1039 results about "Alcoholic fatty liver" patented technology

The present invention comprises methods and compositions for the treatment or alleviation of NAFLD (non-alcoholic fatty liver disease) and those conditions associated with NAFLD, including fatty liver disease, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and cirrhosis through the use of pharmaceutical formulations of lysosomal acid lipase or related proteins and / or polypeptides. This invention is also directed to a combination therapy treatment for treating The Metabolic Syndrome. As part of a combination therapy regime for the treatment of The Metabolic Syndrome, pharmaceutical formulations of lysosomal acid lipase or related proteins and / or polypeptides are used as part of the combination therapy regime for treating NAFLD (and NASH), which comprises one of the conditions constituting The Metabolic Syndrome,

The invention relates to a preparation method and application of a sulfonylurea compound and a composition containing the same component as FXR and / or TGR5 agonist, the FXR and / or TGR5 agonist is a compound shown as a formula (I), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, a solvate, a prodrug, an isomer and a stable isotope derivative thereof. The compounds can be used for treatment of FXR and / or TGR5 mediated diseases including primary biliary cirrhosis, nonalcoholic fatty liver, portal hypertension, bile acid diarrhea and cholestasis, type II diabetes and obesity and other field.

The present invention is directed toward the use of thyromimetic compounds that are thyroid receptor ligands, pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and to prodrugs of these compounds for preventing, treating, or ameliorating fatty liver diseases such as steatosis, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis.

A method and system for treating non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) involves the modulation of the gut microbial of a person suffering from NAFLD, and in particular the provision of a probiotic therapy configured to reduce liver aminotransferases, total-cholesterol, TNF-α and to improve insulin resistance in NAFLD patients.

The invention relates to compositions containing cholesterol absorption inhibitors alone or in combination with other therapeutic agents for treating non-alcoholic fatty liver disease-associated disorders by administering a therapeutically effective amount of the compositions to a subject in need thereof.

A method for reducing the likelihood of developing non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) in an individual diagnosed with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease involves providing in the gut of an individual a population of beneficial bacteria selected from the group consisting of Lactobacillus species, and at least 6 grams per day of fiber to the individual to maintain a therapeutically effective amount of the beneficial bacteria in the gut of the individual. In certain embodiments, monoacylglycerolacyltransferase-3 (MGAT3) synthesis is inhibited to lower triacylglycerol (TAG) production, while in others, expression of diacylglycerolacyltransferase-2 (DGAT-2) is inhibited. The beneficial bacteria are preferably modified to produce increased amounts of butyrate and are also encapsulated in a frangible enclosure. Levels of Roseburia are preferably increased while the levels of Akkermansia spp. in the individual's gut microbiome are reduced.

Disclosed herein is a novel synergistic pharmaceutical composition comprising hydroxychloroquine with insulin sensitizing agents and lipid lowering agents such as statins along with pharmaceutical excipients / carriers useful in treating Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.

The present invention provides methods of treating, stabilizing or lessening the severity or progression of a non-alcoholic fatty liver disease using an ACC inhibitor alone or with one or more additional therapeutic agents.

The present invention provides a pharmaceutical composition for the prevention and treatment of a non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), containing an active ingredient selected from the group consisting of Compound 1 represented by formula 1, sitagliptin, vildagliptin, linagliptin or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. Further, the present invention provides a method for the prevention or treatment of a non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, including administering an effective amount of an active ingredient selected from the group consisting of Compound 1 represented by formula 1, sitagliptin, vildagliptin, linagliptin or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof to a mammal including a human in need thereof.; Further, the present invention provides use of Compound 1 represented by formula 1, sitagliptin, vildagliptin, linagliptin or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, for manufacturing a pharmaceutical composition for the prevention or treatment of a non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

