410 results about "Anti angiogenic" patented technology

The invention relates generally to methods for inhibiting angiogenesis. More particularly, methods for inhibiting angiogenesis comprise selectively inhibiting phosphoinositide 3-kinase delta (PI3Kδ) activity in endothelial cells. The methods may comprise administration of one or more cytotoxic therapies including but not limited to radiation, chemotherapeutic agents, photodynamic therapies, radiofrequency ablation, anti-angiogenic agents, and combinations thereof.

The present invention is directed to using neomycin or an analogue thereof as an therapeutic agent to treat angiogenesis-related diseases, which are characterized by excessive, undesired or inappropriate angiogenesis or proliferation of endothelial cells. The present invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising (a) neomycin or an analogue and, optionally, (b) another anti-angiogenic agent or an anti-neoplastic agent. The present invention is further directed to a method for screening neomycin analogues having anti-angiogenic activity. A preferred embodiment of the invention relates to using neomycin to treat subjects having such diseases.

The present invention provides compositions comprising an anti-angiogenic factor, and a polymeric carrier. Representative examples of anti-angiogenic factors include Anti-Invasive Factor, Retinoic acids and derivatives thereof, and taxol. Also provided are methods for embolizing blood vessels, and eliminating biliary, urethral, esophageal, and tracheal/bronchial obstructions.

The present invention relates to compositions and methods for treating conditions associated with angiogenesis. In particular the present invention relates to multi-unit complexes of tRNA synthetase fragments and uses thereof; diverse multi-unit complexes including a tRNA synthetase fragment; compositions and methods for modulating angiogenesis; polynucleotides encoding tRNA synthetase fragments and uses thereof; antibodies and epitopes specific to tRNA synthetase fragments; variants of tRNA synthetase fragments and uses thereof; methods for treating angiogenesis; methods for screening for anti-angiogenic agents; methods of modulating angiogenesis; kits for modulating angiogenesis; and business methods for modulating angiogenesis. Preferably the tRNA synthetase fragments are tryptophanyl tRNA synthetase fragments, and more preferably human tryptophanyl tRNA synthetase fragments.

To gain a better understanding of brain tumor angiogenesis, new techniques for isolating brain endothelial cells (ECs) and evaluating gene expression patterns were developed. When transcripts from brain ECs derived from normal and malignant colorectal tissues were compared with transcripts from non-endothelial cells, genes predominantly expressed in the endothelium were identified. Comparison between normal- and tumor-derived endothelium revealed genes that were specifically elevated in tumor-associated brain endothelium. These results confirm that neoplastic and normal endothelium in human brains are distinct at the molecular level, and have significant implications for the development of anti-angiogenic therapies in the future.

The present invention relates to development of efficacious intravitreal pharmaceutical compositions comprising a poorly water soluble agent with anti-angiogenic and/or anti vascular leakage properties in a therapeutically effective amount and a co-solvent in a suitable amount to treat or prevent diseases due to ocular neovascularization and enhanced vascular permeability. Other aspects of the invention details the development of efficacious compositions for the treatment of the said diseases via periocular, topical and oral administration.

The invention provides generally a method of monitoring, diagnosing, prognosing and treating glioma. Specifically, the invention provides for three (3) prognostic subclasses of glioma, which are differentially associated with activation of the akt and notch signaling pathways. Tumor displaying neural or proneural PN lineage markers (including notch pathway elements) show longer median patient survival, while the two remaining tumor markers Prolif and Mes are associated with shortened survival. Tumors classified in this manner may also be treated with the appropriate PN- Prolif- or Mes-therapeutic corresponding to the subclassification in combination with anti-mitotic agents, anti-angiogenic agents, Akt antagonists, and neural differentiation agents. Alternatively, the invention also provides for method of prognosing and diagnosing glioma with a two-gene model based on the expression levels of PTEN and DLL3.

PCT No. PCT/AU96/00238 Sec. 371 Date Oct. 28, 1997 Sec. 102(e) Date Oct. 28, 1997 PCT Filed Apr. 24, 1996 PCT Pub. No. WO96/33726 PCT Pub. Date Oct. 31, 1996Sulfated oligosaccharides, wherein the oligosaccharide has the general formula I:R1-(Rx)n-R2(I)wherein R1 and R2 and each Rx represents a monosaccharide unit, all of which may be the same or different, adjacent monosaccharide units being linked by 1->2, 1->3, 1->4 and/or 1->6 glycosidic bonds and n is an integer of from 1 to 6, and use thereof as anti-angiogenic, anti-metastatic and/or anti-inflammatory agents.

Anti-angiogenic peptides that inhibit activation or proliferation of endothelial cells are disclosed. Such peptides may be used to inhibit VEGF binding to the VEGFR2 receptor (also known as the kinase domain receptor or KDR) and bFGF binding to its receptor. Such peptides may also be used to inhibit, VEGF, bFGF, or integrin activation of endothelial cells in angiogenesis-associated diseases such as cancer, leukemia, multiple myeloma, inflammatory diseases, eye diseases and skin disorders.

