Abstract: Oral pharmaceutical formulations containing ditosylate salts of 4-quinazolineamines are described as well as methods of using the same in the treatment of disorders characterized by aberrant erbB family PTK activity.
Type:
Application
Filed:
January 29, 2016
Publication date:
May 26, 2016
Applicant:
Novartis AG
Inventors:
Barry Howard Carter, Dwayne A. Campbell
Abstract: Provided herein are methods of treating and/or preventing cancer drug resistance using antagonists of KDM5.
Type:
Application
Filed:
March 14, 2014
Publication date:
May 26, 2016
Applicants:
CONSTELLATION PHARMACEUTICALS, INC., GENENTECH, INC.
Inventors:
Shilpi Arora, Michael Robert Costa, Ted Lau, Patrick Trojer, Brian K. Albrecht, Shane Buker, Marie Classon, Victor S. Gehling, Jean-Christophe Harmange, Erica L. Jackson, Jun Liang, Heidi Phillips, Peter Sandy, Jeffrey Settleman, Jean-Philippe Stephan
Abstract: The present invention relates to a solid pharmaceutical composition comprising pemetrexed and a solubilizing amount of meglumine or tromethamine. The composition is sufficiently stable for purpose of making pharmaceutical formulations, particularly lyophilized formulations, and is sufficiently soluble in water for purposes of using in parenteral administration.
Type:
Application
Filed:
June 14, 2013
Publication date:
May 26, 2016
Applicant:
SYNTHON B.V.
Inventors:
BOREK ZALUDEK, JACOBUS, THEODORUS, HENRICUS EUPEN VAN
Abstract: Disclosed are methods for treating cancer and precancerous conditions with PDE10A specific inhibitors and diagnosis of neoplastic diseases based on elevated levels of PDE10A.
Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of treating cancer in a human and to pharmaceutical combinations useful in such treatment. In particular, the method relates to a cancer treatment method that includes administering N-{3-[3-cyclopropyl-5-(2-fluoro-4-iodo-phenylamino)-6,8-dimethyl-2,4,7-trioxo-3,4,6,7-tetrahydro-2H-pyrido[4,3-d]pyrimidin-1-yl]phenyl}acetamide, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof, and N-{(1S)-2-amino-1-[(3-fluorophenyl)methyl]ethyl}-5-chloro-4-(4-chloro-1-methyl-1H-pyrazol-5-yl)-2-thiophenecarboxamide, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, to a human in need thereof.
Type:
Application
Filed:
February 2, 2016
Publication date:
May 26, 2016
Inventors:
Melissa Dumble, Tona Gilmer, Rakesh Kumar, Sylvie Laquerre, Peter F. Lebowitz, Shannon Renae Morris
Abstract: In certain embodiments, this disclosure relates to nanoparticles for drug-delivery of cytotoxic anti-cancer compounds. In certain embodiments, the nanoparticle comprises a maytansinoid and an acetalated polysaccharide-polyethylene glycol conjugate. This disclosure also relates to methods for treatment of infection and cancer are also claimed, wherein a cytotoxic compound is en capsulated in a nanoparticle is degraded at the intended target, but otherwise stable, releasing the cytotoxic compound. Compositions comprising the nanoparticles and cytotoxic drugs are also considered.
Abstract: The present invention relates to novel compounds having ?2 adrenergic agonist and M3 muscarinic antagonist dual activity, to pharmaceutical compositions containing them, to the process for their preparation and to their use in respiratory therapies.
Type:
Application
Filed:
December 2, 2015
Publication date:
May 26, 2016
Inventors:
Jose AIGUADE BOSCH, Silvia GUAL ROIG, Maria PRAT QUINONES, Carlos PUIG DURAN
Abstract: The present invention provides for compounds of formula (I) wherein A1, A2, A3, A4, X1, X2, Y1, L1, G1, Rx, and Ry have any of the values defined thereof in the specification, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, that are useful as agents in the treatment of diseases and conditions, including inflammatory diseases, cancer, and AIDS. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions comprising one or more compounds of formula (I).
