摘要:
The present disclosure provides a method of treating cancer by immune checkpoint blockade, or selecting patients for treatment with immune checkpoint blockers, by detecting tumors with high levels of T-lymphocytes with low levels of activation and proliferation. In various embodiments the tissue sample may be from a conventional biopsy. In various embodiments the cancer may be non-small cell lung cancer.
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The methods disclosed herein relate to an improved tool incorporating platelet count into a multi-biomarker based outcome risk stratification model for evaluating mortality risk in pediatric patients having sepsis. The methods described here are useful for treating sepsis, for point of care clinical decision support, for stratifying septic shock patients based on baseline mortality risk, and for clinical trial design, among other uses.
摘要:
The invention relates to the use of one of more biomarkers, such as granzyme B, to determine an immune response, such as a cell-mediated immune response, of a subject to an immunostimulatory composition. The invention also relates to methods of treating a subject determined to develop a poor immune response to an immunostimulatory composition. Further, the invention relates to kits for use in practicing methods of the invention.
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The present invention provides biomarkers for the diagnosis and prognosis of endometriosis. Generally, the methods of this invention find use in diagnosing or for providing a prognosis for endometriosis by detecting the expression levels of biomarkers, which are differentially expressed (up- or down-regulated) in endometrial cells from a patient with endometriosis. Similarly, these markers can be used to diagnose reduced fertility in a patient with endometriosis or to provide a prognosis for a fertility trial in a patient suffering from endometriosis. The present invention also provides methods of identifying a compound for treating or preventing endometriosis. Finally, the present invention provides kits for the diagnosis or prognosis of endometriosis.
摘要:
A method for identifying a subject being at risk for or having a chronic Inflammatory disease, fibrillinopathy, atherosclerosis, or coronary artery disease is provided. The method may include determining the concentration of GrA and/or GrB in a blood or serum sample from said subject; and comparing the concentrations to the corresponding concentration in a control sample, wherein an elevated concentration of GrA and/or GrB may be indicative of a chronic inflammatory disease, fibrillinopathy, atherosclerosis, or coronary artery disease. The method may further include identifying concentrations of fibrinogen, elastin and/or fibrillin.
摘要:
Methods of treating, reducing and inhibiting the appearance of ageing in the skin are provided. Also provided are uses and methods of maintaining a youthful appearance, reducing an appearance of ageing, inhibiting an appearance of ageing, reducing a rate of an appearance of ageing, reducing a skin inelasticity, reducing a rate of increasing skin inelasticity, maintaining a skin elasticity, and increasing the density of hair follicles of a skin of a subject comprising applying a granzyme B inhibitor to the skin of the subject. Also provided are methods of identifying a granzyme B inhibitors and agonists.
摘要:
The present invention includes methods for the identification and production of improved nucleic acid ligands based on the SELEX process. Also included are nucleic acid ligands to the HIV-RT protein identified according to the methods described therein.
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It is an object of the present invention to find a protein interacting with Granzyme B and to provide a means for preventing and/or treating diseases caused by the decomposition of the above protein by Granzyme B. The present invention provides a method of using Golgin-160 as a substrate of Granzyme B; a method for screening an inhibitor of the interaction of Granzyme B with Golgin-160 and/or an inhibitor of the decomposition of Golgin-160 by Granzyme B; various types of agent which comprise an inhibitor of the interaction of Granzyme B with Golgin-160 and/or an inhibitor of the decomposition of Golgin-160 by Granzyme B; and a method for preventing and/or treating various diseases which comprises a step of inhibiting the interaction of Granzyme B with Golgin-160 and/or the decomposition of Golgin-160 by Granzyme B.
摘要:
An antigen-specific T-cell response to alloantigen, tissue-specific antigen (e.g., islet antigen or other autoantigens involved in autoimmune disease), or self (or host) antigen is detected at an early stage of graft rejection or recurrent autoimmunity. An increase in cytotoxic lymphocyte gene (CLG) expression in peripheral blood is a risk factor for development of deleterious immune responses, which may be confirmed by functional assays. For example, the distinction between production of regulatory or inflammatory cytokines by T cells may dissect the type of immune response which is being induced: the survival of transplanted islet cells used to treat type 1 diabetes may be monitored, loss of the transplant by graft rejection (i.e., an alloantigen target) may be distinguished from autoimmune disease (i.e., a self or host antigen target).
摘要:
This invention is directed to a method for identifying nucleic acid ligands by the SELEX method wherein the participation of fixed sequences is eliminated or minimized.