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7591841 Implantable devices for accelerated healing  
Implantable devices (e.g., stent) having a protein patterning or bioactive patterning for accelerated healing and method of forming and using the same are provided.
7572894 Templated native silk smectic gels  
One aspect of the present invention relates to a method of preparing a fibrous protein smectic hydrogel by way of a solvent templating process, comprising the steps of pouring an aqueous fibrous...
7504115 Shark cartilage extracts and use thereof for immunomodulation  
Disclosed is a composition from shark cartilage comprising immunoactive proteoglycans and other immunoactive components having a molecular weight greater than about 100 KD, wherein the composition...
7462495 Methods and compositions for use in diagnosing and characterizing chronic immune disease  
Methods are provided for diagnosing and/or characterizing chronic immune disease activity in a subject. In the subject methods, a sample is obtained from a subject suspected of having or known to...
7393651 Confluence regulated adhesion molecules useful in modulating vascular permeability  
The invention relates to new polypeptide in isolated form belonging to a subfamily of the human Immunoglobulin Superfamily, which polypeptide shows at least 70% sequence homology with the amino...
7335739 Methods for the purification and aqueous fiber spinning of spider silks and other structural proteins  
Methods are described for the purification and spinning of recombinant and non-recombinant proteins. Specifically, the lysis of bacteria and purification of silk proteins occur in a single solution...
7285637 Method for the preparation of a non-woven silk fibroin fabrics  
A process for producing non-woven silk fiber fabrics comprises the following steps: a) obtaining silk fibroin, for example either from silk cocoons, or silk textiles or waste silk; b) removing the...
7241736 Compositions and methods for treating diverticular disease  
Agents, compositions, and implants are provided herein for treating diverticular disease (e.g., diverticulosis and diverticulitis). In particular, fibrosis-inducing agents, hemostatic agents,...
7229634 Engineered proteins, and methods of making and using  
The present invention provides engineered proteins and biomedical products made from the engineered proteins. The biomedical products include lenses useful for ophthalmic purposes.
7211649 Cartilage intermediate layer protein  
A novel, N-oligosaccharide-substituted-specific protein of approximately 91.5 kDa was purified from extracts of human articular cartilage and designated Cartilage Intermediate Layer Protein (CILP)....
7193043 Tropoelastin derivatives  
The disclosure relates to derivatives of tropoelastin and variants of those derivatives. The disclosure further provides expression products and hybrid molecules of the derivatives and variants of...
7193038 Extraction and utilization of cell growth-promoting peptides from silk protein  
Peptides are provided having an excellent safety, stability due to relatively low molecular weights thereof, and cell growth promotion, which are different from cell growth factors produced by...
7166570 Medical implants and fibrosis-inducing agents  
Implants are used in combination with a fibrosis-inducing agent in order to induce fibrosis that may otherwise not occur when the implant is placed within an animal or increase fibrosis between the...
7129210 Tissue adhesive sealant  
A tissue adhesive sealant includes a cross-linkable protein in a solution that when combined with a cross-linking agent solution including an aldehyde and amino acid containing species reactive...
7049405 α-helical protein based materials and methods for making same  
The invention relates to a method of producing useful materials from filament-forming α-helical proteins or filaments made of such proteins. The method comprises allowing filament-forming...
7041797 Precursor silk feedstock for forming filaments  
The application relates to a method of obtaining silk feedstock solution from a gland of a silkworm or another silk-producing arthropod in which the body of the silkworm or the other silk-producing...
6852686 Methods for ameliorating icthyosiform skin diseases  
The present invention relates to the discovery of a method to provide stabilized transglutaminase 1 enzyme, involucrin, and other molecules necessary for the assembly of the cell envelope to skin...
6815427 Sericin-containing material, process for producing the same method of using the same  
The object of the present invention is to elucidate a biologically active function of a component constituting undegraded sericin and to provide a novel medical material, cosmetic material, etc....
6808707 Wound healing compositions and methods using tropoelastin and lysyl oxidase  
The present invention provides compositions and methods for promoting wound healing. The composition comprises virgin monomers of tropoelastin and lysyl oxidase. When the lysyl oxidase comes in...
6765086 Self-aligning peptides modeled on human elastin and other fibrous proteins  
A polypeptide is provided that has a secondary structure characterized by at least three beta-sheet/beta-turn structures, and that is not a naturally occurring fibrous protein. Such polypeptides,...
6743435 Processing animal tissues by decellularizing, increasing surface area and acylating  
Methods are provided for processing and dispersing animal tissues that involve exposing processed (e.g., decellularized) tissue to an acylating agent, wherein the ratio of acylating agent to wet...
6689746 Use of isolated domains of type IV collagen to modify cell and tissue interactions  
The instant invention provides methods and kits for inhibiting angiogenesis, tumor growth and metastasis, and endothelial cell interactions with the extracellular matrix, involving contacting the...
6682911 Laminins and uses thereof  
The present invention is based on the discovery of a novel member of the laminin family, laminin 12. Accordingly, the present invention features a purified or isolated preparation or a recombinant...
6680293 Use of isolated domains of type IV collagen to modify cell and tissue interactions  
The instant invention demonstrates that the 7S domain of type IV collagen disrupts cell aggregation and tissue development. Structural changes in mesoglea, inhibition of cell proliferation, and...
6667051 Methods for producing elastin, and tropoelastin products for repairing and or replacing tissue  
The invention is directed to a method including the steps of providing at least one layer of unlaminated elastin or unlaminated elastin-based materials or unlaminated tropoelastin materials. Then,...
