716 results about "Nephritis" patented technology

Pharmaceutical compositions for prevention or treatment of diseases caused by interleukin-6 production, comprising an antibody to interleukin-6 receptor (IL-6R antibody). As the IL-6R antibody, an antibody of animals other than the human such as mice, rats, etc., a chimeric antibody between these and a human antibody, a reshaped human antibody, etc. may be used. The pharmaceutical compositions are useful for prevention or treatment of diseases caused by interleukin-6 production such as plasmacytosis, anti-IgGl-emia, anemia, nephritis, etc.

An IL-6 production inhibitor which comprises a hydroxamic acid derivative of formula (I)

(wherein all the symbols have the same meanings as defined in the specification), an equivalent thereof, a non-toxic salt thereof or a prodrug thereof as an active ingredient. Because of having an IL-6 production inhibitory activity, the compound of formula (I) may be useful for the prevention and/or treatment of various inflammatory diseases, sepsis, multiple myeloma, plasma cell leukemia, osteoporosis, cachexia, psoriasis, nephritis, renal cell carcinoma, Kaposi's sarcoma, rheumatoid arthritis, hypergammaglobulinemia (gammophathy), Castleman's disease, intra-atrial myxoma, diabetes, autoimmune disease, hepatitis, colitis, graft-versus-host disease, infectious diseases, endometriosis and solid cancer.

The present invention relates to the use of an immunogenic composition that comprises a porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) antigen for treatment of several clinical manifestations (diseases). Preferably, the clinical manifestations are associated with a PCV2 infection. Preferably, they include lymphadenopathy, lymphoid depletion and/or multinucleated/giant histiocytes. Moreover, the clinical symptoms include lymphadenopathy in combination with one or a multiple of the following symptoms in pigs: (1) interstitial pneumonia with interlobular edema, (2) cutaneous pallor or icterus, (3) mottled atrophic livers, (4) gastric ulcers, (5) nephritis and (6) reproductive disorders, e.g. abortion, stillbirths, mummies, etc. Furthermore the clinical symptoms include Pia like lesions, normally known to be associated with Lawsonia intracellularis infections.

The present invention provides a therapeutic or prophylactic agent as a substitute for conventional steroids or immunosuppressive agents to treat or prevent systemic erythematosus, glomerulonephritis, lupus nephritis, idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura or autoimmune anemia. The agent comprises a retinoic acid receptor agonist, specifically a retinoic acid receptor subtype alpha (RARalpha) agonist, including for example:(1) carboxylic acid compounds having condensed rings represented by the following formula: (wherein the rings L and M are condensed, are the same as or different from each other, and represent an aromatic hydrocarbon which may have a substituent group or a heterocycle which may have a substituent group; the rings A and B are independent of each other and represent an aromatic hydrocarbon ring or heterocycle which may have a substituent group; and D represents a carboxyl group which may have a protective group),(2) 4-{[(3,5-bistrimethylsilylphenyl)carbonyl]amino}benzoic acid, 4-{2-[5-(3-methoxymethyl-5,6,7,8-tetrahydro-5,5,8,8-tetramethylnaphthalene-2-yl)pyrrolyl]}benzoic acid, etc.

The present invention relates to 5-thia-omega-substituted phenylprostaglandin E derivatives of the formula (I)(wherein, all the symbols are as defined in the specification), process for producing them and pharmaceutical compositions comprising them as active ingredient.The compounds of the formula (I) can bind to PGE2 receptors (especially, subtype EP4) strongly, so they are expected to be useful for prevention and/or treatment of immunological diseases (autoimmune diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), multiple sclerosis, Sjoegren's syndrome, chronic rheumarthrosis and systemic lupus erythematosus etc., and rejection after organ transplantation etc.), asthma, abnormal bone formation, neuronal cell death, lung failure, liver damage, acute hepatitis, nephritis, renal insufficiency, hypertension, myocardiac ischemia, systemic inflammatory response syndrome, ambustion pain, sepsis, hemophagous syndrome, macrophage activation syndrome, Still's disease, Kawasaki disease, burn, systemic granulomatosis, ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, hypercytokinemia at dialysis, multiple organ failure, and shock etc. Further, it is thought that EP4 subtype receptor relates to sleeping disorder and blood platelet aggregation, so the compounds of the present invention are expected to be useful for the prevention and/or treatment of such diseases.