Type:
Application
Filed:
January 28, 2016
Publication date:
May 26, 2016
Inventors:
Le Wang, John K. Pratt, Keith F. McDaniel, Yujia Dai, Steven D. Fidanze, Lisa Hasvold, James H. Holms, Warren M. Kati, Dachun Liu, Robert A. Mantei, William J. McClellan, George S. Sheppard, Carol K. Wada
Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition for inducing reactivation of latent provirus in an HIV infected cell includes an ESR-1 antagonist or an ESR-1 coactivator antagonist and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.
Abstract: The present invention relates to the technical field of ?-sitosterol drugs and provides a drug sustained release agent based on ?-sitosterol and a preparation method thereof. The drug sustained release agent based on the ?-sitosterol is applied to drugs with the ?-sitosterol as a main drug component and is prepared from the components including a drug carrier, a hydrophilic gel material, a erodible matrix material and an insoluble matrix material, wherein the drug carrier is a ?-cyclodextrin-polyamide-amine dendrimer composites, ?-sitosterol is from a plant raw material, and a host-guest inclusion complex is composed of the main drug component and the drug carrier according to the mass ratio of 0.1:0.1-0.1:5. A preparation method comprises the following steps: preparing the inclusion complex, mixing auxiliaries, carrying out compression moulding and the like.
Abstract: Provided is a rocuronium preparation designed to reduce vascular pain to be induced. The rocuronium preparation contains rocuronium and a buffer solution, and has titratable acidity of 100 mEg or less. The buffer solution may be an acetate buffer solution, a citrate buffer solution, a formate buffer solution, a tartrate buffer solution, a phosphate buffer solution, a glycine-hydrochloric acid buffer solution, or a citric acid-phosphate buffer solution.
Abstract: The present disclosure provides compositions and formulations comprising botanicals and natural compounds for the promotion of healthy brain aging in adults and for prevention or inhibition of age associated neurodegenerative changes resulting in cognitive, memory and executive dysfunction including modulation of the age related predisposition to mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer's disease, hormonal and other dementia related conditions. The present disclosure also provides methods of using the compositions and formulations in treating and preventing neurodegenerative changes resulting in cognitive, memory and executive dysfunction.
Abstract: The present invention relates to the use canthaxanthin and/or 25-hydroxy vitamin D3 (25-OH D3) for improving reproductive performance of roosters. More particularly, the invention relates to the use of Canthaxanthin and/or 25-hydroxy canthaxanthin in the manufacture of a food or veterinary composition for improving reproductive performance of roosters.
Abstract: Disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions having a portion of aspirin for intraoral release and another aspirin for gastrointestinal release. The compositions can further include niacin. Methods of using such compositions to treat diseases or conditions suitably treated by niacin are also provided which result in reduced flushing.
Abstract: The present invention relates to a low dose pharmaceutical composition comprising 32 mg or 34 mg doxycycline and one or more pharmaceutically acceptable excipients for the treatment of acne, and processes for its preparation.
Abstract: The present invention relates to a low dose pharmaceutical composition comprising 24 mg to 36 mg doxycycline and one or more pharmaceutically acceptable excipients for the treatment of acne and/or rosacea, and processes for its preparation.
Abstract: The present invention relates to a stable pharmaceutical composition comprising tigecycline and arginine, to a process for the manufacture of said pharmaceutical composition as well as to its use in the treatment of bacterial infections.
Abstract: This invention relates to composition and method of preparation of AminoMedix™ comprising of Amifostine, at least one amino acid (Arginine, Lysine, Histidine) with or without other pharmaceutically active compounds. The AminoMedix™ composition can be applied for kidney protection during therapy using radiolabeled and non-radiolabeled compounds, contrast agents, chemotherapeutics, antibiotics and drugs showing nephrotoxic effect.
Type:
Application
Filed:
June 16, 2014
Publication date:
May 26, 2016
Inventors:
Ebrahim Delpassand, Izabela Tworowska, Sanjay Thamake, David Ranganathan
Abstract: The present invention relates to prevention of congenital deformations. The invention further relates to cancer inhibition and prevention. The invention further relates to methods and compositions to modulate, antagonize, or agonize disparate signaling pathways that may converge to regulate patterning events and gene expression during prenatal development, post-natal development, and during development in the adult organism. The invention also relates to activators or deactivators of pyruvate kinase M2 (PKM2) for the treatment, prevention, or amelioration of diseases related to PKM2 function.
