Abstract: Biodegradable single-phase cohesive hydrogels useful, e.g., for the formulation of viscosupplementation compositions or compositions for filling wrinkles, contain a homogeneous blend of x polymers, which may be identical or different, crosslinked prior to the interpenetration thereof by mixing in the form of a single-phase hydrogel, wherein such crosslinked polymers are insoluble in water and miscible with one another, and x ranges from 2 to 5; in one embodiment, the hydrogels are such that the x polymers have identical or different degrees of crosslinking, at least one of the x polymers having a degree of crosslinking x1 and at least one of the x polymers having a degree of crosslinking x2, with x1 being greater than or equal to x2.

Abstract: A lidocaine-containing hydrogel patch comprising: a support layer; and a adhesive layer stacked on a surface of the support layer, wherein the adhesive layer comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of lidocaine and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, a total content of the lidocaine and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof is 3 to 8% by mass relative to an entire mass of the adhesive layer, the adhesive layer further comprises oleic acid in an amount of 0.3 to 1% by mass relative to the entire mass of the adhesive layer, and a pH of the adhesive layer is 6.8 to 7.4.

Abstract: A substance that sets in a relatively short time for use in general dentistry and in endodontics to replace natural tooth material, the substance comprising untreated mineral trioxide aggregate and milled mineral trioxide aggregate, or comprising untreated mineral trioxide aggregate, milled mineral trioxide aggregate and water. A method of making a substance that sets in a relatively short time for use in general dentistry and in endodontics to replace natural tooth material, the method comprising milling by high shear and impact impingement of particles using high pressure homogenization. A method for use in general dentistry and in endodontics to replace natural tooth material.

Abstract: The present specification discloses pharmaceutical compositions, methods of preparing such pharmaceutical compositions, and methods and uses of treating a chronic inflammation and/or an inflammatory disease in an individual using such pharmaceutical compositions.

Abstract: Anesthetics and other medical solutions are stored in a cartridge including a hollow body having a needle-penetrable septum at one end and a plunger at another end. A protective plug is inserted into the open plunger end of the cartridge and protects the cartridge from contamination per use. A buffer or other material may be injected into the cartridge, causing displacement of the protective plug, allowing the cartridge to then be used in a syringe or other delivery system. The anesthetic may contain at least one solute and have an initial tonicity and an initial pH. A volume of buffer may be injected through the septum into the anesthetic, where the initial solute concentration and initial pH of the anesthetic may be selected to provide a target pH and target tonicity after the buffer is introduced.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure include a coordination complex, comprising a first biologically active moiety, a second biologically active moiety, and a metal, wherein the first biologically active moiety and second biologically active moiety are bound to the metal by covalent coordination bonds, and wherein the first biologically active moiety and second biologically active moiety are different. These complexes may enhance the pharmacodynamic properties of biologically active moieties.

Abstract: The present invention discloses novel cationic amphiphiles containing mannose-mimicking shikimic and quinic acid head-groups and a process for preparing cationic amphiphiles with mannose-mimicking polar head-groups such as, shikimic and quinic acids. The findings described herein also demonstrate that compounds of the present invention can target model DNA vaccines to antigen presenting cells (APCs) such as macrophages and dendritic cells (DCs), via mannose receptors expressed on the cell surface of APCs. The cationic amphiphiles disclosed herein show enhanced cellular and humoral immune response compared to their mannosyl counterpart in dendritic cell (DC, the most professional APC) based genetic immunization in mice. Cationic amphiphiles with mannose-mimicking quinic and shikimic acid head-groups described in the present invention are likely to find future applications in the field of genetic immunization.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are materials, means and methods for sustained release of therapeutic agents for topical treatments. In particular, disclosed are means and methods for topical treatment of diseases of internal body cavities by embedding therapeutic agents in a slowly degrading biocompatible mixture applied to affected tissue.

Abstract: The invention presents methods of identifying small molecule compounds that are activators of tumor suppressor protein p53 pathway, and its associated family members p63 and p73, function. The invention is further drawn to methods of killing tumor cells and treating cancers or other conditions requiring activation of the p53 family member pathways and DNA damage response pathways with the small molecules.

Abstract: Methods and products for treating or preventing erythema or a symptom associated with erythema in a subject are described. The methods involve topically applying to an affected skin area a topical aqueous gel composition comprising about 0.01% to about 10% by weight of at least one ?-adrenergic receptor agonist and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.

