Methods of treating patients having inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) or primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) are provided herein.

The present application provides methods and processes for making and using a mesenchymal stem cell secretome, as well as methods for treating ocular conditions and/disorders with the mesenchymal stem cell secretome described herein.

The present application provides methods and processes for making and using a mesenchymal stem cell secretome, as well as methods for treating ocular conditions and/disorders with the mesenchymal stem cell secretome described herein.

The present invention provides compositions and methods for improving cardiac function. Specifically, the present invention provides compositions and methods for treating a subject having a disorder or condition associated with aberrant cardiac tissue function, comprising contacting a patient having a disorder or condition associated with aberrant cardiac tissue function with a construct, or a construct associated with therapeutic cells, or a construct associated with fibroblast cells and therapeutic cells.

The present application provides methods and processes for making and using a fibronectin composition, as well as methods for treating ocular conditions and/or disorders with the cellular fibronectin composition described herein.

The present invention relates to methods of treating chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy. In particular, the methods provide a new way of reducing neuropathic pain associated with chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy by administering a nucleic acid construct encoding human HGF proteins. This application further provides nucleic acid constructs, pharmacological compositions, and methods of administration of the nucleic acid constructs that are effective in treating the neuropathic pain.

The present invention is directed to cancer cell traps and methods of using cancer cell traps to treat and detect metastatic cancer in subjects. The cancer cell traps are administered to subjects and induce the migration and accumulation of metastatic cancer cells in the cancer cell traps.

The present disclosure generally relates to the field of infertility, and in particular male infertility. Accordingly, the present disclosure provides for compositions and methods for managing male infertility, caused by azoospermia. More particularly, the present disclosure provides a therapeutic composition comprising a platelet rich plasma (PRP) or a growth factor concentrate derived therefrom and a thermoresponsive polymer. The present disclosure also relates to the compositions of PRP and the concentrate themselves. Consequently, methods to obtain the said compositions, along with therapeutic applications for treatment of azoospermia are also provided.

Described herein is the discovery that HGFs activate the growth and migration of lymphatic endothelial cells and thereby promote lymphangiogenesis. The present invention is based on this finding, and provides lymphangiogenesis-promoting agents comprising as active ingredients HGFs, or proteins or compounds functionally equivalent thereto. Based on the finding described above, the present invention also provides methods for promoting lymphangiogenesis which comprise the step of locally administering HGFs or proteins functionally equivalent thereto to affected areas in patients with lymphedema.

Drug compositions of angiogenesis therapy contain gene coding for human prostacyclin synthase (hPGIS) synthesizing prostaglandin I.sub.2 with activities of vasodialation and/or anti-platelet aggregation; drug compositions contain adeno-associated virus (AAV) inserted with gene for angiogenesis factors. The administration of the drug compositions into the aimed treatment region results in transfer of AAV type 1-hPGIS to skeletal muscles and induces a notable expression of human PGIS gene in skeletal muscles. The PGI.sub.2 is produced by mediation of the gene expression in the muscle cells, secreted, induces vessel-protective, neovascularization and anti-platelet aggregation actions, which lead to an improvement in vascular ischemia.