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7390483 Universal GM-CSF expressing bystander human K562 cell line  
The present invention provides a universal immunomodulatory cytokine-expressing bystander cell line, a composition comprising such a cell line and a cancer antigen, a method of making such a cell...
7390482 Drug for auditory dysfunction  
The present invention provides a pharmaceutical preparation for hearing impairment, which is suitable for gene therapy of hearing impairment, that is, a pharmaceutical preparation for hearing...
7387894 Recombinant viral-based malaria vaccines  
The present invention relates to novel vaccines against malaria infections, based on recombinant viral vectors, such as alpha viruses, adenoviruses or vaccinia viruses. The recombinant viral-based...
7387773 Vaccine  
The invention provides a vaccine comprising secreted protein derived from Mycobacterium avium subsp paratuberculosis ( M. ptb ) substantially free of whole organisms of that species either dead...
7384627 Antitumor agents with the use of HSV  
It is intended to provide highly safe antitumor agents which exhibit an antitumor effect on human remote tumors such as metastatic tumors too and by which an antitumor immune reaction enabling an...
7378078 Compositions and methods for detecting proteolytic activity  
The invention provides compositions and methods for non-invasive imaging of enzyme (e.g., protease) activity in cells, tissues and organs and entire bodies in vitro, in vivo and in situ. The...
7374753 Probiotic lactic acid bacterium to treat bacterial infections associated with SIDS  
Compositions including a non-pathogenic lactic acid-producing bacteria, such as a Bacillus species, spores or an extracellular product of B. coagulans , formulated for oral administration to the...
7374752 Reovirus for the treatment of cellular proliferative disorders  
Methods for treating proliferative disorders, by administering reovirus to a Ras-mediated proliferative disorder, are disclosed. The reovirus is administered so that it ultimately directly contacts...
7364740 Molecular differences between species of the M. tuberculosis complex  
Specific genetic deletion are identified in mycobacteria isolates, including variations in the M. tuberculosis genome sequence between isolates, and numerous deletion present in BCG as compared...
7364725 Endothelial cells engineered to express or overexpress fibulin-5 and a growth factor  
The present invention relates to endothelial and smooth muscle cells genetically altered to express or over-express one or more cell adhesion factors. The invention further relates to cells...
7361639 Gene therapy agent for Haemophilia B and its preparation method  
The invention relates to site-specific integrating expression vectors for therapy Hemophilia B and to methods of preparing them. A vector of the invention contains a human Factor IX gene in a...
7361497 Probiotic bacteria  
Strains of probiotic bacteria, their isolation, characteristics and methods of use to prevent or treat carriage by a food production animal of Salmonella that causes human salmonellosis are...
7361359 Neospora caninum isolate  
The present invention relates to a novel Neospora caninum isolate from Nowra and extracts thereof. The strain is useful in the development of diagnostic assays for the detection of parasites in...
7361354 Methods for treating malignancies expressing ICAM-1 using coxsackie a group viruses  
There is disclosed a method of killing abnormal cells such as malignant cells including melanoma cells, using a virus recognizing at least one of a cell adhesion molecule and a complement...
7361334 Method of treatment of diabetes through induction of immunological tolerance  
A method of creating tolerance to transplanted cells, tissue, or organs without the need for continuous immunosuppression. A tolerizing dose of a cell or tissue within a membrane structure is...
7361333 Prevention of diabetes through induction of immunological tolerance  
A method of creating tolerance to transplanted cells, tissue, or organs without the need for continuous immunosuppression. A tolerizing dose of a cell or tissue within a membrane structure is...
7361332 Treating tumors using implants comprising combinations of allogeneic cells  
This invention provides methods and compositions for treating tumors. The cell population is made up of alloactivated lymphocytes from the patient or from one or more third-party donors that are...
7354749 Decellularisation of matrices  
A method of preparing matrices or tissue engineered biomaterials for implantation, and in particular to a method of improving decellularisation of matrices or tissue engineered biomaterials prior...
7347997 Method of using a feedstuff additive  
Microorganism of the genus Eubacterium , and its obtainment and use, which is suitable in pure culture, DSM 11798, and/or mixed culture with the strain Enterococcus casseliflavus , DSM 11799, or...
7344710 Combination bacteriolytic therapy for the treatment of tumors  
Current chemotherapeutic approaches for cancer are in part limited by the inability of drugs to destroy neoplastic cells within poorly vascularized compartments of tumors. We have here...
7342002 Molecular vaccine linking an endoplasmic chaperone polypeptide to an antigen  
This invention provides compositions and methods for inducing and enhancing immune responses, such as antigen-specific cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) responses, using chimeric molecules comprising...
7341719 Myoblast therapy for cosmetic treatment  
Compositions and methods of treating mammalian diseases using myoblasts, and/or their physical, genetic, chemical derivatives. Myogenic cells that are normal, or genetically or phenotypically...
7341718 Neuronal gene transfer of adenovirus and herpes virus vectors  
The present invention is related to compositions and methods for the delivery of nucleic acids to neurons in a mammal, and uses thereof. The present invention specifically discloses the use of...
7341717 Therapeutic targets for treatment of HCV infections, methods of treating HCV infections and compounds useful therefor  
The present invention relates to the human cellular protein glutathione peroxidase-gastrointestinal as a target for medical intervention against Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections. Furthermore, the...
7338655 Gene therapy using TGF-β  
The subject invention is related to a cell-mediated gene therapy treatment for orthopedic disease using a member belonging to the transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) superfamily. TGF-β gene...
