64 results about "Lymphokine" patented technology

The present invention relates to a therapeutic polypeptide and methods for its creation and use for modulating an immune response in a host organism in need thereof. In particular, the invention relates to the administration to an organism in need thereof, of an effective amount of a pre-coupled polypeptide complex comprising a lymphokine polypeptide portion, for example IL-15 (SEQ ID NO: 5, 6), IL-2 (SEQ ID NO: 10, 12) or combinations of both, and an interleukin receptor polypeptide portion, for example IL-15Ra (SEQ ID NO: 7, 8), IL-2Ra (SEQ ID NO: 9, 11) or combinations of both, for augmenting the immune system in, for example, cancer, SCID, AIDS, or vaccination; or inhibiting the immune system in, for example, rheumatoid arthritis, or Lupus. The therapeutic complex of the invention surprisingly demonstrates increased half-life, and efficacy in vivo.

Provided are a system and methods for selectively inducing expansion of a population of T cells in the absence of exogenous growth factors, such as lymphokines, and accessory cells for research purposes. The cell based expansion system and methods permit the long-term growth of CTLs, preferably human CTLs. In addition, T cell proliferation can be induced without the need for antigen, thus providing an expanded T cell population that is polyclonal with respect to antigen reactivity. Further provided are methods for using the system and methods to screen and identify antigens related to specific diseases or conditions, tumors, autoimmune disorders, or an infectious disease or pathogen, and to identify target molecule for research purposes, or for developing a vaccine based thereon.

The present invention relates to a therapeutic polypeptide and methods for its creation and use for modulating an immune response in a host organism in need thereof. In particular, the invention relates to the administration to an organism in need thereof, of an effective amount of a pre-coupled polypeptide complex comprising a lymphokine polypeptide portion, for example IL-15 (SEQ ID NO: 5, 6), IL-2 (SEQ ID NO: 10, 12) or combinations of both, and an interleukin receptor polypeptide portion, for example IL-15Ra (SEQ ID NO: 7, 8), IL-2Ra (SEQ ID NO: 9, 11) or combinations of both, for augmenting the immune system in, for example, cancer, SCID, AIDS, or vaccination; or inhibiting the immune system in, for example, rheumatoid arthritis, or Lupus. The therapeutic complex of the invention surprisingly demonstrates increased half-life, and efficacy in vivo.

Provided are a system and methods for selectively inducing expansion of a population of T cells in the absence of exogenous growth factors, such as lymphokines, and accessory cells for research purposes. The cell based expansion system and methods permit the long-term growth of CTLs, preferably human CTLs. In addition, T cell proliferation can be induced without the need for antigen, thus providing an expanded T cell population that is polyclonal with respect to antigen reactivity. Further provided are methods for using the system and methods to screen and identify antigens related to specific diseases or conditions, tumors, autoimmune disorders, or an infectious disease or pathogen, and to identify target molecule for research purposes, or for developing a vaccine based thereon.

In the past, adoptive immunotherapy often failed because the transferred immune cells were inactive in vivo. This disclosure provides a method of producing immune cells that are highly active in vivo. The immune cells may be expanded in vitro in the presence of an adenosine receptor agonist or an antisense nucleic acid that downregulates expression of an adenosine receptor, for example. The immune cells may be tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL), cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL), natural killer (NK) cells, or lymphokine-activated killer (LAK) cells, for example. The methods described herein may be used to treat a number of diseases including cancer, infectious diseases, and immunodeficiencies.

The present invention is directed to an implantable immune modulation device that is useful for modulating an immune response in mammals, comprising a plurality of fibers, within a porous shell. The fiber filling is loaded with single or multiple antigens, and optionally one or more biologically active compounds such as cytokines (e.g. lymphokines, chemokines etc.), attachment factors, genes, peptides, proteins, nucleotides, carbohydrates or cells depending on the application.

Provided are a system and methods for selectively inducing expansion of a population of T cells in the absence of exogenous growth factors, such as lymphokines, and accessory cells for research purposes. The cell based expansion system and methods permit the long-term growth of CTLs, preferably human CTLs. In addition, T cell proliferation can be induced without the need for antigen, thus providing an expanded T cell population that is polyclonal with respect to antigen reactivity. Further provided are methods for using the system and methods to screen and identify antigens related to specific diseases or conditions, tumors, autoimmune disorders, or an infectious disease or pathogen, and to identify target molecule for research purposes, or for developing a vaccine based thereon.

