Abstract: Disclosed are methods for treating diseases or conditions of the eye, especially retinopathies, ocular edema and ocular neovascularization. Non-limiting examples of these diseases or conditions include diabetic macular edema, age-related macular degeneration (wet or dry form), choroidal neovascularization, diabetic retinopathy, retinal vein occlusion (central or branch), ocular trauma, surgery induced edema, surgery induced neovascularization, cystoid macular edema, ocular ischemia, uveitis, and the like. These diseases or conditions are characterized by changes in the ocular vasculature whether progressive or non-progressive, whether a result of an acute disease or condition, or a chronic disease or condition.
Abstract: Provided herein is an ophthalmic composition. In some embodiments, the ophthalmic composition includes a low concentration of an ophthalmic agent for treatment of an ophthalmic disorder or condition; and an ophthalmically acceptable carrier, wherein the ophthalmic agent is distributed with substantial uniformity throughout the ophthalmically acceptable carrier. Further disclosed herein include an ophthalmic composition including a low concentration of an ophthalmic agent and deuterated water. Also disclosed herein are methods of arresting or preventing myopia development by administering to an eye of an individual in need thereof an effective amount of an ophthalmic composition as described herein.
Type:
Application
Filed:
July 12, 2016
Publication date:
November 24, 2016
Inventors:
Gregory I. OSTROW, Kenneth J. WIDDER, David S. BAKER
Abstract: The present invention features, in part, methods of treating or preventing vascular diseases of the retina in a subject, methods of treating or preventing angiogenesis in a subject and methods of treating or preventing neovascularization in a subject comprising administering to a subject a therapeutically effective amount of an inhibitor of cytochrome P450 2C8 (CYP2C8) activity or expression, or a promoter of sEH activity or expression.
Abstract: Compounds are disclosed that are useful for treating ophthalmic conditions caused by or related to production of toxic visual cycle products that accumulate in the eye, such as dry adult macular degeneration, as well as conditions caused by or related to the misfolding of mutant opsin proteins and/or the mis-localization of opsin proteins. Compositions of these compounds alone or in combination with other therapeutic agents are also described, along with therapeutic methods of using such compounds and/or compositions. Methods of synthesizing such agents are also disclosed.
Type:
Application
Filed:
April 21, 2016
Publication date:
November 24, 2016
Applicant:
Bikam Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Inventors:
David S. Garvey, Jeremy R. Greenwood, Leah L. Frye
Abstract: Method for the treatment of partly controlled or uncontrolled severe asthma comprising administering either a) a phosphodiesterase 4 (PDE4) inhibitor or b) a phosphodiesterase 4 (PDE4) inhibitor and a leukotriene modifier as add-on to standard of care in severe asthma.
Abstract: New methods of treating schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder by administration of pharmaceutical compositions comprising an antipsychotic compound and a VMAT2 inhibitor to a subject in need thereof are provided.
Abstract: Compositions and methods are provided for modulating the physiological activation of tissue transglutaminase (TG2); which methods can include inhibiting the activity of TG2 associated with inflammatory disorders, which disorders may include, without limitation, sepsis, ischemic reperfusion injury, renal fibrosis, and the like.
Type:
Application
Filed:
January 29, 2015
Publication date:
November 24, 2016
Applicant:
THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR
Inventors:
Chaitan Khosla, Thomas DiRaimondo, Cornelius Kloeck
Abstract: The invention relates to (among other things) a method comprising the steps of (a) administering to a patient a PARP-inhibiting amount of a PARP inhibitor; and (b) administering to the patient a topoisomerase I-inhibiting amount of a long-acting topoisomerase I inhibitor.
Type:
Application
Filed:
January 13, 2015
Publication date:
November 24, 2016
Inventors:
Ute Hoch, Nancy Marie Burns, Deborah H. Charych
Abstract: The present invention provides liposome compositions containing substituted ammonium and/or polyanion, and optionally with a desired therapeutic or imaging entity. The present invention also provide methods of making the liposome compositions provided by the present invention.
Type:
Application
Filed:
August 3, 2016
Publication date:
November 24, 2016
Inventors:
Keelung Hong, Daryl C. Drummond, Dmitri Kirpotin
Abstract: An oral modified release pharmaceutical composition of methylergonovine suitable for oral once daily administration is provided. The composition includes at least about 0.6 mg dose of methylergonovine or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and is particularly useful for treating migraine or refractory migraine.
Abstract: The present invention provides abuse deterrent mucoadhesive devices for delivery of buprenorphine. Each device comprises a mucoadhesive layer and a backing layer, and the pH in each layer is selected, such that absorption of buprenorphine is maximized.
