Abstract:
The invention provides biocompatible micelles loaded with one or more active agents. The micelles can encapsulate anticancer drugs such as gossypol, and combinations of drugs, such as gossypol and paclitaxel, gossypol and 17-AAG, gossypol and cyclopamine, gossypol, paclitaxel, and 17-AAG, and gossypol, paclitaxel, and cyclopamine. The micelle compositions provide effective solubilization of difficult to solubilize drug combinations without the need for additional surfactants that can be toxic to patients. Thus, the invention provides stable and biocompatible drug formulations that improve bioavailability without causing toxicity.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a tyrosine kinase inhibitor or a mast cell inhibitor, and in particular masitinib or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, for the treatment of human multiple sclerosis.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a composition containing quercetin, vitamin B3, vitamin C, and folic acid. Also disclosed is a method of using the composition for enhancing physical or mental performance or treating various diseases or disorders.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to derivatives of vinca alkaloids. Pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds as well as processes of preparation and treatment of various conditions are also disclosed.
Abstract:
A steroid derivative compound of formula (I) in which: one of R1 and R2 is hydroxy and the other is hydrogen; or R1 and R2 together represent oxo; R3 is hydrogen or hydroxy; and the dotted lines represent single or double carbon-carbon bonds; and pharmaceutically acceptable salts and esters thereof are useful for the prevention or treatment of pain, for improving nerve regeneration after nerve injury or damage or disease, for the prevention or treatment of brain injury, damage or disease and for neuroprotection. Particularly useful compounds are 11-hydroxy-Δ4-androstene-3,17-dione and 11-oxo-Δ4-androstene-3,17-dione or their derivatives.
Abstract:
A compound with the structure of the formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, a preparation method and use thereof are disclosed in the present invention, wherein R is cyano group. The compound provided by the present invention has an antiplatelet aggregation activity and can be used in preparing a medicament for preventing or treating cardiac and cerebral vascular diseases such as coronary artery syndromes, myocardial infarction and myocardial ischemia which are caused by platelet aggregation.
Abstract:
Camptothecin-based compounds are useful for treating a neoplasm in mammalian subjects by administering such compound to the subjects in combination with radiotherapy, i.e., the treatment of tumors with radioactive substances or radiation from a source external to the subject. Camptothecin-based compounds are modified by positioning at least one electron-affinic group around the camptothecin structure to enhance their value in combination with radiotherapy. New Camptothecin-based compounds are disclosed that are useful for treating cancer by administering the novel compounds alone or in combination with radiotherapy.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a prodrug, comprising a pharmaceutically and/or diagnostically active compound, and one or more bisphosphonate groups, to a process for producing such a prodrug, and to a pharmaceutical composition comprising said prodrug, to be used for the treatment of bone-related disorders such as bone cancer.
Abstract:
Methods and compositions for inhibiting integrin and treating integrin-related conditions, utilizing tellurium-containing compounds, are disclosed. The tellurium-containing compounds comprise at least one tellurium dioxo moiety and may have any one of Formulae I to IV as defined in the specification. Further disclosed are methods and compositions for treating a neoplastic condition characterized by a resistance to an anti-neoplastic agent and by a high level of expression of an integrin by neoplastic cells.
Abstract:
Anti-cancer compositions and methods are described including one or more compounds having the structural formula I: R2-R—R1, where R is phenyl, where R1 is (CH2)n—Se—C(═NH)—NH2, where R2 is (CH2)n—Se—C(═NH)—NH2 or R2 is H, and where each n is independently 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8. Methods of treating a subject are provided according to embodiments of the present invention which include administering a therapeutically effective amount of a composition including one or more compounds having the structural formula I to a subject having a condition characterized by Akt dysregulation. Administering a therapeutically effective amount of a composition including one or more compounds having the structural formula I to a subject detectably increases apoptosis and/or decreases proliferation of cancer cells, particularly cancer cells characterized by Akt dysregulation. Compositions of the present invention inhibit Akt enzymes, iNOS, and increase MAP kinase activity such that cancer cells contacted with the compositions are inhibited.