Abstract: The disclosure provides a method comprising administering HIF stabilizing small molecule drugs to premature infants, whose survival is dependent upon mechanical ventilation and/or supplemental oxygen, to counteract the pathological effects of hyperoxia on lung development. Data in a mouse model of hyperoxia-induced neonatal lung disease supports a treatment with a HIF stabilizer during high oxygen exposure protects the lung. HIF stabilizers can be administered via various routes, including in an aerosolized state using a ventilator, intravenous, intraperitoneal or subcutaneous injection.

Abstract: This disclosure is directed to methods of reducing scar collagen abundance, scar width, and scar tissue contracture comprising administering to a subject in need of such treatment an effective amount of a mast cell stabilizer, or an effective amount of a HIF prolyl hydroxylase domain inhibitor, or an effective amount of a combination of a mast cell stabilizer and a HIF prolyl hydroxylase domain inhibitor.

Abstract: This application discloses methods for treating or preventing an ophthalmic retinal vascular permeability, angiogenic or fibroproliferative disease, disorder or condition that involve administering to a patient in need thereof a composition that can inhibit mast cell migration into the vitreous or the retina, mast cell proliferation in the vitreous or the retina, or mast cell secretion into the vitreous or the retina.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a method comprising administering HIF stabilizing small molecule drugs to premature infants, whose survival is dependent upon mechanical ventilation and/or supplemental oxygen, to counteract the pathological effects of hyperoxia on lung development. Data in a mouse model of hyperoxia-induced neonatal lung disease supports a treatment with a HIF stabilizer during high oxygen exposure protects the lung. HIF stabilizers can be administered via various routes, including in an aerosolized state using a ventilator, intravenous, intraperitoneal or subcutaneous injection.

Abstract: This application discloses methods for treating or preventing an ophthalmic retinal vascular permeability, angiogenic or fibroproliferative disease, disorder or condition that involve administering to a patient in need thereof a composition that can inhibit mast cell migration into the vitreous or the retina, mast cell proliferation in the vitreous or the retina, or mast cell secretion into the vitreous or the retina.

Abstract: The invention relates to the discovery that renin is present in mast cells and can act in a localized manner to initiate and/or exacerbate a number of conditions. Thus, the invention provides methods for treating cardiac, vascular, lung, liver, cervical, intestinal, muscle, pancreatic, brain, kidney, skin and other conditions that involve inhibiting the synthesis and/or release of renin from mast cells and/or inhibiting the activity of renin after release from mast cells. The methods of the invention can also involve inhibiting elements of the local renin-angiotensin system (e.g.

Abstract: The invention provides a method for reducing cardiac dysfunctions in a human. The method comprises administration to the human of an effective amount of a selective histamine H3 Receptor agonist. In one embodiment, the method comprises limiting the accumulation of intracellular sodium (Nai) by inhibiting the Na+/H+ exchanger activity in the human having a cardiac dysfunction, or a predisposition to a cardiac dysfunction. In another embodiment the method comprises inhibiting the N-type Ca2+ channel to modulate the concentration of intracellular calcium. The invention also provides a pharmaceutical composition that includes a selective histamine H3 Receptor agonist with a pharmaceutical carrier.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for treating a human suffering from myocardial ischemia, cardiac arrhythmia, or both. The method comprises administering locally to a heart of a human an effective amount of an enzyme inhibitor that inhibits formation of angiotensin II in the heart. The invention also provides an isolated human renin of about 32-36 kDa.

Abstract: The invention provides a method for reducing cardiac dysfunctions in a human. The method comprises administration to the human of an effective amount of a selective histamine H3 Receptor agonist. In one embodiment, the method comprises limiting the accumulation of intracellular sodium (Nai) by inhibiting the Na+/H+ exchanger activity in the human having a cardiac dysfunction, or a predisposition to a cardiac dysfunction. In another embodiment the method comprises inhibiting the N-type Ca2+ channel to modulate the concentration of intracellular calcium. The invention also provides a pharmaceutical composition that includes a selective histamine H3 Receptor agonist with a pharmaceutical carrier.