Embodiments of the disclosure relate to selectively substituted quinoline compounds that act as antagonists or inhibitors for Toll-like receptors 7 and/or 8, and their use in pharmaceutical compositions effective for treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and lupus nephritis.

The present invention relates to the discovery, identification and characterization of nucleic acids that encode a novel protein differentially expressed within the TH2 cell subpopulation (hereinafter referred to as STIF). The invention encompasses STIF nucleotides, host cell expression systems, STIF proteins, fusion proteins, polypeptides and peptides, antibodies to the STIF protein, transgenic animals that express a STIF transgene, or recombinant knock-out animals that do not express the STIF protein, and compounds that modulate STIF gene expression or STIF activity that can be used for diagnosis, drug screening, clinical trial monitoring, and/or used to treat STIF based disorders, such as proliferative disorders and T-lymphocyte-related disorders including, but not limited to, chronic inflammatory diseases and disorders, such as Crohn's disease, reactive arthritis, including Lyme disease, insulin-dependent diabetes, organ-specific autoimmunity, including multiple sclerosis, Hashimoto's thyroiditis and Grave's disease, contact dermatitis, psoriasis, graft rejection, graft versus host disease, sarcoidosis, atopic conditions, such as asthma and allergy, including allergic rhinitis, gastrointestinal allergies, including food allergies, eosinophilia, conjunctivitis, glomerular nephritis, certain pathogen susceptibilities such as helminthic (e.g., leishmaniasis) and certain viral infections, including HIV, and bacterial infections, including tuberculosis and lepromatous leprosy.

Compounds shown by the above formula or salt thereof show a strong angiotensin II antagonistic activity and hypotensive action and CNS activity, and are useful as therapeutic agents of circulatory diseases such as hypertensive diseases and heart diseases (e.g. hypercardia, heart failure, cardiac infarction), strokes, cerebral apoplexy, nephritis, atherosclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, senile dementia, etc.

Embodiments of the disclosure relate to tetrahydropyrazolopyrimidine compounds that act as antagonists or inhibitors for Toll-like receptors 7 and/or 8, and their use in pharmaceutical compositions effective for treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and lupus nephritis

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.

Compounds which are antagonists of MCP-1 function and are useful in the prevention or treatment of chronic or acute inflammatory or autoimmune diseases, especially those associated with aberrant lymphocyte or monocyte accumulation such as arthritis, asthma, atherosclerosis, diabetic nephropathy, inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn's disease, multiple sclerosis, nephrtitis, pancreatitis, pulmonary fibrosis, psoriasis, restenosis, and transplant rejection; pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds; and the use of these compounds and compositions in the prevention or treatment of such diseases.

The invention discloses toxin expelling and beautifying tea and a preparation method thereof. A formula comprises the following components in percentage by mass: 20 to 70 percent of tartary buckwheat, 10 to 30 percent of honey powder, 5 to 40 percent of oligosaccharide and 10 to 65 percent of auxiliary material, wherein the auxiliary material is plant or plant extract; the plant is one or mixtureof Pu'er tea, red yeast rice, cassia seed, rhubarb, white paeony root, officinal magnolia bark, lotus leaf, senna leaf and aloe; and the plant extract is extract of the plants. The tartary buckwheat serving as a main component is combined with other medicament-food homological plants in the formula, so the tea can clear the toxin in vivo, plays a role in conditioning the daily life aiming at the crowds with high blood fat and long-term constipation, and has the effects of expelling toxin and reducing fat, enhancing human immunity, treating stomach disease, removing dampness and releasing toxin, treating nephritis and the like. The tea has comprehensive regulating effect on sub-health condition caused by current ubiquitous factors such as environmental pollution, working pressure, poor dietary habit and the like.

