Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080206265 | SYNERGISTIC TREATMENT OF CANCER USING IMMUNOMERS IN CONJUNCTION WITH CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC AGENTS - The invention relates to the therapeutic use of immunostimulatory oligonucleotides and/or immunomers in combination with chemotherapeutic agents to provide a synergistic therapeutic effect. | 08-28-2008 |
20080279785 | Novel synthetic agonists of toll-like receptors containing CG dinucleotide modifications - The invention relates to the therapeutic use of oligonucleotides as immune modulatory agents in immunotherapy applications. More particularly, the invention provides immune modulatory oligonucleotide compositions for use in methods for generating an immune response or for treating a patient in need of immune modulation. The immune modulatory oligonucleotides of the invention preferably comprise novel pyrimidines and purines. | 11-13-2008 |
20080292648 | SYNTHETIC AGONISTS OF TLR9 - The invention provides novel oligonucleotide-based compounds that individually provide distinct immune response profiles through their interactions as agonists with TLR9. The TLR9 agonists according to the invention are characterized by specific and unique chemical modifications, which provide their distinctive immune response activation profiles. | 11-27-2008 |
20090010938 | SHORT IMMUNOMODULATORY OLIGONUCLEOTIDES - The invention relates to modulation of the immune system. More particularly, the invention relates to modulating the immune system through the use of oligonucleotide-derived compounds. The invention provides immunostimulatory agents that are less expensive to make than existing immunostimulatory oligonucleotides. The immunostimulatory agents according to the invention can, in preferred embodiments, cause immune stimulation across species lines. | 01-08-2009 |
20090053148 | TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR MODULATORS - The invention relates to TLR9 antagonist compounds and their therapeutic or prophylactic use. The invention provides novel immune regulatory oligonucleotides and immunomers as antagonist of TLRs and methods of use thereof. These immune regulatory oligonucleotides have unique sequences that suppress, without completely ablating, TLR-mediated signaling in response to a TLR ligand or TLR signaling agonist. The methods may have use in the prevention and treatment of autoimmunity, inflammation, inflammatory bowel disease, lupus, allergy, asthma, infection, sepsis, cancer and immunodeficiency. | 02-26-2009 |
20090053205 | STABILIZED IMMUNE MODULATORY RNA (SIMRA) COMPOUNDS - The invention relates to the therapeutic use of novel stabilized oligoribonucleotides as immune modulatory agents for immune therapy applications. Specifically, the invention provides novel RNA-based oligoribonucleotides with improved nuclease and RNase stability and that have immune modulatory activity through TLR7 and/or TLR8. | 02-26-2009 |
20090053206 | NOVEL SYNTHETIC AGONISTS OF TLR9 - The invention relates to synthetic chemical compositions that are useful for modulation of Toll-Like Receptor (TLR)-mediated immune responses. In particular, the invention relates to agonists of Toll-Like Receptor 9 (TLR9) that generate unique cytokine and chemokine profiles. | 02-26-2009 |
20090060898 | Immune regulatory oligonucleotide (IRO) compounds to modulate toll-like receptor based immune response - The invention provides novel immune regulatory oligonucleotides (IRO) as antagonist of TLRs and methods of use thereof. These IROs have unique sequences that inhibit or suppress TLR-mediated signaling in response to a TLR ligand or TLR agonist. The methods may have use in the prevention and treatment of cancer, an autoimmune disorder, airway inflammation, inflammatory disorders, infectious disease, skin disorders, allergy, asthma or a disease caused by a pathogen. | 03-05-2009 |
20090081198 | IMMUNE REGULATORY OLIGONUCLEOTIDE (IRO) COMPOUNDS TO MODULATE TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR BASED IMMUNE RESPONSE - The invention provides novel immune regulatory oligonucleotides (IRO) as antagonist of TLRs and methods of use thereof. These IROs have unique sequences that inhibit or suppress TLR-mediated signaling in response to a TLR ligand or TLR agonist. The methods may have use in the prevention and treatment of cancer, an autoimmune disorder, airway inflammation, inflammatory disorders, infectious disease, skin disorders, allergy, asthma or a disease caused by a pathogen. | 03-26-2009 |