7335646 Compositions and methods for regulated protein expression in gut  
The invention provides compositions and methods useful for treating disorders treatable by producing a protein in a regulatable manner in a mucosal cell or tissue of an animal. The treatment...
7335505 Materials and methods relating to protein aggregation in neurodegenerative disease  
The present invention provides methods of proteolytically converting a precursor protein (e.g. tau) to a product fragment (e.g., a 12 kd fragment) in a stable cell line, wherein the precursor...
7335353 Porcine cells comprising an adenovirus E3 gene region  
The complete nucleotide sequence of the genome of porcine adenovirus type 3 (PAV-3) is provided. Methods for construction of infectious PAV genomes by homologous recombination in procaryotic cells...
7335351 Immunotherapeutic methods targeted towards stratum corneum chymotryptic enzyme  
The present invention discloses the protease stratum corneum chymotrytic enzyme (SCCE) is specifically over-expressed in ovarian and other malignancies. A number of SCCE peptides can induce immune...
7332337 Viral vectors having tissue tropism for T-lymphocytes, B- and mast cells  
The present invention relates to methods of introducing an expressible non-viral nucleic acid sequence into a T lymphocyte cell, a B-cell, or a mast cell, comprising contacting the cell with a...
7326692 Induction of immunity using inhibitors of granzymes  
The present invention provides methods for enhancing host immunity to a virus and/or a cancer and methods for enhancing the cytotoxic T-cell (CTL) mediated immune responses by providing granzyme B...
7326570 Induction of tubular morphogenesis using pleiotrophin  
Provided are methods and compositions for constructing stable mammalian embryonic epithelial tissues and organs as well as constructing kidney tissue, and treating renal failure. Disclosed are...
7323323 Preparation and xenotransplantation of porcine islets  
The invention relates to developments in the treatment of diabetes in mammals. Particularly it relates to a method of preparing a xenotransplantable porcine islet preparation capable upon...
7320787 Redirection of cellular immunity by protein tyrosine kinase chimeras  
Disclosed is a method of directing a cellular response in a mammal by expressing in a cell of the mammal a chimeric receptor which causes the cells to specifically recognize and destroy an...
7319035 Biological scaffolding material  
The invention provides methods of generating a natural, living biological matrix that can serve as, or form a part of, a natural biological scaffold. The matrix is generated by incubating together...
7314912 AAv scleroprotein, production and use thereof  
The invention relates to a structural protein of adeno-associated virus (AAV) which comprises at least one mutation which brings about an increase in the infectivity of the virus.
7314615 IκB Kinase-β (IKKβ) binding antibodies and methods of using same  
The present invention provides an isolated nucleic acid molecules encoding IκB kinase (IKK) catalytic subunit polypeptides, which are associated with an IKK serine protein kinase that...
7314614 Recombinant sendai virus vector for introducing exogenous genes to airway epithelia  
Provided are a recombinant Sendai virus vector for introducing exogenous genes to airway epithelia and a method for introducing exogenous genes using the vector. The recombinant Sendai virus vector...
7312324 Regulatory elements for delivery to the liver  
The invention is directed to novel combinations of liver specific enhancers and promoter elements for achieving persistent transgene expression in the liver. The liver specific enhancer elements...
7312077 Insulin-secreting immortalized liver cell line modified by glucose sensitivity  
The present invention provides a cell line which can be substituted for β cells in human mature pancreatic islets and express insulin in a glucose-concentration dependent manner, and enables the...
7312067 Lactic acid producing bacteria for use as probiotic organisms in the human vagina  
The present invention discloses novel isolated strains of lactic acid producing bacteria of the genera Lactobacillus and Pediococcus , and a method for isolation of such bacterial strains,...
7311907 Lentiviral packaging cells  
Novel packaging cell lines which produce recombinant retrovirus, free of detectable helper-virus are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods of making the cell lines and methods of producing...
7311906 Anti-viral activity of an anti-thymidine kinase monoclonal antibody  
Monoclonal antibodies to thymidine kinase 1 are disclosed which are useful in methods of detecting, diagnosing, and treating viral infection.
7311905 Embryonic-like stem cells derived from post-partum mammalian placenta, and uses and methods of treatment using said cells  
The present invention provides compositions and methods of using embryonic-like stem cells that originate from a post-partum placenta with conventional cord blood compositions or other stem or...
7311904 Tissue matrices comprising placental stem cells, and methods of making the same  
A method of manufacturing a tissue matrix for implantation into a patient is disclosed. The method sets forth collecting embryonic stem cells from a placenta which has been treated to remove...
7309694 Modified cytokines for use in cancer therapy  
Cytokine derivatives capable of homing the tumoral vessels and the antigen presenting cells and the use thereof as antitumoral agents.
7309505 Using mutations to improve Aspergillus phytases  
The present invention invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid molecule encoding a mutant phytase and the isolated mutant phytase itself. The present invention further relates to methods of...
7306927 Method of inducing immunity against stratum corneum chymotrytic enzyme  
The disclosed nucleic acid primer sets, used in combination with quantitative amplification (PCR) of tissue cDNA, can indicate the presence of specific proteases in a tissue sample. The detected...
7306902 Oncolytic viruses as phenotyping agents for neoplasms  
The present invention provides a method of diagnosing neoplasms having a particular phenotype by using oncolytic viruses that selectively replicate in neoplasms having the particular phenotype. For...
7306794 Methods and compositions for the treatment of defects in lipoprotein metabolism  
The invention provides a recombinant viral vector comprising the DNA of, or corresponding to, at least a portion of the genome of an adenovirus, which portion is capable of infecting a hepatic...