193 results about "Kidney Glomerulus" patented technology

A method of treating a glomerular disease selected from the group consisting of mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis, collapsing glomerulopathy, proliferative lupus nephritis, crescentic glomerulonephritis and membranous nephropathy in a subject comprises administering to the subject an effective amount of a glucosylceramide synthase inhibitor.

The invention discloses a single-chain antibody of human source anti-alexin C3d molecules. A light chain and a heavy chain of the antibody have a unique CDR region; excellent antigen binding activityis realized; the affinity constant reaches 1.22*10<-7> mol/L. Biological distribution experiments prove that the anti-C3d single-chain antibody provided by the invention can be highly gathered in thearthritis positions after entering a mouse model with rheumatoid arthritis; the arthritis serious degree of the three ScFv treatment groups is obviously lower than that of a PBS group; the healing degree has the obvious dose dependency relationship; the result shows that the excellent anti-adhesion/ anti-inflammatory targeted inhibition effects are achieved. In the treatment process on MRL/lpr mice with lupus erythematosus, the anti-C3d single-chain antibody provided by the invention can obviously improve the survival rate of the mice; the symptoms of proteinuria, glomerular score, interstitial inflammation, vasculitis and crescent/necrosis and the like in the treatment group are obviously relieved. The result shows that the anti C3d single-chain antibody provided by the invention has excellent application prospects in the preparation of medicine for treating autoimmune diseases.

A method of assessing the ongoing kidney status of a mammal afflicted with or at risk of developing chronic renal injury or disease, including chronic renal failure (CRF) by detecting the quantity of Neutrophil Gelatinase-Associated Lipocalin (NGAL) in urine, serum or plasma samples at discrete time periods, as well as over time. Incremental increases in NGAL levels in CRF patients over a prolonged period of time are diagnostic of worsening kidney disease. This increase in NGAL precedes and correlates with other indicators of worsening chronic renal disease or CRF, such as increased serum creatinine, increased urine protein secretion, and lower glomerular filtration rate (GFR). Proper detection of worsening (or improving, if treatment has been instituted) renal status over time, confirmed by pre- and post-treatment NGAL levels in the patient, can aid the clinical practitioner in designing and/or maintaining a proper treatment regimen to slow or stop the progression of CRF.

A compound of formula (I) wherein R<1> and R<2> are as defined in the description, R<2> being an aromatic group, useful in the treatment and condition selected from the group consisting of the group meningitis and salpingitis, septic shock, disseminated intravascular coagulation, and/or adult respiratory distress syndrome, acute or chronic inflammation, arthritis, cholangitis, colitis, encephalitis, endocarditis, glomerulonephritis, hepatitis, myocarditis, pancreatitis, pericarditis, reperfusion injury, vasculitis, acute and delayed hypersensitivity, graft rejection, and graft-versus-host disease, auto-immune diseases including Type 1 diabetes mellitus and multiple sclerosis, periodonate diseases, interstitial pulmonary fibrosis, cirrhosis, systemic sclerosis, keloid formation tumors which produce IL-1 as an autocrine growth factor, cachexia, Alzeimer's disease, percussion injury, depression, atherosclerosis, osteoporosis in a mammal, including a human.

Methods of treating a human suffering from or susceptible to C3 glomerulopathy comprising administering to the human an effective amount of a C5aR antagonist are provided.

Methods and devices for diagnosing, monitoring, or determining glomerulonephritis or an associated disorder in a mammal are described. In particular, methods and devices for diagnosing, monitoring, or determining glomerulonephritis or an associated disorder using measured concentrations of a combination of three or more analytes in a test sample taken from the mammal are described.

The present invention relates to the identification and use of protein biomarkers with clinical relevance to kidney status and chronic renal injury or disorder. In particular, the invention provides the identity of marker proteins which are recognized by antibodies present in patients suffering from end-stage renal disorder, stable renal transplant, renal transplant glomerulopathy (TG), and interstitial fibrosis and tubular atrophy (IFTA). Methods and kits are described for using these proteins in the study and diagnosis of chronic renal transplant injury, and in the selection and/or monitoring of treatment regimens.

The invention relates to a demonstration model for simulating the pathological change of acute glomerulonephritis. The invention belongs to a medical teaching device, and particularly relates to a teaching aid for demonstrating the pathological change of acute glomerulonephritis. The teaching aid mainly comprises a heart model, an afferent glomerular arteriole model, a glomerular capillary u-shaped loop model, a mesangial region saccus model, an efferent glomerular arteriole model, a renal capsule model, a renal tubule model, a urine pool and a blood pool, thereby forming a model system for demonstrating the pathological clinical correlation of acute glomerulonephritis. The device is simple in structure and convenient to operate, and has high visuality and understandability in the teaching process. Besides, the device facilitates students to foster the observation and problem analysis capabilities.