The present invention relates to development of efficacious pharmaceutical compositions comprising an anti-angiogenic compound in a therapeutically effective amount complexed with or encapsulated in a cyclodextrin derivative.

Proteins with anti-angiogenic properties are disclosed, and fragments thereof, and methods of using those proteins and fragments to inhibit or promote angiogenesis.

Restenosis is inhibited through local delivery of anti-restenotic agents including angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors; nicotine receptor agonists, agents that increase concentrations of nitric oxide, anti-angiogenic agents, agonists of the TGF-beta receptor; death domain receptor ligands; and thrombin inhibitors. In one embodiment of the invention, the localized delivery is effected through the use of a stent modified for delivery of the agent at the site of injury from balloon angioplasty.

The present invention is related to dilatable medical products having short-term contact with the organism, as e.g. balloon catheters coated with at least one layer of at least one antiproliferative, immunosuppressive, anti-angiogenic, anti-inflammatory, fungicidal and/or anti-thrombotic agent and a transport mediator or a mixture of transport mediators, methods for coating of these coated dilatable medical products and the use of compositions for this coating.

The invention relates to biodegradable vascular supports consisting of an inner biodegradable metal skeleton and an outer polymeric coating. The biodegradable coating preferably consists of biodegradable polymers and can also contain at least one pharmacologically active substance such as an anti-inflammatory, cytostatic, cytotoxic, anti-proliferative, anti-microtubule, anti-angiogenic, anti-restenotic (anti-restenosis), anti-fungicidal, anti-neoplastic, anti-migrative, athrombogenic and/or antithrombogenic active ingredient.

The object of the present invention is to find a pharmaceutical composition and a method for treating cancer that show an excellent antitumor effect. Combinational use of 4-(3-chloro-4-(cyclopropylaminocarbonyl)aminophenoxy)-7-methoxy-6-quinolinecarboxamide and analogues thereof can result in an excellent antitumor effect when combined with a substance having a c-kit kinase-inhibiting activity.

The invention relates to the preparation of a functional area of a sea purse blood vessel growth inhibition factor 1 and the use of the functional area of the sea purse blood vessel growth inhibition factor 1 in medicaments for preventing and curing tumors. In the invention, a gene engineering technique is used to realize the cloning, expression and recombination of the sea purse blood vessel growth inhibition factor 1; the recombinant functional fragment of the sea purse blood vessel growth inhibition factor 1 has the bioactivities for resisting the growth of blood vessels, tumor growth, tumor transplantation, acute toxicity tests and stability tests; and the functional area of the sea purse blood vessel growth inhibition factor 1 can be mixed with or dissolved in pharmaceutically acceptable carriers to prepare the medicaments for curing various tumors. The functional area of the sea purse blood vessel growth inhibition factor 1 has high action specificity, has the characteristics of easy expression, low degradation rate and the like of gene engineering medicaments and has the effects of inhibiting blood vessel growth, tumor growth and tumor transplantation; the provided gene engineering technique can realize the industrial production of the functional area of the sea purse blood vessel growth inhibition factor 1; and the functional area of the sea purse blood vessel growth inhibition factor 1 prepared by the gene engineering technique can be used in the preparation of medicaments for inhibiting blood vessel growth and preventing and curing tumors.

Glycolytic inhibitors are useful in the treatment of solid tumors by attacking anaerobic cells at the center on the tumor. 2-deoxyglucose, oxamate and various analogs thereof are identified as having a natural selective toxicity toward anaerobic cells, and will significantly increase the efficacy of standard cancer chemotherapeutic and radiation regiments as well as new protocols emerging with anti-angiogenic agents.

The present invention is directed to a method of inhibiting at least one of vascular leakage, inflammation and fibrosis in an animal by administering to the animal a vascular leakage inhibiting amount of a composition, wherein at a substantially higher amount the composition is effective in inhibiting angiogenesis, and wherein the anti-angiogenic activity of the composition is separate from the vascular leakage inhibiting activity of the composition. The animal experiencing at least one of vascular leakage, inflammation and fibrosis has a disease selected from the group consisting of diabetes, chronic inflammation, brain edema, arthritis, uvietis, macular edema, cancer, hyperglycemia, a kidney inflammatory disease, a disorder resulting in kidney fibrosis, a disorder of the kidney resulting in proteinuria, and combinations thereof. The composition capable of inhibiting at least one of vascular leakage, inflammation and fibrosis is selected from the group consisting of angiostatin, fragments of angiostatin, analogs or derivatives of angiostatin, kringle 5 of plasminogen, fragments of kringle 5 of plasminogen, analogs or derivatives of kringle 5 of plasminogen, pigment epithelium-derived factor, fragments of pigment epithelium-derived factor, analogs or derivatives of pigment epithelium-derived factor and combinations thereof.

This invention relates to novel synthetic lytic peptide fragments of full-length peptides with the capacity to modulate angiogenic activity in mammals. The invention also relates to the use of such peptides in pharmaceutical compositions and in methods for treating diseases or disorders that are associated with angiogenic activity.