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The present invention encompasses a combination of at least one conjugate and one or more chemotherapeutic agent(s) which when administered exerts an unexpectedly enhanced therapeutic effect. The therapeutic effectiveness of the combination is greater than that of the conjugate alone or the administration of one or more of the drug(s) without the conjugate. The present invention is also directed to compositions comprising at least one conjugate and at one or more of chemotherapeutic agent and to methods of treating cancer using at least one conjugate and at least one or more of chemotherapeutic agent (s). The present invention also provides methods of modulating the growth of selected cell populations, such as cancer cells, by administering a therapeutically effective amount of one or more chemotherapeutic agent(s) and at least one conjugate. In each case, such combination has therapeutic synergy or improves the therapeutic index in the treatment of cancer over the anticancer agent(s) alone.

The invention is directed to biocompatible conjugated polymer nanoparticles including a copolymer backbone, a plurality of sidechains covalently linked to said backbone, and a plurality of platinum compounds dissociably linked to said backbone. The invention is also directed to dicarbonyl-lipid compounds wherein a platinum compound is dissociably linked to the dicarbonyl compound. The invention is also directed to methods of treating cancer or metastasis. The methods includes selecting a subject in need of treatment for cancer or metastasis and administering to the subject an effective amount of any of the nanoparticles, compounds, or compositions of the invention.

The present invention relates to novel estrogen-related steroidal quinols and their use as drugs for estrogen replacement therapy. The quinols of the present invention provide improved physicochemical properties, increased bioavailability, and improved distribution into tissues, bone, in the cardiovascular system, and in the CNS (central nervous system) with only a slight estrogenic action or no estrogenic action in the uterus. The compounds are suitable for the production of pharmaceutical agents for use in numerous indications (for example, estrogen replacement therapy, prevention and treatment of osteoporosis).

A method of treating a patient undergoing pharmacotherapy with a selected drug for treatment of a medical disorder is provided which comprises: (a) administering the selected drug to said patient at a first time point, to treat the medical disorder; and (b) applying an electrical signal to a vagus nerve of the patient at a second time point, wherein the signal is selected so as to modulate at least one pharmacologic and/or pharmacokinetic property of the selected drug in the body of the patient. The vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) modulated drug therapy may be performed secondarily to, and in conjunction with, application of a primary VNS therapy to the patient for treatment of the same or a different medical disorder, to enhance treatment of the patient.

Certain substituted urea derivatives selectively modulate the cardiac sarcomere, for example by potentiating cardiac myosin, and are useful in the treatment of systolic heart failure including congestive heart failure.

Pharmaceutical preparations, compositions, systems, and devices including medical devices and diagnostic or therapeutic agents, and methods to treat disease by modification of local tissue environment to modulate the therapeutic index of locally or systemically delivered therapeutic or diagnostic agents. Improved ability to reduce sympathetic nerve activity in the adventitia and perivascular tissues around arteries and veins in the body. Modulation of the local tissue environment around an artery to enable more effective denervation with or without a therapeutic agent. Modulation may include adjustment of the pH of the tissue.

The invention relates to a neo-gambogic acid SLN (solid lipid nanoparticle) and a preparation method thereof. The neo-gambogic acid SLN comprises a therapeutically effective amount of neo-gambogic acid, medicinal phosphatide, a surfactant and a lipid material. In the invention, the neo-gambogic acid is prepared into SLNs (solid lipid nanoparticles), thereby improving the solubility of the neo-gambogic acid, reducing the irritability, improving the bioavailability, and prolonging the action time of medicaments in a human body, in addition, the neo-gambogic acid SLNs can be gathered partially in the human body so as to play the targeted action of the SLNs and exert the anti-cancer therapeutic action of the SLNs better.

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.

A composition for facilitating delivery of biological agents, comprising a therapeutic or diagnostic agent and a supramolecular complex, the latter comprising (i) a block copolymer, having at least one nonionic, water soluble segment and at least one polyionic segment, and (ii) at least one charged surfactant having hydrophobic groups. The charge of the surfactant is opposite to the charge of the polyionic segment of the block copolymer. The constituents of the supramolecular complex are bound by interaction between the opposite charges thereof and between surfactant hydrophobic groups. The therapeutic or diagnostic agent may be an ionic substance, in which case the ionic substance has a net charge opposite to that of the block copolymer, the net charge being no more than 10.

This disclosure relates to methods for improving the therapeutic index of a chemotherapeutic drug in the treatment of patients afflicted with cancer, by reducing chemotherapy-related toxicity to a level that allows the chemotherapeutic drug to be used in humans.