Abstract: Combinations of charged local anesthetics with chemical permeation enhancers have been developed to give long duration block which is selective for sensory block is greatly prolonged by combining the local anesthetic with a permeation enhancer. The selectivity of sensory over motor block is provided by selecting the concentration of the local anesthetic and the permeation enhancer to provide selective permeability of the sensory and motor neurons to the enhancer.

Abstract: Phenylcyclobutylamide derivatives and their optical isomers, the preparing processes and the uses thereof, which includes the compounds of formula (I), their pure stereoisomers and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts. In formula (I), R is H, formacyl, acetyl, haloacetyl, benzoyl, benzyloxy carbonyl (Cbz), t-butoxy carbonyl (Boc), or 9-fluorenyl methoxyl carbonyl (Fmoc). The present novel compounds have pharmaceutical activity and are prepared by condensation reaction of racemic, levo- or dextro-demethyl Sibutramine and racemic or D/L isoleucine under a mild condition. It is demonstrated that the present compounds have effect of losing weight to obese mode rats in different level and the effect is better than Sibutramine by the animal experiments. So the medicaments prepared by the present compounds or the medicaments prepared by the compositions of the present compounds and other pharmaceutical activity compounds may be used for treating obesity.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are ?7?1 integrin modulatory agents and methods of using such to treat conditions associated with decreased ?7?1 integrin expression or activity, including muscular dystrophy. In one example, methods for treating a subject with muscular dystrophy are disclosed. The methods include administering an effective amount of an ?7?1 integrin modulatory agent to the subject with muscular dystrophy, wherein the ?7?1 integrin modulatory agent increases ?7?1 integrin expression or activity as compared to ?7?1 integrin expression or activity prior to treatment, thereby treating the subject with muscular dystrophy. Also disclosed are methods of enhancing muscle regeneration, repair, or maintenance in a subject and methods of enhancing ?7?1 integrin expression by use of the disclosed ?7?1 integrin modulatory agents. Methods of prospectively preventing or reducing muscle injury or damage in a subject are also disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a water-free pharmaceutical composition comprising one or more local anaesthetics in base form and which is suitable for topical administration. The composition further comprises a lipid vehicle comprising long-chain triglycerides (LCT) and at least 10% by weight of medium-chain monoglycerides (MCM) selected so the composition has an at least semi-solid appearance at the body temperature at the site of administration. The invention further relates to methods of producing and sterilizing the compositions.

Abstract: Disclosed is an external preparation composition having good transdermal absorbability. An external preparation composition having excellent transdermal absorbability can be produced by dissolving a medicinal substance or a salt thereof in a fatty acid-based ionic liquid to form a composite ionic composition of the medicinal substance. The external preparation composition can be used as a liquid preparation, an ointment, a cream, a plaster or the like, and enables to provide a preparation having excellent transdermal absorbability.

Abstract: A combination product including at least one filler product and at least at least one bioresorbable and biodegradable silica-based material, for treating incontinence or treating aging of the skin and scars. Also, a composition including, in a physiologically acceptable medium, at least one filler product and at least at least one bioresorbable and biodegradable silica-based material.

Abstract: The present invention provides acyclic, geminal-dinitro organic compounds, methods of synthesizing the compounds, pharmaceutical compositions, therapeutic methods, and medical kits for treating various conditions using such compounds and pharmaceutical compositions. The compounds and compositions are useful in the treatment of cancer.

Abstract: A removable patch configured to be applied over a skin surface, comprises an adhesive layer disposed on the removable patch, and a delivery layer disposed on the removable patch. The delivery layer carries an activating chemical neuromodulator adapted to be transcutaneously applied to afferent A fibers disposed under the skin surface. The delivery layer further carries an inhibiting chemical neuromodulator adapted to be transcutaneously applied to C fibers disposed under the skin surface. A method for treating a patient suffering from a neurological disorder comprises transcutaneously applying an activating chemical neuromodulator over a skin surface adjacent to a trigeminal nerve tissue of the patient, and activating afferent A fibers in the trigeminal nerve, the activation being carried out by the chemical neuromodulator.

Abstract: Chemical permeation enhancers (CPEs) improve access of local anesthetics to the nerve, thereby improving their performance. Surfactants, representing three CPE sub-groups: anionic, cationic, and nonionic surfactants, were co-injected with tetrodotoxin (TTX) or bupivacaine at the sciatic nerve of Sprague-Dawley rats. All enhancers produced marked concentration-dependent improvements in the frequency and duration of block with TTX but not bupivacaine. An in vitro toxicity assay showed a wide range of CPE myotoxicity, but in vivo histological assessment showed no signs of muscle or nerve damage at concentrations of CPEs that produced a half-maximal increase in the duration of block of TTX. There was no systematic relationship between the enhancers' charge or hydrophobicity and their enhancement of block duration or potency.

