3 results about "MMP3" patented technology

This invention discloses the application of PT-129 in the preparation of drugs for treating rheumatoid arthritis (RA), belonging to the field of RA treatment. This invention is the first to demonstrate that the compound PT-129 can target and intervene in the synovial microenvironment, effectively inhibiting the abnormal activation behaviors of RA fibroblast-like synovial cells (FLS) such as proliferation, migration, and invasion, and downregulating the expression of N-cadherin and MMP3 proteins in synovial tissue. This invention provides a combined drug formulation containing PT-129 and RGFP966. This composition exhibits a significant synergistic effect in vivo, effectively relieving joint swelling, increasing bone density and trabecular bone thickness, reducing trabecular bone separation, thereby inhibiting cartilage degradation and bone destruction. This invention provides a novel targeted drug and combination therapy with definite efficacy for the clinical intervention of RA, possessing extremely high clinical application development value.

The application discloses application of isoprenyl cysteine carboxymethyltransferase as a rheumatoid arthritis treatment target in preparation of a rheumatoid arthritis treatment drug. The application finds that the expression of ICMT is down-regulated after NSUN2 is knocked out, further research on the expression level of ICMT in RA FLS finds that the mRNA and protein expression of RA FLS ICMT is obviously up-regulated, the cell migration and invasion ability is reduced after ICMT is knocked down, and the expression of MMPs such as MMP1, MMP3 and MMP9 of RA FLS is obviously inhibited. The above results show that ICMT can regulate the abnormal migration and invasion of RA FLS, and targeting ICMT can become a new means to prevent RA joint destruction. Therefore, the application provides an effective treatment target for RA, and provides a new idea for clinical treatment of RA.

The application relates to the technical field of biological medicine, and discloses an engineered exosome, a preparation method and purposes thereof. The method comprises the following steps: introducing an exogenous nucleic acid coding a human TIMP3 protein into endothelial progenitor cells to construct engineered cells, and obtaining exosomes by separating and purifying the supernatant after culture. The engineered exosome is secreted by the endothelial progenitor cells and is efficiently loaded with the TIMP3, and has both cell homing characteristics and protease inhibition functions. The exosome can significantly inhibit matrix metalloproteinase 3 (MMP3) activity, reduce extracellular matrix degradation, and improve the structural stability of a blood vessel wall. The application provides a novel and efficient cell-free delivery strategy for treating aortic dissection, aneurysm and other vascular remodeling diseases.