87 results about "Anti depressant" patented technology

The present invention is an improvement in the treatment of mania and depression by administering topiramate in a sustained-release formulation. The sustained-release formulation of the present invention may also be co-administered with anti-psychotics and anti-depressants.

The invention discloses a preparation method of an agomelatine I type crystal which is an anti-depressant. The preparation method comprises the following steps of: dissolving crude agomelatine in a hydrophily organic solvent, filtering, dropping the filtrate into water under stirring, separating out solids and drying; wherein the weight part ratio of the hydrophily organic solvent to the water is 1:2-50. The agomelatine I type crystal prepared by the invention has excellent quality, good reproducibility, and high purity of HPLC normalization method to be above 99 percent, and is more suitable for large-scale industrialization production.

A method of treating a bipolar disorder in a subject in need thereof is disclosed. The method comprising administering to the subject sa therapeutically effective amount of a miR-135, a precursor thereof or a nucleic acid molecule encoding said miR-135 or said precursor thereof, thereby treating the bipolar disorder. Methods of diagnosing a mood disorder in a human subject and of monitoring treatment of an anti-depressant drug or a medicament for the treatment of a mood disorder are also disclosed.

The invention provides a kit for detecting anti-depressant drugs in serum and plasma by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry. The kit comprises drug standard substances, drug internal standardization compounds, drug extraction compositions, negative plasma and a diluent. The drug standard substances comprise amfebutamone, oxybupropion, citalopram, Escitalopram, venlafaxine, O-desmethylvenlafaxine, duloxetine, fluoxetine, norfloxetine, fluvoxamine, mirtazapine, paroxetine, sertraline and trazodone. The drug internal standardization compounds comprise amfebutamone-d9, oxybupropion-d6,citalopram-d6, venlafaxine-d6, O-desmethylvenlafaxine-d6, duloxetine-d3, fluoxetine-d6, norfloxetine-d6, fluvoxamine-d4, mirtazapine-d3, paroxetine-d6, sertraline-d3 and trazodone-d6. The drug extraction compositions comprise, by volume, 60% of methanol solution, 20% of acetonitrile solution, 10% of isopropyl alcohol solution and 10% of purified water. The diluent comprises 50 % of methanol waterfluid. The kit can be used for simultaneous detection of the anti-depressant drugs and active metabolites, the detection time is short, and flux is high.

The present invention provides materials and methods for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease, such as ulcerative colitis, by administering to a patient a nicotine composition comprising an anti-depressant in an amount effective to alleviate symptoms of the disease.

A preparation containing vitamin D₃ (cholecalciferol), preferably an edible oil, in an amount of 200 IU to 20,000 IU, preferably 1000 IU to 5000 IU, and most preferably about 1500 IU to 3500 IU, with about 2000 IU particularly preferred. Such a preparation is useful in providing adequate nutrition, in the prevention and/or treatment of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), fall prevention, multiple sclerosis, chemoprevention of cancer, accelerated fracture healing, and metabolic syndrome. It acts as an anti-depressant, an anti-hypertensive for renovascular hypertension and high-renin hypertension; and is useful in hyperlipidemia treatment, as well as in the treatment of hypovitaminosis D in the renal failure population. The most important application to the present inventors is in treatment, prevention and also reversal of hypertension in renovascular and high-renin hypertension. The effective amount of vitamin D, based on blood serum content, is equal to or greater than 20 ng/mL, preferably equal to or greater than 40 ng/mL, and most preferably equal to or greater than 50 ng/mL, with no specific upper range, but preferably equal to or less than 200 ng/mL, and more preferably equal to or less than 100 ng/mL.

The present invention provides, inter alia, methods for enhancing the anti-depressant efficacy of a selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitor (SSRI) in a patient being treated for a mood disorder. These methods include administering to a patient in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of an SSRI and a therapeutically effective amount of a modulator of histone expression. Also provided are methods for identifying a patient population that suffers from a mood disorder that is more likely to respond to SSRI treatment. Further provided are compositions for treating or ameliorating the effects of a mood disorder.

