Materials and methods for diagnosing and treating asthma and dietary Fru-AGEs related disorders including auto-immune and other diseases found to be associated with elevated RAGE. The specification describes methods to identify and make dietary derived advanced glycation end-products, known as Fru-AGEs, Fru-AGE-haptens, and Fru-AGE immune complexes, and to make monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies to this plurality of bio-molecules for use in immunoassays and for use as therapeutic agents
申请人:DeChristopher Luanne Robalo
公开号:US20140154257A1
公开(公告)日:2014-06-05
Present invention is directed to materials and methods useful in diagnosing gut derived advanced glycation end-products (“Fru-AGEs”) associated with asthma, juvenile arthritis and other pro-inflammatory chronic diseases. Fru-AGEs arise from the interaction [fructosylation] between elevated gastro-intestinal excess free fructose and other food/bio-molecules including peptides, proteins, lipids, lipo/glycoproteins and others in the digestive tract. Such Fru-AGEs may further interact with moieties of the systemic circulation of those at risk [fructose malabsorbers], i.e. with acute phase proteins, heat shock proteins, immunoglobulins, esRAGE, and sRAGE. Specification describes methods to identify and/or make such excess-free-fructose derived immunogens, i.e. Fru-AGEs, Fru-AGE-haptens, Fru-AGE immune complexes, and to make monoclonal/polyclonal antibodies to such bio-molecules for use as therapeutic agents and/or for use in immuno-assays including fluorescence enzyme immunoassay, microarray specific immunoglobulin/antibody testing, fluids detection [blood and urine] of GI Fru-AGE/haptens/immune-complexes.