Abstract: The present invention is related to a product comprising a pentacyclic triterpene and hydroxytyrosol or derivatives thereof, uses, and pharmaceutical composition thereof.
Type:
Application
Filed:
June 12, 2014
Publication date:
May 26, 2016
Inventors:
José Carlos Quintela Fernandez, Esther De La Fuente Garcia, Marco Pugliese, Pilar Mancera Aroca, Javier Bustos Santafe, Juan Francisco Espinosa Parrilla, Noemí Virgili Treserres, Blanca Wappenhans Battestini
Abstract: The present invention is antibiotic compositions, ventilator-based systems and methods relating to ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) and ventilator-associated tracheal (VAT) bronchitis. Antibiotic combinations of fosfomycin and an aminoglycoside, preferably amikacin, are administered via an inline nebulizer within the airway of the ventilator. Humidified conditions create an improved aerosol mist to treat VAP and VAT.
Abstract: The present invention is antibiotic compositions, ventilator-based systems and methods relating to ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) and ventilator-associated tracheal (VAT) bronchitis. Antibiotic combinations of fosfomycin and an aminoglycoside, preferably amikacin, are administered via an inline nebulizer within the airway of the ventilator. Humidified conditions create an improved aerosol mist to treat VAP and VAT.
Abstract: The present invention is antibiotic compositions, ventilator-based systems and methods relating to ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) and ventilator-associated tracheal (VAT) bronchitis. Antibiotic combinations of fosfomycin and an aminoglycoside, preferably amikacin, are administered via an inline nebulizer within the airway of the ventilator. Humidified conditions create an improved aerosol mist to treat VAP and VAT.
Abstract: The present invention provides methods for inhibition of human herpes virus replication in a subject comprising administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of a pharmaceutically acceptable composition comprising a cardiac glycoside analog, including for example, a digitoxin analog and pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. Other methods of the present invention include administering a digitoxin analog along with at least one other biologically active compound and pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. Methods for inhibition of the ?3 subtype of the Na/K ATPase in a subject comprising administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of a pharmaceutically acceptable composition comprising a digitoxin analog are also provided.
Abstract: Methods for safe and effective treatment of inflammatory lesions of rosacea in a subject are described. The methods involve once daily topically applying to an affected skin area a topical composition containing ivermectin and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. It has been demonstrated that once daily topical treatment with ivermectin is significantly superior than twice-daily topical treatment with metronidazole in reducing inflammatory lesion counts.
Type:
Application
Filed:
December 17, 2015
Publication date:
May 26, 2016
Inventors:
Jean JACOVELLA, Jean-Paul CHAPPUIS, Nathalie SORDELLO WAGNER, Michael GRAEBER, Alexandre KAOUKHOV, Laurence SALIN, Michel PONCET, Philippe BRIANTAIS, Khaled BENKALI
Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for the treatment of migraine headache, cluster headache, tension type headache, trigeminal neuralgia (trigeminal headache) and headache disorders. The methods comprise administration of specific cardiac glycosides: Thevetin A and or Thevetin B to a subject in need thereof a pharmaceutically suitable preparation, in the form of nasal spray and or other modes and methods that will ensure adequate intranasal dosage, a pharmaceutically suitable preparation of the said cardiac glycosides that is sufficient to have the most desirable therapeutic effect when used as a prophylaxis, as a treatment and ameliorating agent of migraine headache and others headache disorders.
Abstract: Disclosed are compositions and methods that use lysine demethylase inhibitors for inhibiting the growth of cancer stem cells or tumor initiating cells, for enhancing the biological effects of chemotherapeutic drugs or irradiation on cancer cells and/or for preventing cancer recurrence.
Abstract: Compositions, kits, cells and methods for treating cardiovascular (e.g., myocardial ischemia and heart failure), immunological, and inflammatory diseases or disorders involve the use of the mature and precursor sequences of microRNAs 142-5p, 142-3p, 17-5p, 17-3p, 374, and 20a, and of antisense molecules complementary to these sequences, to manipulate processes relevant to, for example, the cardiac response to stress, including survival signaling, angiogenesis, stem cell differentiation along muscle or vascular lineages, and repression or promotion of cardiac myocyte growth. Also described are methods to treat cardiovascular, immunological and inflammatory diseases by engineering cells containing specific micro-RNAs or antagomirs against specific mRNAs. The engineered cells can then be used to treat patients with such diseases by autologous stem cell therapy.
