The present invention encompasses albumin fusion proteins. Nucleic acid molecules encoding the albumin fusion proteins of the invention are also encompassed by the invention, as are vectors containing these nucleic acids, host cells transformed with these nucleic acids vectors, and methods of making the albumin fusion proteins of the invention and using these nucleic acids, vectors, and/or host cells. Additionally the present invention encompasses pharmaceutical compositions comprising albumin fusion proteins and methods of treating, preventing, or ameliorating diseases, disorders or conditions using albumin fusion proteins of the invention.

The present invention relates to a traditional Chinese medicine composition for regulating immunity and preparation method thereof, characterized in that the composition comprises raw materials such as Radix Panacis Quinquefolii, Ganoderma, fermented Cordyceps sinensis powder, Flos Rosae Rugosae, and Rhizoma Anemarrhenae and is prepared into various conventional pharmaceutical formulations through processes such as pulverization, water decoction and alcohol extraction. The traditional Chinese medicine composition is effective in preventing and treating allergic diseases, hepatitis B and AIDS, elevating leukocytes, preventing and treating radiation injury, reducing toxic and side effects resulting from radiotherapy and chemotherapy, improving the male sexual function, enhancing immunity of the human body and alleviating physical fatigue.

Disclosed are a composition including (6S)-5-methyl tetrahydrofolic acid or a salt thereof, and preparation and use thereof. In the composition, the content of (6S)-5-methyl tetrahydrofolic acid or the salt thereof is not less than 98.0%, the content of a related impurity JK12A is not greater than 0.1%, and 5-methyl tetrahydropterioic acid is not detectable.

The invention provides atropine sulfate (AS) rapidly-disintegrating sublingual tablets (RDSTs) in a sublingual dosage form and methods for therapeutic use of the AS RDSTs for treatment of organophosphate (OP) exposure and acute toxicity. The AS RDSTs provide an alternative easy-to-use dosage form for the management of organophosphate toxicity. Additionally, the invention provides methods for formulation and quality evaluation of the atropine sulfate rapidly-disintegrating sublingual tablets.

The purpose of the present invention is to establish a novel therapy method for hyperbilirubinemia and therefore, to provide a bilirubin excretion enhancer. The present invention provides a bilirubin excretion enhancer comprising, as an active ingredient, a serum albumin domain II-like protein comprising a serum albumin subdomain IIA. In one embodiment, the serum albumin subdomain IIA has an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1. in one embodiment, the serum albumin domain II-like protein is a serum albumin domain II. In one embodiment, the serum albumin domain II comprises the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 4.

The present invention provides for compounds of Formula I and embodiments and salts thereof for the treatment of diseases (e.g., neurodegenerative diseases). R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, X.sup.1, X.sup.2, A and Cy variable in Formula all have the meaning as defined herein.

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Certain tetrahydro-pyrimidoazepine compounds are described, which are useful as TRPV1 modulators. Such compounds may be used in pharmaceutical compositions and methods for the treatment of disease states, disorders, and conditions mediated by TRPV1. Thus, the compounds may be administered to treat, e.g., pain, itch, cough, asthma, or inflammatory bowel disease.

The present invention relates to novel synthetic substituted heterocyclic compounds and pharmaceutical compositions containing the same that are capable of inhibiting or antagonizing a family of receptor tyrosine kinases, Tropomysosin Related Kinases (Trk), in particular the nerve growth factor (NGF) receptor, TrkA. The invention further concerns the use of such compounds in the treatment and/or prevention of pain, cancer, restenosis, atherosclerosis, psoriasis, thrombosis, or a disease, disorder or injury relating to dysmyelination or demyelination or the disease or disorder associated with abnormal activities of NGF receptor TrkA.

The subject matter of the present invention is novel families of compounds which are aromatic amine, imine, aminoadamantane and benzodiazepine derivatives, medicaments comprising same and the use thereof as inhibitors of the toxic effects of toxins with intracellular activity, such as, for example, ricin, and of viruses that use the internalization pathway for infecting cells.

In one aspect, the invention provides methods of inhibiting the effects of MASP-2-dependent complement activation in a living subject. In one embodiment, the invention provides methods of treating a subject suffering from a complement mediated coagulation disorder, such as disseminated intravascular coagulation. The methods comprise the step of administering, to a subject in need thereof, an amount of a MASP-2 inhibitory agent effective to inhibit MASP-2-dependent complement activation. In some embodiments, the MASP-2 inhibitory agent inhibits cellular injury associated with MASP-2-mediated alternative complement pathway activation, while leaving the classical (C1q-dependent) pathway component of the immune system intact. In another aspect, the invention provides compositions for inhibiting the effects of lectin-dependent complement activation, comprising a therapeutically effective amount of a MASP-2 inhibitory agent and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.