Abstract: The named inventors claim discovery of synergistic anti-cancer effects of combinations of one or more sea cucumber glycosides such as Frondoside A or other sea cucumber glycosides and Andrographolide or an Andrographolide analog, wherein the biological effects are may be more beneficial than the single components making up the said invention. The inventors claim new methods and compositions of matter to treat cancer in mammals, and additionally a method to effectively treat cancer stem cells in mammals, with a composition comprised of one or more sea cucumber glycosides and Andrographolide, or an andrographolide analog.

Abstract: The present invention relates to green tea and sea cucumber extracts, compositions thereof, and methods of treating or preventing a cardiovascular disease, a peripheral vascular disease, or an aneurysm in a subject, the methods comprising administering to the subject an effective amount of a green tea extract, a sea cucumber extract, or a compound derived from a green tea extract or a sea cucumber extract.

Abstract: Disclosed are compositions which include an isolated soft tissue from Modiolus modiolus (“MM”) and compositions which include an oil isolated from MM or a portion thereof. Also disclosed are methods of treating adenocarcinoma in a subject; methods of decreasing proliferation of adenocarcinoma cells, or of inducing apoptosis of adenocarcinoma cells, or of inducing differentiation of adenocarcinoma cells into non-cancerous cells; methods of inhibiting the activity of 5-lipoxygenase or 12-lipoxygenase or both in cells; and methods of treating a subject suffering from a disease or condition associated with excessive 5-lipoxygenase activity or 12-lipoxygenase activity or both. A process for preparing an MM extract by contacting MM or a portion thereof with a solvent under conditions effective to extract one or more materials from the MM or portion thereof is also described.

Abstract: The present invention relates to new classes of anti-cancer agents. In particular, the present invention provides materials derived from natural sources as anti-cancer agents, alone, or in combination with other anti-cancer agents or therapies.

Abstract: This present invention discloses use of a chloroform/solvent mixture extraction at different solvent-to-feed ratios, followed by evaporation and extraction with ethyl acetate/water; followed by chromatography of the water phase in Teflon or other non-polar resin and Silica gel column chromatography for recovering of individual triterpene glycosides (saponins) of high purity from the freeze dried or spray dried cooking water or dried powderized tissues of the industrial processed sea cucumber Cucumaria frondosa. A resulting glycoside Frondoside A stimulates lysosomal activity of peritoneal macrophages, phagocytosis and oxidative burst in the macrophages at concentrations significantly less than for acute toxicity, hemolysis and sea urchin embryo toxicity.

Abstract: The present invention relates to new classes of anti-cancer compounds. In particular, the present invention provides glycoside compounds as anti-cancer agent, alone, or in combination with other anti-cancer agents or therapies.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods of decreasing proliferation of adenocarcinoma cells, or of inducing apoptosis of adenocarcinoma cells, or of inducing differentiation of adenocarcinoma cells into non-cancerous cells. The methods include contacting a sample comprising adenocarcinoma cells with a compound having the formula (“Formula I”): CH3—(CH2)n—CH═CH—(CH2)m—COOH) wherein n is an integer from 0 to 15, m is an integer from about 1 to 16, and the sum of m and n is an integer from 6 to 16, or a pharmaceutically acceptable ester, salt, amide, solvate, or metabolite thereof. Also disclosed are methods for treating adenocarcinoma in a subject. The methods include administering to the subject an effective amount of a compound having Formula I or a pharmaceutically acceptable ester, salt, amide, solvate, or metabolite thereof.

Abstract: Disclosed are compositions which include an isolated soft tissue from Modiolus modiolus (“MM”) and compositions which include an oil isolated from MM or a portion thereof. Also disclosed are methods of treating adenocarcinoma in a subject; methods of decreasing proliferation of adenocarcinoma cells, or of inducing apoptosis of adenocarcinoma cells, or of inducing differentiation of adenocarcinoma cells into non-cancerous cells; methods of inhibiting the activity of 5-lipoxygenase or 12-lipoxygenase or both in cells; and methods of treating a subject suffering from a disease or condition associated with excessive 5-lipoxygenase activity or 12-lipoxygenase activity or both. A process for preparing an MM extract by contacting MM or a portion thereof with a solvent under conditions effective to extract one or more materials from the MM or portion thereof is also described.

Abstract: Methods and compositions are disclosed for prevention and/or treatment of diseases in which 5- and 12-lipoxygenase activity contributes to the pathological condition, by administration of 12-methyletradecanoic acids alone and in conjunction with other therapeutic compounds. Methods to inhibit lipoxygenase-mediated inflammations are disclosed.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for prevention and/or treatment of diseases in which 5- and 12-lipoxygenase activity contributes to the pathological condition, by administration of 12-methyltetradecanoic acids alone and in conjunction with other therapeutic compounds. Methods to inhibit lipoxygenase mediated cancers and inflammations are disclosed.