Abstract: A method of preventing or reducing the frequency of the occurrence of migraine headaches in a patient who is a previous sufferer of migraine headaches, especially accompanied by prodrome and/or aura, comprises administering an effective amount therefor of an antiestrogen to the patient for a period of time and sufficiently far in advance of the occurrence of a migraine headache to prevent the development of the prodromal phase and/or aura phase of the migraine headache.

Abstract: Molecular signature for antipsychotics and SERMs has been identified, namely their upregulation of genes that alter lipid homeostasis, preferably of one or more of the following genes: TNSIG1, SCD, FADS2, LDLR, FDPS, ACAT2, FDFT1, CYP51A1, FASN, DHCR7, RAB26, TM7SF2, SATB1, FAM117, GPNMB, NUPR1, VAC14, and LSS.

Abstract: The invention includes method of determining if a subject is at risk for developing schizophrenia (SZ), schizotypal personality disorder (SPD), or schizoaffective disorder (SD).

Abstract: Polymer surfaces coated with organometallic layers, wherein the organometallic layers and polymer surfaces have functional groups that react to bond the organometallic layer to the polymer surface with organometallic functional groups remaining unreacted for the subsequent covalent attachment of organic overlayers. Coating methods and coated articles are also disclosed.

Abstract: The disclosure provides compounds and methods of using Apogossypolone derivatives for treating diseases and disorders. In particular, the disclosure provides compounds of Formula I: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, hydrate, or solvate thereof, and provides methods for the preparation of compounds of Formula I; and methods for treating cancer, autoimmune diseases, and inflammation by administering a compound of Formula I.

Abstract: Skin care compositions comprising certain phenoxyalkylamines, which are particularly beneficial for skin lightening and achieving evenness of color, especially for face and underarm skin.

Abstract: Compositions, formulations, methods, and systems for treating regional fat deposits comprise contacting a targeted fat deposit with a composition comprising long acting beta-2 adrenergic receptor agonist and a compound that reduces desensitization of the target tissue to the long acting beta-2 adrenergic receptor agonist, for example, glucocorticosteroids and/or ketotifen. Embodiments of the composition are administered, for example, by injection, and/or transdermally.

Abstract: The present invention provides methods for boosting mucosal immunity in the female reproductive tract of pre- and post-menopausal women using a TGF-beta inhibitor, a Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulator, and/or a recombinant commensal bacterium that expresses endogenous microbicides into the intestinal tract or reproductive tract of a subject. It also provides methods for boosting innate and adaptive immunity by providing a glucocorticoid. Methods for preventing sexually transmitted infections including HIV infection are also provided.

Abstract: Provided herein are methods of treating a pathophysiological state or symptoms thereof resulting from aldose reductase-mediated signaling in a cytotoxic pathway in a subject using an inhibitor of aldose reductase. Particularly, specific inhibitors may be small molecules such as fidarestat or siRNA. Also, methods of treating breast and prostate cancers or suppressing metastasis of colon cancer thereof using the siRNAs and aldose reductase inhibitors are provided.

Abstract: A method for the treatment and prophylaxis of conditions of aging due oxidative stress and as growth factors of stem cells. Such conditions due to oxidative stress are associated with a decreased presence of one or more cell-specific carbonic anhydrase enzymes in the tissue of a subject. Such conditions include but are not limited to alzheimer's disease, parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, autism, lou gehrig's disease, huntington's disease, diabetes mellitus, amyloid diseases, atherosclerosis, arthritis, osteoporosis, cystic fibrosis. The method comprises administering to the patient a pharmaceutically effective, non-toxic amount of one or more compounds that increases the presence of one or more Carbonic Anhydrase Isozymes whose levels have been reduced in the subject.