Type:
Application
Filed:
July 18, 2016
Publication date:
November 24, 2016
Applicant:
BioDelivery Sciences International, Inc.
Abstract: Dosage forms, drug delivery systems, and methods related to sustained release of dextromethorphan or improved therapeutic effects are disclosed. Typically, bupropion or a related compound is orally administered to a human being to be treated with, or being treated with, dextromethorphan.
Abstract: Disclosed herein is a prophylactic or therapeutic agent for ocular fundus disease, especially diabetic retinopathy or age-related macular degeneration. The prophylactic or therapeutic agent for ocular fundus disease comprising: (S)-(?)-1-(4-fluoro-5-isoquinolinesulfonyl)-2-methyl-1,4-homopiperazine, a salt thereof, or a solvate thereof, as an active ingredient.
Type:
Application
Filed:
March 3, 2014
Publication date:
November 24, 2016
Applicants:
KYUSHU UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION, KOWA COMPANY, LTD.
Abstract: Methods are provided herein for selectively killing senescent cells and for treating senescence-associated diseases and disorders by administering a senolytic agent. Senescence-associated diseases and disorders treatable by the methods using the senolytic agents described herein include cardiovascular diseases and disorders associated with or caused by arteriosclerosis, such as atherosclerosis; idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis; chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; osteoarthritis; senescence-associated ophthalmic diseases and disorders; and senescence-associated dermatological diseases and disorders.
Type:
Application
Filed:
January 28, 2015
Publication date:
November 24, 2016
Inventors:
Remi-Martin Laberge, Judith Campisi, Albert Davalos, Marco Demaria, Nathaniel David, Alain Philippe Vasserot, Darren J. Baker, Bennett G. Childs, James L. Kirkland, Tamar Tchkonia, Jan M.A. van Deursen, Jennifer Elisseeff, Chaekyu Kim, Okhee Jeon
Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition is suitable for treating AXL-related cancer. The cancer can be cancer with high expression of AXL. The cancer can also be cancer which has acquired resistance by the activation of AXL against therapy with an anticancer agent. Specific diamino heterocyclic carboxamide compounds have an AXL inhibitory action, and pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds as an active ingredient have a therapeutic effect on AXL-related cancer. This AXL-related cancer can be cancer with high expression of AXL and/or cancer which has acquired resistance by the activation of AXL against therapy with an anticancer agent.
Abstract: The invention provides a compound for use for treating, preventing or managing a condition associated with the activation, mutation and/or over-expression of one or more kinases, wherein if the condition is associated with Axl over-expression, it is also associated with the activation, mutation and/or over-expression of one or more other kinases, and wherein the compound has a structure according to formula (I) : wherein the symbols used in formula (I) are as defined herein.
Abstract: Provided herein are combinations comprising an HDAC inhibitor and retinoic acid for the treatment of neuroblastoma in a subject in need thereof. Also provided herein are methods for treating neuroblastoma in a subject in need thereof, comprising administering to the subject an effective amount of the above HDAC inhibitor or combination, comprising administering to the subject in need thereof an effective amount of the above HDAC inhibitor or combination. Also provided herein is a method for predicting whether a neuroblastoma patient will respond to treatment with a combination comprising an HDAC inhibitor and retinoic acid.
Type:
Application
Filed:
April 15, 2016
Publication date:
November 24, 2016
Inventors:
David Lee Tamang, Simon S. Jones, Min Yang
Abstract: A pharmaceutical combination comprising (a) an ALK inhibitor, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and (b) at least one HDMA-2/p53 receptor inhibitor or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, or at least one BRaf inhibitor or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, and optionally a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, for simultaneous, separate or sequential administration; the uses of such combination in the treatment of cancer; and methods of treating a subject suffering from a proliferative disease comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of such combination.
Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions and co-crystals each comprising a compound of formula I having the structure: wherein each of R1 and R2 is H or 2H and a co-crystal former selected from adipic acid, citric acid, fumaric acid, maleic acid, succinic acid, or benzoic acid. Also within the scope of this invention are methods of making and using the same.
Type:
Application
Filed:
April 15, 2016
Publication date:
November 24, 2016
Applicant:
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated
Inventors:
Kwame Wiredu Nti-Addae, Simon Adam O'Neil, Yuegang Zhang, Michael Waldo, Praveen Mudunuri, Bin Song, John Gregg Van Alsten, Mark Strohmeier, Kathy Stavropoulos, Irina Nikolaevna Kadiyala, Mettachit Navamal
Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods of treating a subject suffering from or at risk of a BRAF V600 mutation or BRAF fusion mutation related disease or condition, without activating the MAPK pathway or inducing expression of MAPK pathway genes in cells harboring wild-type BRAF.
