875 results about "Transferrin" patented technology

The present invention describes changes in bacterial gastrointestinal, cutaneous and nasal microbiota associated various mammalian medical conditions. Described are diagnostic tests that arise from combining phylogenetic information about the families, genus, and species of the microbiome and their relative abundance with the metabolic information contained in the metatranscriptome to determine the presence and absence of a disease or medical condition. Provided are compositions of bacteria, co-cultures of bacteria and a carrier for use in treating the disclosed medical conditions. The described compositions restore or correct disease- or medical condition-related imbalances in the microbiome profile with culture-conditioned formulations in which the transcriptome activity of the administered organisms is optimized. Alternatively, formulations of metabolites that drive changes in the metatranscriptome native to the mammal that treat disease or a medical condition or restore health are taught.

The present invention discloses fusion proteins comprising transferrin, lactoferrin or melanotransferrin fused to glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1). In one embodiment of the invention, the fusion protein displays increased serum half-life as compared to a GLP-1 peptide in an unfused state. The invention includes a pharmaceutical composition comprising the GLP-1 fusion protein of the invention and a carrier. The fusion protein of the invention can be administered to a subject for treatment of diseases or conditions treatable by GLP-1, including, but not limited to, diabetes, obesity, congestive heart failure and inflammatory bowel syndrome.

PCT No. PCT/SE97/00237 Sec. 371 Date Dec. 29, 1998 Sec. 102(e) Date Dec. 29, 1998 PCT Filed Feb. 14, 1997 PCT Pub. No. WO97/29825 PCT Pub. Date Aug. 21, 1997Process for separating off a peptide or a nucleic acid by an anion exchanger (I) characterized in that a) the anion exchanger (I) exhibits ligands, which (i) contain a primary, secondary or tertiary amino group and (ii) are covalently bound to an organic polymer (matrix), b) there on a carbon atom at a distance of 2 or 3 atoms away from an amino nitrogen in the ligands is a hydroxyl group or a primary, secondary or tertiary amino group, and c) the maximum elution ionic strength in the pH range 2-14 for at least one of the proteins transferrin, ovalbumin 1, ovalbumin 2, beta -lactoglobulin 1 and beta -lactoglobulin 2 on the anion exchanger is higher than the elution ionic strength required for a quaternary comparative ion exchanger.

The invention relates to the field of biology, and discloses a serum-free culture medium which essentially comprises an IMDM (Iscove Modified Dulbecco Medium), L-glutamine, sodium bicarbonate, Hepes, recombinant human insulin, recombinant human transferrin, recombinant human albumin, 2-mercaptoethanol, protocatechuic acid, lipid, amino acid, vitamins, trace elements, Pluronic F-68, hydrocortisone, vitamin C, bonding amine or recombinant human fibronectin, progesterone, putrescine, heparin, serotonin, epidermal growth factors (EGFs), b-fibroblast growth factors (FGF), platelet derive growth factor (PDGF)-BB and insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-I. The serum-free culture medium is clear in chemical components, free from animal sources and serum and safe and ideal in cell cultivation and avoids the doped animal components and unstable batches, and the results of the cultured mesenchymal stem cells show that the total cellular score, the cell phenotype and the secretory cell factors are normal, so that the serum-free culture medium has good industrial application prospect.

Disclosed are compositions for mammalian, avian or piscian reproductive cells and methods for the collection, holding, processing, in vitro fertilization, sexing culturing, or storing (including long-term cryopreservation) of mammalian, avian, or piscian reproductive sperm cells. The compositions comprise a suitable reproductive cell media and a transforming growth factor, an insulin-like growth factor, or zinc, and, optionally, inositol, transferrin, or fructose, or combinations thereof.

The present invention belongs to the field of biotechnology, and discloses a serum-free culture medium with specific chemical compositions for in vitro culture and amplification of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells. By adding insulin, transferrin, ethanolamine, sodium selenite, growth factors, adherent factors, hormone, putrescine, inorganic salt, vitamin, albumin and antioxidant into a basic culture medium, the bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells can attach to the culture medium under a serum free condition, so the in vitro culture and amplification are realized, the potential of multi-directional differentiation is maintained, and the amplified cells can be induced to be osteoblast and lipocyte in vitro. The serum-free culture medium has the advantages that the clinic level cell products for human produced by the serum free culture medium can effectively avoid the potential risk of producing cell products by serum culture medium. The drawing appended is a photo of the confluence of the bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells cultured by the serum-free culture medium.

