68 results about "Human ARDS" patented technology

Disclosed is a method of diagnosing irritable bowel syndrome, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, depression, attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder, autoimmune diseases, such as multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus erythematosus, or Crohn's disease, which involves detecting the presence of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) in a human subject having at least one symptom associated with a suspected diagnosis of any of those diagnostic categories. Also disclosed is a method of treating these disorders, and other disorders caused by SIBO, that involves at least partially eradicating a SIBO condition in the human subject. The method includes administration of anti-microbial or probiotic agents, or normalizing intestinal motility by employing a prokinetic agent. The method improves symptoms, including hyperalgesia related to SIBO and disorders caused by SIBO. Also disclosed is a kit for the diagnosis or treatment of irritable bowel syndrome, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, depression, attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder, autoimmune diseases, or Crohn's disease.

Methods and devices are provided for targeted non-surgical administration of a drug formulation to the suprachoroidal space (SCS) of the eye of a human subject for the treatment of a posterior ocular disorder or a choroidal malady. In one embodiment, the method comprises inserting a hollow microneedle into the eye at an insertion site and infusing a drug formulation through the inserted microneedle and into the suprachoroidal space of the eye, wherein the infused drug formulation flows within the suprachoroidal space away from the insertion site during the infusion. In one embodiment, the fluid drug formulation comprises drug nanoparticles or microparticles.

A human T cell clone recognizing an antigen expressed by a synovial cell of a rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patient in HLA-DR-restricted manner is disclosed, which clone is very useful in exploring the pathogenesis of RA and developing a method for treating and preventing RA.

The present invention relates to the selection of a set of polymorphism markers for use in genome wide association studies based on linkage disequilibrium mapping. In particular, the invention relates to the fields of pharmacogenomics, diagnostics, patient therapy and the use of genetic haplotype information to predict an individual's susceptibility to Crohn's disease and / or their response to a particular drug or drugs.

The present invention relates to the selection of a set of polymorphism makers for use in genome wide association studies based on linkage disequilibrium mapping. In particular, the invention relates to the fields of pharmacogenomics, diagnostics, patient therapy and the use of genetic haplotype information to predict an individual's susceptibility to IBD (ex: Chrohn's disease) and / or their response to a particular drug or drugs.

The invention relates to the functional genomic and gene expression detection technology and the analysis technology, and discloses a reagent kit for quantitatively assessing long-term recurrence risks of breast cancer. Particularly, a type of genes capable of being used for breast cancer metastasis and prognostic molecular classification is screened within a human functional genome expression profile range, the detection technology is created, and the reagent kit is prepared and applied to breast cancer metastasis and prognostic assessment for a patient. The reagent kit for quantitatively assessing long-term recurrence risks of breast cancer comprises 21 pairs of primers, 21 specific taqman fluorescent probes, 10XRT-PCR (reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction) buffer solution, 2.5mM of dNTP (diethyl-nitrophenyl thiophosphate) mixed liquor, reverse transcriptase, DNA (deoxyribose nucleic acid) polymerase, 10XPCR buffer solution and RNA (ribonucleic acid) enzyme inhibitor. The reverse transcription PCR technology is combined with the taqman fluorescent quantitative PCR technology, reverse transcription primers, real-time PCR primers and the taqman fluorescent probes are self-designed and optimized, reverse transcription PCR reagent and taqman fluorescent quantitative PCR reagent are integrated to prepare the detection reagent kit, operation is simple and fast, detection results are more stable, and detection cost is lower.

Many diseases with origin in human gut are of unknown causes, so only symptoms are treated. Endoscopic devices leave about 15′ of gut unexplored other than by autopsy. Thus, a substance and microbe simultaneous sample collecting, testing, evaluation, and characterization system has been invented that will provide data for evaluating functions, macro, and micro processes taking place along entire length of the human digestive and intestinal tract from mouth to anus. The entire digestive process including biochemical reactions and microbe roles, and consequences, as pertain to diseases and illnesses can be ascertained through applications of the system, which includes protocols, for collection and preservation of digestion products for external analysis, measurements of many in vivo conditions, and internally processing data and making decisions based upon said processed data, including administration of medications. The system serves clinical diagnostic, treatment and research purposes, and is a dream tool for gastroenterologists.