The invention discloses a traditional Chinese medicinal composition for treating alcoholic fatty liver and a preparation method thereof. The traditional medicinal composition contains the following raw materials of: by weight, 15-35 parts of Artemisia capillaries, 15-30 parts of Radix Puerariae, 15-35 parts of Poria cocos, 10-25 parts of couchgrass root, 10-25 parts of Herba Eupatorii, 10-25 parts of cassia seed, 4-10 parts of green tea, 5-12 parts of haw, 5-12 parts of red sage root, 5-12 parts of sweet wormwood, 5-12 parts of cortex lycii, 8-15 parts of burdock, 4-10 parts of Caulis Bambusae In Taeniam, 4-10 parts of polygonatum rhizome, 4-10 parts of ligustrum lucidum, 4-10 parts of Ligusticum wallichii and 2-8 parts of licorice. The traditional Chinese medicinal composition can be made into any clinically acceptable oral medicinal preparation including pill, particulate agent, capsules or tablet and the like. It shows through clinical observation result that the traditional Chinese medicinal composition has substantial curative effects for alcoholic fatty liver. Safety observation indicates that the traditional Chinese medicinal composition is safe in clinic usage and has no toxic and side effect.

The invention discloses high-fat feed and application thereof in building an animal model with non-alcoholic fatty liver. The high-fat feed comprises the following raw materials in mass percent: 80.5% of rat breeding feed, 10% of egg, 7% of lard oil, 2% of cholesterol and 0.5% of No.3 bile salt. The model built in the invention can subsequently experience former three stages in the development ofthe clinical disease course of the non-alcoholic fatty liver: simple fatty liver, steato hepatitis and fibrosis. The model is used for studying the pathogenesis as well as the development mechanism of the non-alcoholic fatty liver, studying the prevention and treatment of the non-alcoholic fatty liver at different stages, and particularly for screening new medicines for preventing and treating fibrosis of the non-alcoholic fatty liver, screening measures for preventing and treating fibrosis of the non-alcoholic fatty liver and objectively evaluating the methods for preventing and treating thenon-alcoholic fatty liver at each stage.

Novel methods for assessing the level of triglycerides in the liver of a subject are described, comprising determining the amount of a lipid metabolite in a sample from a body fluid of the subject. The methods may be used, for example, in diagnosing and monitoring liver disorders such as steatosis, NAFLD and NASH.

Methods of determining levels of unbound metabolites are disclosed. Probes derived from fatty acid binding protein muteins are described that bind preferentially to a number of unbound metabolites including oleate, stearate, linoleate, palmitate, arachidonate and unconjugated bilirubin. A profile for a patient is determined using one or more of the described probes. The profile is useful in diagnosis of disease, particularly myocardial infarction, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), diabetes, stroke, sepsis and neonatal jaundice. The responses of multiple probes to a test sample are used to classify the degree of acute coronary syndrome by comparison to multi-probe profiles generated from unstable angina, non ST elevation myocardial infarction, and ST elevation myocardial infarction.

The invention belongs to the field of animal experiment models, and discloses application of a composite high-fat forage to construct a non-alcoholic fatty liver disease rat model. The high-fat forage is composed of the following raw materials in percent by mass: 77.5% of a rat basic forage, 10% of egg, 10% of coconut oil, 2% of cholesterol, 0.5% of bile salt, and 500mg / kg / d of sodium valproate calculated according to the rat weight. After 8 weeks, rats all have typical non-alcoholic fatty live symptoms, and liver has a lot of fat accumulation along with inflammatory cell infiltration. The model establishing time is short, the success rate is high, and the composite high-fat forage is applicable to pathogenesis research induced by high-fat-diet combined medicines with liver-toxicity side effect, screening of related control measures and efficacy evaluation of treatment medicines.

A compound of Formula (I):or a metabolite thereof, or an ester of the compound of Formula (I) or the metabolite thereof, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of each thereof, wherein m, n, X1 and X2 are as defined herein, is useful for treating non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) or non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH).