Abstract: PSA is delivered to the host by outer membrane vesicles (OMVs), secretion structures that target bacterial molecules to host cells. Purified OMVs direct the in vitro differentiation of functional Tregs with potent suppressive activity in a PSA dependent manner. Treatment of animals with OMVs containing PSA prevents experimental colitis and suppresses pro-inflammatory cytokine responses in the gut, and indicate that compositions, medicaments, and methods useful for the treatment of inflammation, and more particularly, inflammatory bowel diseases.
Abstract: The present invention embraces nutraceutical compositions containing isolated Bacteroides fragilis capsular polysaccharide A for use in methods of preventing or treating multiple sclerosis.
Abstract: The invention is directed to compositions that function to remove cholesterol from a mammal suffering from an elevated cholesterol level. The composition includes a polysaccharide having attached thereto at least one cyclic oligosaccharide. In a particular embodiment, the foregoing composition further includes at least one cell-targeting agent. The invention is also directed to methods that utilize these compositions for removing or reducing cholesterol and other lipids in a mammal suffering from an elevated level of cholesterol and/or other lipid.
Abstract: A core-shell gel particle of the invention contains a crosslinked hyaluronic acid, has a higher equilibrium swelling capacity at the surface than at the center, the equilibrium swelling capacity showing a change curve with an inflection point from the center to the surface, and has a probe pushing force of 20 nN or less from the surface to a depth of 800 nm.
Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and compositions for treating a surface characterized by microbial infection or colonization. Particularly, the methods of the present invention involve applying a hypohalous acid (e.g., hypochlorous acid) composition and a silver additive. The present invention is useful, for example, in disinfecting or cleaning a mammalian tissue, such as a wound or burn, or disinfecting or cleaning a hard surface, such as a medical device.
Type:
Application
Filed:
July 1, 2014
Publication date:
May 26, 2016
Inventors:
Svetlana Panicheva, Mark N. Sampson, Ronan Stapleton
Abstract: The invention relates to methods and compositions for treating demyelination and/or dysmyelination and/or promoting remyelination of neurons and/or preventing the development of myelin-related diseases by administering to a subject in need thereof an effective amount (either therapeutic or prophylactic) of an elemental gold crystal nanosuspension.
Abstract: Aspects described herein provide methods of treating cancer by administering a histone-deacetylase inhibitor with a chemotherapeutic. In some embodiments, the histone-deacetylase inhibitor is AR-42. In some embodiments, the chemotherapeutic is cisplatin.
Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to method of treating a herpes virus. In one embodiment, the method includes adding an effective amounts of stannous fluoride (SnF2) and antiviral synthetic nucleoside analog to a dosage form. The dosage form may be a scrim, a liquid (e.g., a nasal mist, an aerosol spray, a liquid eye drop, a liquid bandage, and the like), a mucoadhesive or a lip balm.
Type:
Application
Filed:
January 29, 2016
Publication date:
May 26, 2016
Applicant:
HERPX LLC
Inventors:
Thomas Blake, Thomas F. Parigian, David E. Walsh
Abstract: Described herein is a pharmaceutical composition comprising atropine or a salt thereof; aconitine; and mercury cyanide. The composition is useful in a method for treating a viral infection.
Type:
Application
Filed:
June 27, 2014
Publication date:
May 26, 2016
Inventors:
Sigurd Puetter, Richard Ammer, Michael Schmidbauer
Abstract: Embodiments of various aspects described herein relate to methods, kits, and cell culture media for generation of podocytes from pluripotent stem (PS) cells, as well as cells produced by the same, and methods of use.
Abstract: Therapeutic stem cells and methods for their use and manufacture. Stem cells are produced under conditions in which the stem cells are exposed to at least one environmental factor, including decreased oxygen tension. The environmental factors and culture conditions of the invention produce stem cells having an enhanced therapeutic ability and enhanced proliferation in culture. Stem cells of the invention retain their plasticity through a higher number of cell passages relative to know methods of stem cell culture. The invention also contemplates the use of such stem cells in the treatment of neurodegenerative disorders including Alzheimer's disease and stroke.