The invention discloses a pharmaceutical composition for treating and preventing depression and a preparation method of the pharmaceutical composition. The composition consists of radix bupleuri extract, Chinese angelica extract and white atractylodes rhizome extract. According to the pharmacological experiment results, the pharmaceutical composition can be used for obviously reducing dead time in a mouse forced swimming test and a mice hanging test, remarkably increasing chronic temperature and the weight and the sweet water eccentricity of an unpredictable depression model, and has an obvious anti-depression effect which can reach or exceed that of the existing clinical common anti-depression drugs.

The invention discloses a drug for treating depression. The drug is prepared by evenly mixing 0.3-99.7 parts by weight of industrial hemp seed extract and 99.7-0.3 parts by weight of industrial cannabinoid. It is proved through experiments that the drug can significantly shorten the tail suspension immobilization time of mice of a behavioral despair depression model and significantly shorten immobility time of forced swimming, has an obvious anti-depressant effect on a mouse depression model caused by reserpine and can significantly increase the frequency of spontaneous activities of the mice, and the effects are all superior to those of cannabidiol. The drug can be used for preparing drugs for treating various depression symptoms including endogenous depression, reactive depression, masked depression, secondary depression caused by drugs, climacteric or postnatal depression, depression caused by cerebral trauma or cerebral apoplexy, diabetes combined depression and depressive neurosis and used for preparing drugs for treating symptoms such as secondary learning memory decline and anhedonia caused by depression.

A method to increase both the libido and sexual responsiveness in a mammalian female. The method comprises the steps of administering a compound having a combination of DHEA, Yohimbe and L-arginine to that female. When a woman's decreased or absent libido, currently referred to in the medical literature as hypoactive sexual desire, is believed in the gynecologic/urologic communities to be caused by a decreased "testosterone effect', such treatment may be beneficial. This decreased "testosterone effect' can be due to normal aging, contraceptive medications, anti-depressant medication, a lowered cholesterol diet or a decreased percentage of body fat as a result of a rigorous exercise regime. This present invention defines those three above-stated specific nutritional supplements with specific physiological effects well documented in the peer reviewed medical literature. This combination of nutritional supplements increases the testosterone effect in both the brain as well as in the clitoral tissues, to improve a woman's libido, without prescription testosterone preparations, or the uncertainties of non-medically proven herbal remedies.

17-Methylenandrostan-3alpha-ol analogs are useful as corticotropin releasing hormone (CRH) inhibitors, and especially as anti-depressants, when administered to the vomeronasal organ. An improved synthesis of 17-methylenandrost-4-en-3alpha-ol is disclosed.

The invention discloses a sargassum horneri beta-sitosterol compound and an extracting method thereof. The sargassum horneri beta-sitosterol compound has remarkable anti-depression effect, and animal experiments in an embodiment show that beta-sitosterol can remarkably reduce dead time of mice in a mouse forced swimming test and a tail suspension test, takes effect quickly, is small in toxic and side effects (TD50 is greater than 2,000 mg/kg), and can be used for a long time, and pharmacological properties of the sargassum horneri beta-sitosterol compound which has high value and serves as anti-depression drug are shown. The beta-sitosterol compound is abundant in source of raw materials and is low in price, the extracting method is simple, and the beta-sitosterol compound can be prepared into anti-depression drugs in various dosage forms.

The invention includes methods for treating tobacco addiction and nicotine addiction of patients, alleviating nicotine withdrawal symptoms, providing or promoting curative effect of smoking cessation treatment and as long-term smoking cessation maintenance treatment. The invention also relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising a nicotine receptor antagonist and an antidepressant or an anxiolytic. A specific combination of drugs (mecamylamine hydrochloride and bupropion hydrochloride) and a pharmaceutical composition formed by combining mecamylamine with certain types of drugs (such as anxiolytics and antidepressants) are disclosed. These compositions are also contemplated for use in the treatment of cocaine addiction and the treatment of alcohol dependence.

The invention discloses a semen ziziphi spinosae alkaloid monomer composition zizyphusine, and a preparation method and application thereof. Zizyphusine is prepared by performing adsorption on semen ziziphi spinosae medicinal material by macroporous adsorption resin column to obtain semen ziziphi spinosae total alkaloids, performing further separation on extractive by alumina column chromatography, and finally separating eluates by HPLC. The preparation method is stable, repeatable, and high in yield, and the obtained high-purity monomer composition can be used as a contrast sample. Pharmacodynamic experiments show that the semen ziziphi spinosae alkaloid monomer zizyphusine is the active composition of semen ziziphi spinosae for giving play to resolve stagnation for tranquilization, has the effect of preventing and treating insomnia and depression, is applicable to research and development of antidepressants, is free of toxic and side effects, and has no disadvantages such as exciting uneasiness, anuria, constipation, vertigo, tremble and the like possessed by conventional antidepressants.