Type:
Application
Filed:
May 20, 2016
Publication date:
November 24, 2016
Inventors:
Prabha N. Ibrahim, Chao Zhang, Wayne Spevak, Jiazhong Zhang, Guoxian Wu, Jack Lin, Hanna Cho, Marika Nespi, Songyuan Shi, Todd Ewing, Ying Zhang, Gideon Bollag
Abstract: The present disclosure relates to topical compositions comprising one or more compounds which are cooling agents.
Type:
Application
Filed:
October 2, 2015
Publication date:
November 24, 2016
Inventors:
Alain Noncovich, Jane Ung, Timothy Davis, Joseph R. Fotsing, Rachel D.A. Kimmich, Chad Priest, Donald S. Karanewsky, Lyudmyla Chumakova, Andrew Patron, Paul Brust, Guy Servant
Abstract: The invention provides novel heterocyclic carboxamide compounds compounds according to Formula (I) their manufacture and use for the treatment of hyperproliferative diseases, such as cancer.
Type:
Application
Filed:
August 3, 2016
Publication date:
November 24, 2016
Inventors:
Bayard R. HUCK, Xiaoling CHEN, Yufang XIAO, Ruoxi LAN, Lizbeth Celeste DE SELM, Constantin NEAGU, Justin POTNICK, Srinivasa R. KARRA, Theresa L. JOHNSON
Abstract: The invention provides fused heterocyclic organic compounds such as dihydropyrazolopyridotriazinones, compositions containing such compounds, medical kits, and methods for using such compounds and compositions for body contouring and/or reduction of fat in a subject.
Abstract: Methods are provided for treating HIV and cancer in a subject in need thereof by administering to the subject therapeutically effective amounts of an mTOR inhibitor. Other methods are provided for treating subjects infected with HIV by administering to the subject therapeutically effective amounts of the mTOR inhibitor INK128, GSK2126458, AZD2014 or Torin-2.
Type:
Application
Filed:
May 19, 2016
Publication date:
November 24, 2016
Applicant:
University of Maryland, Baltimore
Inventors:
Robert R. Redfield, Alonso Heredia, Charles E. Davis, Ronald B. Gartenhaus, Edward A. Sausville
Abstract: The present invention provides salt forms of (R)-3-(4-(7H-pyrrolo[2,3-d]pyrimidin-4-yl)-1H-pyrazol-1-yl)-3-cyclopentylpropanenitrile that are useful in the modulation of Janus kinase activity and are useful in the treatment of diseases related to activity of Janus kinases including, for example, immune-related diseases, skin disorders, myeloid proliferative disorders, cancer, and other diseases.
Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure relate to tetrahydropyrazolopyrimidine compounds that act as antagonists or inhibitors for Toll-like receptors 7 and/or 8, and their use in pharmaceutical compositions effective for treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and lupus nephritis
Type:
Application
Filed:
August 10, 2016
Publication date:
November 24, 2016
Inventors:
Roch Boivin, Eric Carlson, Atsushi Endo, Hans Hansen, Lynn D. Hawkins, Sally Ishizaka, Matthew Mackey, Sridhar Narayan, Takashi Satoh, Shawn Schiller
Abstract: The present invention relates to combinations of compounds comprising HIV integrase inhibitors and other therapeutic agents. Such combinations are useful in the inhibition of HIV replication, the prevention and/or treatment of infection by HIV, and in the treatment of AIDS and/or ARC.
Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition and method for treating brain cancer are provided. The method includes administering to a patient in need thereof an effective amount of one or more compounds that include moclobemide, clorgyline, clorgyline's Near-infra-red dye Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitor (NMI), and MHI 148-clorgyline, and their salt thereof. The composition and method are particularly effective in reducing the size of glioblastomas that are temozolomide (TMZ) resistant.
Type:
Application
Filed:
February 5, 2015
Publication date:
November 24, 2016
Applicant:
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Inventors:
Jean C. Shih, Florence M. Hofman, Thomas C. Chen
Abstract: The present invention provides compositions and methods for treating and preventing cancer. The invention comprises an inhibitor of epigenetic regulators, including MLL1, MLL2, MOZ, menin, WDR5, or a combination thereof. In one embodiment, the invention provides a personalized method of treating a cancer as dependent upon its epigenetic signature.
