133 results about "Interferon therapy" patented technology

IL-28A, IL-28B, IL-29, and certain mutants thereof have been shown to have antiviral activity on a spectrum of viral species. Of particular interest is the antiviral activity demonstrated on viruses that infect liver, such as hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C virus. In addition, IL-28A, IL-28B, IL-29, and mutants thereof do not exhibit some of the antiproliferative activity on hematopoietic cells that is observed with interferon treatment. Without the immunosuppressive effects accompanying interferon treatment, IL-28A, IL-28B, and IL-29 will be useful in treating immunocompromised patients for viral infections.

A method of treating tuberculosis comprising administering an aerosolized interferon such as interferon α, interferon β or interferon γ in a therapeutically effective amount is provided herein. Further, a method of reducing the infectivity of tuberculosis or reducing the number of infectious organisms present in the lungs of a patient suffering from tuberculosis comprising administering an aerosolized interferon such as interferon α, interferon β or interferon γ in a therapeutically effective amount is provided herein. Also, pharmaceutical compositions of one or more aerosolized interferon(s) are provided.

IL-28A, IL-28B, IL-29, and certain mutants thereof have been shown to have antiviral activity on a spectrum of viral species. Of particular interest is the antiviral activity demonstrated on viruses that infect liver, such as hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C virus. In addition, IL-28A, IL-28B, IL-29, and mutants thereof do not exhibit some of the antiproliferative activity on hematopoietic cells that is observed with interferon treatment. Without the immunosuppressive effects accompanying interferon treatment, IL-28A, IL-28B, and IL-29 will be useful in treating immunocompromised patients for viral infections.

IL-28A, IL-28B, IL-29, and certain mutants thereof have been shown to have antiviral activity on a spectrum of viral species. Of particular interest is the antiviral activity demonstrated on viruses that infect liver, such as hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C virus. In addition, IL-28A, IL-28B, IL-29, and mutants thereof do not exhibit some of the antiproliferative activity on hematopoietic cells that is observed with interferon treatment. Without the immunosuppressive effects accompanying interferon treatment, IL-28A, IL-28B, and IL-29 will be useful in treating immunocompromised patients for viral infections.

A method of treating, preventing or ameliorating one or more symptoms associated with hepatitis C virus (HCV) in a patient in whom either the HCV is of Genotype 1 and / or the patient was previously treated with interferon and the previous interferon therapy was ineffective to treat the one or more symptoms associated with HCV, comprising administering to such a patient an effective amount of at least one compound of formulae I-XXVI of which the following structural formula is exemplary or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, solvate or ester thereof. Optional combined administration of said at least one compound with an interferon or pegylated interferon and / or ribaviron is also contemplated.

Disclosed are uses of immunotherapeutic compositions in combination with Standard of Care (SOC), or interferon therapy combined with anti-viral therapy, for the improved treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and related conditions, including liver function. The compositions, kits and uses of the invention, as compared to the use of SOC therapy alone: improves the rate of early response to therapy as measured by early virologic markers (e.g., RVR and EVR), enlarges the pool of patients who will have sustained responses to therapy over the long term, offers shortened courses of therapy for certain patients, enables “rescue” of patients who are non-responders or intolerant to SOC therapy, improves liver function and / or reduces liver damage in patients, and enables the personalization of HCV therapy for a patient, which can result in dose sparing, improved patient compliance, reduced side effects, and improved long term therapeutic outcomes.

The present invention provides compositions and methods of treatment of HCV infected subjects that are not sensitive to interferon treatment. Further, compositions and methods are provided for prevention of organ transplant rejection. The compositions of the invention comprise an anti microRNA-122 oligonucleotide, and are made for administration to a primate.

Methods and pharmaceutical compositions for administering protein or gene therapy to tissues or organs having an epithelial cell layer are provided. A protein or nucleic acid encoding the protein is administered to the target tissue or organ in combination with treatment with a delivery enhancing agent which increases the delivery of the interferon or nucleic acid to the cells of the target tissues or organs. The methods and combinations are particularly useful in the treatment of cancers and other conditions responsive to interferon therapy. An exemplary method comprises the transurethral intravesical administration to the bladder of a therapeutically effective amount of a pharmaceutical composition comprising an alpha-interferon or a gene delivery system encoding the interferon and SYN3 or a SYN3 homolog or analog. In the urinary bladder, as much as a 10 to 1000 fold increased in interferon levels and activity may be observed with the use of a SYN3 formulation as opposed to a PBS formulation of the same interferon protein or interferon gene delivery system.

