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| 20090264515 | POLYNUCLEOTIDE THERAPY - This invention provides a method of treating or preventing a disease in an animal associated with one or more self-protein(s), -polypeptide(s), or -peptide(s) that is present or involved in a non-physiologic process in the animal comprising administering to the animal a self-vector comprising a polynucleotide encoding the self-protein(s), -polypeptide(s) or -peptide(s) associated with the disease. Administration of the self-vector comprising a polynucleotide encoding the self-protein(s), -polypeptide(s) or -peptide(s) modulates an immune response to the self-protein(s), -polypeptide(s) or -peptide(s) expressed from administration of the self-vector. The invention also provides a composition comprising a polynucleotide encoding one or more self-protein(s), -polypeptide(s), or -peptide(s) that is present non-physiologically in a treated animal useful in treating or preventing a disease associated with the self-protein(s), -polypeptide(s), or -peptide(s) present in and/or the target of a non-physiologic process in the animal. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20090281170 | POLYNUCLEOTIDE THERAPY - This invention provides a method of treating or preventing a disease in an animal associated with one or more self-protein(s), -polypeptide(s), or -peptide(s) that is present or involved in a non-physiologic process in the animal comprising administering to the animal a self-vector comprising a polynucleotide encoding the self-protein(s), -polypeptide(s) or -peptide(s) associated with the disease. Administration of the self-vector comprising a polynucleotide encoding the self-protein(s), -polypeptide(s) or -peptide(s) modulates an immune response to the self-protein(s), -polypeptide(s) or -peptide(s) expressed from administration of the self-vector. The invention also provides a composition comprising a polynucleotide encoding one or more self-protein(s), -polypeptide(s), or -peptide(s) that is present non-physiologically in a treated animal useful in treating or preventing a disease associated with the self-protein(s), -polypeptide(s), or -peptide(s) present in and/or the target of a non-physiologic process in the animal. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20100048679 | POLYNUCLEOTIDE THERAPY - This invention provides methods of treating an autoimmune disease in a subject associated with one or more self-protein(s), polypeptide(s), or peptide(s) present in the subject non-physiologically comprising administering to the subject: a self-vector comprising an immunosuppressive vector backbone and a polynucleotide encoding the self-protein(s), polypeptide(s) or peptide(s) associated with the autoimmune disease; and a divalent cation at a concentration greater than physiological levels. Administration of the self-vector comprising a polynucleotide encoding the self-protein(s), polypeptide(s) or peptide(s) modulates an immune response to the self-protein(s), polypeptide(s) or peptide(s) expressed from administration of the self-vector This invention further provides a method of treating multiple sclerosis by administering a self-vector comprising a BHT-1 vector backbone, for example, self-vector BHT-3009 encoding human myelin basic protein (MBP). The invention also provides a pharmaceutical composition comprising: a BHT-1 vector backbone and a polynucleotide encoding one or more self-protein(s), polypeptide(s), or peptide(s) associated with an autoimmune disease; and a divalent cation at concentrations greater than physiological levels. This invention further provides a pharmaceutical composition comprising a self-vector comprising a BHT-1 vector backbone, for example, self-vector BHT-3009 encoding human myelin basic protein (MBP), and methods of administering a BHT-1 self-vector, for example BHT-3009, to a subject. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100130593 | METHODS AND IMMUNE MODULATOR NUCLEIC ACID COMPOSITIONS FOR PREVENTING AND TREATING DISEASE - This invention relates to methods and compositions for treating or preventing disease comprising the administration of immune modulatory nucleic acids having one or more immune modulatory sequences (IMSs). The invention further relates to the means and methods for the identification of the IMSs for preventing or treating disease, more particularly the treatment and prevention of autoimmune or inflammatory diseases. The invention also relates to the treatment or prevention of disease comprising the administration of the immune modulatory nucleic acids alone or in combination with a polynucleotide encoding self-antigen(s), -proteins(s), -polypeptide(s) or -peptide(s). The present invention also relates to methods and compositions for treating diseases in a subject associated with one or more self-antigen(s), self-proteins(s), -polypeptide(s) or -peptide(s) that are present in the subject and involved in a non-physiological state. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100160415 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATMENT OF AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE - Disclosed are improved methods for the treatment or prevention of an autoimmune disease comprising administration of a modified self-vector encoding and capable of expressing a self-polypeptide that includes one or more pathogenic epitopes associated with the autoimmune disease. The improved method of the present invention includes the administration to a subject of a modified self-vector or self-vectors comprising a polynucleotide encoding a self-polypeptide. In one aspect, the method includes a modified self-vector that allows for increased expression of the self-polypeptide associated with an autoimmune disease in a host cell relative to the unmodified vector. In another, non-mutually exclusive aspect, the method includes a modified self-vector that allows for a secreted autoantigen associated with an autoimmune disease to be encoded as a non-secreted self-polypeptide. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100330110 | THERAPEUTIC AND DIAGNOSTIC USES OF ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY PROFILES - This invention provides a method for determining the antibody specificity profile in an individual. This specificity profile reveals the individual's immune response to multiple antigens and/or epitopes of autoantigens, allergens, graft antigens, etc. The antibody specificity profile is determined through the binding of patient samples comprising antibodies to the arrays. The array can comprises antigens and epitopes. The invention also provides the means and methods for determining antigen or epitope specificity profiles that can be used in the development of either generic and individualized diagnosis and treatment for immune related diseases, including autoimmune disease, allergy and graft rejection. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20110034543 | DNA Vaccination For Treatment of Multiple Sclerosis and Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus - A pro-inflammatory T cell response is specifically suppressed by the injection into a recipient of DNA encoding an autoantigen associated with autoimmune disease. The recipient may be further treating by co-vaccination with a DNA encoding a Th2 cytokine, particularly encoding IL4. In response to the vaccination, the proliferation of autoantigen-reactive T cells and the secretion of Th1 cytokines, including IL-2, IFN-γ and IL-15, are reduced. | 02-10-2011 |