Type:
Application
Filed:
January 14, 2015
Publication date:
November 24, 2016
Inventors:
Shelley L. Berger, Xianxin Hua, Morgan Sammons, Jiajun Zhu
Abstract: The invention relates to blocking autophagy in the treatment or prevention of various forms of cancer by using the compounds of the invention or their pharmaceutically acceptable salts. Also described are pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds of the invention or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. Pharmaceutical compositions may be formulated as, but not limited to, tablets, capsules, solutions and ointments. The invention further relates to suitable pharmaceutical compositions, which contain the compounds of the invention as a combined preparation for simultaneous, separate or sequential use for the treatment and prevention of cancer.
Abstract: This invention relates to new use of dual NK-1/NK-3 receptor antagonists or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof in the treatment of sex-hormone dependent diseases.
Abstract: The present invention provides a transdermal delivery system, which comprises a drug-containing matrix layer comprising: galantamine or its pharmaceutically acceptable salt as an active ingredient; and a styrene-butadiene-styrene copolymer or a styrene-isoprene-styrene copolymer as an adhesive.
Abstract: The present invention is directed to compositions and methods for injection into fat deposits for sustained release of compounds which result in localized fat reduction.
Type:
Application
Filed:
April 21, 2016
Publication date:
November 24, 2016
Inventors:
Scott WHITCUP, David WOODWARD, Patrick HUGHES
Abstract: The present invention provides the steroidal compound 3?-ethynyl-3?-hydroxyandrostan-17-one oxime, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, for use in treatment of hepatic encephalopathy.
Type:
Application
Filed:
January 14, 2015
Publication date:
November 24, 2016
Inventors:
Magnus Doverskog, Hanns Möhler, Vicente Felipo, Torbjöm Bäckström
Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel galenic form of cholesterol derivative. More particularly the invention relates to liposomes comprising at least one cholesterol derivative and compositions comprising said liposomes.
Type:
Application
Filed:
June 16, 2016
Publication date:
November 24, 2016
Inventors:
Corinne CHAIMBAULT, Magali MICHAUD, Patrick BERNA, Sophie SCHALLER, Firas BASSISSI, Simon EASTMAN
Abstract: Lipid and/or detergent containing compositions, optionally formulated for enhanced penetration in a carrier, for non-invasive therapy of aggregated deposits of adipose tissue and other conditions.
Abstract: Compositions, kits, and methods for reducing intraocular pressure (IOP) in a subject (e.g., human) include at least one naturally occurring or synthesized version or analog thereof of a lipid (e.g., a phosphoserine, a phosphocholine, a psychosine or other glycolipid) that is endogenous to non-glaucomatous aqueous humor in a subject and that lowers IOP in the subject, in a therapeutically effective amount for promoting aqueous outflow through TM in at least one eye of the subject and reducing IOP in the subject. The compositions can be used for, e.g., treating glaucomas, including, for example, primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) and normal tension glaucoma (NTG).
Abstract: The present invention discloses processes for the preparation of phospholipid-enriched dairy products as nutraceuticals for the formulation of functional foods, the processes include the steps of: combining a non-dairy-based PL-containing material, having phosphatidylserine (PS) and/or phosphatidic acid (PA) in the PL-containing material, wherein the PS and/or PA is derived in part from an enzymatically-processed lecithin as a PS-calcium and/or -magnesium salt and/or a PA-calcium and/or -magnesium salt via transphosphatidylation with phospholipase D in the presence of L-serine and a calcium and/or magnesium salt, with water and an oil component to form a paste; removing an excess amount of the water from the paste to form a PL-oil solution; and mixing the PL-oil solution with a dairy component, thereby obtaining a PL-enriched dairy product. Alternatively, the PL-oil solution has a weight-to-weight (w-w) concentration of at least about 0.01% of a residual amount of the water to the PL-containing material.
Abstract: Methods of treating or ameliorating a bacterial infection comprising administering a composition comprising a cyclic boronic acid ester Compound I in combination with meropenem are disclosed herewith. In some embodiments, the bacterial infection is a lower respiratory tract infection.
Type:
Application
Filed:
April 20, 2016
Publication date:
November 24, 2016
Inventors:
David C. Griffith, Michael N. Dudley, Jeffrey S. Loutit, Olga Lomovskaya
Abstract: The general inventive concepts are directed to compositions and methods for the prevention and treatment of dehydration. Provided herein are nutritional compositions including oral rehydration compositions. Certain embodiments of the nutritional compositions have an acidic pH, and comprise a digestible carbohydrate, sodium, citrate, and an oligosaccharide selected from a fucosylated oligosaccharide and an N-acetylated oligosaccharide.