The invention discloses a serum-free medium for culturing placenta mesenchymal stem cells. The serum-free medium takes a DMEM (Dulbecco Modified Eagle Medium) culture solution as a basis and also contains a fibroblast growth factor receptor 2, growth hormone, insulin, transferrin, glutathione, BMP-4, L-glutamine, sodium pyruvate, non-essential amino acids and beta-mercaptoethanol. According to various serum-free media provided by the invention, growth and proliferation of the placenta mesenchymal stem cells in a serum-free medium system can be effectively promoted, the placenta mesenchymal stem cells have higher growth and proliferation rate in the serum-free medium system compared with a serum cell culture medium, the characteristics of the stem cells are preserved, the serum-free medium has multiple differential potentials, and the stem cells can be directionally induced into fat cells and osteoblasts.

A method of propagating mammalian endodermally derived progenitors such as hepatic progenitors, their progeny, or mixtures thereof is developed which includes culturing mammalian progenitors, their progeny, or mixtures thereof on a layer of embryonic mammalian feeder cells in a culture medium. The culture medium can be supplemented with one or more hormones and other growth agents. These hormones and other growth agents can include insulin, dexamethasone, transferrin, nicotinamide, serum albumin, beta-mercaptoethanol, free fatty acid, glutamine, CUSO4, and H2SeO3. The culture medium can also include antibiotics. Importantly, the culture medium does not include serum. The invention includes means of inducing the differentiation of the progenitors to their adult fates such as the differentiation of hepatic progenitor cells to hepatocytes or biliary cells by adding, or excluding epidermal growth factor, respectively. The method of producing mammalian progenitors is useful in that the progenitors can be used subsequently in one or more of the following processes: identification of growth and differentiation factors, toxicological studies, drug development, antimicrobial studies, or the preparation of an extracorporeal organ such as a bioartificial liver.

The invention provides a chimeric CNS targeting polypeptide having a BBB-receptor binding domain and a payload polypeptide domain. The chimeric CNS targeting polypeptide can have a BBB-receptor binding domain consisting of a receptor binding domain from ApoB, ApoE, aprotinin, lipoprotein lipase, PAI-1, pseudomonas exotoxin A, transferrin, α2-macroglobulin, insulin-like growth factor, insulin, or a functional fragment thereof. Nucleic acids encoding a chimeric CNS targeting polypeptide are also provided. Further provided is a method of delivering a polypeptide to the CNS of an individual. The method consists of administering to the individual an effective amount of a chimeric CNS targeting polypeptide, said chimeric CNS targeting polypeptide comprising a BBB-receptor binding domain and a payload polypeptide domain. The method also can deliver a polypeptide to the lysosomes of CNS cells.

The invention provides a serum-free cell culture fluid suitable for enriching and culturing tumour stem cells. DMEM/f12 serves as the basic culture fluid of the serum-free cell culture fluid and transferrin, insulin and other substances are also added as the components of the serum-free cell culture fluid. The serum-free cell culture fluid provided by the invention can efficiently enrich tumour stem cells from malignant tumour cell strains and tumour tissues. In addition, the serum-free cell culture fluid can promote stable growth of the tumour stem cells and maintain fine cell activity and physiological properties of the tumour stem cells, thus being very suitable for research fields related to tumour cells and tumour stem cells.

The invention relates to a human amnion mesenchymal stem cell serum-free culture medium and a culture method thereof. The culture medium is formed by adding human serum albumin, human transferrin, human insulin and sodium selenite into a DMEM/F12 basic culture medium. The culture method for the culture medium comprises the following steps of: digesting human amnion by using trypsin, then digesting the human amnion by using collagenase IV and deoxyribonuclease I, and filtering the mixture to obtain single cell suspension; and adding the human serum albumin, the transferrin, the insulin and the sodium selenite into the DMEM/F12 basic culture medium in a ratio of VDMEM to VF12 of 1:1, and putting human amnion mesenchymal stem cells in a 37 DEG C CO2 incubator with saturated humidity and volume fraction of 5 percent under the serum-free condition, wherein culture in vitro and amplification are realized by solution change and transfer of culture, potentiality of multi-direction differentiation is maintained, and the amplified cells can be induced in vitro to form cartilage cells, osteoblasts and adipocytes. The culture medium and the culture method have the characteristics of no other animal sources, wide source and no limitation of ethics.