A method of treating a pulmonary disease such as, for instance idiophathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and asthma, comprising administering an aerosolized interferon such as interferon α, interferon β or interferon γ in a therapeutically effective amount is provided herein. Also, pharmaceutical compositions of one or more aerosolized interferon(s) are provided.

An adsorbent for removing hepatitis C virus which has the ability to adsorb HCV particles, particularly immune-complex HCV particles, from a patient's body blood safely and with high efficiency and high selectivity for enhancing the efficacy of interferon therapy, an HCV adsorption apparatus including said adsorbent, and a adsorbing method for removing HCV are provided. An adsorbent for removing hepatitis C virus which comprises a compound capable of adsorbing hepatitis C virus as immobilized on a water-insoluble carrier, an adsorption apparatus including said adsorbent, and an adsorbing method for removing HCV.

The present invention relates to the treatment of psychosis associated with interferon-therapy. The present invention further relates to kits for the treatment of Hepatitis C in a patient.

A method of treating an immunologic, proliferative, or infectious disease in a warm-blooded animal is disclosed. The method comprises administering to the animal omega interferon (IFN) at a dosage and activity for the disease state treated sufficient to induce a therapeutic response in the animal, which dosage and activity for the disease state treated is higher than would be well-tolerated based on data for non-omega IFN's. The omega IFN is administered alone or In combination with a therapeutically effective amount of at least one adjunctive therapeutic agent. Also disclosed is an article of manufacture useful for treating an immunologic, proliferative, or infectious disease, which article comprises (1) omega IFN in a form suitable for administering a therapeutically effective amount of the omega IFN to the subject in order to induce the desired therapeutic response (2) instructions for administering the omega IFN as desired, that is higher than would be well-tolerated based on data for non-omega IFNs.

The invention relates to the use of IFN-beta in the manufacture of a medicament for the treatment of an HCV infection in a treatment-naïve patient belonging to the Asian population.

An adsorbent for removing hepatitis C virus which has the ability to adsorb HCV particles, particularly immune-complex HCV particles, from a patient's body blood safely and with high efficiency and high selectivity for enhancing the efficacy of interferon therapy, an HCV adsorption apparatus including said adsorbent, and a adsorbing method for removing HCV are provided.An adsorbent for removing hepatitis C virus which comprises a compound capable of adsorbing hepatitis C virus as immobilized on a water-insoluble carrier, an adsorption apparatus including said adsorbent, and an adsorbing method for removing HCV.

Provided are methods of predicting responsiveness of a subject to interferon treatment, comprising comparing a level of expression in a cell of the subject of at least one gene selected from the group consisting KIR3DL3, KIR3DL2, KIR3DL1, KIR2DL1, KIR2DL2, KIR2DL3, KLRG1, KIR3DS1, CD160, HLA-A, HLA-B, HLA-C, HLA-F, HLA-G and IFI27 to a reference expression data of the at least one gene obtained from at least one interferon responder subject and / or at least one interferon non-responder subject. Also provided are methods and pharmaceutical compositions for treating a subject in need of interferon treatment.

This application relates to recombinant human interferon-like proteins. In one embodiment a recombinant protein created by gene shuffling technology is described having enhanced anti-viral and anti-proliferative activities in comparison to naturally occurring human interferon alpha 2b (HuIFN-α2b). The invention encompasses a polynucleotide encoding the protein and recombinant vectors and host cells comprising the polynucleotide. Preferably the polynucleotide is selected from the group of polynucleotides each having a sequence at least 93% identical to SEQ ID: No. 1 and the protein is selected from the group of proteins each having an amino acid sequence at least 85% identical to SEQ ID No: 2. The proteins and compositions comprising the proteins can be used for treatment of conditions responsive to interferon therapy, such as viral diseases and cancer.

A treatment or prophylaxis for viral infection using interferon (IFN) cytokines alone or in combination with ribavirin is provided. The treatments and prophylaxis allow for lowered dosages of IFNs, reduced pro-inflammatory responses, and delays the initiation time and reduced frequency of the IFN treatment required.