The invention relates to a Jieshitong tea composition and a preparation method thereof. The Jieshitong tea composition is prepared from eight Chinese medicines of snowbell-leaf tickclover herb, corn stigma, abrus herb, tuckahoe, pyrrosia leaf, lalang grass rhizome, plantain herb and lygodium. The Jieshitong tea composition has the effects of inducing diuresis and diminishing inflammation, treating stranguria and relieving pain and stopping bleeding and eliminating stone, and is mainly used for urinary tract infection, cystitis, nephritis edema, lithangiuria, hematuresis, turbid dribbling and causalgia in urinary catheter. Clinical pharmacodynamic tests prove that the Jieshitong tea composition is obvious in an effect and high in bioavailability and does not have toxic or side effect.

Disclosed is a Chinese medicament for treating acute glomerular nephritis wherein the recipe includes astragalus root 20g, root of red rooted saliva 15g, cogongrass rhizome 40g, rhizome smilacis glabrae 100g, motherwort 20g, malt 30g, arctium fruit 10g, bletilla tuber 12g, kudzuvine root 8g, cordate houttuynia 10g, plantain seeds, polyporus umbellatus each 20g, alkanna tinctoria, eclipta, notoginseng each 30g, Achyranthes bidentatae 25g, sweet basil, ledebouriella root each 30g. The Chinese medicament has simplified recipe, easy preparing process and low price.

A health-care sugar cane juice beverage for preventing nephritis, renal failure and uremia, and treating cough and bronchitis is prepared from sugar can juice and 16 Chinese-medicinal materials including wolfberry fruit, honeysuckle flower, liquorice root, scutellaria root, etc.

Provided is a pyridine derivative represented by formula (I), a prodrug thereof, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of the pyridine derivative or the prodrug, or a solvate of the pyridine derivative, the prodrug or the pharmaceutically acceptable salt, which is useful for treatment or prophylaxis of diseases associated with URAT1 such as gout, hyperuricemia, hypertension, kidney diseases such as interstitial nephritis, diabetes, arteriosclerosis and Lesch-Nyhan syndrome.

The invention provides methods of treatment using humanized immunoglobulins that specifically bind to alpha-4 integrin. The methods are useful for treatment of asthma, atherosclerosis, AIDS dementia, diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease, rheumatoid arthritis, transplant rejection, graft versus host disease, tumor metastasis, nephritis, atopic dermatitis, psoriasis, myocardial ischemia, and acute leukocyte mediated lung injury.

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.

A Chinese medicine in the form of non-sugar particles for treating infection in urinary system, cystitis, nephritis, urethra calculus, hematuria, etc is prepared from 8 Chinese-medicinal materials including lysimachia, tuckahoe, pyrrosia leaf, imperate rhizome, etc. Its preparing process is also disclosed.

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 invention discloses a composite kidney-benefiting medicine and belongs to Chinese herbal composite medicine. The composite kidney-benefiting medicine comprises astragalus, angelica sinensis, red peony root, rhizoma chuanxiong, glossy privet fruit, eclipta, lalang grass rhizome, moutan bark, fructus kochiae and glycyrrhiza. The composite kidney-benefiting medicine can effectively cure pure simple hematuresis and hematuresis proteinuria, comprises immune globulin A (IgA) nephropathy, anaphylatic purpura nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, comprises nephritis type with hematuresis, can confront side effect of nephrotic syndrome which is cured by hormone, can play roles in promoting blood circulation to remove blood stasis and preventing and curing hypercoagulable state and has the advantages of being prominent in curative effect, convenient to take and good in taste.