Abstract: This invention relates with anti-tumor activities of new compounds containing an adamantyl group or analogs thereof.

Abstract: An injectable hyaluronic acid composition including a hyaluronic acid; a local anesthetic selected from the group of amide and ester type local anesthetics or a combination thereof; and an ascorbic acid derivative in an amount which prevents or reduces the effect on the viscosity and/or elastic modulus G? of the composition caused by the local anesthetic upon sterilization by heat. Further, the medical and non-medical, such as cosmetic, use of such a composition, and a method of manufacturing such a composition.

Abstract: An injectable device useful for facial sculpting and correction of facial features, for example, for augmenting the chin in a human being is provided, the device being made of a composition comprising a hyaluronic acid crosslinked with a multifunctional polyethylene glycol (PEG)-based crosslinking agent.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a heterocyclic compound of the general formula (I) and their use and preparation, methods of making the compounds, compositions containing at least one of said compounds, and methods of treatment using at least one compound. In particular, compounds of the general formula (I) are useful for inhibiting glycogen synthase kinase 3 (GSK-3).

Abstract: Novel formulations containing a non-oxidative biocide, such as DBNPA, and a source of an in situ produced active biocide, such as a concentrated aqueous solution of an inorganic halide salt, are disclosed. These novel formulations are particularly effective in the treatment of water, and are characterized by high stability, desirable rheological properties and an excellent biocidal activity.

Abstract: The invention provides for novel compounds which are inhibitors of lysine-specific demethylase 1 (LSD1). Such compounds may be used to treat disorders, including cancer.

Abstract: Disclosed is a stable liquid formulation for parenteral injection comprising a biocompatible non-aqueous solvent and a small molecule drug, or a salt thereof, solubilized within the non-aqueous solvent, wherein the liquid formulation comprises less than 10% by weight residual water, and wherein the volume of the liquid formulation to be parenterally injected is from 0.1 ?l to 3 ml.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are compositions that are useful in effecting the transdermal delivery of therapeutic agents. More particularly, the disclosed transdermal compositions may include a fatty alcohol (for example, octanol), a terpene (for example, limonene), and an active agent comprising an amine moiety.

Abstract: A method for producing local analgesia in a subject having a site of local discomfort comprises administration of an aliphatic polyamine and, preferably, urea. A composition of the invention comprises an aliphatic polyamine and preferably urea. The polyamine can be an alkylamine, such as, preferably, putrescine. The composition can also include lidocaine and/or a copper containing component.

Abstract: Multifunctional green (eco-friendly) and antimicrobial compositions are described containing cationic glycine betaine esters and/or cationic glycine betaine amides. Particular glycine betaine esters and amides are alkyl(ene) betainate methane sulfonates and betainyl amino alkyl(ene) methane sulfonates. The glycine betaine components are cationic, have a hydrophobic group attached to a carboxylate group through an ester or amide linkage, and are derived from a natural source, such as sugar beets. The glycine betaine esters and amides serve as cationic surfactants which have effective antimicrobial activity. The surfactant compositions are effective as crude mixtures or semi-purified mixtures or purified surfactant compounds of glycine betaine components. The addition of sodium chloride or potassium chloride or magnesium chloride or natural gum or polysaccharide to compositions containing the cationic glycine betaine ester and/or glycine betaine amide derivatives serves to thicken or gel the composition.

Abstract: Combinations of charged local anesthetics with chemical permeation enhancers have been developed to give long duration block which is selective for sensory block over motor block. The duration of block is greatly prolonged by combining the local anesthetic with a permeation enhancer. The selectivity of sensory over motor block is provided by selecting the concentration of the local anesthetic and the permeation enhancer to provide selective permeability of the sensory and motor neurons to the enhancer.

Abstract: Desensitizing drug products, methods of making desensitizing drug products, and methods of using desensitizing drug products including delivery of desensitizing drug products. In one embodiment, the desensitizing drug products are male genital desensitizers that comprise one or anesthetic agents and one or more melting point depressing agents.

