Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of a 1,4-benzoquinone derived compound for the treatment of a disease or condition that is associated with peroxisome proliferator activated receptor (PPAR) activity in a mammal.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of Flibanserin for the treatment or prevention of urinary incontinence and related diseases. In a further embodiment, the instant invention is directed to pharmaceutical combinations comprising flibanserin as one active ingredient in combination with at least one additional active ingredient for the treatment or prevention of urinary incontinence and related diseases.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a composition for ameliorating hypoalbuminemia containing a branched-chain amino acid(s) as an active ingredient(s), wherein the composition contains leucine and/or isoleucine as the active ingredient(s) and does not contain valine. As the above branched-chain amino acid(s), leucine and isoleucine are preferably contained. The mass ratio of leucine to isoleucine described above is preferably from 0.1 to 10. As the above branched-chain amino acid(s), either leucine or isoleucine alone may be contained. The present invention is suitably used as an infusion formulation, an oral formulation or a food or drink.

Abstract: The invention relates to the cosmetic use, by oral administration, of a combination of active agents including at least petroselinic acid and at least one active agent selected from among taurine, arginine, cysteine, zinc, a salt thereof, and lycopene, for improving the quality of nails, specifically the microvascularization of the nails, in particular in pre-hypertensive individuals.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an antibacterial cleansing composition. The cleansing composition is free of triclosan and comprises lactic acid/lactate, at least one C2 to C3 alcohol, and glutamate diacetate. Lactic acid/lactate is present in the composition in an amount of about 5 weight percent (wt %) to about 15 wt %, based on the total weight of the composition. The C2 to C3 alcohol is present in an amount of about 1 wt % to about 20 wt %, based on the total weight of the composition. Glutamate diacetate is present in an amount of about 0.05 wt % to about 5 wt %. The pH of the composition is about 4 to about 5. The triclosan-free cleansing composition according to the invention has superior antibacterial activity that surpasses comparable triclosan-free formulations that do not contain glutamate diacetate.

Abstract: The invention relates to a nutritional composition comprising (a) at least 18 en % of proteinaceous matter, said proteinaceous matter comprising whey; (b) at least 12 wt % of leucine, based on total proteinaceous matter; and (c) a lipid fraction comprising at least a ?-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid selected from the group of eicosapentaenoic acid, docosahexaenoic acid, eicosatetraenoic acid and docosapentaenoic acid for improving the muscle function in a mammal, for improving daily activity, for improving physical performance, for providing a better prognosis in terms of extended life-expectancy, for improving compliance to an anti-cancer therapy or for improving a quality of life.

Abstract: An injectable hydrogel, includes, in weight, in a physiologically acceptable carrier fluid: 0.01 to 5% of glycerol and 0.1 to 5% of cross-linked hyaluronic acid, or one of the salts thereof; characterized in that the hyaluronic acid or one of the salts thereof is cross-linked by the formation of covalent bonds using bifunctional or polyfunctional molecules, the injectable hydrogel being sterilized in moist heat and having viscoelastic properties such that Tan ? at a frequency of 1 Hz is less than or equal to 1.10. A method for producing the hydrogel, to a kit containing the hydrogel, as well as to the use thereof in dermatology are also described.

Abstract: Compositions and methods utilizing thiol-containing short peptides having the sequence Cys-Lys-Met-Cys (SEQ ID NO: 1) and optionally N- and C-terminal modifications are described, for increasing carnitine level in muscle tissues, and treating or preventing diseases or disorders affecting muscle tissue.

Abstract: It is to provide a tumor diagnostic agent and a tumor determination method enabling not only determination of the presence or absence of a tumor in a subject, but also determination of whether the tumor is a malignant tumor or a benign tumor, which can be used simply at low cost with reduced side effects and burden. 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) or its derivative, or a salt thereof is orally administered at a dose of 5 to 7 mg in terms of ALA per kg of body weight, and a urine sample 4 to 12 hours after the administration is collected. Porphyrins and creatinine in the urine sample are quantitated, and based on the value (nmol/gCre) obtained by dividing the amount of porphyrins by the amount of creatinine, a distinction among an individual without a tumor, an individual with a benign tumor, and an individual with a malignant tumor is determined. The presence or absence of a malignant tumor in a subject can be clearly determined by administering 1 to 3 mg of ALAs in terms of ALA per kg of body weight.