20090087388 | IMMUNE REGULATORY OLIGONUCLEOTIDE (IRO) COMPOUNDS TO MODULATE TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR BASED IMMUNE RESPONSE - The invention provides novel immune regulatory oligonucleotides (IRO) as antagonist of TLRs and methods of use thereof. These IROs have unique sequences that inhibit or suppress TLR-mediated signaling in response to a TLR ligand or TLR agonist. The methods may have use in the prevention and treatment of cancer, an autoimmune disorder, airway inflammation, inflammatory disorders, infectious disease, skin disorders, allergy, asthma or a disease caused by a pathogen. | 04-02-2009 |
20090098063 | IMMUNE REGULATORY OLIGONUCLEOTIDE (IRO) COMPOUNDS TO MODULATE TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR BASED IMMUNE RESPONSE - The invention provides the use of immune regulatory oligonucleotides (IRO) as antagonist of TLRs in the prevention and treatment of a disease caused by a pathogen, for example, a DNA or RNA virus. | 04-16-2009 |
20100035967 | MODULATION OF TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 9 EXPRESSION BY ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDES - Antisense oligonucleotide compounds, compositions and methods are provided for down regulating the expression of TLR9. The compositions comprise antisense oligonucleotides targeted to nucleic acids encoding TLR9. The compositions may also comprise antisense oligonucleotides targeted to nucleic acids encoding TLR9 in combination with other therapeutic and/or prophylactic compounds and/or compositions. Methods of using these compounds and compositions for down-regulating TLR9 expression and for prevention or treatment of diseases wherein modulation of TLR9 expression would be beneficial are provided. | 02-11-2010 |
20100041734 | MODULATION OF TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 7 EXPRESSION BY ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDES - Antisense oligonucleotide compounds, compositions and methods are provided for down regulating the expression of TLR7. The compositions comprise antisense oligonucleotides targeted to nucleic acids encoding TLR7. The compositions may also comprise antisense oligonucleotides targeted to nucleic acids encoding TLR7 in combination with other therapeutic and/or prophylactic compounds and/or compositions. Methods of using these compounds and compositions for down-regulating TLR7 expression and for prevention or treatment of diseases wherein modulation of TLR7 expression would be beneficial are provided. | 02-18-2010 |
20100041735 | MODULATION OF TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 3 EXPRESSION BY ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDES - Antisense oligonucleotide compounds, compositions and methods are provided for down regulating the expression of TLR3. The compositions comprise antisense oligonucleotides targeted to nucleic acids encoding TLR3. The compositions may also comprise antisense oligonucleotides targeted to nucleic acids encoding TLR3 in combination with other therapeutic and/or prophylactic compounds and/or compositions. Methods of using these compounds and compositions for down-regulating TLR3 expression and for prevention or treatment of diseases wherein modulation of TLR3 expression would be beneficial are provided. | 02-18-2010 |
20100047188 | MODULATION OF TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 8 EXPRESSION BY ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDES - Antisense oligonucleotide compounds, compositions and methods are provided for down regulating the expression of TLR8. The compositions comprise antisense oligonucleotides targeted to nucleic acids encoding TLR8. The compositions may also comprise antisense oligonucleotides targeted to nucleic acids encoding TLR8 in combination with other therapeutic and/or prophylactic compounds and/or compositions. Methods of using these compounds and compositions for down-regulating TLR8 expression and for prevention or treatment of diseases wherein modulation of TLR8 expression would be beneficial are provided. | 02-25-2010 |
20100092486 | MODULATION OF MYELOID DIFFERENTATION PRIMARY RESPONSE GENE 88 (MYD88) EXPRESSION BY ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDES - Antisense oligonucleotide compounds, compositions and methods are provided for down regulating the expression of MyD88. The compositions comprise antisense oligonucleotides targeted to nucleic acids encoding MyD88. The compositions may also comprise antisense oligonucleotides targeted to nucleic acids encoding MyD88 in combination with other therapeutic and/or prophylactic compounds and/or compositions. Methods of using these compounds and compositions for down-regulating MyD88 expression and for prevention or treatment of diseases wherein modulation of MyD88 expression would be beneficial are provided. | 04-15-2010 |
