The present invention relates to a method of treating a transient impairment of the motility of the gastrointestinal system resulting from postoperative ileus in a patient wherein said method includes the step of administering a therapeutically effective amount of a peptidyl analog of ghrelin to said patient.

The present invention relates to methods for treating psoriasis and other indications by inhibiting leptin activity.

Recombinant oncolytic viruses (OVs) that express one or more metabolic modulator proteins, such as an adipokine (e.g., leptin or chemerin), insulin, and/or IGF-1, and methods of their use to treat cancer, for example in immunotherapy anti-cancer treatments. In some examples, such recombinant OVs and methods increase T cell infiltration into the tumor or tumor microenvironment.

The present disclosure relates to a composition for promoting adipocyte differentiation or adiponectin production, including a trimethoxy phenyl compound, an isomer thereof, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, a hydrate thereof or a solvate thereof as an effective ingredient. A composition according to the present specification promotes adipocyte differentiation or adiponectin production, thereby exhibiting the effect of making the skin plump or increasing skin elasticity. Hence, the composition of the present specification can find various applications as a pharmaceutical composition or cosmetic composition in the field such as that concerning skin damage.

Disclosed herein are immunoglobulin fusion proteins comprising a first antibody region, a first therapeutic agent, and a first connecting peptide; wherein the first therapeutic agent is attached to the first antibody region by the connecting peptide; and wherein the connecting peptide does not comprise a region having beta strand secondary structure. The connecting peptide may comprise an extender peptide. The extender peptide may have an alpha helical secondary structure. The connecting peptide may comprise a linker peptide. The linker peptide may not comprise any secondary structure. Also disclosed herein are compositions comprising the immunoglobulin fusion proteins and methods for using the immunoglobulin fusion proteins for the treatment or prevention of a disease or condition in a subject.

A method of treating a neurological disorder comprising administering a leptin peptide fragment comprising amino acids located within the region of amino acids 116-125 of leptin is disclosed. The leptin peptide fragment preferably comprises up to 30 amino acids, and/or wherein the leptin peptide fragment comprises one or more amino acids located between amino acids 116-122 of leptin, for example the sequence X.sub.1CX.sub.2LPX.sub.3X.sub.4 wherein X.sub.1 is selected from G or S; X.sub.2 is selected from S, H or P; X.sub.3 is selected from Q, H, W, L, P or R and X4 is selected from T, A, or V (SEQ ID NO:14) or the sequence SCHLPWASGL (SEQ ID NO:22). The neurological disorder can include those which would benefit from treatment through cognitive enhancement and/or neuroprotection, such as age-associated memory impairment or loss, mild cognitive impairment, and Alzheimer's disease, and can include Parkinson's disease, frontotemporal dementia, progressive supranuclear palsy, Pick's disease, corticobasal degeneration, alcoholic dementia, (DLB) dementia with Lewy bodies, Picks' disease, thalamic dementia, hippocampal sclerosis, Hallervorden-Spatz, multiple system atrophy, tauopathies, subacute aterioscleroitic encephalopathy (Binswanger's disease), amyloid angiopathy, vasculitis, prion diseases, and paraneoplastic syndromes. The invention also includes a pharmaceutical formulation for this method, which can include the peptide in the form of a cyclic peptide or a peptide conjugate.

A peptide and a peptide complex of the present invention exhibit an anti-obesity effect by inhibiting fat accumulation and decomposing already accumulated fat, and exhibit an excellent effect with respect to diabetes by effectively reducing blood sugar. The peptide and the peptide complex of the present invention decrease the expression of PPAR, ACC, and aP2, which are adipogenic markers, increase the expression of pHSL, AMPK-1, CGI-58, and ATGL, which are lipolytic factors, and reduce the size of fat cells and blood cholesterol values. The peptide and the peptide complex of the present invention, which have excellent activity and safety, can be advantageously applied to drugs and quasi-drugs.

The invention provides a plasmid comprising two or more anti-obesity genes. Also provided by the invention are compositions and host cells comprising the plasmid and methods of increasing the metabolic activity in a mammal. The invention provides a plasmid comprising two or more of (a) a nucleic acid sequence encoding islet amyloid polypeptide (IAPP), (b) a nucleic acid sequence encoding leptin (LEP), and (c) a nucleic acid sequence encoding fibronectin type III domain containing 5 (FNDC5).

The present invention relates to methods for treating psoriasis and other indications by inhibiting leptin activity.

The present disclosure relates to peptides exhibiting an anti-obesity effect by inhibiting fat accumulation and decomposing already accumulated fats as well as an outstanding anti-diabetes effect by effectively lowering blood sugar levels. The peptides that downregulate the expression of the adipogenic markers PPAR, ACC and/or aP2, upregulate the expression of the lipolytic factors pHSL, AMPK-1, CGI-58 and/or ATGL, and reduce sizes of adipocyte and levels of cholesterol in blood are described. The excellent activity and stability of the peptides described herein provides advantages in applications such as drugs and quasi-drug products.