Abstract: The present invention is directed to methods for treating, delaying, slowing the progression of and/or preventing disorders comprising administering to a subject in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of co-therapy comprising, consisting or consisting essentially of (a) canagliflozin and (b) one or more ACE inhibitors or one or more ARBs or one or more PPAR-gamma agonists; and to methods for treating, delaying, slowing the progression of and/or preventing fatty liver disorders (for example, NASH or NAFLD), comprising administering to a subject in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of canagliflozin.
Abstract: The present invention provides for compositions and methods for administering one or more UDP compound, alone or in combination with another hematopoietic progenitor cell mobillizing compound (for example, but not limited to, G-CSF), to mobilize hematopoietic progenitor cells for transplant or other purposes. The methods of the invention may be particularly advantageous as applied to improve the stem cell yield in so-called “poor mobilizing” patients.
Type:
Application
Filed:
August 4, 2016
Publication date:
November 24, 2016
Applicant:
University of Pittsburgh - Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
Abstract: 2-Chloro-2?-deoxyadenosine, hereinafter referred to as cladribine, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof may be used in the treatment or amelioration of neuromyelitis optica, hereinafter referred to as NMO e.g. in patients known to have NMO-IgG seropositivity or in patients optic neuritis, myelitis and at least two of MRI evidence of contiguous spinal cord lesion 3 or more segments in length, onset brain MRI nondiagnostic for multiple sclerosis or NMO-IgG seropositivity.
Abstract: Methods of treating, reducing the incidence of, and/or preventing an ischemic event in a patient undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), comprising administering to the patient a pharmaceutical composition comprising cangrelor. The method may further comprise administering an additional therapeutic agent to the patient, the additional therapeutic agent comprising a P2Y12 inhibitor. Pharmaceutical compositions useful for treating, reducing the incidence of, and/or preventing an ischemic event in a patient undergoing PCI. The pharmaceutical compositions comprise cangrelor. Methods of preparing a pharmaceutical composition for treating, reducing the incidence of, and/or preventing an ischemic event in a patient undergoing PCI, comprising admixing cangrelor with one or more pharmaceutically acceptable excipients. An ischemic event may include stent thrombosis, myocardial infarction, ischemia-driven revascularization, and mortality.
Type:
Application
Filed:
August 2, 2016
Publication date:
November 24, 2016
Inventors:
Clive Arthur Arculus-Meanwell, Simona Skerjanec, Jayne Prats
Abstract: The invention provides compositions and methods to induce and boost antibody response, including but not limited to IgG responses binding to HIV-1 in a subject in need thereof, wherein the induced/boosted plasma level of the antibody responses, for example V3 and/or CD4 binding site antibody responses, is over a threshold level and is associated with reduced risk of maternal-to-child-transmission (MTCT) of HIV-1.
Type:
Application
Filed:
September 26, 2014
Publication date:
November 24, 2016
Inventors:
Barton F. Haynes, Sallie Permar, M. Anthony Moody, Feng Gao, Hua-Xin Liao, Georgia Tomaras, David C. Montefiori
Abstract: This invention concerns improved methods, uses, and kits for treating chronic wounds through the administration of anti-connexin agents, particularly anti-connexin 43 antisense polynucleotides. The methods, uses, and kits of the invention are based on the surprising and unexpected discovery that chronic wounds that do not increase or decrease in size by more than a pre-determined amount during a pre-treatment phase are more amenable to successful treatment than wounds whose size varies outside the target range during the pre-treatment phase.
Type:
Application
Filed:
March 21, 2016
Publication date:
November 24, 2016
Inventors:
Anthony PHILLIPS, David EISENBUD, Scott BANNAN, Grove MATSUOKA, David POOL, Tracey SUNDERLAND, Bradford DUFT
Abstract: The present invention discloses an Asarum total polysaccharide extract with antitussive activity, an extraction method thereof and an application in the preparation of a medicine for preventing and treating coughs. The present invention proves that the Asarum total polysaccharide extract has a significant effect of suppressing cough for the first time through a large number of pharmacodynamic tests, has the therapeutic effect approximate to codeine, has the effect of prolonging the cough latent period better than codeine, and also finds that the total Asarum polysaccharide extract has the effects of reducing the cough sensitivity and suppressing the airway inflammation for the first time, has excellent preventive and therapeutic effects on various types of coughs, and can be used for preparing the medicines for preventing and treating cough-related diseases.
Type:
Application
Filed:
March 25, 2015
Publication date:
November 24, 2016
Applicants:
THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF GUANGZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY, GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF RESPIRATORY DISEASE