Use of a pharmacodynamic active ingredient of ganoderma lucidum in preparing anti-depressant drugs, and anti-depressant drugs comprising the pharmacodynamic active ingredient of ganoderma lucidum, the pharmacodynamic active ingredient being ganoderic acid A or a derivative of ganoderic acid A, the derivatives being glycoside compounds of ganoderic acid A with pharmaceutically acceptable salts, esters or sugar thereof.

The present invention relates to a method for alleviation, prevention, and treatment of attention deficit disorder, sexual dysfunction, and related conditions by administering certain bioactive metabolites of the known anti-depressant compound gepirone. In a preferred embodiment, the compound is 4,4,-dimethyl-3-hydroxy-1-[4-[4-(2-pyrimidinyl)-1-piperazinyl]butyl]-2,6-piperidinedione (3-OH gepirone).

The invention concerns substituted amino isoxazoline derivatives, more in particular tricyclic dihydrobenzopyranoisoxazoline, dihydroquinolinoisozazoline, dihydronaphthalenoisoxazoline and dihydrobenzothiopyranoisoxazoline derivatives substituted on the phenylpart of the tricyclic moiety with primary, secondary and/or tertiary amino groups, according to Formula (I)

wherein X=CH₂, N—R⁷, S or O, R¹, R² and R³ are certain specific substituents, with the proviso that at least one of R¹ and R² is an amino radical of formula N—R¹⁰R¹¹ wherein R¹⁰ and R¹¹ are each a variety of radicals, Pir is an optionally substituted piperidyl or piperazyl radical and R³ represents an optionally substituted aromatic homocyclic or heterocyclic ring system including a partially or completely hydrogenated hydrocarbon chain of maximum 6 atoms long with which the ring system is attached to the Pir radical and which may contain one or more heteroatoms selected from the group of O, N and S; a process for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions comprising them and their use as a medicine, in particular for the treatment of depression and/of anxiety and disorders of body weight. The compounds according to the invention have surprisingly been shown to have a serotonin (5-HT) reuptake inhibitor activity in combination with additional α₂-adrenoceptor antagonist activity and show a strong anti-depressant activity without being sedative. Compounds according to the invention are also suitable for treating depression, anxiety and body weight disorders. The invention also relates to novel combination of substituted amino isoxazoline derivatives according to the invention with antidepressants, anxiolytics and/or antipsychotics to improve efficacy and/or onset of action.

The present invention relates to an improved process for the synthesis of enantiomerically pure 3-phenyl-3-hydroxypropylamine of formula I; more particularly the present invention relates to the said process using styrene; the synthetic strategy features a Sharpless asymmetric dihydroxylation (SAD) route to the target compound, using styrene, a readily accessible starting material gives the optically pure dihydroxy compound (ee >97%; the selective monotosylation of primary alcohol, nucleophilic displacement by cyano and subsequent reduction to amino group furnishes the desired 3-phenyl-3-hydroxypropylamine in enatiomerically pure form, a key intermediate in the synthesis of variety of oxetine related anti-depressant drugs.

The invention aims to provide a Chinese medicinal extract with an anti-depression effect and a preparation method and application thereof. The Chinese medicinal composition is screened from Chinese thorowax root-turmeric root-tuber prescription medicaments based on an anti-depression medicament system, and phenol components and terpene components in a Chinese thorowax root-turmeric root-tuber prescription are obtained by means of steam distillation, ethanol extraction and porous adsorption resin purification enrichment. As proved by a pharmacological experiment, the medicinal composition can be used for improving the depressive behavior of a model mouse, shortening the standing time of the mouse and restraining the body temperature drop caused by reserpine, thereby preventing and treating depression.

The present invention relates to a drug combination therapy. The combination of esveratrol and piperine are used for treating depression. Animal experiments show that the combination of esveratrol and piperine has a good anti-depressant effect, and is a relatively promising natural anti-depressant medicament, and can be used for the preparation of a medicament for the treatment of depression.