20100098685 | Use of Inhibitors of Toll-Like Receptors in the Prevention and Treatment of Hypercholesterolemia and Hyperlipidemia and Diseases Related Thereto - The invention provides the use of TLR inhibitors or a pharmaceutically acceptable derivative thereof, optionally in combination with one or more lipid lowering composition, cholesterol lowering composition, diuretics, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory compounds (NSAIDs), antibodies, antisense oligonucleotides, TLR agonists, TLR antagonists, peptides, proteins or gene therapy vectors or combinations thereof for the prevention or treatment of hypercholesterolemia and/or hyperlipidemia and/or diseases associated therewith. | 04-22-2010 |
20100111935 | Modulation of Toll-Like Receptor 2 Expression By Antisense Oligonucleotides - Antisense oligonucleotide compounds, compositions and methods are provided for down regulating the expression of TLR2. The compositions comprise antisense oligonucleotides targeted to nucleic acids encoding TLR2. The compositions may also comprise antisense oligonucleotides targeted to nucleic acids encoding TLR2 in combination with other therapeutic and/or prophylactic compounds and/or compositions. Methods of using these compounds and compositions for down-regulating TLR2 expression and for prevention or treatment of diseases wherein modulation of TLR2 expression would be beneficial are provided. | 05-06-2010 |
20100111936 | Modulation of Toll-Like Receptor 4 Expression by Antisense Oligonucleotides - Antisense oligonucleotide compounds, compositions and methods are provided for down regulating the expression of TLR4. The compositions comprise antisense oligonucleotides targeted to nucleic acids encoding TLR4. The compositions may also comprise antisense oligonucleotides targeted to nucleic acids encoding TLR4 in combination with other therapeutic and/or prophylactic compounds and/or compositions. Methods of using these compounds and compositions for down-regulating TLR4 expression and for prevention or treatment of diseases wherein modulation of TLR4 expression would be beneficial are provided. | 05-06-2010 |
20100111937 | Modulation of Toll-Like Receptor 5 Expression by Antisense Oligonucleotides - Antisense oligonucleotide compounds, compositions and methods are provided for down regulating the expression of TLR5. The compositions comprise antisense oligonucleotides targeted to nucleic acids encoding TLR5. The compositions may also comprise antisense oligonucleotides targeted to nucleic acids encoding TLR5 in combination with other therapeutic and/or prophylactic compounds and/or compositions. Methods of using these compounds and compositions for down-regulating TLR5 expression and for prevention or treatment of diseases wherein modulation of TLR5 expression would be beneficial are provided. | 05-06-2010 |
20100143328 | IMMUNOSTIMULATORY PROPERTIES OF OLIGONUCLEOTIDE-BASED COMPOUNDS COMPRISING MODIFIED IMMUNOSTIMULATORY DINUCLEOTIDES - The invention relates to the therapeutic use of oligonucleotides as immunostimulatory agents in immunotherapy applications. More particularly, the invention provides immunostimulatory oligonucleotides for use in methods for generating an immune response or for treating a patient in need of immunostimulation. The immunostimulatory oligonucleotides of the invention preferably comprise novel purines. The immunostimulatory oligonucleotides according to the invention further comprise at least two oligonucleotides linked at their 3′ ends, internucleoside linkages or functionalized nucleobase or sugar to a non-nucleotidic linker, at least one of the oligonucleotides being an immunostimulatory oligonucleotide and having an accessible 5′ end. | 06-10-2010 |
20100166736 | IMMUNOSTIMULATORY OLIGONUCLEOTIDE MULTIMERS - The invention provides an immunostimulatory nucleic acid. In certain embodiments according to this aspect of the invention, the sequence of the immunostimulatory oligonucleotide and/or immunomer is at least partially self-complementary. | 07-01-2010 |