Type:
Application
Filed:
December 22, 2013
Publication date:
May 26, 2016
Inventors:
NIKOLAI TANKOVICH, Alexander Kharazi, Alexei Lukashev, Yuri Kudinov
Abstract: Methods and compositions for reducing expression of genes on Chromosome 21 (“Chr 21”) by targeting an XIST transgene to the Dual specificity tyrosine-phosphorylation-regulated kinase 1A (DYRK1A) gene or a Regulator of calcineurin 1 (RCAN1) gene, and cells and transgenic animals comprising an XIST transgene inserted into a DYRK1A or RCAN1 allele, e.g., cells and animals trisomic for human Chr 21 and mouse Chr 16.
Type:
Application
Filed:
March 14, 2014
Publication date:
May 26, 2016
Inventors:
Jeanne B. Lawrence, Jun Jiang, Lisa L. Hall
Abstract: Cells present in processed lipoaspirate tissue are used to treat patients. Methods of treating patients include processing adipose tissue to deliver a concentrated amount of stem cells obtained from the adipose tissue to a patient. The methods may be practiced in a closed system so that the stem cells are not exposed to an external environment prior to being administered to a patient. Compositions that are administered to a patient include a mixture of adipose tissue and stem cells so that the composition has a higher concentration of stem cells than when the adipose tissue was removed from the patient.
Abstract: Cells and methods of using these cells for expressing a transgene expressing a protein that is aberrantly expressed in a metabolic disorders from a safe harbor locus.
Abstract: The present invention is directed to an adult retinal cell line isolated from extra-retinal ocular tissue, and methods of isolating adult retinal cells from extra-retinal ocular tissue. The present invention is further directed to adult retinal stem cells isolated from vestigial tissue dissected from the eye of a donor mammal suffering from persistent fetal vasculature. The present invention is further directed to a culture medium for growing or maintaining retinal stem cells, and methods of maintaining adult retinal cells in culture. The present invention is further directed to methods of treating a treating an eye with retinal dystrophy using retinal stem cells, and an eye with glaucomatous injury with retinal stem cells. The present invention is further directed to kits for harvesting extra-retinal ocular tissue comprising a sterile container and a harvesting solution, wherein the kit allows the survival of the tissue until later dissociation of cells from the tissue.
Type:
Application
Filed:
June 19, 2015
Publication date:
May 26, 2016
Inventors:
Kameran Lashkari, Marie Shatos, Tat Fong Ng
Abstract: Disclosed is a method for recovering stromal vascular fraction from a sample. The method comprises providing a mechanical force capable of breaking the sample into a single cell suspension whilst maintaining intact stromal vascular fraction cells cellular structures, wherein the mechanical force is mincing and/or homogenization. Also disclosed are methods of using the stromal vascular fraction.
Type:
Application
Filed:
July 10, 2014
Publication date:
May 26, 2016
Applicant:
AGENCY FOR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH
Abstract: Methods of producing human stem cells are disclosed for parthenogenetically activating human oocytes by manipulation of O2 tension, including manipulation of Ca2+ under high O2 tension and contacting oocytes with serine threonine kinase inhibitors under low O2 tension, isolating inner cell masses (ICMs) from the activated oocytes, and culturing the cells of the isolated ICMs under high O2 tension. Moreover, methods are described for the production of stems cells from activated oocytes in the absence of non-human animal products, including the use of human feeder cells/products for culturing ICM/stem cells. Stem cells produced by the disclosed methods are also described.
Type:
Application
Filed:
November 18, 2015
Publication date:
May 26, 2016
Inventors:
Elena S. Revazova, Marina V. Pryzhkova, Leonid N. Kuzmichev, Jeffrey D. Janus
Abstract: Visco-supplement compositions derived from a transcellular fluid, such as human amniotic fluid, human aqueous humor fluid, or human vitreous fluid are described. Also described are methods for treating inflammatory conditions of the musculoskeletal system, such as joint inflammation, and methods of lubricating a joint using the described visco-supplement compositions.