A system for determining a concentration of an analyte, such as B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP), in a fluid sample, such as a blood sample, includes a sample cartridge, a sensor reader, and a data processingsystem. The cartridge comprises a sample chamber with an electrochemical sensor, such as a carbon nanotubethin film sensor, and a connector for coupling with the sensor reader. The sensor reader is operable to perform impedance spectroscopy sweeps on the sensor at preconfigured time intervals to generate a set of temporal impedance spectra, which is communicated to the data processing apparatus. The latter operates a trained machine learning model on the set of temporal impedance spectra to generate the concentration of the analyte in the fluid sample. The system enables convenient and reliable point-of-care analyte concentration determination for prognostication of a patient condition.
Provided are long-acting atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) polypeptides that bind to natriuretic peptide receptors, such as NPR-A, thereby functioning as NPR-A agonists and that exhibit improved stability. The present invention provides atrial natriuretic peptides with specific structural features that result in polypeptides with sufficient activity at NPR-A and also possess a number of other beneficial attributes related to their potential development as therapeutic treatments, including improved solubility of the analogs in aqueous solution, improved chemical and physical formulation stability, an enhanced pharmacokinetic profile, and minimized potential immunogenicity.
To provide a type C natriuretic peptide and a method for treating acute lung injury. [Solution] This disclosure relates to the treatment of lung, liver, and / or kidney disorders by administering therapeutically effective doses of (ultra)long-acting C-type natriuretic peptide (CNP), CNP derivatives, (ultra)long-acting CNP derivatives, or (ultra)long-acting CNP receptor (NPRB) agonists to subjects in need. This disclosure also relates to the treatment of non-cardiovascular causes of hypoxia, elevated inflammatory cell levels in the lungs, pulmonary edema, sepsis, bacteremia, fibrosis in general, and / or interstitial lung disease using these.
Methods and materials for treating or preventing cardiotoxicity and / or hypertension induced by one or more anti-cancer agents (e.g., tyrosinekinase inhibitor (TKI) -induced cardiotoxicity (e.g., sunitinib-induced cardiotoxicity) and / or TKI-induced hypertension (e.g., sunitinib-induced hypertension)) are provided herein. For example, provided herein are methods for using polypeptides (e.g., chimeric polypeptides) that include (a) one or more natriuretic peptides and (b) one or more angiotensin 1-7 (ANG1-7) polypeptides to treat or prevent cardiotoxicity and / or hypertension induced by one or more anti-cancer agents.
The invention provides a cracking process of G-type natriuretic peptide, which is used for cracking synthesized G-type natriuretic peptide resin to obtain a linear peptide crude product, and comprises the following steps: S41, preparing a crackingreagent; s42, performing concentration; s43, carrying out precipitation; s44, filtering is carried out; and S45, drying. The cracking reagent comprises the following components: TFA, H2O, EDTA, TIS, ArOH and ArSCH3, wherein the ratio of TFA to H2O to EDTA to TIS to ArOH to ArSCH3 is 81.5: 5: 2.5: 1: 5: 5 (V / V / V / V / W / V). The dosage ratio of the cracking reagent to the G-type natriuretic peptide resin is 12-15ml / g. And carrying out suction filtration on the cracked reaction liquid, washing with TFA (Trifluoroacetic Acid), combining washing liquids, carrying out reduced pressure concentration on the filtrate at 32 + / -3 DEG C until the volume is 30-40% of the initial volume, and then precipitating with methyl tert-butyl ether. The cracking process of the G-type natriuretic peptide has the advantages that the cracking yield is high and can reach 20.0-30.0%, a stable and reliable process is provided for chemical synthesis of GNP cracking, and a high-quality cracking product is provided for subsequent preparation of GNP raw material medicines.