Methods and reagents for determining a nucleotide variation at position 937 of the HCV-1a NS5A gene useful in predicting an individual's response to interferon treatment are presented.

IL-28A, IL-28B, IL-29, and certain mutants thereof have been shown to have antiviral activity on a spectrum of viral species. Of particular interest is the antiviral activity demonstrated on viruses that infect liver, such as hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C virus. In addition, IL-28A, IL-28B, IL-29, and mutants thereof do not exhibit some of the antiproliferative activity on hematopoietic cells that is observed with interferon treatment. Without the immunosuppressive effects accompanying interferon treatment, IL-28A, IL-28B, and IL-29 will be useful in treating immunocompromised patients for viral infections.

The invention relates to a forecasting method of the treating effect of interferon on chronic hepatitis B. The forecasting method comprises the following steps of: collecting information related to chronic hepatitis B patients; inputting treatment outcome influencing factors of the patients; dividing the treating effect evaluation into three classes; determining specific scores of all levels of the influencing factors by taking the influencing factors as independent variable and the treating effect as dependent variable and building a rating scale and a model; randomly dividing collected illness cases into a training set and a test set, building a rating scale and a model by taking the training set as a sample, and detecting the accuracy of the rating scale and the model by taking the test set as a sample; taking the Youden index which is shown as a formula: sensitivity+specificity-1 as the evaluation index of the rating scale and the accurate model performance, and when the Youden index takes a maximum value, prompting that the forecasting performance is optimal; and enabling the forecasting performance to be optimal by adjusting parameters of mutation rate, mating rate, sub-algebra generation, and the like of a genetic algorithm as well as parameters of kernel training parameters, outlier penalty coefficients, and the like of a support vector machine.

A method of treating tuberculosis comprising administering an aerosolized interferon such as interferon α, interferon β or interferon γ in a therapeutically effective amount is provided herein. Further, a method of reducing the infectivity of tuberculosis or reducing the number of infectious organisms present in the lungs of a patient suffering from tuberculosis comprising administering an aerosolized interferon such as interferon α, interferon β or interferon γ in a therapeutically effective amount is provided herein. Also, pharmaceutical compositions of one or more aerosolized interferon(s) are provided.

The invention relates to an in vitro method of predicting the therapeutic effect of interferon treatment on a patient with hepatitis C, which belongs to the in vitro diagnostic reagent category of the biological medicine and is a substantive improvement based on a patent being applied for at present. The interferon treatment is effective only for 50 percent of patients with hepatitis C. The clinical operation is short of a method of predicting the therapeutic effect before the treatment of hepatitis C. According to the positioning and analysis of the expression of the ISG15 or MxA protein in the liver tissue through the immunohistochemical technique before the treatment of patients with hepatitis C, the distributions of ISG15 or MxA are different in the liver tissues of the patients for whom the interferon treatment is effective and the patients for whom the interferon treatment is not effective: the expression of the genes in the liver cells indicates that the interferon treatment is not effective for the patients; and the expression of the genes in the macrophage cells indicates that the interferon treatment is effective for the patients. The method is used to predict the therapeutic effects of the interferon treatment on 31 patients with hepatitis C, and the rate of accuracy reaches 100 percent. The invention can predict whether the patient with hepatitis C is sensitive to the interferon treatment before the interferon treatment, thereby optimizing the patient management.

A method of treating tuberculosis comprising administering an aerosolized interferon such as interferon α, interferon β or interferon γ in a therapeutically effective amount is provided herein. Also, pharmaceutical compositions of one or more aerosolized interferon(s) are provided.

Methods of reducing hepatitis delta virus (HDV) viral loads in a patient are provided. In some embodiments, the method comprises treating the patient with lonafarnib-ritonavir co-therapy. In some embodiments, the method further comprises treating the patient with an interferon.

Methods of reducing hepatitis delta virus (HDV) viral loads in a patient are provided. In some embodiments, the method comprises treating the patient with lonafarnib-ritonavir co-therapy. In some embodiments, the method further comprises treating the patient with an interferon.

The invention relates to the use of IFN-beta in the manufacture of a medicament for the treatment of an HCV infection in a treatment-nave patient belonging to the Asian population.