The invention relates to an animal origin-free low-protein culture medium suitable for animal cell product production, comprising 24 basic metabolism nutrients, 11 vitamins, 3 transferrin substitute compounds, 5 lipid compounds, 2 nucleic acid compounds, 4 hormones and growth factors, 3 antioxidants, 1 shear-resistant protective agent, 1 pH indicator, 2 pH buffers, 9 other inorganic salts, soy hydrolysates adopted to substitute animal origin component, and composition of ferrous sulfate, ferric nitrate and EDTA-2Na adopted to substitute transferrin. The culture medium can be made by dissolving the aforementioned components in triply distilled water. The positive effects of the culture medium are as follows: the culture medium contains no animal origin component, the total protein content is lower than 10mg/L, which helps separate and purify products and is suitable for production of recombinant protein medicaments; the culture medium supports normal growth and long-term subculturing of animal cells; the culture medium can be used without adaptation, is easily prepared and is suitable for massive production of animal cell products.

Modified fusion proteins of a transferrini moiety, a GLP-1 moiety and a linker moiety, with increased productivity, bioactivity and serum half-life are disclosed. Preferred fusion proteins include those modified so that the transferrin moiety exhibits no or reduced glycosylation. The fusion proteins of the invention are useful for the treatment of Type 2 diabetes, Type 1 diabetes, obesity, congestive heart failure, and non-fatty liver disease.

The invention discloses a serum-free culture medium for mesenchymal stem cells. The serum-free culture medium for the mesenchymal stem cells comprises the following ingredients: fibronectin at the final concentration of 25mu g/ml, basic fibroblast growth factors at the final concentration of 10ng/ml, human epidermal growth factors at the final concentration of 15ng/ml, recombinant human insulin at the final concentration of 1mg/ml, human transferrin at the final concentration of 0.55mg/ml, human blood albumin in a volume ratio of 5 percent, sodium selenite at the final concentration of 0.67mug/ml, L-carnitine at the final concentration of 5mM and resveratrol at the final concentration of 30mu M. When the mesenchymal stem cells are cultured by the serum-free culture medium for the mesenchymal stem cells, animal-derived serum is not contained, so infection risks can be controlled; the L-carnitine and the resveratrol which are added into the serum-free culture medium for the mesenchymalstem cells can effectively improve the growth state of the mesenchymal stem cells; and the growth speed of the mesenchymal stem cells is remarkably improved, and the biological characteristics of themesenchymal stem cells are kept unchanged.

Compositions and methods for isolating and expanding human mesenchymal stem/progenitor cells through multiple passages in defined serum-free environments are provided. The culture media compositions includes a basal medium supplemented with a nutrient mixture such as Ham's F12 nutrient mixture, glutamine, buffer solutions such as sodium bicarbonate and hepes, serum albumin, a lipid mixture, insulin, transferrin, putrescine, progesterone, fetuin, hydrocortisone, ascorbic acid or its analogues such as ascorbic acid-2-phosphate, fibroblast growth factor and transforming growth factor β, and are free of serum or other undefined serum substitutes such as platelet lysate. Methods employing these compositions and protein-coated surfaces for the isolation of mesenchymal stem/progenitor cells from human bone marrow and other tissues such as adipose tissue are also provided. Finally, methods are also provided for serially expanding these cells through multiple passages without losing mesenchymal stem cell-specific proliferative, phenotypical and differentiation characteristics.

The invention discloses a dual target liposome and a preparation method and application thereof. The target liposome provided by the invention consists of liposome and modifiers on the surface of the liposome, wherein the modifiers on the surface of the liposome comprise p-aminophenyl-alpha-D-manno-pyranoside and transferrin. The invention also discloses a medicament-loaded liposome, which is obtained by wrapping daunorubicin by using the target liposome. The obtained target liposome has good capability of crossing the blood brain barrier, targets brain glioma, and can be used as a medicament carrier. The medicament-loaded liposome can target the medicament to a brain glioma site after crossing the blood brain barrier so as to greatly increase the concentration of the medicament at a tumor site and improve the effect of chemotherapy. The target liposome provides a new measure for brain glioma chemotherapy, contributes to the research of non-invasive therapy of the brain glioma, and has important theoretical meaning and clinical meaning.

