46 results about "Cardioprotective Agent" patented technology

Medical devices, and in particular implantable medical devices, may be coated to minimize or substantially eliminate a biological organism's reaction to the introduction of the medical device to the organism. The medical devices may be coated with any number of biocompatible materials. Therapeutic drugs, agents or compounds may be mixed with the biocompatible materials and affixed to at least a portion of the medical device. These therapeutic drugs, agents or compounds may also further reduce a biological organism's reaction to the introduction of the medical device to the organism. In addition, these therapeutic drugs, agents and / or compounds may be utilized to promote healing, including the formation of blood clots. The drugs, agents, and / or compounds may also be utilized to treat specific diseases, including vulnerable plaque. Therapeutic agents may also be delivered to the region of a disease site. In regional delivery, liquid formulations may be desirable to increase the efficacy and deliverability of the particular drug. Also, the devices may be modified to promote endothelialization. Various materials and coating methodologies may be utilized to maintain the drugs, agents or compounds on the medical device until delivered and positioned. In addition, the devices utilized to deliver the implantable medical devices may be modified to reduce the potential for damaging the implantable medical device during deployment. Medical devices include stents, grafts, anastomotic devices, perivascular wraps, sutures and staples. In addition, various polymer combinations may be utilized to control the elution rates of the therapeutic drugs, agents and / or compounds from the implantable medical devices. Implantable medical devices may be coated or otherwise have affixed thereto agents for healing ischemic tissue.

The present invention relates to the compound of formula which is 4-hydroxy-4-methyl-piperidine-1-carboxylic acid(4-methoxy-7-morpholin-4-yl-benzothiazol-2-yl)-amide, and to pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salts thereof. It has been found that the compound is useful for the treatment or prevention of Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, neuroprotection, schizophrenia, anxiety, pain, respiration deficits, depression, ADHD (attention deficit hyper-activity disorder), drug addiction to amphetamines, cocaine, opioids, ethanol, nicotine, or cannabinoids, or for the treatment of asthma, allergic responses, hypoxia, ischemia, seizure, substance abuse, or for use as muscle relaxants, antipsychotics, antiepileptics, anticonvulsants and cardioprotective agents.

The invention provides compounds of Formula (I): and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates and stereoisomers thereof, wherein A, B, E, G, W, X, Y, Z, o, and R1 are as disclosed herein (“Compound(s) of the Invention”), which are useful as cardio-protective and / or neuro-protective agents. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising a Compound of the Invention and methods for treating, preventing and / or managing a vascular, cardiovascular or neurological disease or disorder, comprising administering to a patient in need thereof a Compound of the Invention.

The invention provides novel nucleic acids and polypeptides, referred to herein as stresscopin 1 and stresscopin 2, which preferentially activate the CRH-R2 receptor over the R1 receptor. Stresscopins, analogs and mimetics, and related CRH-R2 agonists suppress food intake and heat-induced edema; but do not induce substantial release of ACTH. Stresscopin also finds use in the recovery phase of stress responses, as an anti-inflammatory agent, as a hypotensive agent, as a cardioprotective agent, and in the treatment of psychiatric and anxiolytic disorders. Stresscopin nucleic acid compositions find use in identifying homologous or related proteins and the DNA sequences encoding such proteins; in producing compositions that modulate the expression or function of the protein; and in studying associated physiological pathways.

The invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising 5-Methoxytryptamine or a salt thereof for the prevention and / or treatment of mammalian cardiac tissue damage. 5-Methoxytryptamine and the salts thereof act as free radical scavengers in the prevention and / or treatment of mammalian cardiac tissue damage mediated by free oxygen radicals.

The present invention is related to benzothiophen-2-carbonylguanidine derivatives, a preparation method thereof, and pharmaceutical compositions containing the same. The derivatives have potent inhibitory effect on the sodium / hydrogen exchanger NHE-I, improve the functional recovery of ischemia / reperfusion-induced heart injury in isolated ischemic heart models, and significantly reduce the myocardiac infarct size in in vivo ischemic animal models, thereby showing excellent cardioprotective effects. Also, the derivatives are protective of both neuronal cells and the brain as proven by their protective effects on neuronal cells from necrosis and apoptosis and by their ability to significantly reduce cerebral infarct sizes in in vivo ischemic brain models. The derivatives can be effectively used for the prevention and treatment of ischemic heart diseases such as myocardiac infarction, arrhythmia, angina pectoris and the like, and cerebrovascular diseases such as cerebral stroke and be used as cardioprotective agents to the patients undergoing reperfusion therapy including chemicals such as thrombolytic agents, or surgery such as coronary artery bypass and percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty.

The present invention relates to the use of a single-cell protein material (SCP). The SCP material lowers the concentration of cholesterol in plasma, and triglycerides in the liver. SCP also induces a favourable change in the fatty acid pattern, and lowers the concentration of homocysteine in plasma. A preferable embodiment of the invention relates to the use of SCP as an anti-atherogenic and cardio protective agent, either given as a pharmaceutical or as nutritional composition, e.g. as a functional food.

The present invention relates to certain 1,2-dihydro-spiro[3H-indole-3,4′-piperidine]compounds of Formula (Ia): and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates and hydrates thereof, wherein G, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, and Ar are as disclosed herein (“Compound(s) of the Invention”), which are useful, for example, as cardio-protective and / or neuro-protective agents. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising a Compound of the Invention and methods for treating, preventing and / or managing a vascular, cardiovascular or neurological disease or disorder, comprising administering to a patient in need thereof a Compound of the Invention.