The invention provides a traditional Chinese medicine composition for treatment of chronic renal diseases and chronic renal failure and its preparation method. The traditional Chinese medicine composition is prepared from the following raw material medicines by weight: 6-40 parts of rheum officinale, 10-95 parts of astragalus and 5-65 parts of salvia miltiorrhiza by a certain extraction and purification process into an injection, a freeze-dried powder injection or other oral preparations. Animal experiments confirm that, the traditional Chinese medicine composition can obviously improve the hemodynamic indexes of rats subjected to chronic glomerulonephritis, reduces serum IL-6, IL-8, and TNF (tumor necrosis factor)-alpha levels, significantly reduces serum creatinine and urea nitrogen and other indexes of rats subjected to hypertensive nephropathy, significantly reduces serum urea nitrogen and serum creatinine contents of rats subjected to the chronic renal failure, increases serum albumin content, and also can improve each hemodynamic index of rats subjected to the chronic renal failure; and pathological results show that the traditional Chinese medicine composition can improve and inhibit injures on kidney caused by the chronic renal diseases and chronic renal failure.

Provided are methods for diagnosing a disease in a subject with a previous streptococcal infection by determining the presence or absence of one or more autoantibodies in a biological sample from the subject, wherein the one or more autoantibodies recognize an antigen from a protein selected from the group consisting of ELAVL2, ELAVL3, ELAVL4, Nova-1, Nova-2, Cdr1, Cdr2; and Cdr3. The presence of such autoantibodies is indicative of a positive diagnosis for a post-streptococcal disease such as PANDAS, post-GABHS glomerulonephritis, rheumatic fever, autism and Syndenham's chorea.

N-(2-aryl-propionyl)-amides of formula (I) are described. The process for their preparation and pharmaceutical preparations thereof are also described. The amides of the invention are useful in the prevention and treatment of tissue damage due to the exacerbate recruitment of polymorphonuclear neutrophils (leukocytes PMN) at the inflammatory sites. In particular, the invention relates to the R enantiomers of N-(2-aryl-propionyl)amides of formula (I) for use in the inhibition of the chemotaxis of neutrophils induced by IL-8. The compounds of the invention are used in the treatment of psoriasis, ulcerative cholitis, glomerular nephritis, acute respiratory insufficiency, idiopathic fibrosis, and rheumatoid arthritis.

The invention discloses a fusion protein of a single-chain antibody of a human anti-complement C3d molecule and a complement inhibitor CD59. The antibody has excellent antigen binding activity. Biological distribution experiments prove that the fusion protein provided by the invention can be rapidly and highly aggregated at an arthritis part after entering a rheumatoid arthritis mouse model, and has an excellent anti-adhesion/anti-inflammation targeting inhibition effect. In treatment of MRL/lpr lupus erythematosus mice, the fusion protein provided by the invention can obviously improve the survival rate of the mice, and symptoms of proteinuria, glomerular score, interstitial inflammation, vasculitis, crescent/necrosis and the like of a treatment group are obviously improved, so that the fusion protein provided by the invention has an excellent application prospect in preparation of medicaments for treating autoimmune diseases.

The invention belongs to the technical field of biological medicine, and particularly relates to anti-tumor angiogenesis polypeptide mPEG-Mal-Cys-AS16. The peptide comprises 17 amino acids, and the specific amino acid sequence is mPEG-Mal-CATWLPPRAANLLMAAS. AS16 is subjected to proper chemical modification through adopting polyethylene glycol, so that the purpose that the half-life period of the modified AS16 in an organism is prolonged is achieved. Experiments prove that compared with the original polypeptide AS16, the polypeptide mPEG-Mal-Cys-AS16 subjected to chemical modification provided by the invention has the advantages that the biological activity is well maintained, the polypeptide is prevented from being subjected to enzymolysis of a plurality of enzymes in the organism or being filtered by the glomerulus, and the half-life period of the polypeptide is prolonged well, so that better application value is achieved when the polypeptide is applied to tumor inhibition.

Disclosed is a composition of matter of the formula (X<1>)a-(F<1>)d-(X<2>)b-(F<2>)e-(X<3>)c and multimers thereof, in which F<1> and F<2> are half-life extending moieties, and d and e are each independently 0 or 1, provided that at least one of d and e is 1; X<1>, X<2>, and X<3> are each independently -(L)f-P-(L)g-, and f and g are each independently 0 or 1; P is a toxin peptide of no more than about 80 amino acid residues in length, comprising at least two intrapeptide disulfide bonds; L is an optional linker; and a, b, and c are each independently 0 or 1, provided that at least one of a, b and c is 1. Linkage to the half-life extending moiety or moieties increases the in vivo half-life of the toxin peptide, which otherwise would be quickly degraded. A pharmaceutical composition comprises the composition and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. Also disclosed are a DNA encoding the inventive composition of matter, an expression vector comprising the DNA, and a host cell comprising the expression vector. Methods of treating an autoimmune disorder, such as, but not limited to, multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes, psoriasis, inflammatory bowel disease, contact-mediated dermatitis, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, asthma, allergy, restinosis, systemic sclerosis, fibrosis, scleroderma, glomerulonephritis, Sjogren syndrome, inflammatory bone resorption, transplant rejection, graft-versus-host disease, and lupus and of preventing or mitigating a relapse of a symptom of multiple sclerosis are also disclosed.