The invention discloses a human adipose-derived stem cell serum-free basic medium. The medium uses a serum substitute, and is composed of a high glucose type DMEM basic medium, human serum albumin, transferrin, taurine, reduced glutathione, ceruloplasmin, L-ascorbic acid-2-sulfate, alpha-tocopherol succinate, linoleic acid, alpha-ketoglutarate and selenium. The serum-free basic medium can exempt potential threats caused by animal serum in conventional serum-containing mediums to human health, and the adipose-derived stem cells cultured by the medium is more suitable for clinical application.

The invention provides a hemoglobin, hemoglobin-haptoglobin composite and transferrin joint examination kit. The hemoglobin, hemoglobin-haptoglobin composite and transferrin joint examination kit comprises an upper shell, a lower shell, an immunostrip, test paper and the like; a gold-labeled composite containing a hemoglobin monoclonal antibody, a hemoglobin-haptoglobin composite monoclonal antibody and a transferrin monoclonal antibody is scribed on a nitrocellulose membrane; 3 test lines, a quality control line (15) and a gold-labeled composite membrane scribing line (8) are arranged on the nitrocellulose membrane in parallel. The invention further provides a preparation method and a detection method of the hemoglobin, hemoglobin-haptoglobin composite and transferrin joint examination kit. The hemoglobin, hemoglobin-haptoglobin composite and transferrin joint examination kit is convenient and simple in operation, stable in performance and accurate in result, has a relatively good reference value for early diagnosis and identification of colorectal cancer or colon cancer tumor or other tumors with lower gastrointestinal bleeding symptoms in clinic, significantly improves the positive detection rate of digestive hemorrhagic diseases, is suitable for clinical hospital examination and household self-examination, and provides measures for large-scale general examination of such diseases.

The present invention relates to devices and methods for the detection of occult blood in a test sample. These devices and methods can detect the presence of one or more of the following components of occult blood: hemoglobin, transferrin, hemoglobin-haptoglobin complex, and albumin. Methods for the detection of occult blood in a test sample include the following steps: exposing said test sample to two or more of the following antibodies: anti-hemoglobin antibodies, anti-hemoglobin-haptoglobin-complex antibodies, anti-transferrin antibodies, and anti-albumin antibodies or one or more of the following antibodies: anti-hemoglobin-haptoglobin-complex antibodies, anti-transferrin antibodies, and anti-albumin antibodies; determining the level of reactions between the antibodies and their corresponding components of occult blood that may be in the test sample; and deciding on the presence of occult blood. The devices of this invention can have two or more of test areas containing two or more of the following antibodies: anti-hemoglobin antibodies, anti-transferrin antibodies, anti-hemoglobin-haptoglobin complex antibodies, and anti-albumin antibodies or one or more of test areas containing one or more of the following antibodies: anti-transferrin antibodies, anti-hemoglobin-haptoglobin complex antibodies, and, anti-albumin antibodies. The devices and methods of this invention are simple and produce rapid responses.

A compound is provided that has the formula

NH₂CH₂CH₂CHR¹C(O)N—R  (I)

where R¹ is p-chlorophenyl, R is a moiety capable of crossing the blood brain barrier and is as a free compound serotonin, dopamine blood brain barrier (BBB) peptide, membrane translocating protein, TAT peptides, bradykinin, beta-endorphin, bombesin, calcitonin, cholecystokinin, an enkephalin, dynorphin, insulin, gastrin, substance P, neurotensin, glucagon, secretin, somatostatin, motilin, vasopressin, oxytocin, prolactin, thyrotropin, an angiotensin, galanin, neuropeptide Y, thyrotropin-releasing hormone, gonadotropnin-releasing hormone, growth hormone-releasing hormone, luteinizing hormone, vasoactive intestinal peptide transferrin, glucosylamine, amino saccharin, lactylamine, leucine, tryptophan, glutamate and amino cholines.