Novel MCH-1 receptor antagonists are disclosed. These compounds are used in the treatment of various disorders, including obesity, anxiety, depression, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, and psychiatric disorders. Methods of making these compounds are also described in the present invention.

The present invention provides pharmaceutical compositions useful as agents for the inhibition of progression of diseases associated with abnormal accumulation of liver lipids. In particular, the pharmaceutical compositions of the present invention which comprise as an active ingredient a sodium / glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitor are highly suitable as an agent for the inhibition of progression of not only common fatty liver but also non-alcholic fatty liver disease (NAFL), non-alcholic steatohepatitis (NASH), hypernutritive fatty liver, diabetic fatty liver, alcholic fatty liver disease toxic fatty liver or the like.

Novel MCH-1 receptor antagonists are disclosed. These compounds are used in the treatment of various disorders, including obesity, anxiety, depression, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, and psychiatric disorders. Methods of making these compounds are also described in the present invention.

The invention discloses an ilicis routundae cortex medicinal composition for preventing and treating alcoholic liver damage, alcoholic fatty liver, non-alcoholic fatty liver and hyperlipidemia. The composition is extracted and refined from natural ilicis routundae cortex and is not chemically modified, and is characterized by comprising substances such as pedunculoside, syringin, rotundicacid and the like. The invention also discloses a preparation method of the ilicis routundae cortex composition and application to preparation of a medicament for preventing and treating the alcoholic liver damage, the alcoholic fatty liver and the non-alcoholic fatty liver and lowering blood fat.

The present invention relates to the discovery that acetylsalicylic acid (ASA or aspirin), salicylic acid (SA) and related salicylate esters and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts, when coadministered in effective amounts with a drug or other bioactive agent which typically (in the absence of the salicylate compound) produces significant hepatotoxicity as a secondary indication, will substantially reduce or even eliminate such hepatotoxicity. Favorable therapeutic intervention results from the use of the present invention having the effect of reducing hepatotoxicity associated with the administration of certain drugs and other bioactive agents and in certain instances of allowing the administration of higher doses of a compound which, without the coadministration, would produce hepatotoxicity which limits or even negates the therapeutic value of the compound. The invention also relates to methods of reducing the likelihood of a patient at risk for non-alcoholic fatty liver diseases (NAFLD), including non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), or treating NAFLD or NASH including primary NASH, NASH secondary to liver transplantation (NASH post-liver transplantation) or cirrhosis represent alternative aspects of the present invention.

Novel MCH-1 receptor antagonists are disclosed. These compounds are used in the treatment of various disorders, including obesity, anxiety, depression, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, and psychiatric disorders. Methods of making these compounds are also described in the present invention.

The invention relates to preparation methods of sulphonylaminocarbonyl derivatives and compositions containing the same component and a use of the sulphonylaminocarbonyl derivatives as FXR and / or TGR5 agonists; the agonists are the sulphonylaminocarbonyl derivatives represented by the formula I, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, prodrugs, solvates, hydrates, polymorphs, isomers, and stable isotope derivatives thereof. The compounds can be used for treatment of diseases and symptoms mediated by FXR and / or TGR5 and other therapeutic fields, wherein the diseases and symptoms include primary biliary cirrhosis, nonalcoholic fatty liver, portal hypertension, bile acid diarrhea and cholestasis, type II diabetes and obesity.

The invention generally relates to the use of leptin in the treatment of a leptin-responsive disease or condition in a non-lipodystrophic subject. More particularly, the invention is directed to the use of leptin in the treatment of a fatty liver disease in a non-lipodystrophic subject with a relative leptin deficiency. The invention includes methods for the treatment of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), alcoholic fatty liver disease (AFLD), and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) in a non-lipodystrophic subject. The invention includes the treatment of conditions ranging from ectopic lipid accumulation (steatosis) to cirrhosis.

