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7431922 Bioadhesive directed somatic cell therapy  
The subject invention is related to a cell-mediated gene therapy treatment using a cell composition that includes bioadhesive material. The bioadhesive material allows targeted and localized...
7429376 Methods of screening for compounds that improve engraftment  
The invention provides for methods of screening for compounds that increase the expression of P-selectin, SDF-1, and/or CXCR4 on facilitatory cells (FCs). The invention also provides for methods of...
7425443 Treatment of diabetes with synthetic beta cells  
Disclosed is a method for obtaining glucose-regulated expression of active insulin in the cells of a mammalian subject. The method involves delivering into the subject a genetic construct...
7422736 Somatic pluripotent cells  
The present invention discloses a cultured somatic animal cell having a normal karyotype; the cell develops into an embryoid body when induced in vitro, or develops into a teratoma when introduced...
7419660 Vaccines for treatment of lymphoma and leukemia  
The present invention provides multivalent vaccines for the treatment of B-cell malignancies (e.g., lymphomas and leukemias). The present invention also provides methods for the production of...
7419950 Methods of inhibiting ectopic calcification  
The invention provides a method of inhibiting ectopic calcification in an individual. The method consists of administering to the individual a therapeutically effective amount of osteopontin or a...
7413733 Antigen transduced T cells used as a delivery system for antigens  
A delivery system comprising a T cell comprising at least one antigen capable of loading antigen-presenting-cells with the antigen.
7404950 Induced activation in dendritic cell  
The present invention is directed to a composition and method which to treat diseases and to enhance a regulated immune response. More particularly, the present invention is drawn to compositions...
7402308 Method of delivering genes to the central nervous system of a mammal  
The invention provides a method of delivering a selected DNA sequence to the central nervous system of a mammal by administering to said mammal a neurotropic virus, said virus containing a selected...
7403883 Three-dimensional in-vitro spinal models and methods of analyzing substance distribution therein  
An in-vitro model apparatus of a human spine and methods for detecting and analyzing substance distribution patterns therein. In one embodiment, the model apparatus includes a column body defining...
7402307 Method for identifying and killing cancer cells  
The invention provides a method for activating a T lymphocyte by contacting the T lymphocyte with a dendritic cell (DC) that presents a telomerase reverse transcriptase (TRT) peptide in the context...
7399751 Production of a biological factor and creation of an immunologically privileged environment using genetically altered Sertoli cells  
The present invention provides a method of providing an individual with a biological factor or intermediate thereof which comprises introducing into the individual Sertoli cells genetically altered...
7396528 Corneal cells expressing active agents and methods of use thereof  
The invention relates to methods of modifying cells of corneal tissue to express an active agent, to modified corneal tissue, to vectors utilised in such methods and to methods of xeno- and...
7393525 Method for introducing and expressing genes in animal cells, and live invasive bacterial vectors for use in the same  
A method for introducing and expressing genes in animal cells is disclosed comprising infecting said the animal cells with live invasive bacteria, wherein bacteria contain a eukaryotic expression...
7393526 Systemic gene delivery vehicles for the treatment of tumors  
The present invention relates to the field of cellular and molecular therapy with modified (genetically or growth factor engineered) and unmodified stem cells (SCs). More particularly, the...
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...
7381710 Combined DNA vaccine and biological modifiers for cancer therapy  
The present invention relates to the combination of a DNA vaccination strategy that makes use of a nucleic acid encoding an immunogenic polypeptide, with a non-immunosuppressive inducer of tumor...
7381405 Methods of preparing lymphocytes that express interleukin-2 and their use in the treatment of cancer  
The invention provides methods of preparing autologous T-lymphocytes for re-introduction into a patient having cancer, which method comprises obtaining peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs)...
7378277 Methods and compositions for transforming dendritic cells and activating T cells  
Recombinant dendritic cells are made by transforming a stem cell and differentiating the stem cell into a dendritic cell. The resulting dendritic cell is an antigen presenting cell which activates...
7378087 Method of enhancing an immune response  
A method of enhancing an immune response to an antigen is provided. The method involves augmenting the level of a TAP molecule in a target cell bearing the antigen. Preferably, the TAP molecules...
7371515 Identifying and characterizing genes  
The invention provides methods and materials for identifying and characterizing genes related to phenotypes such as cancer and cell survivability. Also provided in the invention are cells and...