Abstract: A method to aid in identifying a familial or sporadic pattern of risk in at least one individual for developing cancer of a mucosal epithelial tissue, the method comprising screening said at least one individual for heterozygosity or homozygosity for a mutation in a gene coding for a Poly-Ig (Fc) receptor or a Poly-Ig-like (Fc) receptor capable of mediating inhibition of cancer cell growth by an immunoglobulin inhibitor. A method of treating an individual so identified includes enhancing the amount of immunoglobulin inhibitor contacting a mucosal epithelial tissue of said individual, and, especially in individuals homozygous for the defective receptor, may also include prophylactic surgery. Other methods include implementation of a risk reduction or prevention program in individuals identified as being at risk.

Abstract: A method for treating an autoimmune disease in a subject includes administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of an agent comprising an imidazole, an estrogen receptor agonist, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof.

Abstract: The various embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to compositions and methods for the targeted cellular delivery of nanoparticles. More particularly, the various embodiments of the present invention are directed to the cellular delivery of nanoparticles tethered to a ligand by way of a poly(ethylene glycol) linkage, wherein the ligand demonstrates a binding specificity for a cellular target. In an exemplary embodiment, the ligand is tamoxifen and the cellular target is the estrogen receptor, which is upregulated in many breast cancer cells.

Abstract: The present invention relates to extended release dosage forms of metoprolol or salts thereof comprising a water insoluble and non-swellable inert core and one or more pharmaceutically acceptable excipients. The invention also relates to processes for the preparation of an inert core and extended release dosage forms.

Abstract: Methods and systems for administration of pharmaceuticals using a unit dosage package that includes a first unit dosage that has a first drug and a second drug, a second unit dosage that has the first drug and the second drug, where the second unit dosage includes a different amount of the second drug than the first unit dosage and a unit dosage package is configured to hold the first unit dosage and the second unit dosage. In preferred embodiments the methods and systems are used for administration of weight loss medications.

Abstract: Methods for treatment of disease-induced ataxia and non-ataxic imbalance are disclosed. The methods involve treating a patient with a compound having nicotinic acetylcholine receptor activity.

Abstract: Disclosed is a human serum albumin (HSA) linker and HSA linker with binding, diagnostic, and therapeutic agents conjugated thereto. Also disclosed is a conjugate in which the HSA linker is covalently bonded to amino and carboxy terminal binding moieties that are first and second single-chain Fv molecules (scFvs). Exemplified conjugates are useful, e.g., in reducing tumor cell proliferation, e.g., for therapeutic therapeutic applications. Also disclosed are methods and kits for the diagnostic and therapeutic application of an HSA linker conjugate.

Abstract: A method to determine the clinical outcome of breast tumour affecting a patient if treated with an antitumoural agent against breast tumour. The method includes the step of assaying a sample of a breast tumour from the patient for an expression level of selected genes, by contacting mRNA sequences from the cells of this breast tumour with a set of more than 3 nucleotide sequences related to human mutated PIK3CA.

Abstract: The subject of the invention is a group of new derivatives of aminoalka?ols, more specifically [(phenoxy)alkyl]aminoalkanols and [(phenoxy)acyl)aminoalkanols, their method of obtaining and their use for production of a medicine which is used in the prophylaxis, prevention and/or treatment of diseases or symptoms having neurological background and for production of a medicine with anticonvulsant activity, which is used in seizures of various origin, also in the limbic system, in myoclonic or sound-induced seizures, in psychomotor epilepsy, as well as in relieving neuropathic or inflammatory pain.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of a beta-adrenergic receptor agonist as active ingredient for the production of a medicament for use in the treatment of neuropathic pain, in particular neuropathic allodynia, in particular chronic neuropathic allodynia, and more generally for the production of medicaments for relieving pain. The principal field of application of the present invention is the biomedical field, and more specifically the therapeutics field. The present invention aims in particular to provide a medicament which can be used as a substitute for the antidepressants currently used to treat pain. It finds a use in the human and veterinary clinical field.

