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Radioligand for imaging brain PDE4 subtype D receptors with positron emission tomography

The technology relates to the first radioligands that can be used to image and quantify the enzyme phosphodiesterase subtype D (PDE4D). The PDE4D proteins have a role in carrying out signal transduction pathways in several cell types and is thought to be the key target of various antidepressants. Current work with imaging the radioligands in monkey...

Published: 7/25/2024 | Inventor(s): Sanjay Telu, Robert Innis, Robert Nugent, Mark Gurney, Xuesheng Mo, Victor Pike

Keywords(s): brain, D, Emission, IMAGING, PDE4, Positron, Radioligand, RECEPTORS, Subtype, tomography, VEXXXX, VNXXXX, WBXXXX, WIXXXX, XCXXXX, XFXXXX

Category(s): Application > Diagnostics, Application > Research Materials, Application > Non-Medical Devices, TherapeuticArea > Neurology, TherapeuticArea > Psychiatry/Mental Health, Application > Medical Devices, Application > Software / Apps

Small Interfering RNA Inhibition of Cannabanoid-1 Receptor (CB1R) for Treating Type 2 Diabetes

The invention pertains to the use of glucan encapsulated non-immunostimulatory small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) to treat type-2 diabetes. Endocannabinoids (EC) are lipid signaling molecules that act on the same cannabinoid receptors that recognize and mediate the effects of endo- and phytocannabanoids. EC receptor CB1R activation is implicated in the...

Published: 7/25/2024 | Inventor(s): Tony Jourdan, Michael Czech, Myriam Aouadi, George Kunos

Keywords(s): CB1, DIABETES, GB1AXX, GB1XXX, GBXXXX, GXXXXX, IBXXXX, IXXXXX, Knockdown, MACROPHAGES, RECEPTORS, SELECTIVE, SiRNA-mediated, treatment

Category(s): Collaboration Sought > Licensing, Application > Research Materials, Application > Diagnostics, Application > Therapeutics

A Human Progenitor Mast Cell Line for Allergic and Fibrotic Research and Therapeutic Screening

Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome type-1 (HPS-1) is a rare genetic disorder that affects around 1 in 500,000 people worldwide and 1 in 1,800 Puerto Ricans. Patients with HPS-1 display oculocutaneous albinism, bleeding due to platelet abnormality, and pulmonary fibrosis. Those that develop pulmonary fibrosis often succumb and live no more than a decade after...

Published: 7/25/2024 | Inventor(s): Dean Metcalfe, Arnold Kirshenbaum

Keywords(s): 16bp, c.1470-1486dup16, Cell, Cells, Cloning, Defect, DUPLICATION, EXPANSION, Expressing, FceRI, Hermansky, HPM, HPS1, Human, Immature, KNOWN, Line, Promastocyte, Pudlak, RECEPTORS, Syndrome-1

Category(s): Collaboration Sought > Collaboration

Transgenic Mice Overexpressing Islet Beta Cell M3 Muscarinic Acetylcholine Receptors

Researchers at NIH have generated transgenic mice in which the M3 muscarinic receptor is overexpressed in pancreatic beta cells. This was done by placing the receptor gene under the control of the 650 bp rat insulin promoter II (RIP II). The resulting mice show a pronounced increase in glucose tolerance and enhanced plasma insulin levels. Strikingly,...

Published: 7/25/2024 | Inventor(s): Jurgen Wess

Keywords(s): ACETYLCHOLINE, Beta, Cell, IDXXXX, ISLET, IXXXXX, M3, Mice, MUSCARINIC, Overexpressing, RECEPTORS, TRANSGENIC

Category(s): Collaboration Sought > Licensing, Application > Therapeutics, Application > Diagnostics, Application > Research Materials