An improved method of inducing whole-body hyperthermia and enhanced anti-tumor immune response through inoculation of a fever virus with nil mortality and subsequent injection of irradiated tumor cells derived from the patient. This therapy will safely reduce the tumor burden by 90-99.9% by physical means (fever), before raising interferon levels to over 250 times baseline. The Activated Lymphokine Killer cells produced by these high interferon levels are capable of killing any cell expressing viral or tumor antigens, even those which had previously escaped immune surveillance. As a final step in the process, a specific class of Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes programmed to destroy the patient's own cancer cells will be produced by repeated inoculation of irradiated cancer cells harvested from the patient. Through a combination of three methods of therapy never previously integrated into a single regimen, it is logical to state that this therapy has a high probability of completely eradicating cancer cells from the patient. In addition, this therapy provides for life-long immunity to the reoccurrence of the disease.

The use of 3-O-deacylated monophosphoryl lipid A or monophosphoryl lipid A and derivatives and analogs thereof, in combination with a cytokine or lymphokine such as granulocyte macrophage colony stimulating factor or interleukin-12 is useful as an adjuvant combination in an antigenic composition to enhance the immune response in a vertebrate host to a selected antigen.

A pharmaceutical composition has a therapeutically effective amount of at least one of: a pharmaceutically active nasal peptide, its pharmaceutically acceptable salt and its peptidic fragment. The composition also contains an absorbefacient effective amount of THAM in a pharmaceutically acceptable, aqueous liquid diluent or carrier. The composition is provided in a convenient form for nasal administration. In one embodiment, the peptidic fragment may be selected physiologically active lymphokines and monokines, peptidic enzymes, proteic vaccines, peptidic toxoids and personalized proteins derived from genoma. In another embodiment, the peptidic fragment may be selected from the peptide hormones and hormone antagonists buserelin, desmopressin, vasopressin, angiotensin, felypressin, octreotide, somatropin, thyrotropin (TSH), somatostatin, gosereline, thryptorelin and insulin selected from the group consisting of cow and pig, synthetic and recombinant.

A method and composition for treating dermatological conditions and improving skin condition and helping hair to grow or thicken involves putting mesenchymal stem cells or other cells with regenerative properties into culture medium to induce secretion of beneficial factors such as growth factor, regulatory factors, enzymes, hormones, peptides and lymphokines into the culture medium to create conditioned medium and then extracting either a supernatant or a cell free extract of the conditioned medium to use itself or components thereof alone or with other skin or hair care reagents as a topical ointment or formula to apply to the skin or hair topically for therapeutic and cosmetic purposes.

The invention relates to the field of immunology, in particular to a method for amplifying and activating a natural killer (NK) cell into a lymphokine-activated killer (LAK) cell by using a CD8 alpha-interleukin 21-CD137 compound. The method disclosed by the invention comprises the following steps of: forming the CD8 alpha-interleukin 21-CD137 compound by using CD8 alpha, interleukin 21 and a CD137 functional polypeptide, making an exogenous expression vector enter a host K562 cell, then activating a promoter and culturing a cell to obtain a cell for expressing a transmembrane interleukin 21-CD137 compound; and purifying the compound in the conventional way, and amplifying and activating a lymphocyte by using the purified compound to generate the LAK cell. The method has the advantage that: the LAK cell cultured and amplified by using the transmembrane interleukin 21-CD137 compound and a small dose of interleukin 2 is used for enhancing the immunity of a patient to help the patient resist tumors, viruses and bacteria. The method has a wide clinical using prospect.

Methods for predicting patient tolerability to therapeutic agents, such as cytokines, lymphokines and immunotoxins, are disclosed. The methods utilize an in vitro model of vascular leak syndrome (VLS) to assess the effect of the agent in question on the permeability of large proteins across confluent monolayers of endothelial cells (EC).

An improved method of inducing whole-body hyperthermia and enhanced anti-tumor immune response through inoculation of a fever virus with nil mortality and subsequent injection of irradiated tumor cells derived from the patient. This therapy will safely reduce the tumor burden by 90-99.9% by physical means (fever), before raising interferon levels to over 250 times baseline. The Activated Lymphokine Killer cells produced by these high interferon levels are capable of killing any cell expressing viral or tumor antigens, even those which had previously escaped immune surveillance. As a final step in the process, a specific class of Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes programmed to destroy the patient's own cancer cells will be produced by repeated inoculation of irradiated cancer cells harvested from the patient. Through a combination of three methods of therapy never previously integrated into a single regimen, it is logical to state that this therapy has a high probability of completely eradicating cancer cells from the patient. In addition, this therapy provides for life-long immunity to the reoccurrence of the disease. It is understood that the examples and embodiments described herein are for illustrative purposes only and that various changes or modifications in light thereof will be suggested to persons skilled in the art and are to be included within the spirit and purview of this application and scope of the appended claims.

