicament of the invention can relieve abnormal change of PF I rat lung tissue, regulate free radical metabolism in a model body of rat pulmonary fibrosis, enhance the activity of GSH-Px and S0D, reduce the content of MDA and NO and effectively reduce PDGF, TGF-beta 1 and TNF-a levels in blood serum, and has the functions of preventing and treating pulmonary damage and fibrosis caused by bleomycin. Clinical tests prove that the total effective rate of the medicament for treating the idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is up to 88.5%.

Compositions, kits and methods for assessing the prognosis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in patients are provided. In addition, compositions, kits and methods for diagnosing subtypes of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis are provided. Also provided are methods for treating idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

The invention relates to an idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis urine protein marker, and application of the same to diagnosis and prognosis. Specifically, the invention relates to application of a urine protein marker obtained by using an idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis model and mass spectrometry to early-stage diagnosis, pathogenesis monitoring and curative effect assessment of human pulmonary fibrosis. The urine protein marker comprises collagen alpha-1(I) chain, vimentin, protein RUFY3, keratin type-II skeleton 8, a sodium-hydrogen exchange regulation factor NHE-RF2, a threonine synthase sample 2, zinc-actin binding repeat protein 2, low-density lipoprotein receptor-associated protein 4, alpha-11 of a guanine nucleotide binding protein subunit, an alpha-1 chain of tropomyosin, mitochondrial stress-70 protein, NSFL1 cofactor P47, ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal hydrolase isozyme L1, etc.

The present invention provides for a new plate-based high throughput screening of collagen synthesis wherein the collagen is left intact in the cells. The present invention also provides for collagen synthesis assay methods, methods of identifying candidate compounds which modulate collagen synthesis, and collagen synthesis assay compositions useful for modeling collagen depositions disorders, comprising idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, liver fibrosis, renal fibrosis, heart fibrosis, rheumatoid arthritis, and atherosclerotic plaques.

The present disclosure provides methods for diagnosis of interstitial lung diseases (ILDs). The present disclosure provides methods for differential diagnosis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis from other ILDs. Compositions and kits useful in carrying out a subject method are also provided.

The present invention relates to novel interferon gamma polypeptide variants having interferon gamma (IFNG) activity, methods for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the polypeptide variants and their use in the treatment of diseases, in particular for the treatment of interstitial pulmonary diseases, such as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. These novel polypeptide variants all comprise the substitution S99T as compared to the amino acid sequence of huIFNG or fragments thereof. By performing this mutation the naturally occurring N-glycosylation site present at position 97 is significantly better utilized. Preferably, the variants comprise further modifications, e.g. in order to increase the AUC of such variants when administered subcutaneously.