266 results about "Anthracycline" patented technology

The present invention relates to conjugates of therapeutically useful anthracyclines with carriers such as polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies, proteins or peptides of natural or synthetic origin; methods for their preparation, pharmaceutical composition containing them and use thereof in treating certain mammalian tumors.

There has been required a clinically applicable solid preparation for injection which contains a block copolymer composed of a hydrophilic polymer structure moiety and a hydrophobic polyamino acid structure moiety and an anthracycline anticancer agent. It is intended to provide a clinically applicable solid preparation for injection which contains a block copolymer composed of a hydrophilic polymer structure moiety and a hydrophobic polyamino acid structure moiety, an anthracycline anticancer agent, a saccharide and a base.

Methods of treating patients having metastatic or unresectable locally advanced HER2 positive cancer, e.g., breast cancer, with the antibody-drug conjugate trastuzumab-MCC-DM1 are provided, wherein the patients have received extensive prior treatment, e.g., with an anthracycline, a taxane, capecitabine, lapatinib, and trastuzumab.

The invention relates to methods and kits for the prediction of a likely outcome of chemotherapy in a cancer patient. More specifically, the invention relates to the prediction of tumour response to chemotherapy based on measurements of expression levels of a small set of marker genes. The set of marker genes is useful for the identification of breast cancer subtypes responsive to taxane based chemotherapy, such as e.g. a taxane-anthracycline-cyclophosphamide-based (e.g. Taxotere (docetaxel)-Adriamycin (doxorubicin)-cyclophosphamide, i.e. (TAC)-based) chemotherapy.

The invention relates to a method for preparing a chitosan or sodium alginate-modified carbon nanotube-targeted slow release carrier in the technical field of nano materials, which comprises the following steps: preparing cut carbon nanotubes; preparing modified carbon nanotubes; preparing a modified carbon nanotube-targeted slow release carrier and adding aqueous solution of an anthracycline anticancer medicament; and subjecting the solution to supersonic treatment, stirring treatment and suction filtration, washing the product of the suction filtration, drying the product at room temperature under vacuum to obtain the chitosan or sodium alginate-modified carbon nanotube-targeted slow release carrier carrying the medicament. The method can realize an adriamycin carrying ratio of between 151 and 161 percent according to measurement.

The invention pertains to low-molecular anthracycline-peptide derivatives with PSA-cleavable peptide sequences, which contain a protein-binding group.

A method of synthesizing 4-R-substituted anthracyclines and their corresponding salts from 4-demethyldaunorubicin includes the steps of treating 4-demethyldaunorubicin with a sulfonylating agent to form 4-demethyl-4-sulfonyl-R₃-daunorubicin. 4-Demethyl-4-R₃-sulfonyl-daunorubicin is then subject to a reducing agent in the presence of a transition metal catalyst in a temperature range of about 30° C. to about 100° C. in a polar aprotic solvent in an inert atmosphere. Protected 4-demethoxy-4-R-daunomycin then undergoes hydrolysis in a basic solution to form the 4-R-substituted anthracyclines. The novel method lacks the step of forming a stereospecific glycoside bond between aglycone and aminoglycoside. The method also increases the yield of the final product up to 30 to 40%.

Novel iron chelators exhibiting neuroprotective and good transport properties are useful in iron chelation therapy for treatment of a disease, disorder or condition associated with iron overload and oxidative stress, eg. a neurodegenerative or cerebrovascular disease or disorder, a neoplastic disease, hemochromatosis, thalassemia, a cardiovascular disease, diabetes, a inflammatory disorder, anthracycline cardiotoxicity, a viral infection, a protozoal infection, a yeast infection, retarding ageing, and prevention and/or treatment of skin ageing and skin protection against sunlight and/or UV light. The iron chelator function is provided by a 8-hydroxyquinoline, a hydroxypyridinone or a hydroxamate moiety, the neuroprotective function is imparted to the compound e.g. by a neuroprotective peptide, and a combined antiapoptotic and neuroprotective function by a propargyl group.

Methods and compositions are provided for treating proliferative disorders, wherein the composition comprises at least one compound according to Formula I:

wherein R¹ is selected from the group consisting of —OH, —NH₂, —NH—CH₂—CO₂H, —NH—CH(CH₃)—CO₂H, and —NH—C(CH₃)₂—CO₂H, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of such a compound; and an anthracycline, e.g. doxorubicin, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, or a platin, e.g. oxaliplatin, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.

Medical implants are provided which release an anthracycline, fluoropyrimidine, folic acid antagonist, podophylotoxin, camptothecin, hydroxyurea, and/or platinum complex, thereby inhibiting or reducing the incidence of infection associated with the implant.

Anthracycline analogs and their bioconjugates are useful as anticancer agents.