20100166805 | Modulation of immunostimulatory properties by small oligonucleotide-based compounds - The invention relates to the therapeutic use of oligonucleotides as immunostimulatory agents in immunotherapy applications. More particularly, the invention provides immunomers for use in methods for generating an immune response or for treating a patient in need of immunostimulation. The immunomers of the invention comprise at least two oligonucleotides linked at their 3′ ends, internucleoside linkages or functionalized nucleobase or sugar to a non-nucleotidic linker, at least one of the oligonucleotides being an immunostimulatory oligonucleotide and having an accessible 5′ end. | 07-01-2010 |
20100215642 | SYNTHETIC RNA-BASED AGONISTS OF TLR7 - The invention relates to the therapeutic use of novel stabilized oligoribonucleotides as immune modulatory agents for immune therapy applications. Specifically, the invention provides novel RNA-based oligoribonucleotides with improved nuclease and RNase stability and that selectively induce immune modulatory activity through TLR7. | 08-26-2010 |
20100215646 | IMMUNOSTIMULATORY ACTIVITY OF PALINDROMIC IMMUNE MODULATORY OLIGONUCLEOTIDES (IMO) CONTAINING DIFFERENT LENGTHS OF PALINDROMIC SEGMENTS - The invention provides a palindromic immune modulatory nucleic acid. The invention also provides methods for generating, enhancing and modifying the immune response caused by palindromic immune modulatory compounds used for immunotherapy applications | 08-26-2010 |
20100254974 | Modulation of Immunostimulatory Properties of Oligonucleotide-Based Compounds by Optimal Presentation of 5' Ends - The invention relates to the therapeutic use of oligonucleotides as immunostimulatory agents in immunotherapy applications. More particularly, the invention provides immunomers for use in methods for generating an immune response or for treating a patient in need of immunostimulation. The immunomers of the invention comprise at least two oligonucleotides linked at their 3′ ends, internucleoside linkages or functionalized nucleobase or sugar to a non-nucleotidic linker, at least one of the oligonucleotides being an immunostimulatory oligonucleotide and having an accessible 5′ end. | 10-07-2010 |
20100330152 | METHODS AND COMPOSITONS FOR ANTISENSE VEGF OLIGONUCLEOTIDES - This invention relates to compositions and methods for inhibition of abnormal proliferation of cells or angiogenesis. More particularly this invention provides VEGF antisense oligonucleotides capable of inhibiting proliferation of cancer cells or angiogenesis or combinations thereof. also provided are screening and prognostic assays, as well kits comprising the VEGF antisense oligonucleotides. | 12-30-2010 |
20110009477 | OLIGONUCLEOTIDE-BASED COMPOUNDS AS INHIBITORS OF TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS - The invention provides novel oligonucleotide-based TLR antagonists containing a modified immune stimulatory motif and the use of such compounds in the prevention and treatment of TLR-medicated diseases. These oligonucleotide-based TLR antagonists containing a modified immune stimulatory motif have one or more chemical modifications in the immune stimulatory motif, which would be immune stimulatory but for the modification. | 01-13-2011 |
20110059067 | MODULATION OF OLIGONUCLEOTIDE CPG-MEDIATED IMMUNE STIMULATION BY POSITIONAL MODIFICATION OF NUCLEOSIDES - The invention provides methods for modulating the immune response caused by CpG dinucleotide-containing compounds. The methods according to the invention enables both decreasing the immunostimulatory effect for antisense applications, as well as increasing the immunostimulatory effect for immunotherapy applications. | 03-10-2011 |
20110082186 | COMPOSITIONS FOR INHIBITING GENE EXPRESSION AND USES THEREOF - The inventors have examined the means for providing more efficacious gene expression blocking compounds. The inventors have discovered new structural features that surprisingly improve the efficacy of gene expression blocking molecules. These features include the presence of multiple 3′ ends and a linker at the 5′ ends. Surprisingly, these features improve the efficacy of the gene expression blocking compounds in a manner that decreases the compound's biologic instability. Even more surprisingly, this effect has been found to be applicable to both DNA and RNA oligonucleotide-based compounds and to have application in traditional antisense and RNAi technologies. | 04-07-2011 |
20110123540 | POTENT MUCOSAL IMMUNE RESPONSE INDUCED BY MODIFIED IMMUNOMODULATORY OLIGONUCLEOTIDES - The invention relates to the therapeutic use of immunostimulatory oligonucleotides and/or immunomers on mucosal innate immunity as well as adjuvant activity using ovalbumin (OVA) as an antigen through administration to the mucosal lining. | 05-26-2011 |
