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Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150073389 | DIFFERENTIATED HUMAN LIVER CELL CULTURES AND THEIR USE IN BIOARTIFICIAL LIVER SYSTEMS - Human hepatocyte cell cultures and their use in bioreactors and bioartificial liver (BAL) systems are provided. The cells have constitutive liver-specific metabolic activity resembling that of freshly isolated human hepatocytes. The hepatocyte cells and BAL systems can be used to treat patients suffering from acute liver failure, end-stage liver disease, or acute-on-chronic liver disease. | 03-12-2015 |
20120315304 | SENSITIZATION OF IMMUNE SYSTEM AGAINST HAPTENIZED MELANOMA ANTIGENS - The metabolization of certain phenols, monophenols or benzenediols into reactive quinone compounds, in particular ortho-quinones and related reactive intermediates, which is brought about by oxidation of monophenols and benzenediols by proteins exhibiting tyrosinase activity, such as human tyrosinase and the related proteins TRP1 and TRP2. The compounds function as haptens that become covalently bound to the tyrosinase enzymes, in particular to histidine moieties, in or near the catalytic site of proteins exhibiting tyrosinase activity, such as tyrosinase, TRP1 and TRP2. An immune response is then to be mounted against these haptenized auto-antigens to treat malignancies. | 12-13-2012 |
20120111795 | DIFFERENTIATED HUMAN LIVER CELL CULTURES AND THEIR USE IN BIOARTIFICIAL LIVER SYSTEMS - The present invention concerns human hepatocyte cell line cultures and their use in bioartificial liver (BAL) systems. These systems are used to treat subjects suffering from liver failure to temporarily compensate for loss of hepatocellular function and generally comprise a bioreactor loaded with functional liver cells. Until now, it has been problematic to acquire cells with a broad spectrum metabolic functionality, resembling that of freshly isolated human hepatocytes, to the extent that they are in fact suitable for successful clinical BAL application The present inventors have managed to develop human hepatocyte cell line cultures that display broad-spectrum metabolic functionality such as to render them particularly suitable for effective clinical BAL application. | 05-10-2012 |
20110171176 | COMPLEMENT ANTAGONISTS AND USES THEREOF - Disclosed are antagonists designed to inhibit or block expression of a mammalian complement such as complement component 6 (C6). The invention has a wide range of uses including use in the preparation of a medicament for the enhancement of nerve regeneration following acute or chronic nerve damage in a mammal. Additional applications include use in the treatment of multiple sclerosis either alone or in combination with another drug. | 07-14-2011 |
20100144008 | TREATMENT OF FABRY DISEASE - A pathogenic factor in plasma as an improved therapy for Fabry disease. | 06-10-2010 |
20100047844 | DIAGNOSTIC MARKER FOR FABRY DISEASE - The present invention is in the field of Fabry disease and concerns a pathogenic factor allowing diagnosis of Fabry disease. In particular lyso-ceramide trihexosamide (lyso-CTH) has been found to function as a diagnostic marker for Fabry disease. | 02-25-2010 |