Abstract: The present invention provides means, such as a method, for determining whether a prognosis for a mammalian subject having a breast cancer is better than a reference prognosis. The method comprises the steps of: providing a sample earlier obtained from the subject; evaluating the amount of RBM3 protein present in at least part of said sample, and determining a sample value corresponding to said evaluated amount; comparing the sample value obtained with a reference value associated with said reference prognosis; and, if said sample value is higher than said reference value, concluding that the prognosis for said subject is better than said reference prognosis.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the field of therapeutic treatment and compounds having utility therefor, in particular the therapy or management of conditions associated with excessive, unwanted or undesirable sodium ion passage through cellular membranes via voltage-gated sodium channels. In one embodiment the invention is concerned with the treatment of neuropathic pain. The invention contemplates to aryloxy-substituted amines, as sodium channel blockers or modulators. In further embodiments, the invention also relates to compounds which may advantageously have dual sodium channel blocker/modulating and antioxidative (free-radical scavenging) effects. Methods for their manufacture and compositions containing the compounds are also contemplated.

Abstract: The invention discloses the use of cholinesterase inhibitors in treating vascular depression.

Abstract: Multi-dose active agent packages and methods for using the same for treating a subject for a condition are provided. Aspects of the invention include a multi-dose active agent package containing a plurality of unit dosage forms of an active agent configured to modulate at least a portion of a subject's autonomic nervous system during at least one season of the year. The active agent is present in an amount sufficient to alter the parasympathetic activity/sympathetic activity ratio of the subject in a manner effective to treat the subject for the condition. The subject active agent packages and methods find use in the treatment of a variety of different conditions, including disease conditions that increase in severity and/or occurrence during one or more seasons of the year. Also provided are kits for use in practicing the subject methods.

Abstract: The present invention provides a new method and means for determining whether a mammalian subject having a breast cancer is likely to benefit from an endocrine treatment. The method comprise the steps of: providing a sample earlier obtained from said subject; evaluating the amount of CRABP2 protein present in at least part of said sample, and determining a sample value corresponding to said amount; comparing the obtained sample value with a reference value; and, if said sample value is higher than said reference value, concluding that the subject is likely to benefit from an endocrine treatment.

Abstract: The present invention is embodied by a composition capable inducing weight loss in a patient in need thereof.

Abstract: Provided herein methods of screening for potential antidepressant compounds effective to increase production of cellular CDP-diacylglycerol and synthesis of inositol phospholipid in depression-related areas of the brain. Also, provided are methods of diagnosing and treating depressive or mood disorders in a subject by administering these screened antidepressant compounds. Further provided is a method of determining the therapeutic efficacy of an antidepressant drug regimen by comparing the ratio of CDP-diacylglycerol/inositol phosphate after treatment to a basal ratio in a subject.

Abstract: The present invention relates to, inter alia, the use of a compound capable of inhibiting 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD) in an animal in the manufacture of a medicament for use in the treatment and/or prevention of depression. The invention also provides for the use of a compound capable of inhibiting HPPD in an animal in the manufacture of a medicament for use in the treatment of the withdrawal symptoms associated with an addictive drug which causes dopamine dependant associative learning disorders in said animal. In a particular embodiment said HPPD inhibitor is selected from the group consisting of the compound depicted as compound 1; 2; and 3.22.

Abstract: The present invention is related to the preparation and pharmaceutical In use of novel haloallylamine derivatives as SSAO/VAP-1 inhibitors having the structure of Formula I, as defined in the specification:(I). The invention also relates to methods of using invention compounds, or pharmaceutically acceptable salt or derivatives thereof, for the treatment of a variety of indications, e.g., inflammatory diseases.

Abstract: The present invention concerns the use of methods for evaluating ?-adrenergic receptor targeting agent treatment for a patient, particularly one with a heart condition. In general, the disclosed methods entail determining the presence or absence of one or more polymorphisms in an endothelin gene system member. Based on the results of this determination, a ?-adrenergic receptor targeting agent may be prescribed, administered or a treatment regimen altered, including the administration of a ?-blocker. Accordingly, methods of treatment are also described.

