Abstract: This invention relates to riluzole for use in the treatment or prevention of adverse effects associated with the administration of anticancer agents having neurotoxic effects, such as, for example, platinum salts, taxanes and periwinkle alkaloids.

Abstract: The present invention relates to treating and preventing pain. More particularly the present invention demonstrates the involvement of K2P potassium channels in the antalgic effect of morphine. The present invention therefore provides a screening method for identifying antalgics.

Abstract: Novel isolated peptides which induce analgesia and which inhibit ASIC channels (Acid Sensing Ion Channels), to the polynucleotides encoding these peptides, and also to the pharmaceutical compositions, host cells, and vectors comprising these peptides and the polynucleotides encoding these peptides. In particular, these peptides are isolated from the venom of the snake Dendroaspis polylepis. The present invention also relates to the use of these peptides as a diagnostic tool or as a medicament, particularly as an analgesic, or for identifying analgesic molecules or molecules which inhibit ASIC channels.

Abstract: A peptide with the following sequence YCQKFLWTCDSERPCCEGLVCRLWCKIN (SEQ ID NO 1) or a derivative thereof, and nucleic acids coding for the peptide having the sequence (SEQ ID NO 1). Also the use of this peptide as an antagonist and/or reverse agonist of T-type calcium channels. A use of the peptide for preparing a drug, in particular an analgesic one.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of one or more Neuroaid2 components to activate KATP channels and in the treatment of various diseases and disorders. The one or more Neuroaid2 components are selected from the group consisting of: Salviae Miltiorrhizae, Prunus persica; Polygalae; acori tatarinowii; Astragali; Paeoniae Rubra; Chuanxiong; Carthamus tinctorius; and angelicae sinensis.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel isolated peptides which induce analgesia and which inhibit ASIC channels (Acid Sensing Ion Channels), to the polynucleotides encoding said peptides, and also to the pharmaceutical compositions, host cells and vectors comprising same. In particular, said peptides are isolated from the venom of the snake Dendroaspis polylepis. The present invention also relates to the use thereof as a diagnostic tool or as medicament, and in particular as an analgesic, or for identifying analgesic molecules or molecules which inhibit ASIC channels.

Abstract: This invention relates to riluzole for use in the treatment or prevention of adverse effects associated with the administration of anticancer agents having neurotoxic effects, such as, for example, platinum salts, taxanes and periwinkle alkaloids.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of the peptide toxin APETx2 that blocks the ASIC3 cationic channels and that is derived from the Anthopleura elegantissima sea anemone, and to the use of the analogs and derivatives thereof as a drug, particularly as an analgesic pain associated with the activation of ASIC3 (Acid Sensing Ion Channel 3) channels, in particular pain occurring upon an inflammation and potentially upon any painful situation associated with tissue acidosis (ischemiae, fractures, hematoma, oedema, phlyctena, local infections, tissue lesions, ocular wounds, tumours, etc.).

Abstract: The present invention relates to treating and preventing pain. More particularly the present invention demonstrates the involvement of K2P potassium channels in the antalgic effect of morphine. The present invention therefore provides a screening method for identifying antalgics.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising a peptide of 5 to 50 amino acids which comprises the amino acid sequence NPFPTX1X2KRX3X4 (SEQ ID NO: 2) wherein X1, X2, X3, and X4 may be the same or different and each is an amino acid residue, wherein said composition is in a form suitable for a transbuccal administration and use thereof for preventing or treating pain.

Abstract: A peptide with the following sequence YCQKFLWTCDSERPCCEGLVCRLWCKIN (SEQ ID NO 1) or a derivative thereof, and nucleic acids coding for the peptide having the sequence (SEQ ID NO 1). Also the use of this peptide as an antagonist and/or reverse agonist of T-type calcium channels. A use of the peptide for preparing a drug, in particular an analgesic one.

Abstract: A composition including diazoxide (7-chloro-3-methyl-2H-1,2,4-benzothiadiazine-1,1-dioxide) for the treatment and/or prevention of retinal ischemia and of diseases associated with retinal ischemia. The composition can also contain riluzole, a derivative active in neuroprotection of the latter, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of the latter.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of the peptide toxin APETx2 that blocks the ASIC3 cationic channels and that is derived from the Anthopleura elegantissima sea anemone, and to the use of the analogs and derivatives thereof as a drug, particularly as an analgesic pain associated with the activation of ASIC3 (Acid Sensing Ion Channel 3) channels, in particular pain occurring upon an inflammation and potentially upon any painful situation associated with tissue acidosis (ischemiae, fractures, hematoma, oedema, phlyctena, local infections, tissue lesions, ocular wounds, tumours, etc.

Abstract: A purified protein comprising a mechanosensitive potassium channel activated by at least one polyunsaturated fatty acid and riluzole and the use of said channels in drug screening.

Abstract: A purified protein including a mechanosensitive potassium channel activated by at least one polyunsaturated fatty acid and riluzole and the use of channels in drug screening.

Abstract: The invention relates to a substantially pure polypeptide functioning as an ASIC1a channel blocker. Also provided is a nucleic acid molecule coding such polypeptide, pharmaceutical composition containing such polypeptide and a method of manufacturing an ASIC1a channel blocker.

Abstract: Human and mouse TREK-1 potassium transport proteins are disclosed as well a method for using potassium transport proteins for identifying substances having anesthetic properties, such as producing a safe, reversible state of unconsciousness with concurrent amnesia and analgesia in a mammal upon inhalation, in a method comprising (a) contacting the test substance with a mammalian potassium transport protein, wherein said potassium transport protein exhibits outward-going potassium rectification; and (b) determining the potassium transport activity of the potassium transport protein, wherein an activation of potassium transport is indicative of the test substance having anesthetic properties.

Abstract: This invention relates to the cloning of a member of a new potassium channel named TWIK-1. More specifically, it relates to an isolated and purified nucleic acid molecule coding for a protein constituting a potassium channel exhibiting the proper-ties and structure of the TWIK-1 type channel, as well as the protein coded by this nucleic acid molecule. The invention also relates to the use of this nucleic acid molecule to transform cells, and the use of these cells expressing the potassium channels exhibiting the properties and structure of the TWIK-1 type channel for the screening of drugs.

Abstract: A purified protein comprising a mechanosensitive potassium channel activated by at least one polyunsaturated fatty acid and riluzole and the use of said channels in drug screening.

Abstract: A composition including diazoxide (7-chloro-3-methyl-2H-1,2,4-benzothiadiazine-1,1-dioxide) for the treatment and/or prevention of retinal ischemia and of diseases associated with retinal ischemia. The composition can also contain riluzole, a derivative active in neuroprotection of the latter, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of the latter.