The application relates to methods for the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of autoimmune and/or inflammatory disease such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), lupus nephritis, IgA nephropathy, other types of glomerulonephritis.

The invention discloses a single-chain antibody of a human anti-complement C3d molecule, and a fusion protein of the single-chain antibody and a complement inhibitor DAF. The antibody has excellent antigen binding activity. Biological distribution experiments prove that the fusion protein provided by the invention can be rapidly and highly aggregated at an arthritis part after entering a rheumatoid arthritis mouse model, and has an excellent anti-adhesion/anti-inflammation targeting inhibition effect. In treatment of MRL/lpr lupus erythematosus mice, the fusion protein provided by the invention can obviously improve the survival rate of the mice, and symptoms of proteinuria, glomerular score, interstitial inflammation, vasculitis, crescent/necrosis and the like of a treatment group are obviously improved, so that the fusion protein provided by the invention has an excellent application prospect in preparation of medicaments for treating autoimmune diseases.

The present invention relates to an application of isolated nucleic acids, a gene mutation, and a separated protein in preparation of a kit, an application of a biological model in drug screening, a drug for treating fibronectin deposition glomerulopathy type 2, a system and a kit for screening a biological sample susceptible to fibronectin deposition glomerulopathy type 2, a construct and a recombinant cell. Wherein compared with a nucleotide sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 1, the separated nucleic acid has the following mutation: c.6994G>C. By detecting whether the separated nucleic acid existsin the biological sample or not, whether the biological sample is susceptible to fibronectin deposition glomerulopathy type 2 or not can be effectively detected.

The present invention relates to uses of icariin or icariside II, specifically to uses of icariin, icariside II or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof in preparation of products for prevention and treatment of kidney diseases, specifically chronic kidney diseases. According to the present invention, with the icariin and the icariside II, the kidney endogenous stem cells of the EdU label can be increased and recruited, the TGF[beta]/Smad, CTGF, P-ERK1/2 phosphorylation level can be regulated, the pathological changes of endothelial cells, glomerular basement membrane and kidney tubules can be improved, the proteinuria can be reduced, the urea nitrogen and creatinine clearance level can be improved, the pathological change progression of the chronic kidney disease can be delayed, and the risk of the renal dysfunction can be reduced, such that the icariin and the icariside II can be used for prevention or treatment of kidney diseases.

The invention relates to applications of niclosamide ethanolamine salt and a medicinal composition of the niclosamide ethanolamine salt. After the niclosamide ethanolamine salt and the medicinal composition of the niclosamide ethanolamine salt are applied, an uncoupling effect can be achieved on the kidney tissue mitochondria, the excretion of proteinuria of mice with kidney diseases can be reduced, the glomerular sclerosis and renal tubular injuries can be improved, the level of serum creatinine can be reduced, and therefore, the niclosamide ethanolamine salt and medicinal composition of theniclosamide ethanolamine salt have a certain protection effect for the kidney diseases, and can be used for preventing and treating the kidney diseases.

The invention discloses a fully human-derived monoclonal antibody against a complement C3 molecule. The light chain and the heavy chain of the antibody have unique CDR regions and have excellent antigen binding activity. In an experiment of inhibition of lysis of CHO cells, the effect of inhibiting the lysis of the antibody sensitized CHO cells and erythrocytes by the anti-C3 monoclonal antibody is obvious. The anti-C3 monoclonal antibody can be used for significantly improving the survival rate of mice in the treatment of MRL/lpr lupus erythematosus mice, the symptoms such as the proteinuria,glomerular score, interstitial inflammation, vasculitis and crescent/necrosis of a treatment group are significantly improved, and it is shown that the anti-C3 monoclonal antibody has excellent application prospects in the preparation of drugs for treatment of autoimmune diseases.

The invention provides an establishment method of a glomerular disease classification and typing model based on immunoglobulin quantitative detection and an application thereof in detection and classification and typing of glomerular diseases. The model can classify and classify patients with glomerular diseases so as to support clinical decisions, reduce medical expenditure, reduce infection probability and improve patient acceptability.

The invention relates to new application of a traditional Chinese medicinal preparation, particularly to application of Yishenkang Capsules in preparing medicaments for treating hepatitis. Yishenkang Capsules can be directly orally taken by patients with kidney deficiency osteoporosis. Yishenkang Capsules have effects of eliminating dampness and heat, can treat chronic glomerulonephritis with symptom of damp-heat from the lower-jiao, and has certain therapeutic effect on chronic hepatitis B. Through clinical observation of 88 cases of chronic hepatitis B, the total effective rate is up to over 92.1%, and according to clinical trials, the medicament can be used for treating chronic hepatitis B, and also has effects of regulating immunity and improving own immunity. The characteristic is superior to other medicaments for treating hepatitis.