Abstract: Methods, compounds, and topical formulations for treatment of telangiectasias are disclosed. The methods comprise topically applying a composition comprising an ?-adrenergic receptor agonist to telangiectatic skin. Amelioration of telangiectasia symptoms begins within minutes after topical application of a disclosed composition. A single application can significantly lessen telangiectasia discoloration for at least about 2 hours.

Abstract: The present invention relates to controlled porous osmotic pump tablets of high permeable drugs and the preparation process thereof. The controlled porosity osmotic pump tablets do not need to be drilled by laser, but provides controlled porosity for drug release by adding a suitable quantity of pore-forming agents into the semipermeable membrane. In specific embodiments, the present invention relates to controlled porous osmotic pump tablets comprising venlafaxine or metoprolol or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof.

Abstract: This invention relates to benzonitryl and nitrobenzyl derivatives that are modulators of androgen, glucocorticoid, mineralocorticoid, and progesterone receptors, and also to the methods for the making and use of such compounds. These compounds are useful, for example, in the treatment or prophylaxis of conditions or disorders that respond to selective androgen receptor modulation.

Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition for prophylaxis and/or treatment of infections and/or infectious diseases occurring in cystic fibrosis includes at least one antidepressant; at least one dispersant; and at least one pharmaceutically tolerable carrier material.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of compositions comprising trans-clomiphene for treating men with hypogonadism. The invention is also directed to methods for treating males with hypogonadism.

Abstract: The present invention relates to products and methods of making products having a dual taste masked active component. In particular, the present invention relates to film dosage forms including at least one dual taste masked active, where the dual taste masked active includes a coated complexed active composition.

Abstract: Compositions, formulations, methods, and systems for treating regional fat deposits comprise contacting a targeted fat deposit with a composition comprising long acting beta-2 adrenergic receptor agonist and a compound that reduces desensitization of the target tissue to the long acting beta-2 adrenergic receptor agonist, for example, glucocorticosteroids and/or ketotifen. Embodiments of the composition are administered, for example, by injection, and/or transdermally.

Abstract: A pharmaceutical suspension having a therapeutically effective amount of phenylephrine and a therapeutically effective amount of a first active agent consisting essentially of a first substantially water insoluble active agent having an average particle size of between about 10 and about 100 microns, an effective amount of non-reducing sweetener; an effective amount of water; and an effective amount of a suspending system; wherein the pharmaceutical suspension has a pH of from about 4 to about 6 and is substantially free of a reducing sugar and related methods.

Abstract: Biodegradable polymeric microparticle compositions containing one or more active agents, especially those useful for treating or preventing or one or more diseases or disorders of the eye, and methods of making and using thereof, are described. The microsphere compositions release an effective amount of the one or more active agents for a period greater than 14 days in vivo, preferably greater than 60 days in vivo, more preferably up to 73 days in vivo, more preferably greater than 90 days in vivo, even more preferably over 100 days in vivo, and most preferably greater than 107 days in vivo. In a preferred embodiment, the microparticle compositions contain one or more active agents useful for managing elevated intraocular pressure (TOP) in the eye. In one embodiment, the microspheres are formed from polylactide-co-glycolide (“PLGA”); in another embodiment, the microspheres are formed from a blend PLGA and poly lactic acid (“PLA”).

Abstract: An extended release pharmaceutical composition comprising metoprolol succinate and at least two pharmaceutically acceptable excipients, wherein the first pharmaceutically acceptable excipient is an extended release agent; the second pharmaceutically acceptable excipient is selected from a binder, a diluent and mixtures thereof; and metoprolol succinate is in a crystalline form having a D50 ranging from 5 to 16 microns and a D90 below 50 microns.

