The present invention is generally directed to cannabinoid medical carriers that are effective in the treatment of internal wounds, such as brain or spinal cord injury. One embodiment comprises a application device consisting of a dissolvable biological carrier that contains a cannabinoid, which is readily adsorbed in vivo and is capable of conforming to the size and shape of the surface of the contusion site of a neurological trauma. The various elements of the medical carrier can be saturated with cannabidiol or other phytocannabinoids by diffusion under sterile conditions to achieve medicinal concentrations. The carrier can be applied through open or semi-open surgical procedures, or epidural or by subarachnoid/intrathecal delivery.

The disclosure relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising an adenoviral-based biological delivery and expression system encoding human or mammalian interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1Ra) and methods of using the pharmaceutical compositions for expressing IL-IRA in cells of one or more intervertebral discs of a subject suffering from degenerative disc disease (DDD) or a condition associated with DDD, and for treatment of DDD or conditions associated with DDD.

Proteins that bind IL-1α and IL-1β are described along with their use in compositions and methods for treating, preventing, and diagnosing IL-1-related disorders and for detecting IL-1α and IL-1β in cells, tissues, samples, and compositions.

Composite nerve guides for nerve regeneration are provided, wherein the composite guide comprise a nerve graft and a nerve conduit continuing an active agent that promote axon regeneration. The devices can provide structural supports to guide nerve regeneration and locally deliver an active agent (e.g., glial cell-line derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) and/or glial growth factor 2 (GGF2) to injured nervous system tissue upon implantation in a subject. Methods of treatment using such devices are also provided.

The present disclosure relates to compounds useful for the detection or modulation of target nucleic acids, including DNA and RNA. The present disclosure further relates to methods for treatment of trinucleotide repeat disorders, which can include administration of oligonucleotide analogues that can bind pathogenic nucleotide repeats in DNA or RNA.

This document provides methods and materials for treating multiple system atrophy. For example, methods and materials for using autologous mesenchymal stem cells (e.g., adipose derived mesenchymal stem cells) to treat multiple system atrophy are provided.

A method of treating spinal cord injuries in a patient using sagittal MR images of the spinal cord injury to guide the extent of exposure of the neuro/orthopedic surgeon during a posterior spinal fusion for the purpose of autologous stem cell therapy in the setting of spinal injury; the method using large volumes of the patient's bone marrow aspirated to yield a large quantity of heterogeneous autologous stem cell concentrate containing cellular and subcellular fractions, in addition to soluble protein factors (defined as heterogeneous concentrate) exhibiting regenerative potential which is then applied directly over the spinal cord (under the dura/arachnoid) in the areas affected.

The present invention relates to a drug delivery composition comprising colloidal drug carriers, the composition and a polypeptide for use as a medicament, and in the treatment of neural and neurovascular diseases such as Alzheimer's diseases, and the use of colloidal drug carriers for the production of a drug delivery composition.

Aspects of the disclosure relate to compositions and methods for delivering a transgene (e.g., a transgene encoding one or more gene products) to a target cell. The disclosure is based, in part, on adeno-associated virus (AAV) capsid protein variants characterized by tropisms for certain cell types (e.g., neurons, muscle cells, bone cells, heart cells, etc.). In some embodiments, recombinant A A Vs (rAAVs) comprising the capsid protein variants (e.g., AAVv66, SEQ ID NO: 1) are more efficiently packaged than rAAVs having certain wild-type AAV capsid proteins. Methods of delivering an rAAV comprising the AAV capsid protein variants are also described by the disclosure.

This disclosure provides mixtures of beta-cyclodextrin molecules substituted at one or more hydroxyl positions by hydroxypropyl groups, the mixture optionally including unsubstituted beta-cyclodextrin molecules, for use as a pharmaceutically active ingredient; methods of making such mixtures; methods of qualifying such mixtures for use in a pharmaceutical composition suitable for intrathecal or intracerebroventricular administration; pharmaceutical compositions suitable for intrathecal or intracerebroventricular administration comprising such mixtures; and methods of using the pharmaceutical compositions for treatment of Niemann-Pick disease Type C.