Abstract: Provided is an agent for stabilizing acetaminophen in an aqueous composition, the agent comprising glycine. The agent further comprising at least one kind of sulfurous acid salt selected from the group consisting of sodium sulfite, potassium sulfite and potassium pyrosulfite is more effective. The stabilizing includes preventing precipitation.

Abstract: The present invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising D-serine transporter inhibitors and therapeutic methods using such pharmaceutical compositions in methods for the treatment of visual system disorders and the enhancement of the visual function.

Abstract: The present invention provides for a method of treating OCD or an Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorder (OCSD), such as BDD or ADHD, using a high-dose glycine treatment.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the field of nutrition and health. In particular, the present invention relates to a new biomarker, its use and a method that allows it to diagnose the likelihood to resist diet induced weight gain, and/or to be susceptible to a diet induced weight gain. For example, the biomarker may be hexanoylglycine.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a gastroretentive tablet comprising pregabalin, at least one swellable polymer, and other pharmaceutically acceptable excipients. It further relates to a process for the preparation of same.

Abstract: A combination of dosage units for alleviating respiratory ailments and a method of alleviating respiratory ailments which uses this combination of dosage units. The dosage units comprise one or more first dosage units comprising pseudoephedrine and/or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and one or more second dosage units comprising phenylephrine and/or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.

Abstract: According to the present invention, a tumor diagnostic agent which carries out early stage detection, monitoring of therapeutic effect and prognostic diagnosis of all tumors The tumor diagnostic agent of the present invention is a tumor diagnostic agent comprising ?-aminolevulinic acid represented by formula (I), a derivative thereof and a salt thereof: R2R1NCH2COCH2CH2COR3??(I) wherein R1 and R2 each independently represents hydrogen, alkyl, acyl, alkoxycarbonyl, aryl or aralkyl; and R3 represents hydroxy, alkoxy, acyloxy, alkoxycarbonyloxy, aryloxy, aralkyloxy or amino, which is used for diagnoses by measuring porphyrins in a sample collected from the inside or outside of the body after its administration.

Abstract: Methods of treating at least one condition chosen from pain, inflammation, and fever in a critically ill patient in need thereof, comprising administering to the critically ill patient an intravenous pharmaceutical composition comprising ibuprofen using a first dosage regimen, wherein the first dosage regimen produces a first pharmacokinetic profile in critically ill patients that is about equivalent to a second pharmacokinetic profile produced by administration of the intravenous pharmaceutical composition using a second dosage regimen of ibuprofen to non-critically ill patients, wherein the at least one condition of the critically ill patient is thereby treated.

Abstract: The present invention provides methods of treating and enhancing efficacy of immunotherapy for a solid tumor in a subject, comprising the step of contacting the subject with a compound or composition that modulates the expression or activity of ETRB, ET-1, ICAM-1, or another protein found herein to play a role in homing of T cells to a solid tumor. The present invention also provides methods of prognosticating a solid tumor in a subject, comprising the step of measuring an expression level of a protein found herein to play a role in homing of T cells to a solid tumor, or a nucleotide molecule encoding same.

Abstract: The present invention provides for methods and compositions for treating medium chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency. It is based, at least in part, on the discovery that phenylbutyrate can serve as a substrate for medium chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase. In non-limiting embodiments, phenylbutyrate and/or another source of phenylacetate is administered as a chaperone treatment to patients suffering from medium chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency.