7371374 Neural transplantation using pluripotent neuroepithelial cells  
The subject invention pertains to a novel method of correction of behavioral and/or psychological deficits made possible by the intracerebral transplantation of pluripotent neuroepithelial cells....
7368107 Tumor antigen peptides derived from cyclophilin B  
Tumor antigen peptides derived from cyclophilins or derivatives thereof having the functionally equivalent properties; medicaments, prophylactics, or diagnostics for tumors comprising as an active...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
7332643 Ferritin light subunit variant-encoding nucleic acids, polypeptides, transgenic animals comprising the same, antibodies thereto, and methods of use thereof  
Nucleic acids encoding a novel ferritin light chain variant, a ferritin light chain variant polypeptide, ferritin light chain variant polypeptide-specific antibodies, and methods of use thereof are...
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...
7323445 Methods and compositions for healing and repair of articular cartilage  
Methods and compositions are provided for the treatment of articular cartilage defects and disease involving the combination of tissue, such as osteochondral grafts, with active growth factor. The...
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...
7316812 Cells expressing anti-Fc receptor binding components  
Cells transformed to express on their surface a component which binds to an Fc receptor of an effector cell are disclosed. Also disclosed are expression vectors used to transform the cells. Once...
7314864 Humanin, a polypeptide suppressing neuronal death  
The present invention provides polypeptides that suppresses neuronal death associated with Alzheimer's disease. Using a neuronal cell system, wherein the expression of familial Alzheimer's disease...
7312026 MRP-related ABC transporter encoding nucleic acids and methods of use thereof  
Novel human MOAT genes and their encoded proteins are provided herein. The MRP-related ABC transporters encoded by the disclosed nucleic acid sequences play a pivotal role in the efflux of...
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...
7306793 Defective recombinant adenoviruses expressing cytokines for antitumor treatment  
A recombinant nucleic acid used for the production of a defective adenovirus containing an inserted sequence coding for a cytokine under the control of a promoter in the genomic sequence of the...
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...
7297540 Methods of generating tissue using devitalized, acellular scaffold matrices derived from micro-organs  
Methods of generating, and isolating adult stem cells and utilizing such cells and/or embryonic stem cells in generating tissue of a specific function and micro-architecture are provided.
7291454 Transgenic animals and cell lines for screening drugs effective for the treatment or prevention of Alzheimer's disease  
Disclosed are transgenic animals and transfected cell lines expressing a protein associated with Alzheimer's Disease, neuroectodermal tumors, malignant astrocytomas, and glioblastomas. Also...
7291605 Methods of treating various cancers using melanoma differentiation associated protein-7  
This invention provides a method for reversing the cancerous phenotype of a cancer cell by introducing a nucleic acid having the melanoma differentiation associated gene (mda-7) into the cell under...
7291597 Growth factor therapy mobilization of stem cells into the peripheral blood  
Stem cells are mobilized into the peripheral blood by a method comprising the steps of: (i) administering to an individual at least one of the following: FGF1 and FGF2, and also at least one of the...
7285540 Medicament comprising HGF gene  
The present invention relates to a medicament comprising a HGF gene. The medicament of the present invention may be topically applied to the target organs so that the effects can be selectively...
7285527 Tumor radiosensitization using gene therapy  
The invention provides a method of radiosensitizing a tumor in a subject by contacting the tumor with a cytokine or a nucleic acid molecule encoding a cytokine. The invention also provides a method...
7276234 Method of acquiring immunological tolerance  
The aim of the present invention is to provide a method of acquiring immunological tolerance to a foreign DNA or its expression product whereby the foreign DNA such as a vector carrying a foreign...
7270810 Veto cells effective in preventing graft rejection and devoid of graft versus host potential  
A method of transplanting a transplant derived from a donor into a recipient is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of (a) transplanting the transplant into the recipient; and (b)...
7268120 Methods for treating cancer using cytokine-expressing polynucleotides  
The present invention provides a pharmaceutical composition, comprising a non-infectious, non-integrating polynucleotide construct comprising a polynucleotide encoding an interferon ω and one or...
7261884 Live genetically attenuated malaria vaccine  
Method for inoculating a vertebrate host against malaria, by administering to the host a live Plasmodium organism that is genetically engineered to disrupt a liver-stage-specific gene function.