Patents Issued in November 24, 2016
  • Publication number: 20160339005
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Applicant: Akebia Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Shalwitz, William Daly
  • Publication number: 20160339006
    Abstract: Compounds and compositions are described herein for treating post traumatic stress disorder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventor: Michael J. BROWNSTEIN
  • Publication number: 20160339007
    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
  • Publication number: 20160339008
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Lois Smith, Zhuo Shao
  • Publication number: 20160339009
    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
  • Publication number: 20160339010
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Applicant: TAKEDA GMBH
    Inventors: Guido HANAUER, Hermann TENOR
  • Publication number: 20160339011
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2015
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Applicant: NEUROCRINE BIOSCIENCES, INC.
    Inventor: Samuel Roger Jesse HOARE
  • Publication number: 20160339012
    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
  • Publication number: 20160339013
    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
  • Publication number: 20160339014
    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
  • Publication number: 20160339015
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Applicant: Lupin Inc.
    Inventors: James Garegnani, Avinash Nangia
  • Publication number: 20160339016
    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.
    Inventors: Andrew Finn, Niraj Vasisht
  • Publication number: 20160339017
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventor: Herriot Tabuteau
  • Publication number: 20160339018
    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.
    Inventors: Tatsuro Ishibashi, Shintaro Nakao, Ryoichi Arita, Ken Mizuno, Akifumi Tsuchiura
  • Publication number: 20160339019
    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
  • Publication number: 20160339020
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Applicant: ASTELLAS PHARMA INC.
    Inventors: Tomohiro EGUCHI, Masamichi MORI, Yoko YAMAKI
  • Publication number: 20160339021
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2014
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventor: David Robert MICKLEM
  • Publication number: 20160339022
    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
  • Publication number: 20160339023
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Fang Li, Hui-Qin WANG, Ensar HALILOVIC, Jinsheng LIANG
  • Publication number: 20160339024
    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
  • Publication number: 20160339025
    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
  • Publication number: 20160339026
    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
  • Publication number: 20160339027
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical formulation comprising the compound of formula
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Applicant: NOVARTIS AG
    Inventors: Malcolm Clive Carter, George Stuart Cockerill, Karen Elizabeth Lackey, Stephen Barry Guntrip, Kathryn Jane Smith
  • Publication number: 20160339028
    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
  • Publication number: 20160339029
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventor: Tim Kamerzell
  • Publication number: 20160339030
    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
  • Publication number: 20160339031
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: James D. Rodgers, Hui-Yin Li
  • Publication number: 20160339032
    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
  • Publication number: 20160339033
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Applicant: VIIV HEALTHCARE COMPANY
    Inventor: Mark Richard Underwood
  • Publication number: 20160339034
    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
  • Publication number: 20160339035
    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
  • Publication number: 20160339036
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Attila Erdos, Erzsebet Raso
  • Publication number: 20160339037
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventor: Mike Trower
  • Publication number: 20160339038
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Hoo-kyun Choi, Myung-kwan Chun
  • Publication number: 20160339039
    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
  • Publication number: 20160339040
    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
  • Publication number: 20160339041
    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
  • Publication number: 20160339042
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventor: Pankaj Modi
  • Publication number: 20160339043
    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).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Richard K. Lee, Sanjoy K. Bhattacharya
  • Publication number: 20160339044
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: David Rutenberg, Ilan Perry
  • Publication number: 20160339045
    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
  • Publication number: 20160339046
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Applicant: ABBOTT LABORATORIES
    Inventors: JOMAY CHOW, PEDRO PRIETO, NED MCCOY
  • Publication number: 20160339047
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventor: Keith S. Usiskin
  • Publication number: 20160339048
    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
    Inventor: Byeong-Chel Lee
  • Publication number: 20160339049
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Arthur Henry Roach, Konrad Rejdak
  • Publication number: 20160339050
    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
  • Publication number: 20160339051
    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
  • Publication number: 20160339052
    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
  • Publication number: 20160339053
    Abstract: Compositions and methods are provided for the treatment and/or prevention of an inflammatory and/or autoimmune disease or disorder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Yanping Huang, Janis K. Burkhardt, Taku Kambayashi
  • Publication number: 20160339054
    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
    Inventors: Kefang LAI, Xiaodong LIU, Bonian ZHONG, Shan ZHONG, Yichu NIE