279 results about "Peripheral blood lymphocyte" patented technology

Novel cell surface molecules recognized by monoclonal antibodies against a cell surface molecule of lymphocytic cells that play an important role in autoimmune diseases and allergic diseases have been isolated, identified, and analyzed for their functions. The cell surface molecules are expressed specifically in thymocytes, lymphocytes activated by ConA-stimulation, and peripheral blood lymphocytes, and induce cell adhesion. Antibodies against the cell surface molecules significantly ameliorate pathological conditions of autoimmune diseases and allergic diseases.

A cell surface molecule that is expressed specifically in thymocytes, lymphocytes activated by ConA-stimulation, and peripheral blood lymphocytes. This molecule is involved in signal transmission of the secondary signal (costimulatory signal) essential for the activation of lymphocytes such as T cells and regulates functions of activated lymphocytes such as activated T cells. Disclosed are an antibody or a portion thereof, which binds to a polypeptide of the cell surface molecule, a polypeptide fragment thereof, or a fusion polypeptide comprising the fragment; a cell secreting the antibody or its portion; a pharmaceutical composition comprising the antibody; and methods of using the compositions for therapeutic, diagnostic and/or experimental purpose.

A pharmaceutical composition is provided that has a low toxicity, demonstrates superior physicochemical properties and pharmacokinetics, and has superior peripheral blood lymphocyte count lowering activity. The pharmaceutical composition contains a compound having general formula (I):

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(wherein R¹ represents a methyl group or an ethyl group, R² represents a methyl group or an ethyl group, and R³ represents a phenyl group substituted with 1 to 3 substituents selected from the group consisting of a halogen atom, a lower alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, a lower alkoxy group, a halogeno lower alkyl group, a lower aliphatic acyl group and a cyano group), a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof or a pharmacologically acceptable ester thereof.

The present invention provides a human antibody or an active-fragment thereof that specifically binds to human platelet membrane glycoprotein VI and does not induce a human platelet aggregation independently; a cell that produces the antibody or its active-fragment; a pharmaceutical composition that comprises the antibody or its active-fragment as an active ingredient, and so on. The above-mentioned cell can be obtained for example, as follows: a peripheral-blood-lymphocyte of the human that produces an autologous antibody to GPVI is activated by in vitro immunization under specific conditions; a hybridoma with mouse myeloma cell is prepared; and then the hybridoma that produces a monoclonal antibody, which has a binding capacity to GPVI and has an activity that suppresses collagen-mediated agglutinability of the human platelet is selected.

A novel treatment of Alzheimer's disease and other disorders involving protein misfolding or aggregation is provided by enhancing or sustaining an antibody response against predominantly directed against pathological protein aggregates or neo-epitopes present on pathogenic forms of said protein or protein complex. Furthermore, therapeutic methods are also described, wherein ex vivo stimulated antigen-selected peripheral blood lymphocytes are regrafted into the cognate donor.

The present invention provides to a humanized monoclonal antibody having immunostimulatory effects. This antibody binds specifically to B lymphoblastoid cells, induces proliferation and activation of peripheral blood lymphocytes, and is capable of eliciting an anti-tumor effect upon administration to subjects suffering from cancer.

The invention relates to a method for culturing an autologous peripheral blood lymphocyte. The method comprises the following steps: (1) separating a mononuclear cell from peripheral blood, resuspending in an X-VIVO15 serum-free culture medium to obtain cell concentration of 1*10<6>/mL, and culturing for 3 days; (2) supplementing the X-VIVO15 serum-free culture medium to 100 mL, adding IL-21*10<3> U/mL, and culturing for 1 day; (3) supplementing the X-VIVO15 serum-free culture medium to 200-240 mL, adding IL-21*10<3> U/mL, and culturing for 3 days; (4) supplementing the X-VIVO15 serum-free culture medium to 1000 mL, adding IL-21*10<3> U/mL, CTLA-4mAb100n g/mL and PD-1mAb100n g/mL; and (5) culturing for 5-7 days to prepare the autologous peripheral blood lymphocyte. The method disclosed by the invention can be used for improving the activation efficiency and amplification efficiency of an effector cell group by adding multiple monoclonal antibodies and cell factors to the X-VIVO15 serum-free culture medium, and can be used for effectively reducing the content of T regulatory cells by covering CTLA-4 and PD-1 molecules of the surfaces of all CIK cells by loading CTLA-4 and PD-1 antibodies in vitro especially, thus further enhancing the killing effect of the CIK cells on tumors.

Disclosed is a hybridoma cell line which produces human antibodies capable of binding to the hepatitis B virus surface antigen (HBVsAg), as well as antibodies produced by the cell line. Also disclosed are various uses of said antibodies in the prevention and treatment of HBV infection. Peripheral blood lymphocytes obtained from human donors having a high titer of anti HBVsAg antibodies are activated in vitro with pokeweed mitogen and then fused with heteromyeloma cells to generate hybridomas secreting human antibodies having a high affinity and specificity to HBVsAg.

The present invention relates to an improved growth method for natural killer cells (NK cells). More specifically, the present invention relates to a growth method for natural killer cells, which comprises a step of culturing natural killer cells in a medium containing anti-CD3 antibodies and interleukin proteins in the presence of peripheral blood leukocytes. The present invention provides an innovative growth method for natural killer cells, which can obtain a large amount of natural killer cells by remarkably increasing the growth rate compared with conventional growth methods for natural killer cells.