Abstract: Long term storage stable bendamustine-containing compositions are disclosed. The compositions can include bendamustine or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and a pharmaceutically acceptable fluid which can include in some embodiments PEG, PG or mixtures thereof and an antioxidant or chloride ion source. The bendamustine-containing compositions have less than about 5% total impurities, on a normalized peak area response (“PAR”) basis as determined by high performance liquid chromatography (“HPLC”) at a wavelength of 223 nm, after at least about 15 months of storage at a temperature of from about 5° C. to about 25° C.

Abstract: Long term weight loss can be achieved and maintained with a formulation of over-the-counter life-enhancing dietary supplements. One or more supplements stimulate the release of serotonin within the brain and one or more supplements stimulate the release of cholecystokinin into the bloodstream. The combined potentiating effect of these two mechanisms on satiety enables greater weight loss than that previously achieved by the individual mechanisms acting alone. A third weight loss mechanism can be achieved with the addition of phenylethylamine. Even more effective weight loss formulations can be achieved with the addition of a blue-green algae, such as aphanizomenon flos aqua, to provide a longer lasting weight loss mechanism.

Abstract: The present invention is a method of treating Tourette's Disorder (TD) using GABA ergic drugs that elevate the amount of stored presynaptic GABA and do not significantly increase GABA tone (a continuous background level of GABA signaling) in the brain. The administration of vigabatrin and/or (1S,3S)-3-amino-4-difluoromethylenyl-1-cyclopentanoic acid hydrochloride salt is expressly contemplated.

Abstract: The invention relates to a medicament, the active principle of which is a leucine and, for example, a N-ACETYL-DL-LEUCINE. It can be applied to the prevention and/or treatment of eye diseases or disorders and especially of hereditary dystrophies of the retina, glaucomatous neuropathy, glaucoma, macular degeneration, myopia, presbyopia, hypermetropia, astigmatism, all the ophtalmologic diseases or disorders inducing a decrease of visual function and/or age-related physiological vision decline.

Abstract: A muscle fatigue remedy that for persons with the symptoms of muscle pain attributed to strenuous exercise, lassitude in the arms and legs attributed to acute exercise, lower back pain and stiffness in the shoulder attributed to taking of a certain posture over a prolonged period of time, etc., relieves the symptoms and allows them to have a fulfilling life. There is provided a muscle fatigue remedy containing alanylglutamine or its salt as an active ingredient.

Abstract: A process for preparing a dry substantially pure and/or technical carnitine powder or granulate, from a substantially unpurified starting material containing a carnitine compound.

Abstract: Subject of the invention is a method for the production of a carnitine granulate, which includes the steps of (a) providing an aqueous solution comprising at least 65% (w/w) carnitine, (b) providing a particulate carrier comprising silica, the carrier having an average particle size of more than 150 ?m, and (c) mixing the aqueous solution and the carrier. Another subject of the invention is a carnitine granulate.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of triglycerides which an enhanced portion of the palmitic acid residues in the sn-2 position for an early in life diet for improving the development of a healthy body composition, in particular prevention of obesity, later in life.

Abstract: A silicone gel (“silogel”) composition used to deliver pharmaceutical products transdermally as well as a method for producing the silogel composition, which may contain up to 80% additive ingredients. Preferred embodiments of the invention may include silogel compositions which provide high viscosity/no separation due to API. They are not temperature-sensitive, have no shear stress from the ointment mill/EMP, have no gumming up/stickiness, and no hardening.

Abstract: Methods of treatment using D-serine to target brain cells expressing GluN3 subunit-containing triheteromeric NMDARs are disclosed. The methods include inhibiting calcium ion uptake by brain cells, treating epilepsy, and treating seizures by artificially administering D-serine.

