Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research

Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties Inc

The State University of New York

Hirohito Kita

Jens Ponikau

Christopher B Lawrence

David A Sherris

Suresh Radhakrishnan

Robert Bittman

Larry R Pease

Virginia Van Keulen

Bogoljub Ciric

Melissa R Snyder

Koji Iijima

Young J Juhn

Eugene Kern

Jenna Corrinne Podjasek

Richard E Pagano

David L Marks

Chung Ii Wi

Ramandeep S Takhter

Euijung Ryu

This document provided methods and materials involved in treating medical conditions. For example, methods and materials for using anti-Interleukin 4, anti-Interleukin 5, and/or anti-Interleukin 13 antibodies to treat asthma in a mammal identified as having a Th2 immune response using a whole blood cell-based cytokine whole blood cell-based cytokine assay are provided.

Methods for treating medical conditions by anti-type 2 therapy

This disclosure provides a composition useful for inhibiting caveolar endocytosis, plasma membrane microdomain formation, virus binding and infection, transmembrane signaling, and integrin function in cells. The composition is composed of non-natural analogs of sphingolipids, and may have applications in the treatment or amelioration of diseases associated with caveolar endocytosis, plasma membrane microdomain formation, transmembrane signaling, and integrin function. Methods for making and using the described composition are also provided.

Non-natural sphingolipid analogs and uses thereof

This document relates to methods and materials involved in fungus-induced inflammation and eosinophil degranulation. For example, isolated nucleic acids encoding fungal polypeptides, fungal polypeptides, methods for assessing fungus-induced inflammation, methods for assessing eosinophil degranulation, and methods for identifying inhibitors of fungus-induced inflammation and/or eosinophil degranulation are provided.

Fungus-induced inflammation and eosinophil degranulation

The present invention provides a method for identifying bacterial induced rhinosinusitis. The method comprises obtaining a nasal or paranasal mucus sample and detecting the presence of neutrophil degranulation in the mucus sample. Degranulation of neutrophils can be determined by morphological analysis of the cells in the mucus or by detection of released (i.e., 'free') granule content markers such as neutrophil elastase or myeloperoxidase. Based on an accurate determination of the cause of sinusitis as described herein, an appropriate treatment can be instituted.

Detecting a bacterial process in chronic rhinosinusitis

A molecule capable of potentiating immune responses and modifying existing states of immune responsiveness is described. Also described are compositions containing the molecule, as well as methods for using the molecule and the compositions to enhance immune responses, to enhance DC function, to modify an existing state of immune responsiveness, to immunize individuals, or to treat or inhibit conditions such as allergic asthma.

Methods and molecules for modulating an immune response

The invention provides methods and materials related to the diagnosis of eosinophil degranulating conditions. Specifically, the invention provides methods and materials that involve visual types of analysis (e.g., microscopic analysis) that are used to determine the presence or absence of a horseshoe-shaped eosinophil granule structure within a mucus sample collected from a mammal. The presence of a horseshoe-shaped eosinophil granule structure within a patient's mucus indicates that the patient has an eosinophil degranulating condition. In addition, the invention provides methods and materials that involve immunological types of analysis (e.g., immunoassays) that are used to determine if a patient's mucus contains a tissue-damaging amount of eosinophil granule content that is outside the eosinophil granule and within the mucus. Like the presence of a horseshoe-shaped eosinophil granule structure, the presence of a tissue-damaging amount of eosinophil granule content outside the eosinophil granule and within the mucus indicates that the patient has an eosinophil degranulating condition. Further, the invention provides diagnostic kits that can be used to determine whether or not a patient has an eosinophil degranulating condition.

Eosinophil degranulating conditions

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Rochester, MN, United States of America

Hirohito Kita