The present invention relates to compounds of formulae IA and IB wherein R1 and R2 are each independently lower alkyl or —(CH2)m—O-lower alkyl, or together with the N atom to which they are attached form a heterocyclic ring; R3 is hydrogen or lower alkyl; R4 is lower alkyl; hetaryl is 3H-imidazole-2,4-diyl or 1H-pyrazole-1,4-diyl; n is 1 or 2; and m is 1 or 2; and to pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salts thereof. These compounds may be used for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, neuroprotection, schizophrenia, anxiety, pain, respiration deficits, depression, ADHD, drug addiction, such as amphetamine, cocaine, opioids, ethanol, nicotine, cannabinoids, or for the treatment of asthma, allergic responses, hypoxia, ischaemia, seizure and substance abuse, or for use as sedatives, muscle relaxants, antipsychotics, antiepileptics, anticonvulsants and cardiaprotective agents for coronary artery disease and heart failure.

The present invention refers to isoxazole derivatives, in particular diarylisoxazole derivatives inhibitors of cyclooxygenase (COX), in particular cyclooxygenase-1 (COX-1), to their pharmaceutical compositions, the process for their preparation and their use for the chemoprevention and treatment of inflammatory syndromes and in the prevention and treatment of carcinomas, in particular intestinal, ovarian and cutaneous carcinomas, in the treatment of pain syndromes, in particular after surgery, and in the cardiovascular field as antithrombotics / vasoprotectives / cardioprotectives.

The present invention discloses new rocaglaol derivatives and the use of rocaglaol derivatives to prevent or to limit the cardiotoxicity of an antineoplastic agent, in particular to prevent or to limit the apoptosis of cardiomyocytes induced by such agent.

Biomarkers of anthracycline cardiotoxicity are provided. In certain aspects, methods are provided for determining whether a subject will develop cardiotoxicity upon treatment with an anthracycline, such as doxorubicin, by measuring the level of Top2b expression in the subject. In further aspects, methods of a treating a subjects with anthracycline therapeutics and cardioprotective agents are provided.

A problem of the present invention is to provide an agent which allows effective protection of cardiac damage in a case where a variety of symptoms such as arrhythmia, cardiac desmoplasia and heart-failure are likely to accompany with hypertension, hypercardia, myocardial infarction, arteriosclerosis, diabetic and non-diabetic renal diseases, and re-stenosis posterior to PTCA. The agent contains an effective amount of at least one protease inhibitor to administer intravenously or orally. The protease inhibitor is preferably a serine protease inhibitor. The serine protease inhibitor is preferably a chymotrypsin-like serine protease inhibitor. Concretely, it is a chymase inhibitor such as a peptide derivative of aryl diester of alpha-aminoalkylphosphonic acid which is Suc-Val-Pro-PheP(OPh)2, and preferably the enantiormer Suc-Val-Pro-L-PheP(OPh)2.

Novel isolated DNA sequences which comprise all or part of a gene cluster encoding sanglifehrin synthase, processing and regulatory genes involved in the biosynthesis of a mixed non-ribosomal peptide / polyketide compound, or mutants having altered biosynthetic capability, polypeptides or mutants thereof encoded by DNA or the mutants, vectors containing the DNA or the mutants thereof, host cells transformed with the DNA, the mutants thereof, or the vector, and a method for producing sanglifehrin compounds. Compounds with cyclophilin inhibition activity used as immunosuppressants, antivirals or cardiac protection agents.

Compounds represented by Formula (I) or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, are useful in the prophylactic or therapeutic treatment of diabetes, hyperglycemia, hypercholesterolemia, hyperinsulinemia, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, atherosclerosis or tissue ischemia e.g. myocardial ischemia, and as cardioprotectants.

(−)3-((S)-((2S,5R)-4-Allyl-2,5-dimethyl-1-piperazinyl)(3-thienyl)methyl)phenol and pharmaceutically acceptable esters or salts thereof, in essentially enantiomerically pure form have utility as a therapeutic agent for mediating analgesia and treating cardiac disorders, alcohol addiction, drug overdose, cough, lung edema, diarrhea, respiratory, and gastro-intestinal disorders.

The invention provides oxazinyl isoflavonoid compounds and compositions containing same, methods for their preparation and their use as therapeutic agents particularly as cardioprotective, anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant and chemotherapeutic agents.

Compounds represented by Formula (I): or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, are inhibitors of glycogen phosphorylase and are useful in the prophylactic or therapeutic treatment of diabetes, hyperglycemia, hypercholesterolemia, hyperinsulinemia, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, atherosclerosis or tissue ischemia e.g. myocardial ischemia, and as cardioprotectants.

Water-soluble derivatives and / or prodrugs of acacetin are described herein. The compounds can be used as cardioprotection agents against myocardial infarction induced by ischemia-reperfusion. In one embodiment the compounds are used to treat ischemic cardiac diseases. In the preferred embodiment, the compounds are used to treat and / or prevent myocardial infarction in humans.

Biomarkers of anthracycline cardiotoxicity are provided. In certain aspects, methods are provided for determining whether a subject will develop cardiotoxicity upon treatment with an anthracycline, such as doxorubicin, by measuring the level of Top2b expression in the subject. In further aspects, methods of a treating a subjects with anthracycline therapeutics and cardioprotective agents are provided.