Abstract: The invention provides a method for treating a subject suffering from a disease of the central nervous system which is associated with an inflammatory response, including, inter alia, multiple sclerosis, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), meningitis, Alzheimer's disease, pain, HIV-associated dementia, stroke, traumatic brain injury, encephalomyelitis, chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, cerebral ischemia-induced injury or any combination thereof. This invention further provides for the use of a conjugate, or composition comprising the same, for treating the subject, wherein the conjugate comprises a lipid or phospholipid moiety bonded to a physiologically acceptable monomer, dimer, oligomer, or polymer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an ophthalmological vehicle system for the permeation and/or for the active substance transport of ophthalmological active substances through the cornea and/or the sclera of the eye of mammals. This vehicle system assists the transport of the active substances through the cornea and/or the sclerotic tissue of the eye. The vehicle system is suitable for the prophylaxis and/or treatment of diseases of the front and/or back portion of the eye. Likewise, the present invention relates to an ophthalmological kit, comprising a special ophthalmological composition and also, as separate formulation, an ophthalmological active substance.

Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide a dialysate comprising a polyglycerol. The polyglycerol may be of a molecular weight between about 0.15 kDa and about 60 kDa. Also provided herein is the use of the dialysate as a diffusion agent and as an osmotic agent.

Abstract: A treatment of a neurological disorder, including hypoxia, oxygen-glucose deprivation and acute brain trauma in a subject involves administering an effective amount of selenate or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof to the subject. The treatment prevents incurring a symptom, holds in check a symptom or treats an existing symptom of the neurological disorder.

Abstract: A method of treating a cancer of the central nervous system in a subject in need thereof is provided. The method comprising administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of an agent which reduces blood glutamate levels and enhances brain to blood glutamate efflux to thereby treat the cancer of the central nervous system in the subject.

Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition, medical food, dietary supplement or micronutrient for the treatment of a movement disorder comprising an NMDAR agonist or partial agonist as active ingredient therein in combination with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the non-therapeutic treatment of animals selected from the group consisting of poultry, pigs and fish. The treatment comprises orally administering at least one ?-alanine compound to the animals in an amount of between 2 and 55 mmol/kg dry weight of said feed for the treatment of poultry and fish and between 2 and 25 mmol/kg dry weight of said feed for the treatment of pigs. These amounts of the ?-alanine compound are used for reducing the conversion ratio or for in creasing the bodyweight gain of the animals. The ?-alanine compound is in particular ?-alanine. In prior art methods higher amounts were used resulting also in a reduction of the feed conversion ratio but this to the detriment of the bodyweight gain.

Abstract: A hyaluronic acid production promoter and a melanin synthesis inhibitor include soybean saponin as an active ingredient. The soybean saponin can be a soybean saponin aglycone, such as soyasapogenol A and/or soyasapogenol B. The hyaluronic acid production promoter and melanin synthesis inhibitor can be administered transdermally or orally.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to compositions for and methods of improving wound healing, including compositions for and methods of treating chronic wounds, and compositions for the inhibition and treatment of necrosis and extended quiescence that result in cellular necrosis instead of normal proliferation. The methods for wound healing administer one or more compositions including hydroxytyrosol and oleuropein with cells derived from umbilical cord blood.

Abstract: Methods for regulating glucagon release and of treating hypoglycemia, and for screening drug candidates for heating hypoglycemia. The methods are useful for treating diabetes melititus and screening drug candidates for potential efficacy.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide an amino acid-containing granule preparation improved in the ease of taking medication than conventional products, which disintegrates rapidly. The amino acid-containing granule preparation of the present invention containing granules having a maximum particle size of substantially not more than 1000 ?m and a bulk density of not less than 0.57 g/mL markedly improves ease of taking medication without impairing disintegration property, as compared to conventional amino acid-containing granule preparations.

Abstract: Provided is a sensitizing detection agent of an oral or intravenous administration type which enables the detection of bladder cancer with a higher sensitivity without causing pain to the patient. A sensitizing detection agent for bladder cancer comprising 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA), a derivative thereof, or a salt of these is orally or intravenously administered, and a video camera system is inserted via the urethra and a blue light at 380-440 nm is irradiated to observe the red fluorescent part. Further, VLD-M1 is inserted and a blue light at 405 nm is irradiated to observe fluorescence intensity (relative intensity) of the red light part. For oral administration, 20 mg/kg (maximum of 1 g) of ALA is dissolved in 50 mL of a 5% glucose solution prior to the administration.

