Abstract:
The invention involves administration of an immunostimulatory nucleic acid alone or in combination with an anemia, thrombocytopenia, or neutropenia medicament for the treatment or prevention of anemia, thrombocytopenia, and neutropenia in subjects. The agents in combination are administered in synergistic amounts or in various dosages or at various time schedules. The invention also relates to kits and compositions concerning the combination of immunostimulatory nucleic acids and anemia, thrombocytopenia, or neutropenia drugs.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a medicament for topical application for the purpose of stopping bleeding and/or closing wounds and/or promoting wound healing, which as active substances nullproduced conventionally of allogenic plasma or tissue or recombinantlynullcontains fibrinogen or fibrin, thrombin and one or several tranglutaminase(s), wherein the medicament, as a further active substance, contains one or several protease inhibitor(s) selected from the group consisting of serpins that do not have inhibiting effects on collagenases and elastases, all of the active substances being of allogenic origin and having been subjected to a process for virus depletion and/or virus inactivation, with the proviso that the virus inactivtion of the one or several protease inhibitor(s) has not been carried out in the presence of the other active substances.
Abstract:
Methods for increasing hematopoietic cells, including platelets and erythrocytes, in patients receiving bone marrow or peripheral blood stem cell transplants are disclosed. The methods comprise administering to a donor an amount of thrombopoietin sufficient to stimulate proliferation of cells of the myeloid lineage, collecting cells from the donor, and administering the collected cells to a recipient patient. The recipient patient may be treated with additional thrombopoietin. The methods are useful within allogeneic and autologous transplantation procedures.
Abstract:
Modified natural killer (NK) or T cells expressing hematopoietic growth factor receptors are provided. In some aspects, the modified NK cells or T cells express a thrombopoietin receptor, an erythropoietin receptor, or a chimeric polypeptide including an extracellular domain of a thrombopoietin receptor, a transmembrane domain, and an intracellular domain including an interleukin-2 receptor beta intracellular signaling domain. Methods of treating a subject with cancer are also provided, including administering the modified NK cells or T cells to the subject in combination with a thrombopoietin receptor agonist or erythropoietin receptor agonist, and in some example, interleukin-2, particularly reduced or low-dose amounts of IL-2.
Abstract:
This invention is in the area of improved compounds and methods for transiently protecting healthy cells, and in particular hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPC), from the damage associated with ionizing radiation (IR) exposure using selective radioprotectants.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a method of treating a subject to increase the subject's platelet count which comprises administering to the subject an amount of one or more of an antagonist or inhibitor of ABCG4, Lyn kinase or c-CBL effective to antagonize or inhibit such ABCG4, Lyn kinase or c-CBL so as to thereby increase the subject's platelet count.
Abstract:
A method to treat cancer uses ultrapheresis, refined to remove compounds of less than 120,000 daltons molecular weight, followed by administration of replacement fluid, to stimulate the patient's immune system to attack solid tumors. In the preferred embodiment, the patient is ultrapheresed using a capillary tube ultrafilter having a pore size of 0.02 to 0.05 microns, with a molecular weight cutoff of 120,000 daltons, sufficient to filter one blood volume. The preferred replacement fluid is ultrapheresed normal plasma. The patient is preferably treated daily for three weeks, diagnostic tests conducted to verify that there has been shrinkage of the tumors, then the treatment regime is repeated. The treatment is preferably combined with an alternative therapy, for example, treatment with an anti-angiogenic compound, one or more cytokines such as TNF, gamma interferon, or IL-2, or a procoagulant compound. The treatment increases endogenous, local levels of cytokines, such as TNF. This provides a basis for an improved effect when combined with any treatment that enhances cytokine activity against the tumors, for example, treatments using alkylating agents, doxyrubicin, carboplatinum, cisplatinum, and taxol. Alternatively, the ultrapheresis treatment can be combined with local chemotherapy, systemic chemotherapy, and/or radiation.
Abstract:
Myeloid function is enhanced by transplantation or infusion of allogeneic myeloid progenitor cells, including CMP, GMP, MEP and MKP cell subsets. Myeloid progenitors ameliorate sequelae of anemia and thrombocytopenia, and can prevent or treat gastrointestinal mucositis associated with chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and the like. The transplantation or infusion may be performed in the absence of HLA typing, and the cells may be mismatched at one or more Class I HLA loci. The transplantation may provide for treatment of ongoing disease, or prevention of disease in high risk patients.
Abstract:
The present invention provides therapeutic modalities for the treatment of an ischemic event (e.g., stroke) that creates or embodies a risk of neurological damage in CNS sites by administration of a thrombopoietin receptor ligand.
Abstract:
The disclosure relates to methods for detecting PNH Type II cell populations in biological samples as well as methods for determining whether a patient is at an increased risk for developing thrombocytopenia or thrombosis based on the percentage of PNH Type II cells in the patient's blood. The disclosure also features reagents and conjugates for use in the methods.