6642361 Isolated cocoon silk protein from Simulium vittatum and nucleic acids encoding such protein  
An isolated nucleic acid molecule encoding the cocoon silk protein from the black fly, Simulium vittatum . Also provided are the amino acid sequence derived from the cocoon silk, primers used to...
6635616 Laminin 15  
The present invention features a novel member of the laminin family, i.e., laminin 15, the methods of making these molecules, and the methods of using these molecules in treating neural disorders,...
6620917 Method for the purification and aqueous fiber spinning of spider silks and other structural proteins  
Methods are described for the purification and spinning of recombinant and non-recombinant proteins. Specifically, the lysis of bacteria and purification of silk proteins occur in a single solution...
6521244 Body filling material  
A body filling agent is formed of a collagen in the form of powder, fiber or gel, and at least one kind of implantable particles selected from a group consisting of implantable polymer and...
6440729 Treating angiogenesis-mediated diseases with the α2 monomer of type IV collagen  
The instant invention provides methods and kits for inhibiting angiogenesis, tumor growth and metastasis, and endothelial cell interactions with the extracellular matrix, involving contacting the...
6432706 Method for inhibiting angiogenesis and tumors with the isolated NC1 α6 chain monomer of type IV collagen  
The instant invention provides methods and kits for inhibiting angiogenesis, tumor growth and metastasis, and endothelial cell interactions with the extracellular matrix, involving contacting the...
6372228 Method of producing elastin, elastin-based biomaterials and tropoelastin materials  
A method is provided for producing elastin or elastin-based materials or tropoelastin materials which have a substantially reduced level of calcification. These materials are typically capable of...
6316221 Functional expression of pheromone binding protein  
A method which enable to provide sufficient amount of insect OBP, and moreover, to produce on a large scale under the condition of physiological activation is proposed. The functional expression of...
6296850 Apoptosis-related compounds and their use  
Apoptosis-related antigenic compounds comprising an exposed antigenic site having the amino acid sequence TBL SEQ ID NO: 1: Glu Asp Phe Asn Leu Gly Asp Ala Leu Asp 1 5 ...
6274704 Peptides derived from the heparin binding domain of fibronectin  
The biologically active peptide of the invention has a number of amino acids of 30 or less, comprises an amino acid sequence described as SEQ ID NO:13 (Tyr Thr Ile Tyr Val Ile Ala Leu) in the...
6268169 Recombinantly produced spider silk  
The invention relates to novel spider silk protein analogs derived from the amino acid consensus sequence of repeating units found in the natural spider dragline of Nephila clavipes. More...
6254986 Peracylated protein-based sutures and fabrics and process for making the same  
A method for modifying a protein or polypeptide is disclosed which includes the steps of dispersing a protein or polypeptide in an essentially non-aqueous medium and peracylating the protein or...
6232458 Synthetic polynucleotides encoding tropoelastin  
6184348 Functional recombinantly prepared synthetic protein polymer  
Novel polymers are provided which are produced by recombinant techniques. The polymers are characterized by having a small repeating sequence which provides for strands capable of associating,...
6171827 Procollagens  
There is disclosed molecules comprising at least a first moiety having the activity of a procollagen C-propeptide and a second moiety selected from any one of the group of an alien collagen...
6090915 Collagen or gelatin crumble composition and uses  
An animal collagen or gelatin based crumble, and processes for the preparation of the particulate crumble, are useful in the preparation of collagen or gelatin based compositions. The crumble is...
6034220 Chemical modification of repetitive polymers to enhance water solubility  
Highly repetitive proteins which are relatively insoluble in water are chemically modified to increase solubility. The protein is reacted with a functionalizing agent to introduce additional polar...
5986052 Fusion polypeptide containing fragments of cartilage matrix protein and link protein  
Link protein and cartilage matrix protein, which are two major components of the extracellular cartilage matrix, have been found to bind to each other. Polypeptide fragments of cartilage matrix...
5955578 Polypeptide-polymer conjugates active in wound healing  
A conjugate of a synthetic polypeptide containing RGD or (dR) GD and a biodegradable polymer, such as hyaluronic acid or chondroitin sulfate is disclosed. Methods of making the conjugate and using...
5948891 Cytoplasmic modulators of integrin binding  
The present invention relates to purified and isolated polynucleotides encoding a polypeptide which specifically bind to a cytoplasmic portion of an integrin. Specifically, the invention provides a...
5922570 Cytoplasmic Modulators of Integrin Binding/Signalling  
The present invention relates to purified and isolated polynucleotides encoding a polypeptide which specifically bind to a cytoplasmic portion of an integrin. Specifically, the invention provides a...
5883227 Multiple sclerosis associated polypeptide  
The present invention relates to the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis. More specifically, this invention relates to an assay for detecting antigen(s) associated with multiple sclerosis. The present...
5773577 Products comprising substrates capable of enzymatic cross-linking  
Polymers are provided comprising protein polymers comprising blocks of repeating units and sequences comprising amino acids, individually or in defined sequences, capable of enzyme catalyzed...
5763583 Process for producing solubilized protein  
A process for the production of a solubilized protein is disclosed, which is obtained by reducing disulfide bonds in a disulfide bond-containing water-insoluble protein material into mercapto...
5756677 Minor ampullate spider silk proteins  
cDNA clones encoding minor ampullate spidroin proteins (MiSP) are described. The translated amino acid sequence of the cloned cDNA shows that the MiSPs have a structure which exhibits an amino...
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