Abstract: To provide a medicament which efficiently expresses an immunosuppressive agent or an anti-inflammatory agent and reduces expression of side effect. A medicament includes diaryl sulfide or diaryl ether compound having a 2-amino-1,3-propanediol structure having an activity of reducing lymphocytes circulating peripherally, in combination with an immunosuppressive agent and/or an anti-inflammatory agent.

Abstract: The invention provides a method for determining whether a patient suffering from a condition that is susceptible to treatment with a compound that activates the brain serotonin system is resistant to treatment with the compound. The method comprises observing whether the genome of the patient contains at least one copy of the BDNF allele containing a genetic alteration, and correlating the presence of the allele containing the genetic alteration with patients who are resistant to treatment with the compound. In another embodiment, the method comprises observing whether the patient expresses a BDNF protein containing an amino acid alteration, and correlating the expression of the BDNF protein containing the amino acid alteration with patients who are resistant to treatment with the compound.

Abstract: An inhalable dry powder medicament is provided. The medicament, which provides improved fine particle fraction, may be prepared by (i) fractionating a particulate active ingredient based on aerodynamic particle size, (ii) recovering at least one fraction of the particulate active ingredient and (iii) combining the recovered fraction with a carrier to provide the inhalable dry powder medicament.

Abstract: This invention relates to novel pharmaceutical compositions comprising therapeutically effective combination of a positive allosteric modulator of nicotine receptors; and a cognitive enhancer selected from the group consisting of a nicotine acetylcholine receptor agonist, an acetylcholine esterase inhibitor, a positive AMPA receptor modulator, an antipsychotic drug, an antidepressant drug and an anti Parkinson drug. The pharmaceutical compositions for use according to the invention are contemplated particularly useful for combating cognitive disorders.

Abstract: A method of treatment comprises administering 4-hydroxy tamoxifen percutaneously to a patient having mastalgia. The 4-hydroxy tamoxifen may be formulated in a hydroalcoholic gel or an alcoholic solution.

Abstract: The present invention relates to combination therapy of a pyruvoyl derivative and an anti-oxidant, which is characterized by significant increase of the activity of microglia, inhibition of brain tissue damage by the activation of inflammatory cytokines, improvement of motor skill and recovery effect of neuronal damage. Compared to single treatment with each, this present invention provides a continuous high neuroprotective effect even after 6 hours from the onset of damage.

Abstract: A medicine which effectively functions as an immunosuppressant or anti-inflammatory agent and is effective in diminishing the occurrence of side effects. The medicine comprises a combination of: a diaryl sulfide or diaryl ether compound having a 2-amino-1,3-propanediol structure and having the function of diminishing lymphocytes circulating through the periphery; and an immunosuppressant and/or an anti-inflammatory agent.

Abstract: Fecal incontinence and anal itch can be treated by administration, more particularly by local application to the anus, of an ? adrenergic blocker, nitric oxide synthase inhibitor, prostaglandin F2?, dopamine, morphine, ?-blockers, and 5-Hydroxytryptamine. The patients who benefit most from the invention are those who have a normal or low maximum anal resting pressure and a structurally intact internal anal sphincter muscle, and patients who have had major bowel resection and reanastomosis.

Abstract: The invention relates to nanoparticles made from organometallic hybrid materials made from iron carboxylates, used for example as contrast agents. The particles can also be used for the encapsulation and vectoring of molecules of interest such as active3 pharmaceutical agents, cosmetically interesting compounds and markers. Apart from the intrinsic properties thereof for imaging, said nanoparticles give good results in terms of capacity for loading with medicaments and in biocompatibility.

Abstract: Sympathetically maintained pain is treated topically by administering to the site where sympathetically maintained pain is present an ?-1-adrenergic antagonist, ?-2-adrenergic agonist, or other drug that depletes or blocks synthesis of sympathetic norepinephrine, known collectively as sympatholytic agents. Chemical formulas for several sympatholytic agents are given.