Abstract: A solid pharmaceutical composition containing pregabalin is described. The composition includes a matrix forming agent and a swelling agent and is suitable for once daily oral administration. Exemplary matrix forming agents include mixtures of polyvinyl acetate and polyvinylpyrrolidone, and exemplary swelling agents include cross-linked polymers of polyvinylpyrrolidone.

Abstract: Provided are compositions comprising beta-alanylhistidine peptides and/or beta-alanines, and methods for administering these peptides and amino acids. In one aspect, the compositions and methods cause an increase in the blood plasma concentrations of beta-alanine and/or creatine.

Abstract: Proteomic methods for identifying cancer related proteins and related products and kits are provided. The cancer specific proteins are extracellular matrix proteins that are associated with various aspects of cancer. Panels or signature sets of proteins useful in the detection, diagnosis and treatment of cancers as well as monitoring therapeutic progress in a cancer patient are provided herein along with methods for their detection and for their use in targeting imaging and/or therapeutic agents to the tumors via binding to the specified proteins. The proteins were identified using proteomics analyses of tissue samples taken from cancer patients. In certain aspects the proteins are particularly useful in colon cancer patients.

Abstract: Methods and devices related to the treatment of diseases using phototherapy are described. Some embodiments provide an organic light-emitting diode device, such as a light-emitting device for phototherapy, comprising Ring System 1, Ring System 2, Ring System 3, Ring System 4 or Ring System 5. Methods of treating disease with phototherapy are also described.

Abstract: Methods are provided for reducing copper values for, by way of example, treating, preventing or ameliorating tissue damage such as, for example, tissue damage that may be caused by (i) disorders of the heart muscle (for example, cardiomyopathy or myocarditis) such as idiopathic cardiomyopathy, metabolic cardiomyopathy which includes diabetic cardiomyopathy, alcoholic cardiomyopathy, drug-induced cardiomyopathy, ischemic cardiomyopathy, and hypertensive cardiomyopathy, (ii) atheromatous disorders of the major blood vessels (macrovascular disease) such as the aorta, the coronary arteries, the carotid arteries, the cerebrovascular arteries, the renal arteries, the iliac arteries, the femoral arteries, and the popliteal arteries, (iii) drug induced, and metabolic (including hypertensive and/or diabetic disorders of small blood vessels (microvascular disease) such as the retinal arterioles, the glomerular arterioles, the vasa nervorum, cardiac arterioles, and associated capillary beds of the eye, the kidney, the h

Abstract: The present disclosure provides solid compositions comprising a stabilized salt of aminocarboxylic acid. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising [(1R,5S,6S)-6-(aminomethyl)-3-ethylbicyclo[3.2.0]hept-3-en-6-yl]acetic acid monobenzenesulfonate in combination with appropriate additives are also provided.

Abstract: The present invention relates to veterinary compositions in a form of an orally deliverable tablet, and more particularly to a controlled-release composition that provides sufficiently long duration to permit once daily administration.

Abstract: An esteramide compound of the following formula (I): R1OOC-A-CONR2R3??(I) is described, wherein: A is a covalent bond or a methylene group —CH2—; R1 is an optionally substituted, saturated or unsaturated aliphatic or cycloaliphatic hydrocarbon group including from 5 to 36 carbon atoms, R2 and R3, either identical or different, are groups selected from a hydrogen atom, and optionally substituted hydrocarbon groups, preferably including from 1 to 36 carbon atoms, and R2 and R3 not being simultaneously hydrogen atoms. Also described, are applications for using the esteramide compound, notably as a solvent.

Abstract: Methods and compositions are provided for increasing the anaerobic working capacity of muscle and other tissues. Also provided are compositions formulated for the sustained release of free beta-alanine. Also provided is a dietary supplement formulated, for example, as a solid food product, an edible suspension, liquid or semi-liquid as described herein.