To provide a method of measuring an N-terminal fragment of a human brainnatriuretic peptide precursor, which reduces the effect of a duration from collection of a sample till detection on separation property of a complex, and to provide a measurement kit for implementing the above method.SOLUTION: A method of measuring a human brainnatriuretic peptide precursor N-terminal fragment in a sample is provided, the method comprising separating a complex containing the human brainnatriuretic peptide precursor N-terminal fragment and a substance binding to the human brain natriuretic peptide precursor N-terminal fragment in the presence of a polyanionic polymer, and measuring the complex, where the concentration of the polyanionic polymer in a separation medium is 5.1% (w / v) or greater.SELECTED DRAWING: None
The invention provides a purification process of G-type natriuretic peptide. The purification process comprises the following steps: S5, treating a GNP cracking intermediate crude product; s6, first-step purification: taking 0.2% TFA.H2O as a mobile phase A and acetonitrile as a mobile phase B, preliminarily separating the oxidized crude product solution obtained in the step S5, collecting to obtain a component 1, a component 2 and a component 3, and continuously and circularly purifying the component 1 and the component 3 until the component 2 is obtained; s7, second-step purification: a mobile phase A is 50mmol / L Na2SO4, the pH is 2.3, a mobile phase B is acetonitrile, the mobile phase A is used for purifying and separating the component 2 collected in the step S6 into components 4-6, and the component 4 and the component 6 continue to be circularly purified into a component 5; s8, third-step purification: a mobile phase A is 50mmol / L Na2SO4, the pH is 2.3, a mobile phase B is acetonitrile, the mobile phase A is used for purifying and separating the component 5 collected in the step S7 into components 7-9, the component 7 and the component 9 are continuously and circularly purified into a component 10, and the component 10 is recycled to the component 8; s9, purification in the fourth step: a mobile phase A is 0.2% HAC.H2O, and a mobile phase B is acetonitrile. The problems that GNP obtained through chemical synthesis is low in purity and poor in yield are solved.
Provided is a chimeric natriuretic peptide or a variant thereof. The chimeric natriuretic peptide comprises or consists of an N-terminal extension fragment, a cyclic fragment and a C-terminal extension fragment from the N-terminus to the C-terminus. The N-terminal extension fragment is truncated from an N-terminal linear region of DNP or an N-terminal linear region of ANP; the cyclic fragment is formed by truncating an N-terminal linear region and a C-terminal linear region of BNP while retaining a cyclic region thereof; and the C-terminal extension fragment is truncated from a C-terminal linear region of DNP. The chimeric natriuretic peptide has enhanced cGMP activation ability. Further provided are a fusion protein, nucleic acid molecule, recombinant vector, host cell, immunoconjugate and pharmaceutical composition of the chimeric natriuretic peptide or the variant thereof, and the related use thereof.
To provide long-acting atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) polypeptides that bind to natriuretic peptide receptors such as NPR-A, thereby function as NPR-A agonists, and exhibit improved stability.SOLUTION: Provided are atrial natriuretic peptides having specific structural features. The structural features also result in polypeptides having sufficient activity at NPR-A and also result in polypeptides having many other beneficial attributes associated with their developability as therapeutic treatments, including improved solubility of analogs in aqueous solution, improved chemical and physical formulation stability, extended pharmacokinetic profiles, and minimization of immunogenicity potential.SELECTED DRAWING: None
Provided are an antibody that binds specifically to N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) and use thereof. An antibody or antigen-binding fragment thereof, which binds specifically to an epitope of NT-proBNP including the amino acid sequence of HXLGXXX (SEQ ID NO: 2), may detect NT-proBNP, which is a heart disease biomarker, and heart disease can also be effectively diagnosed by using the same.
The invention relates to a myocardial injury risk assessment decision-making method and system based on multi-model stacking deep learning, and the method comprises the steps: obtaining the data of three physiological indexes of cardiac troponin I (cTnI), N-terminal B-type natriuretic peptide precursor (NT-proBNP) and creatinekinase-MB) of a target population, carrying out Z-Scorestandardization preprocessing, and carrying out the Z-Scorestandardization preprocessing; and inputting the standard feature vector into a multi-layer perceptron (MLP) model and an extreme gradient boost (XGBoost) model in parallel. The MLP model is used for extracting nonlinear abstract features, and the XGBoost model is used for capturing piecewise linear discrimination boundaries among the features. Then, prediction probabilities output by the two models are used as meta-features to be input into a logistic regression meta-learner, and a final risk assessment probability is calculated through weighted fusion. According to the method, a stacked ensemble learning mechanism is adopted, the advantages of a heterogeneous model are effectively fused, and the risk assessment accuracy and stability under the conditions of small samples and few indexes are remarkably improved.