Abstract: Disclosed is a stable aqueous gel formulation suitable for topical use comprising water, an anesthetic (e.g., lidocaine hydrochloride), a viscoelastic polymer, and a tonicity modifier, wherein the aqueous gel formulation is free of preservatives and phosphate buffer, is isotonic with physiological fluids, and is sterile and has low particulate count. Also disclosed is a method of inducing topical anesthesia on a tissue or organ, e.g., the eye, of an animal comprising providing a stable aqueous gel formulation comprising water, an anesthetic, a viscoelastic polymer, and a tonicity modifier, wherein the aqueous gel formulation is free of preservatives and phosphate buffer, is isotonic with physiological fluids, and is sterile, and topically administering an effective amount of the aqueous gel formulation to the tissue or organ of the animal.

Abstract: A composition for delivery of a hydrophobic bioactive agent is provided that provides for a partially solubilized storage solution that upon exposure to the air results in a fully solubilized bioactive agent in a molecular form for optimal delivery to the skin of a subject. The composition is used for the therapeutic treatment or diagnosis of numerous skin conditions such as acne, wrinkles, inflammation, and epidermal or musculoskeletal pain.

Abstract: Desensitizing drug products, methods of making desensitizing drug products, and methods of using desensitizing drug products including delivery of desensitizing drug products. In one embodiment, the desensitizing drug products are male genital desensitizers that comprise one or anesthetic agents and one or more melting point depressing agents.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of an R-enantiomer of a compound according to the following formula (I) (I), wherein R1 or R2 is a group selected from H, —CH3, —CH2CH3, —CH2CH2CH3, and —CH2CH2CH2CH3 or can be taken together with another to give a cyclopropyl ring, a cyclobutyl ring, a cyclopentyl ring, or a cyclohexyl ring, R3 is a group selected from —COOH, —COOR6, —CONH2, —CONHR6, —CONR6R7, —CONHSO2R6, —COO—(CH2)3—CH2OH, —COO—(CH2)4—ONO2, —COO—PhOCH3—C2H2—COO—(CH2)4—ONO2, tetrazolyl, and a —COOH bioisostere, R4 or R5 is a group selected from —Cl, —F, —Br, —I, —CF3, —OCF3, —SCF3, —OCH3, —OCH2CH3, —CN, —CH?CH2, —CH2OH, and —NO2, R6 of R7 is a group selected from —CH3, —CH2CH3, —CH2CH2CH3, and —CH2CH2CH2CH3, and m or n is an integer selected from 0, 1, 2, and 3, or a nitro-variant of said compound, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts of said compound, preferably Tarenflurbil (R-Flurbiprofen), for use in the treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS).

Abstract: The present invention provides compositions and methods for relieving pain at a site in a human or animal in need thereof by administering at a discrete site in a human or animal in need thereof a dose of capsaicin in an amount effective to denervate a discrete site without eliciting an effect outside the discrete location, the dose of capsaicin ranging from 1 ?g to 3000 ?g.

Abstract: Disclosed is a patch excellent in storage stability and transdermal absorbability of midodrine and having good adhesion. The patch includes a backing and a medicated layer stacked on one surface of the backing so as to be integrated with the backing. The medicated layer contains 3 to 40% by weight of midodrine and 60 to 97% by weight of an acrylic adhesive including a copolymer formed by copolymerization of monomers including 60 to 98% by weight of an alkyl acrylate having an alkyl group with 1 to 12 carbon atoms and 2 to 40% by weight of 1-vinyl-2-pyrrolidone. In the medicated layer, part of midodrine is present in an undissolved state.

Abstract: Phenylcyclobutylamide derivatives and their optical isomers, the preparing processes and the uses thereof, which includes the compounds of formula (I), their pure stereoisomers and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts. In formula (I), R is H, formacyl, acetyl, haloacetyl, benzoyl, benzyloxy carbonyl (Cbz), t-butoxy carbonyl (Boc), or 9-fluorenyl methoxyl carbonyl (Fmoc). The present novel compounds have pharmaceutical activity and are prepared by condensation reaction of racemic, levo- or dextro-demethyl Sibutramine and racemic or D/L isoleucine under a mild condition. It is demonstrated that the present compounds have effect of losing weight to obese mode rats in different level and the effect is better than Sibutramine by the animal experiments. So the medicaments prepared by the present compounds or the medicaments prepared by the compositions of the present compounds and other pharmaceutical activity compounds may be used for treating obesity.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a nanoparticulated anaesthetic composition for topical use in which at least one local anaesthetic agent is encapsulated in polymeric nanoparticles. The present invention also relates to the use of such polymeric nanoparticles comprising at least one local anaesthetic agent in the preparation of an anaesthetic composition for topical application to the skin or mucosa.

