The present invention relates to pharmaceutical composition for the prevention or treatment of a disease, disorder, or condition associated with Nurr1, including, as an active ingredient, a prostaglandin analog or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein the compound has excellent effects in inducing Nurr1, and thus, can be useful as a pharmaceutical composition for the prevention or treatment of a disease, disorder, or condition associated with Nurr1, in particular, cancer, autoimmune disease such as rheumatoid arthritis, schizophrenia, manic depression and neurodegenerative disease such as Alzheimers disease or Parkinson's disease.
An object of the present invention is to provide an examination method for simply and properly evaluating the risk of developing food allergy and seriousness of the symptoms of allergy. The present invention provides a method for examining food allergy in a subject, including a step of measuring urinary tetranor-PGDM amount of the subject.
The instant invention is drawn to methods and compositions useful for the assessment of cardiovascular risk in a mammal. The methods utilize biomarkers including prostanoid metabolites and isoprostanes as sensitive and stable markers of cardiovascular risk. The methods are particularly useful in a mammal that is contemplating undergoing coxib therapy, is undergoing coxib therapy, is undergoing antioxidant therapy, has ceased coxib therapy or has never undergone coxib therapy. The invention also includes kits useful for the assessment of cardiovascular risk in a mammal.
Targeting mPGES-1 as a treatment for inflammation which avoids cardiovascular risk
申请人:FitzGerald A. Garret
公开号:US20060135490A1
公开(公告)日:2006-06-22
The present invention relates to methods for the treatment of inflammation and pain without increasing cardiovascular risk by administration of an inhibitor of mPGES-1. The invention further is related to identifying inhibitors of mPGES-1 that do not increase cardiovascular risk when administered to an individual.