The present invention discloses compounds of Formula (I), and pharmaceutically acceptable salts and esters thereof:which inhibit the Apoptosis signal-regulating kinase 1 (ASK-1), which associated with autoimmune disorders, neurodegenerative disorders, inflammatory diseases, chronic kidney disease, cardiovascular disease. The present invention further relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the aforementioned compounds for administration to a subject suffering from ASK-1 related disease. The invention also relates to methods of treating an ASK-1 related disease in a subject by administering a pharmaceutical composition comprising the compounds of the present invention. The present invention specifically relates to methods of treating ASK-1 associated with hepatic steatosis, including non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and non-alcohol steatohepatitis disease (NASH).

The invention discloses a method for establishing a non-alcoholic fatty liver disease combined with viral hepatitis mouse model. The method comprises the steps that high-fat feed is used for feeding a C3H / HeN small mouse for 12 weeks, the body weight, the liver weight, transaminase, the glucolipid metabolism index and liver histological change of the small mouse are observed, and a non-alcoholic fatty liver disease small mouse is cultivated. Then 10 PFU of MHV-3 infected mice are selected, and the survival rate, the liver histology and intrahepatic virus replication of the infected mice are observed, so that the non-alcoholic fatty liver disease combined with viral hepatitis mouse model similar to a human disease process is established. The established model provides a forceful tool for virus dynamics, immunological changes and prevention and control measures systematically studying non-alcoholic fatty liver disease combined with viral hepatitis.

A method of treating a fatty liver disease in a subject. The method comprises administering to the subject an effective amount of a cholinergic pathway stimulating agent, wherein the fatty liver disease is selected from non-alcoholic fatty liver (NAFL), alcoholic fatty liver (AFL), non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), alcoholic steatohepatitis (ASH), NASH-associated liver fibrosis, ASH-associated liver fibrosis, non-alcoholic cirrhosis, and alcoholic cirrhosis.

The invention discloses a semen cassiae, fructus lycii and glossy privet fruit oral solution with functions of tonifying liver and reducing fat. The semen cassiae, fructus lycii and glossy privet fruit oral solution is prepared by adopting the steps of respectively weighing Chinese medicinal herbs: 30 parts of semen cassia, 30 parts of fructus lycii, 30 parts of glossy privet fruit, 20 parts of polygonum multiflorum thumb, 20 parts of gynostemma pentaphylla, 20 parts of raw hawthorn, 20 parts of capillary artemisia, 10 parts of radix curcumae and 10 parts of rhizoma alismatis; and decocting the Chinese medicinal herbs together according to a conventional method, and densely decocting into an oral solution of 2g dried medicinal herbs / ml. A taking method is as follows: the semen cassiae, fructus lycii and glossy privet fruit oral solution is taken twice, 20ml per time. One month is a course of treatment, and the semen cassiae, fructus lycii and glossy privet fruit oral solution is generally taken for three courses of treatment. Fatty, sweet, stodgy and pungent foods are contraindicated in a taking process. The semen cassiae, fructus lycii and glossy privet fruit oral solution has the advantages of low Chinese medicinal herb price, and is convenience to take and process, and has a remarkable treatment effect on non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and hyperlipoidemia. Meanwhile, according to the characteristic of liver deficiency, the semen cassiae, fructus lycii and glossy privet fruit oral solution is suitable for all types of syndrome of the traditional Chinese medicine, is capable of recovering the function of the liver to protect the liver and is capable of removing pathological products to achieve the treatment purpose.

The invention belongs to the field of biotechnology, and relates to a serum miRNA maker assemblage for detecting nonalcoholic fatty liver, and its application. The serum miRNA maker assemblage for detecting nonalcoholic fatty liver includes the following four has-microRNAs: hsa-miR-122-5p, hsa-miR-1290, hsa-miR-27b-3p and hsa-miR-192- 5p. The serum miRNA maker assemblage can realize early detection and rapid noninvasive detection of the nonalcoholic fatty liver.