The present invention provides a method for achieving high-level expression of the therapeutically important lymphokine (human IL-2). The method comprises of identifying the secondary structure in the 5′ region of human IL-2 mRNA, modifying the 5′ region of the human IL-2 DNA sequence to produce a new DNA sequence wherein the mRNA transcribed from the modified human IL-2 DNA sequence has the predicted 5′ secondary structure destabilized with increased free energy compared to that of the secondary structure of the mRNA transcribed from the native DNA sequence without altering the sequence of the encoded amino acids; and using this modified DNA sequence of human IL-2 for high level recombinant expression in a microbial host for large scale production. This method is also applicable to other expression host like yeasts and mammalian cells.

This invention provides novel processes for therapeutic applications, including the treatment of subjects carrying infectious agents or having impaired autoimmunity or impaired immune condition. The therapeutic applications disclosed herein are also directed at the treatment of cancerous subjects with malignant tumors containing cancerous cells or malignant or cancerous cells. Vaccination processes for preventing infections in subjects are also provided. The novel processes comprise introducing into or adminstering to a subject one or more antigens, or trained or adopted immune cells. These antigens or immune cells are capable of establishing or increasing at least one first specific immune response and decreasing at least one second specific immune response. Such responses include components, such as cellular immune reaction elements, humoral immune reaction elements and cytokines, the latter also encompassing interferons and lymphokines. Useful compositions are also provided by this invention.

In the past, adoptive immunotherapy often failed because the transferred immune cells were inactive in vivo. This disclosure provides a method of producing immune cells that are highly active in vivo. The immune cells may be expanded in vitro in the presence of an adenosine receptor agonist or an antisense nucleic acid that downregulates expression of an adenosine receptor, for example. The immune cells may be tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL), cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL), natural killer (NK) cells, or lymphokine-activated killer (LAK) cells, for example. The methods described herein may be used to treat a number of diseases including cancer, infectious diseases, and immunodeficiencies.

The invention relates to application of obakunone to preparation of a medicine for preventing and treating lung injury and pulmonary fibrosis. The medicine consists of obakunone and pharmaceutically acceptable auxiliaries and additives, wherein the obakunone accounts for 3-25% by mass of the medicine. The obakunone in the medicine can inhibit mouse lung injury and pulmonary fibrosis induced by Bleomycin and regulate lymphokine expression related to inflammation of mouse lung injury induced by Bleomycin, and not only is remarkable in effects of preventing and treating lung injury and pulmonary fibrosis, but also has the advantages of low toxicity and no liver or kidney injury.

The subject invention pertains to methods and materials for accurately assessing the presence or absence of analytes of interest in samples, particularly in physiological samples. The subject invention involves utilizing a ligand binding domain (LBD) of a receptor to selectively capture the analyte target specific for that LBD. In one embodiment, the receptor is a protein or polypeptide. The ligand binding domain is allowed to react with a sample and the presence or amount of ligand (i.e., target analyte) bound by the LBD is determined. Suitable analytes include soluble analytes such as hormones, enzymes, lipoproteins, bacterial or viral antigens, immunoglobulines, lymphokines, cytokines, drugs, soluble cancer antigens, and the like. The methods of the present invention can be performed in both liquid-phase and solid-phase.

The invention relates to the pharmaceutical industry, particularly to the pharmaceutical industry related to drugs comprising biomacromolecules, or biopharmaceuticals. Even more particularly, the invention relates to a pharmaceutical form comprising biomacromolecules such as lymphokines, hormones, haematopoietic factors, growth factors, antibodies, enzymes, inhibitors, vaccines, and DNA or RNA derivatives. The invention provides a pharmaceutical form comprising biomacromolecules and a method for producing same based on inkjet printing using inks formed by nanosystems comprising the biomacromolecule(s), the drug or biopharmaceutical being administered orally. Even more particularly, the invention relates to a pharmaceutical form for oral administration of a highly controlled, stable controlled release dose of a biomacromolecule comprising: a) a polymer film as a printing substrate, formed by at least one pharmaceutically acceptable excipient; and b) an inkjet ink printed on the polymer film and comprising nanoparticles or nanoparticle suspensions comprising the biomacromolecule and at least one pharmaceutically acceptable excipient.

