Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide methods of treating a disorder or disease characterized by cellular proliferation and migration by co-administering a synergistically effective amount of an mTOR inhibitor and a ?-opioid receptor antagonist.
Abstract: Compositions and methods for inhibiting and controlling the growth of microbes are disclosed. The composition comprises at least one chemically-modified peptide with antimicrobial activity and at least one carrier. The method comprises of administering an amount, effective for the prevention, inhibition and termination of microbial growth for industrial, pharmaceutical, household and personal care use.
Abstract: The subject invention pertains to matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) inhibitors that exhibit an IC50 of below 10−4M against MMP and have substantially no activity against non-MMP metalloproteinase-related events. The MMP inhibitors of the invention have reduced side-effects, especially with respect to joint pain.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 21, 2001
Date of Patent:
November 16, 2004
Assignee:
Darwin Discovery Ltd.
Inventors:
John Bird, John Gary Montana, Ruth Elizabeth Wills, Andrew Douglas Baxter, David Alan Owen
Abstract: The use of caspase inhibitors for treating, ameliorating, and preventing non-cancer cell death during chemotherapy and radiation therapy and for treating and ameliorating the side effects of chemotherapy and radiation therapy of cancer is disclosed.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 11, 2000
Date of Patent:
May 20, 2003
Assignee:
Cytovia, Inc.
Inventors:
Eckard Weber, Gordon B. Mills, Douglas R. Green
Abstract: A method for preventing adverse effects associated with the use of a medical device in a patient by introducing into the patient a device of which at least a portion includes a prophylactic or therapeutic amount of a nitric oxide adduct. The nitric oxide adduct can be present in a matrix coating on a surface of the medical device; can be coated per se on a surface of the medical device; can be directly or indirectly bound to reactive sites on a surface of the medical device; or at least a portion of the medical device can be formed of a material, such as a polymer, which includes the nitric oxide adduct. Also disclosed is a method for preventing adverse effects associated with the use of a medical device in a patient by introducing the device during a medical procedure and before or during said procedure locally administering a nitric oxide adduct to the site of contact of said device with any internal tissue.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 10, 1995
Date of Patent:
July 3, 2001
Assignees:
Brigham and Women's Hospital, NitroMed, Inc.
Inventors:
Jonathan Stamler, Joseph Loscalzo, John D. Folts
Abstract: The present invention is directed to novel dipeptides thereof, represented by the general Formula I:
where R1-R3 and AA are defined herein. The present invention relates to the discovery that compounds having Formula I are potent inhibitors of apoptotic cell death. Therefore, the inhibitors of this invention can retard or block cell death in a variety of clinical conditions in which the loss of cells, tissues or entire organs occurs.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 16, 1999
Date of Patent:
February 6, 2001
Assignee:
Cytovia, Inc.
Inventors:
John F. W. Keana, Sui Xiong Cai, John Guastella, Wu Yang, John A. Drewe