The invention discloses hydrochloric acid Fasudil liposome injection and new application thereof. The injection mainly comprises the following components according to parts by weight: 1 part of hydrochloric acid Fasudil, 2 to 20 parts of phospholipid, 0.5 to 10 parts of cholesterol and 1 to 8 parts of polysorbate 80. Simultaneously, the hydrochloric acid Fasudil liposome injection also can be used for treating vertebral artery type cervical spondylosis.

The present invention relates to methods and compositions for anti-aging therapy and for the treatment and prophylaxis of age-related diseases and disorders in a human subject in need of such therapy or treatment, the methods comprising the pulmonary administration to the subject, preferably via inhalation, of composition comprising rapamycin, or a prodrug or derivative thereof.

A peptide which selectively inhibits α_vβ₃ integrin which comprises the deamidation product of a peptide comprising the NGR motif.

The invention discloses a liposome solid preparation of a losartan potassium hydrochlorothiazide pharmaceutical composition and a preparation method thereof. In the invention, active components of losartan potassium and hydrochlorothiazide and specific combined hydrogenated yolk lecithin, cholesterol and poloxamer 188 are prepared into a liposome which is then mixed with other pharmaceutical accessories to prepare the solid preparation, thereby greatly improving the pharmaceutical stability and bioavailability and having stable and lasting effect, small side effect and obvious curative effect.

This invention provides substituted benzimidazole compounds shown in common formula (I) and their pharmacologically permitted salts. The definitions of R1, R2, R3, R4 and n in common formula (I) are mentioned in the instruction. Pharmacological experiments show that, this kind of compounds and their pharmacologically permitted salts or their solvates or hydrates perform excellent anti-hepatitis B virus (anti-HBV) activities and are especially inhibitory to DNA replication of HBV. They are thus promising as anti-HBV drugs. This invention also provides a method to prepare this kind of compounds.

The invention discloses the application of koumine to the preparation of medicines for treating chronic pains and belongs to the application of gelsemium alkaloid monomer. The analgesic experiments of the koumine on chronic pains of animals prove that the koumine has potent dose-dependent analgesic effect, the analgesic potency is superior to that of the classical antipyretic-analgesic and anti-inflammatory drugs which are aspirin and indomethacin, the therapeutic index of the koumine is much higher than that of the total alkaloids of gelsemium, the koumine possibly has no tolerance, no addiction and little side effect, which indicates that the koumine has potent and low-toxicity analgesic effect, the mechanism of action of the koumine is possibly different from those of clinically common opium analgesics or aspirin analgesics, the koumine and the pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof have the application of preparing of the medicines for treating chronic pains and have no serious disadvantages of the clinically common analgesics and can be developed into a novel analgesic which has potent analgesic effect in treating chronic pains such as inflammatory pain, neuropathic pain, cancer pain and the like, has no tolerance and addiction and little side effect, thus the koumine has bright industrialization prospect.

The invention relates to a clindamycin phosphate lipidosome freeze-dried preparation and a preparation method thereof. The clindamycin phosphate lipidosome freeze-dried preparation is characterized by comprising the following components in portion by weight: 15 to 25 portions of clindamycin phosphate, 10 to 40 portions of dimyristyl acid lecithin, 1 to 10 portions of cholesterol, 1 to 5 portions of antioxidant, and 5 to 25 portions of cryoprotectant.

Provided are novel antibody drug conjugates (ADCs), and methods of using such ADCs to treat proliferative disorders.

The invention provides liposome injection of an amoxicillin sodium sulbactam sodium medicinal composition. The liposome injection consists of amoxicillin sodium, sulbactam sodium, liposome carriers, freeze-drying supporting agents and optional antioxidant, wherein the liposome carriers are dipalmitoyl phosphatidyl choline and deoxysodium cholate. The liposome injection has high stability; in the freeze-drying process, a phenomenon of breaking liposome caused by dehydration, fusion, ice crystal generation and the like does not occur; and the liposome can remain good encapsulation ratio after being hydrated and redissolved.

The invention discloses levocarnitine liposomes injection, which is characterized by comprising the following active ingredients in parts by weight: 1 part of levocarnitine, 3-15 parts of soybean lecithin, 0.4-7.5 parts of cholesterol and 0.02-1 part of antioxidant, and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, wherein, the antioxidant is one or more of L-cysteine, thiourea, vitamin E and butylated hydroxyanisole and is most preferably the vitamin E. The invention also discloses a preferable preparation method of the levocarnitine liposomes injection, namely ammonium sulphate pH gradient method.The invention provides levocarnitine liposomes injection which has excellent stability, high entrapment rate and low leakage rate in the process of long-term storage. The acute toxicity tests, unusualtoxicity tests and heat source tests adopting the levocarnitine liposomes injection all conform to the specifications and are applicable to industrialized production.