Certain human genes have been found to be induced or repressed in host cells infected with HCMV. A large set of such genes has been identified. These have diagnostic use in determining the extent of tissue damage caused by the infection as well as in determining the stage of disease progression of the HCMV infection. Such genes are likely those involved in mediating the pathology of the infected tissues. Thus by identifying agents which are able to reverse the induction or repression of such genes, one can find candidate therapeutic agents for use in treating and or preventing HCMV-caused disease pathologies.

The present invention relates to the selection of a set of polymorphism markers for use in genome wide association studies based on linkage disequilibrium mapping. In particular, the invention relates to the fields of pharmacogenomics, diagnostics, patient therapy and the use of genetic haplotype information to predict an individual's susceptibility to SCHIZOPHRENIA disease and / or their response to a particular drug or drugs.

The present invention relates to a method for treating impaired respiratory function in a human patient suffering from sleep apnea, such as central sleep apnea or obstructive sleep apnea, comprising administering to said patient an effective amount of gaboxadol per day.

The present invention provides preventive approaches and treatments for an inflammatory bowel disorder (e.g., Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis) or a gastrointestinal tumor (e.g., a colorectal cancer) comprising administering an O-glycan composition (e.g., mucins) to a subject, such as a human patient. In addition, the present invention also provides transgenic mice that fail to synthesize core 1-derived or core 3-derived O-glycans.

In one aspect, the invention provides methods for reducing proteinuria in a human subject suffering, or at risk of developing Immunoglobulin A Nephropathy (IgAN). The methods comprise the step of administering, to a subject in need thereof, an amount of a MASP-2 inhibitory antibody effective to inhibit MASP-2-dependent complement activation.

Methods are provided for the adjuvant treatment of operable HER2-positive primary breast cancer in human patients by administration of pertuzumab in addition to chemotherapy and trastuzumab. The methods reduce the risk of recurrence of invasive breast cancer or death for a patient diagnosed with HER2-positive early breast cancer (eBC) compared to administration of trastuzumab and chemotherapy, without pertuzumab.

This document relates to methods and materials involved in predicting Parkinson's disease. For example, methods for assessing the genotype of a human to determine whether or not the human has an increased susceptibility of developing Parkinson's disease are provided. In addition, diagnostic devices containing probe or primer collections designed to detect the genotype of a human, thereby providing the ability to assess the human for increased susceptibility to develop Parkinson's disease, also are provided.

In certain aspects, the present disclosure provides compositions and methods for increasing red blood cell and / or hemoglobin levels in vertebrates, including rodents and primates, and particularly in humans. In some embodiments, the compositions of the disclosure may be used to treat or prevent sideroblastic anemias and myelodysplastic syndromes or one or more complications associated sideroblastic anemias and myelodysplastic syndromes.

The invention discloses a method for building an animal model of social position induced depression, which belongs to the technical field of life sciences. The method comprises the following steps of: in natural colonies of non-human primates, recording total curling time, total spontaneous activity time and total external stimuli reaction time of each individual; dividing the total curling time of each individual into four equal parts, wherein the individuals with the shortest curling time are abnormal and others are depressive; performing independent sample t experiments on the hourly average spontaneous activity time and the hourly average external stimuli reaction time of the individuals of the two groups, wherein if the spontaneous activity time and the reaction time of the individuals of the normal group are obviously longer than those of the individuals of the depressive group, the individuals of the depressive group meet behavior characteristic requirements; and measuring hair cortisone content and partial cerebral blood flow values of the individuals of the two groups to perform the independent sample t detection, wherein if the average cortisone content of the individuals of the normal group is obviously lower than that of the depressive group and the average partial cerebral blood flow value of the individuals of the normal group is obviously higher than that of the depressive group, the individuals of the depressive group meet biochemical criterion requirements. The individuals who simultaneously meet the two types of requirements are the built natural depressive models, so the method can completely simulate the evolution of human depression.

The present invention is directed to a method of assessing in vivo human glial cell response to pathogenic infection that involves providing a non-human mammal either with at least 30% of its glial cells in its corpus callosum being human glial cells and / or with at least 5% of its glial cells its brain and brain stem white matter being human glial cells, subjecting the non-human mammal to pathogenic infection and assessing the in vivo human glial cell response to pathogenic infection. A method of identifying therapeutic agents for the pathogenic infection as well as forms of the non-human mammal having a pathogenic brain infection are also disclosed.