20110135669 | SYNTHETIC AGONISTS OF TLR9 - The invention provides novel oligonucleotide-based compounds that individually provide distinct immune response profiles through their interactions as agonists with TLR9. The TLR9 agonists according to the invention are characterized by specific and unique chemical modifications, which provide their distinctive immune response activation profiles. | 06-09-2011 |
20110150863 | MODULATION OF IMMUNOSTIMULATORY PROPERTIES OF OLIGONUCLEOTIDE-BASED COMPOUNDS BY UTILIZING MODIFIED IMMUNOSTIMULATORY DINUCLEOTIDES - The invention relates to the therapeutic use of oligonucleotides as immunostimulatory agents in immunotherapy applications. More particularly, the invention provides immunomers and an immunostimulatory oligonucleotides for use in methods for generating an immune response or for treating a patient in need of immunostimulation. The immunomers and an immunostimulatory oligonucleotides of the invention preferably comprise novel purines. The immunomers according to the invention further comprise at least two oligonucleotides linked at their 3′ ends, internucleoside linkages or functionalized nucleobase or sugar to a non-nucleotidic linker, at least one of the oligonucleotides being an immunomodulatory oligonucleotide and having an accessible 5′ end. | 06-23-2011 |
20110158937 | SYNERGISTIC STIMULATION OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM USING IMMUNOSTIMULATORY OLIGONUCLEOTIDES AND/OR IMMUNOMER COMPOUNDS IN CONJUNCTION WITH CYTOKINES AND/OR CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC AGENTS OR RADIATION THERAPY - The invention provides optimized methods and compositions for enhancing the immune response caused by immunostimulatory compounds used for the treatment of disease such as, but not limited to, treatment of cancer, autoimmune disorders, asthma, respiratory allergies, food allergies and infectious diseases in a patient. The optimized methods according to the invention provide synergy between the therapeutic effects of immunostimulatory oligonucleotides and immunomer compounds in accordance with the invention, and the therapeutic effect of cytokine immunotherapy and/or chemotherapeutic agents and/or radiation. | 06-30-2011 |
20110171209 | Potentiation of Autoimmune and Inflammatory Disease Treatments by Immune Regulatory Oligonucleotide (IRO) Antagonists of TLR7 and TLR9 - The invention provides the use of immune regulatory oligonucleotides (IRO) as antagonist of TLRs and potentiators of anti-inflammatory agents that inhibit TNF for the prevention and treatment of inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. | 07-14-2011 |
20110229456 | MODULATION OF IMMUNOSTIMULATORY PROPERTIES OF OLIGONUCLEOTIDE-BASED COMPOUNDS BY OPTIMAL PRESENTATION OF 5' ENDS - The invention relates to the therapeutic use of oligonucleotides as immunostimulatory agents in immunotherapy applications. More particularly, the invention provides immunomers for use in methods for generating an immune response or for treating a patient in need of immunostimulation. The immunomers of the invention comprise at least two oligonucleotides linked at their 3′ ends, internucleoside linkages or functionalized nucleobase or sugar to a non-nucleotidic linker, at least one of the oligonucleotides being an immunostimulatory oligonucleotide and having an accessible 5′ end. | 09-22-2011 |
20110293565 | NOVEL SYNTHETIC AGONISTS OF TLR9 - The invention relates to synthetic chemical compositions that are useful for modulation of Toll-Like Receptor (TLR)-mediated immune responses. In particular, the invention relates to agonists of Toll-Like Receptor 9 (TLR9) that generate unique cytokine and chemokine profiles. | 12-01-2011 |
20110305684 | IMMUNOSTIMULATORY PROPERTIES OF OLIGONUCLEOTIDE-BASED COMPOUNDS COMPRISING MODIFIED IMMUNOSTIMULATORY DINUCLEOTIDES - The invention relates to the therapeutic use of oligonucleotides as immunostimulatory agents in immunotherapy applications. More particularly, the invention provides an immunostimulatory oligonucleotides for use in methods for generating an immune response or for treating a patient in need of immunostimulation. The immunostimulatory oligonucleotides of the invention preferably comprise novel purines. The immunostimulatory oligonucleotides according to the invention further comprise at least two oligonucleotides linked at their 3′ ends, internucleoside linkages or functionalized nucleobase or sugar to a non-nucleotidic linker, at least one of the oligonucleotides being an immunostimulatory oligonucleotide and having an accessible 5′ end. | 12-15-2011 |
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