The present invention refers to an in vitro method for obtaining clinical data in patients suffering from an inflammatory disease, preferably, for predicting mortality risk among patients suffering from sepsis or for deciding whether to administer a medical treatment to a patient suffering from an autoinflammatory syndrome.

The present disclosure relates to a composition capable of diagnosing cancer, specifically pancreatic cancer or the like, a diagnostic kit comprising the same, and a method of providing information for diagnosis using the composition. Also, the present disclosure relates to a pharmaceutical composition capable of preventing or treating pancreatic cancer.

Provided are methods and compositions for labeling an allergen-specific pathogenic CD4+ T-cell. The method can comprise contacting a cell population comprising CD4+ T cells with a suspected allergen to provide a challenged cell population, contacting the challenged cell population, or a subpopulation thereof, with a first molecule that specifically binds to a biomarker for an allergen-specific pathogenic T cell, wherein binding of the first molecule to the biomarker on a CD4+ cell indicates the cell is an allergen-specific pathogenic CD4+ T cell, and detecting binding of the first molecule to a CD4+ cell, wherein binding to the cell indicates the cell is an allergen-specific pathogenic CD4+ T cell. The method is applicable to monitoring the presence of allergen-specific pathogenic CD4+ T cells and/or efficacy of immunotherapy for allergies in a subject.

Disclosed are compositions and methods for measuring the likelihood of recovery of a recently thawed immune cell. Methods include assaying the level of an ADAM-17-cleaved surface receptor expressed on the immune cells, wherein the level of the surface receptor directly correlates with the likelihood of immune cell recovery (i.e., the greater the increase of the expression level an ADAM-17-cleaved surface receptor relative to a control, the greater the likelihood of recovery). The method can be used to determine if immune cells have sufficient viability to be used in immunotherapy before use.

Biomarkers for diagnosing the disease activity, disease severity or disease type of severe cutaneous adverse drug reactions (SCARs) such as drug-induced hypersensitivity syndrome and Stevens-Johnson syndrome/toxic epidermal necrolysis are provided. Also provided is a method of testing SCARs, comprising measuring the expression of at least one protein selected from the group consisting of stratifin, TNF receptor superfamily member 8 (CD30/TNFRSF8), interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1Ra), and TNF receptor superfamily member 6B (DcR3/TNFRSF6B) in a sample derived from a subject.

This invention pertains to methods and compositions for the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular conditions. More specifically, the invention relates to isolated molecules that can be used to diagnose and/or treat cardiovascular conditions including cardiac hypertrophy, myocardial infarction, stroke, arteriosclerosis, and heart failure.

Methods and compositions related to the selective, specific disruption of multiple ligand-receptor signaling interactions, such as ligand-receptor interactions implicated in disease, are disclosed. These interactions may involve multiple cytokines in a single receptor family or multiple ligand receptor interactions from at least two distinct ligand-receptor families. The compositions may comprise polypeptides having composite sequences that comprise sequence fragments of two or more ligand binding sites. The methods and compositions may involve sequence fragments of two or more ligand binding sites that are arranged to conserve the secondary structure of each of the ligands from which the sequence fragments were taken.

The present inventors successfully obtained anti-NR10 antibodies having an effective neutralizing activity against NR10. The anti-NR10 antibodies provided by the present invention are useful as, for example, pharmaceuticals for treating or preventing inflammatory diseases.

Disclosed herein are anti-IL-13-Rα2 antibodies and antibody drug conjugates and methods for preparing and using the same.

The invention relates to a process for determining the susceptibility to nosocomical infections in a patient, comprising the measurement of the expression of sCD127 in a biological sample.