Abstract: The invention provides a transdermal absorption preparation showing sufficient adhesiveness on adhesion to the skin, causing low skin irritation, and capable of well controlling releaseability of lidocaine. The transdermal absorption preparation contains a support and an adhesive layer formed on the support. The adhesive layer contains a drug, as well as a thermoplastic elastomer, more than 300 parts by weight of liquid paraffin per 100 parts by weight of the elastomer, not more than 10 wt % of a tackifier, lidocaine, and an organic acid.

Abstract: In some embodiments, mammalian omentum and methods of using the same for treating symptoms and/or conditions related to dementia are provided. In addition, a composition comprising the omentum tissue and/or the extract thereof is described in some embodiments. In some other embodiments, methods of formulating and administering the composition are also provided. In addition, a cultured cell system to culture cells and/or tissues of the omentum is described. Some aspects of embodiments provide methods of identifying one or more biological agent from the omentum tissue. In another aspect of the embodiments, methods of testing the effect of stimulation omentum in treating dementia conditions are described.

Abstract: Effective treatments of pain for extended periods of time are provided. Through the administration of an effective amount of mixed monoamine reuptake inhibitor locally at or near a target site, one can relieve pain caused by diverse sources, including but not limited to spinal disc herniation (i.e. sciatica), spondilothesis, stenosis, discogenic back pain and joint pain, as well as pain that is incidental to surgery. When appropriate formulations are provided within biodegradable polymers, this relief can be continued for at least thirty days. In some embodiments, the relief can be for at least at least fifty days, at least one hundred days, at least one hundred and twenty days, at least one hundred and thirty, at least one hundred fifty days or at least one hundred and eighty days.

Abstract: Provided herein are compounds and pharmaceutical compositions for use in the treatment of neuropathic pain and the neuropathic pain syndromes.

Abstract: A method is provided for treating depression, and particularly major depression,by administering an effective amount of an SSRI medication that is augmented by administering an effective amount of an amphetamine prodrug, such as lisdexamfetamine, to patients receiving an SSRI medication. In particular, the amphetamine prodrug is administered to augment the effects of an SSRI medication in patients who respond poorly to the effects of the SSRI medication.

Abstract: This invention is designed for the convenient and reliable delivery of predetermined doses of topical therapeutic medications applied to the skin. The importance of this method of application is that it allows reducing the amount of a therapeutic agent used in one session or reducing amount of sessions per day by eliminating the application of medications to a treating surface by hand. The emphasis is on making therapeutic agents available for self-administration, especially for partially disabled people with conditions such as arthritis and/or visual impairments who would not be able to use these medications without assistance.

Abstract: It has been discovered that certain combinations of compounds are excellent penetration enhancers and, as such, can be incorporated in a topical formulation to facilitate administration of active agents. The increased penetration enhancement can also lead to a reduction in the total concentration of skin irritants in the formulation. There is described herein a topical formulation comprising (i) an active agent selected from at least one of lidocaine and tetracaine; (ii) a first compound, and (iii) a second compound, wherein the first compound and second compound are different, and each is selected from the group consisting of N-lauroyl sarcosine, sodium octyl sulfate, methyl laurate, isopropyl myristate, oleic acid, glyceryl oleate and sodium lauryl sulfoacetate.

Abstract: The present invention provides methods and kits for the selective ablation of pain-sensing neurons. The methods comprise administration of a vanilloid receptor agonist to a ganglion in an amount that causes death of vanilloid receptor-bearing neurons. Accordingly, the present invention provides methods of controlling pain and inflammatory disorders that involve activation of vanilloid receptor-bearing neurons.

Abstract: Desensitizing drug products, methods of making desensitizing drug products, and methods of using desensitizing drug products including delivery of desensitizing drug products. In one embodiment, the desensitizing drug products are male genital desensitizers that comprise one or anesthetic agents and one or more melting point depressing agents.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a filler composition for tissue reinforcement, including hyaluronic acid and alkylene diamine crosslinked hydrogel. The filler composition exhibits the positive physical properties required for tissue reinforcement, such as biocompatibility and swelling ability, as well as useful effects in that the same can remain in vivo for a long time.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to the treatment of skin erythema as exhibited in rosacea and other conditions characterized by increased erythema (redness) of the skin. These conditions exhibit dilation of blood vessels due to a cutaneous vascular hyper-reactivity. In particular, the present invention is directed to a novel composition and method for the treatment of skin erythema using ?1-adrenergic receptor (?1-adrenoceptor) agonists incorporated into cosmetic, pharmacological or dermatological compositions for topical application to the skin.