34 results about "Caveolin Proteins" patented technology

The present invention relates to methods for the diagnosis, evaluation and treatment of metastatic diseases using metastatic sequences, such as caveolin, to target metastatic cells. According to the methods of the present invention, certain cancers, including metastatic prostate cancer, may be treated by therapies which suppress expression of the caveolin gene. The present invention relates to biological technologies designed to block the activity of caveolin or the function of caveolae, including vector delivery of antisense caveolin sequences, the use of anti-caveolin antibodies, the use of promoters, and other approaches targeting the expression of caveolin.

The invention provides an expression system for producing Caveolin-1 in neuronal cells or neural stem cells comprising a neuron-specific regulatory element and a nucleic acid sequence encoding Caveolin-1.

Provided herein are novel compositions, specifically, caveolin modulators, and methods to treat and / or prevent autoimmune and / or inflammatory diseases / conditions using such compositions.

The present invention is directed to the modulation of lipid rafts, caveolin proteins, or caveolar functions and processes by platinum(IV) compounds. Caveolae and / or lipid rafts are associated with cell transcription regulation, membrane and cellular transport, cell membrane receptor function, cellular trafficking, antigen presentation, cell differentiation and activation, cytokine modulation, membrane structure and function, and protein modulation. Caveolae, caveolin proteins and lipid rafts are known therapeutic targets for numerous biological functions. Diseases and disorders currently known to be therapeutically targeted through caveolae and / or lipid rafts include diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular diseases, atherosclerosis, pulmonary fibrosis, multiple sclerosis, viral and prion diseases, neuronal disorders, degenerative muscular dystrophies, and autoimmune disorders.

Serum cav-1 is disclosed as a biomarker for prostate cancer that has the power to differentiate between prostate cancer and BPH patients.

This invention proposes an agent to block the “fuel supply” that energizes cancer cell growth by protecting surrounding cells to the cancer, particularly stromal fibroblast cells. The invention disables the products of surrounding cells useable for energy conversion by the cancer cell thereby crippling the cell and disabling its growth process. This application describes the use of a formulation of liposomally encapsulated glutathione that is preferably used orally to increase the level of glutathione in tissues in order to prevent and reverse the metabolic changes in cells that results in the formation of the metabolic fuel that supports cancer cells and to prevent the oxidative stress that damages normal support cells such as fibroblasts and can prevent and reverse these cells from the steps of autophagy and mitophagy that results in the cells decreasing the normal mitochondrial production of ATP for energy and resorting to the use of aerobic glycolysis for energy production. The use of oral liposomally encapsulated glutathione will maintain the presence and normal function of caveolin in fibroblast and other cells, thus preventing their conversion to autophagic tumor stromal cells. By stopping the formation of autophagic cells, the production of the metabolic fuel needed by cancer cells is stopped, which results in the death of the cancer cells. Compositions using liposomally encapsulated glutathione and other compounds that enhance the favorable effects of liposomal glutathione on cancer disease are referenced.

Provided herein are novel compositions, specifically, caveolin modulators, and methods to treat and / or prevent autoimmune and / or inflammatory diseases / conditions using such compositions.

A method for treating a neurological disorder, symptom or disease that is associated with an increase in the brain levels of caveolin-1 (Cav-1) in a subject in need thereof is disclosed. The method comprises administering to the subject in need thereof a composition comprising: (a) a therapeutically effective amount of an antibody specific against the Cav-1 or an antigen-binding fragment thereof; and (b) a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. Methods for reducing cerebral inflammation, brain tissue damage, brain neuronal death, and improving behavioral outcomes or functional recovery related to a hemorrhagic stroke in a subject in need thereof are also disclosed.

The invention provides a type O foot-and-mouth disease virus mutant and a preparation method and application thereof, and belongs to the technical field of vaccine candidate strains. According to thetype O foot-and-mouth disease virus mutant disclosed by the invention, an rHN virus strain is used as a female parent virus strain, and the following amino acids in a G-H ring of VP3 protein are mutated: the 173rd aspartic acid is mutated into asparagine, the 174th valine is mutated into glutamic acid and the 179th asparagine is mutated into cysteine. The virus mutant has heredity stability and obtains the capacity of caveolin for performing mediated infestation on CHO-K1cells. The result of detecting the cross neutralization capacity of immune positive serum indicates that compared with a female parent virus strain, the virus mutant has the advantages that the cross protection capacity of the virus mutant for inducing organisms to produce foot-and-mouth disease virus neutralizing antibodies is notably improved, and the virus mutant shows excellent antigen broad spectrum properties. Vaccines prepared through inactivation of the virus mutant can be used for preventing infection with type O foot-and-mouth disease viruses.