The invention relates to the technical field of organisms, and particularly relates to an antibacterial adhesive remover for marine organisms applicable to removal of organic adhesive residues such as a sticking adhesive, chewing gum, sealing glue, kinds of oil paints and the like left on the surfaces of kinds of objects in a family or a public place. The formula comprises the following components by weight percent (%): 5.0-6.0% of seaweed lymphokine, 1.0-1.5% of agaroidin gelatum sugar, 7.0-9.5% of dicaproate, 2.0-4.0% of acetone, 2.0-4.0% of mineral oil, 0.5-2.0% of hydroxy propyl cellulose, 2.0-4.0% of sea mud saponin and purified water added to 100%. Pure natural active ingredients of the marine organisms, and nontoxic and nonirritant green marine biotin products which are free of corrosion and fragrant in flavor are adopted, so that the antibacterial adhesive remover has the characteristics of being high in efficiency, low in concentration, good in stability, good in degumming sterilization effect, free of poison and harm, convenient to carry and the like, and has broad applicability.

The present invention is a novel cytokine protein called IL-12 or Cytotoxic Lymphocyte Maturation Factor (CLMF) which is produced and synthesized by human NC-37 B lymphoblastoid cells (American Type Culture Collection, Rockville, Md.). CLMF synergistically induces with low concentrations of IL-2 the cytolytic activity of Lymphokine Activated Killer (LAK) cells, and CLMF is capable of stimulating T-cell growth.Also claimed are the cloned gene for CLMF, its recombination in a suitable vector, the transformed cells containing said vector, the recombinant protein produced by the transformed cells and antibodies to CLMF.

The invention particularly relates to an antitumor chimeric protein, an antitumor vaccine and an antitumor vaccine for nasal mucosa administration, belonging to the technical field of biomedicine. Theanti-tumor chimeric protein provided by the invention comprises: a first polypeptide, which comprises a lymphokine sequence for enhancing an immunoreaction and a CTA2 subunit sequence of cholera toxin; and a second polypeptide, which comprises a CTB subunit sequence of the cholera toxin and a tumor-specific epitope peptide sequence, wherein a CTA2 subunit of the cholera toxin in the first polypeptide and a CTB subunit of the cholera toxin in the second polypeptide are mutually chimeric to form the anti-tumor chimeric protein. The anti-tumor chimeric protein, the anti-tumor vaccine and the anti-tumor vaccine for nasal mucosa administration provided by the invention are used for solving the technical defect of poor immunogenicity of tumor vaccines in the prior art.

The present invention relates to a transformed lymphokine activated killer cell (I-LAK cell) useful in the treatment of cancer or virus infection into which a recombinant vector carrying IL-2 gene to which it is operably linked is introduced. Also it relates to a pharmaceutical composition for treating cancer or virus infection disease comprising a sufficient amount of I-LAK cell to elicit an immune response.

The invention relates to a cultural method for enhancing killing activity and proliferative activity of LAK (lymphokine-activated killer) cells and an application. The cultural method for enhancing the killing activity and proliferative activity of the LAK cells is co-culturing the LAK cells and DC (dendritic cells). The application of the DC cells is to enhance the killing activity and proliferative activity of the LAK cells. According to the cultural method, through co-culturing the LAK cells and the DC cells, the proliferation of the LAK cells is promoted, and the killing activity of the LAK cells is enhanced.

The invention provides a polynucleotide encoding an envelope protein comprising gp120 of human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) having a mutation at amino acid residues 197-199 whereby a single N-linked glycan is removed. In a typical embodiment, the mutation replaces the asparagine (N) at residue 197 with another amino acid, such as glutamine (Q), creating an N197Q mutation. Because the N197 glycan is highly conserved among HIV-1 subtypes, this approach is applicable across HIV-1 isolates. The invention provides polypeptides, polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides, vectors, and recombinant viruses containing the polynucleotides, antigen-presenting cells (APCs) presenting the polypeptides, immune cells directed against HIV, and pharmaceutical compositions. The invention additionally provides methods, including methods for preventing and treating infection, for killing infected cells, for inhibiting viral replication, for enhancing secretion of antiviral and / or immunomodulatory lymphokines, and for enhancing production of neutralizing antibody.