The invention relates to a method for culturing autologous peripheral blood lymphocytes, comprising the following steps of: (1) separating a PBMC (Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cell) from peripheral blood, then heavily suspending in a serum-free culture medium, and statically culturing to prepare a primary culture solution; (2) replenishing the serum-free culture medium to the primary culture solution, simultaneously adding IL (Interleukin)-2, and statically culturing to prepare a secondary culture solution; (3) replenishing the serum-free culture medium to the secondary culture solution, simultaneously adding IL-2, and statically culturing to prepare a culture solution; and (4) uniformly dividing the culture solution into two parts, adding the serum-free culture medium to complement a sufficient volume, adding IL-2, statically culturing, and repeating the step (4) to prepare the autologous peripheral blood lymphocytes. As multiple monoclonal antibodies and cell factors are added to the serum-free culture medium, the activation efficiency and the amplification efficiency of effector cell masses are improved. Through detection, the activation efficiency and the amplification efficiency are obviously improved as compared with the existing method, and a large amount of cell masses occur after the effector cell masses are activated about 3 days.

Peptides having at least nine amino acid residues each including an amino acid sequence which corresponds to position p200-208 or p262-266 of the human acetylcholine receptor alpha -subunit, but differing therefrom by one or more amino acid substitutions, are disclosed. These peptides inhibit the proliferative response of human peripheral blood lymphocytes to the myasthenogenic peptides p195-212 and p259-271 and are suitable for treatment of subjects afflicted with myasthenia gravis.

The invention relates to the method for producing antipeptide cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) by attaching a complex of a class I HLA and a peptide to antigen presenting cell(s) (APCs) present in a sample of peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBLs), optionally removing excess class I HLA/peptide complex, and incubating with proliferative cytokine. The invention further relates to a CTL obtainable by these methods and to a method of treating a subject by administering such a CTL to the subject.

Provided is a novel amine compound represented by the following formula (I) having a superior peripheral blood lymphocyte decreasing action and superior in the immunosuppressive action, rejection suppressive action and the like, which shows decreased side effects of, for example, bradycardia and the like, or a pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salt thereof, or a hydrate thereof, or a solvate thereof.

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The invention relates to a traditional Chinese medicine immunopotentiator (an astragalus polysaccharide immunopotentiator for short) prepared from astragalus extracts and sulfated epimedium polysaccharides, which belongs to the field of immunological adjuvants of livestock and poultry. 1,000ml of the liquid medicine is prepared from 40g of astragalus and 120g of epimedium herb. The preparation method of the immunopotentiator comprises the following steps of: decocting the astragalus with water for three times, then merging the obtained filter liquor and condensing the filter liquor into 500ml of astragalus solution; extracting the epimedium polysaccharides by using the epimedium herb water decoction and ethanol precipitate method, then decorating the polysaccharides by using the chlorosulfonic acid-pyridine method, and preparing the polysaccharides into 500ml of sulfated epimedium polysaccharide solution after carrying out distilled water dialysis on the polysaccharides; and mixing the astragalus solution and the sulfated epimedium polysaccharide solution, and then filtering, sub-packaging and sterilizing to obtain the traditional Chinese medicine astragalus polysaccharide immunopotentiator. The immune experiment shows that the astragalus polysaccharide immunopotentiator has the advantage of obviously improving the proliferation of peripheral blood lymphocyte of chicken and enhancing the cellular immunity, obviously improving the potency of a serum antibody, promoting the lymphocyte proliferation, enhancing the cellular immunity and humoral immunity, and improving the immune response of a vaccine by coordinately immunizing chickling by using the Newcastle disease vaccine.

The invention relates to a human peripheral blood lymphocytes culture medium and the application thereof. The human peripheral blood lymphocytes culture medium of the invention comprises: RPMI1640 liquid culture medium 77-81.9%, bovine blood 10-14.9%, PHA 4-9%, non-sulfated glycosaminoglycan 2-5%, CPPs 2-5% and Double-resist 0.05-0.1%. The culture medium provided in the invention achieves a high lymphocyte conversion rate, a high lymphocyte split index and a good reagent stability; can obtain a human chromosome figure which can provide a firm basis to chromosome core type analysis and clinic diagnosis.

The invention discloses a preparation method for pork lung protein peptide, which adopts waste liquid after the heparin sodium extraction from pork lungs as raw materials and comprises the steps of desalting, enzymolysis, ultrafiltration membrane separation and drying. The invention also discloses the pork lung protein peptide obtained by the method and an application of the pork lung protein peptide, which solve the problems of biological resource waste, environment pollution and the like of the waste liquid after the heparin sodium extraction from the pork lungs, in addition, the utilization value of products is greatly improved through the continuous processing process, the prepared pork lung protein peptide is easy to absorb and has special biological activity, the animal yield can be improved when the pork lung protein peptide is applied to high-grade feedstuff, and the pork lung protein peptide can also be used for preparing compounds for improving the immunity or can be used for preparing compounds for enhancing peripheral blood lymphocytes.