A method of treating the human body for cancer comprises administering an effective therapeutic amount of a Pegylated Liposomal form of the anthracycline Doxorubicin (“PLD”), in combination with an effective therapeutic amount of ET-743

The invention discloses an anthracycline liposome injection, including the injection and a frozen powder injection and a preparation process of the injection. The frozen liposome consists of the anthracycline or an anthracycline hydrochloride, compound neutral phospholipids, surfactant, negative-charge phospholipids, buffers, PH regulators and freezing protection agent. The preparation process includes the following steps: preparation of a hollow liposome, a homogenized liposome, an anthracycline lopsome and an anthracycline lopsome suspension; adding the freezing protection agent; constant volume; sterilization; sub-package; freezing and drying; storage, etc. The liposome injection can be preserved for 12 months under the room temperature with better stability. And the encapsulation rate can be above 95 percent and a granule diameter is between 30 and 300mm. The side effect is low and the technique is simple, thus being convenient for industrial production.

This invention relates a method of treating hyperproliferative diseases. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method of treating hyperproliferative diseases, such as cancer, comprising the step of administering to a mammal in need of such treatment, either simultaneously or sequentially, (i) a therapeutically effective amount of a taxane derivative, a platinium coordination complex selected from the group consisting of carboplatin, tetraplatin, and topotecan, a nucleoside analog selected from the group consisting of gemcitabine hydrochloride and 5-FU, an anthracycline, a topoisomerase selected from the group consisting of etoposide, teniposide, amsacrine, topotecan, and Camptosar®, an aromatase inhibitor; and (ii) a therapeutically effective amount of an isothiazole derivative. The combinations of the present invention may optionally include an anti-hypertensive agent. This invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions useful in the treatment of hyperproliferative diseases in mammals, containing such combinations. The present invention also relates to kits having a first compartment with a compound of formula 1 and a second compartment containing a taxane derivative, a platinum coordination complex, a nucleoside analog, an anthracycline, a topoisomerase inhibitor, or an aromatase inhibitor and a third compartment containing an anti-hypertensive agent.

The invention relates to a method for screening anthracycline cardiotoxicity genes through mRNA expression profiles and competitive endogenesis RNA expression profiles jointly. The method includes the steps that expression values of a large quantity of genes are detected through mRNA and competitive endogenesis RNA expression profile chips, and the correlations of all the genes are ordered; the obtained mRNA feature genes and the obtained competitive endogenesis RNA feature genes are combined; a gene pool is subjected to further gene selection with a genetic algorithm; differential expression genes are selected by comparing the data between different samples of mRNA and competitive endogenesis RNA joint expression profiles of breast cancer patients, breast cancer AIC patients and able-bodied persons; the differential expression genes are predicted, and the genes with the scores larger than 140 and free energy smaller than 20 are selected as reliable target genes; genes with obvious differences are selected from the target genes, and constructed breast-cancer anthracycline cardiotoxicity attacking target genes are verified through the residual RNA. By means of the method, more reliable potential gene markers related to anthracycline cardiotoxicity can be selected as a candidate.

The invention relates to a tumor-targeted sound and light power medicine-carrying nanometer nano-micelle, and a preparation method and a purpose thereof. The medicine-carrying nanometer nano-micelle is structurally characterized in that porphyrins compounds and anthracyclines chemotherapeutic medicine form a nanometer composition through a pi-pi conjugation effect; and amphiphilic block copolymers with PEO (polyoxyethylene) or PEG (polyethylene glycol) hydrophilic segments cover nanometer compounds through the hydrophobic effect to form a hydrophilic case. The medicine-carrying nanometer nano-micelle is in a regular spherical form, and has the advantages of uniform distribution, stable property and high medicine carrying capacity; the medicine can be conveyed to the tumor focus in the targeted way and can be effectively enriched in the tumor tissue; under the ultrasound (illumination) condition, the treatment effect of the anthracyclines chemotherapeutic medicine on the tumor can be obviously enhanced; and the tumor drug resistance can be effectively reversed. Wide clinic application prospects can be realized in an aspect of combined tumor treatment by a sound (light) power therapy method and chemotherapy.

The present invention relates to the use of cardiac hormones, particularly natriuretic peptides, for diagnosing the risk of suffering from a cardiovascular complication, particularly heart disease or acute coronary syndrome, as a consequence of cardiotoxic medication, in particular chemotherapeutics, including anthracyclines. In particular, the invention relates to a method for diagnosing the risk of a patient who is going to receive cardiotoxic medication of suffering from a cardiovascular complication as a consequence of the cardiotoxic medication, comprising the steps of (a) taking a body fluid or tissue sample, and (b) measuring, preferably in vitro, the level of a cardiac hormone. Preferred cardiac hormones in the context of the present invention are ANP, NT-proANP, BNP, and NT-proBNP.