Abstract:
A method is disclosed for treatment of arterial stenosis which comprises administering to a warm-blooded mammal following balloon angioplasty a small but effective amount of zaprinast sufficient to inhibit intimal hyperplasia in said mammal.
Abstract:
A method for reducing the extent of tissue ischemia and reperfusion injury in a warm-blooded mammal is disclosed which comprises administering by local, regional, or systemic perfusion to the site of a bodily injury subject to interval tissue ischemia in said mammal a small but effective amount of tissue factor pathway inhibitor (TFPI) sufficient to reduce the extent of said tissue ischemia and reperfusion injury.
Abstract:
A method is disclosed for attenuating stenosis after balloon angioplasty. The method comprises administering parenterally to a subject following balloon angioplasty an effective amount of tissue factor pathway inhibitor (TFPI) sufficient to reduce the extent of restenosis. An exemplary amount of the TFPI is from about 0.5 mg/kg to about 6 mg/kg during a prolonged administration of about three (3) hours to 24 hours.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a method of treating glaucoma which comprises administering to a subject an effective amount of an oligonucleotide which may be substituted or modified in its phosphate, sugar, or base, so as to decrease intraocular pressure and thereby treat the glaucoma.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus is disclosed for determining the remanent noise in a magnetic medium (102) by DC saturation of a region thereof and measurement of the remaining DC magnetization. A conventional magnetic recording transducer may be used to determine the remanent noise. Upon determination, the remanent noise may then be digitized and recorded on the same magnetic medium to thereby "fingerprint" the magnetic medium. This "fingerprint" may then be later used to verify and authenticate (114) the magnetic medium as being an original. In such manner, any magnetic medium, or any object having an associated magnetic medium, may be "fingerprinted" including credit cards, computer programs, compact discs, videotapes, cassette tapes, etc.
Abstract:
Methods and compositions for inhibiting the hepatic clearance of tissue-type plasminogen activator (t-PA) in vivo by administering a t-PA-hepatic clearance-inhibiting amount of 39kDa protein or a t-PA-hepatic clearance-inhibiting fragment thereof, or genetically or chemically modified forms of the 39kDa protein or fragments thereof are described. Compositions for treatment of thrombolytic diseases comprised of t-PA and a t-PA-hepatic clearance-inhibiting effective amount of 39kDa protein, a t-PA-hepatic clearance inhibiting fragment thereof, and genetically or chemically modified forms of the 39kDa protein or its fragments are described.
Abstract:
The invention relates to an expression system which permits control of the levels of protein produced, and optionally provides production of the mature form of the protein directly. The expression systems of the invention include the desired gene downstream of a first DNA which comprises the reverse transcript of the iron-responsive element (IRE) and a second DNA which is the reverse transcript of a portion of the mRNA of an iron-responsive message corresponding to ferritin light chain-derived helping element. These reverse transcripts are operatively linked to a transcriptional promoter which may also be inducible. The expression system is useful, especially, for the production of toxic proteins since protein production can be delayed until desired.
Abstract:
Polynucleotide probes and primers derived from the Salmonella typhimurium inv genes are described. These polynucleotides can be used as universal probes and primers to detect the presence or absence of Salmonella nucleotide sequences in a biological sample.
Abstract:
The disclosure describes the isolation, characterization and cDNA coding the human substance P receptor, the primary structure of the receptor protein, and a CHO cell line transformed with a DNA expression vector containing a cDNA encoding the human substance P receptor.