The present invention provides a novel composition of matter useful for the treatment of neoplastic diseases. The novel composition is synergistic and comprised of galectin-3C in combination with a proteosome inhibitor, the combination having a pharmacologic activity greater than the expected additive effect of its individual components. Other embodiments of the invention provide novel synergistic compositions of galectin-3C with a proteasome inhibitor capable of reducing or overcoming resistance that develops to the proteasome inhibitor or reducing the adverse side effects from the proteasome inhibitor through increasing the therapeutic efficacy of lower doses.

The invention includes a method of identifying a human subject at-risk of developing SeSAME syndrome. The invention also includes a method of diagnosing a human subject afflicted with SeSAME syndrome. The invention further includes a method of identifying a therapeutic agent that modulates a given KCNJ10 mediated K+ current in a mammalian cell. The invention also includes a method of diagnosing a subject as a carrier of SeSAME syndrome.

The present invention relates to a novel use of an α1G T-type calcium channel transgenic mouse as a nervous disease model, more particularly, a novel use of a mouse deficient in α1G T-type calcium channel showing novelty-seeking and alcohol preference as a nervous disease model for human nervous related diseases such as novelty-seeking character, alcoholism, anxiety and emotion disorder by stress, etc. The α1G T-type channel transgenic mice showing novelty-seeking and alcohol preference of the present invention can be effectively used for the development of a medicine and a therapeutic method for human nervous diseases.

The invention discloses an application of a composition packet in preparing food, medicines, health care products and nutrition for improving and treating human Prader-Willi syndrome. The composition packet includes the following compositions each of which is in a uniform dose unit form convenient for dose administration, and each dose unit form is a single-dose physical dispersing unit, wherein the first composition consists of coix seeds, oats, buckwheat, semen lablab album, yellow corn, semen phaseoli, soybeans, rhizoma dioscoreae, fructus ziziphi jujubae, peanuts, lotus seeds and fruits of Chinese wolfberry; the first composition can also consist of rye, wheat, quinoa and hulless barley; the second composition consists of fructus momordicae charantiae, soluble dietary fibers and oligosaccharide; and the third composition consists of soluble dietary fibers and oligosaccharide. By reasonably adjusting the diet nutrition of patients with the human Prader-Willi syndrome, the purposes of relieving, removing, remedying, preventing or improving the symptoms of the human Prader-Willi syndrome and recovering health can be achieved.

A reconstituted human breast tumor model is disclosed. The model, which is incorporated into mice, provides actual tumors that arise spontaneously, thereby mimicking naturally occurring breast cancer. The tumors are genetically human, because they arise from human mammary tissues that develop from human mammary epithelial cells implanted into host mice. Prior to implantation, the mammary epithelial cells are genetically modified to contain a recombinant human oncogene and an SV40 early region.

Methods and products are provided for determining if a subject having a tumor is (i) at risk of metastasis of the tumor, or (ii) at risk of recurrence of the tumor after treatment of the tumor. Methods of treatment of cancer, tumors and metastasis are also provided.

Methods for producing peripheral nerve injury in sheep are provided. The sheep model provides a model of persistent neuropathic pain in humans. Methods for drug delivery are provided. Also provided is a method for screening potentially therapeutic agent for the treatment of persistent neuropathic pain. Also provided are the methods for measuring the changes produced by neuropathic pain.

The invention relates to a detection of four sites of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) which are arranged on two human body xenobiotics metabolismenzyme genes including ABCG2 and CYP2E1 and which are associated with the systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). The invention also can use four sites of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) to forecast the liability of systemic lupus erythematosus and to determine the drug to cure the systemic lupus erythematosus. The information provided by the invention is helpful for preventing systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and for developing effective new treatments.

A model mouse with Alzheimer's disease (AD) caused by the dormant infection of human cytomegalovirus for researching the cause and pathogenesis of AD to provide a tool for preventing and treating AD is disclosed. Its creating method features that the cytomegalovirus strain HCMV AD169 is used to infect the Balb / c SPF-class male and female mice with 8-week age to create the filial mouse model.