1690 results about "Chemotherapeutic drugs" patented technology

The present invention relates to methods and compositions for the treatment of Hodgkin's Disease, comprising administering proteins characterized by their ability to bind to CD30, or compete with monoclonal antibodies AC10 or HeFi-1 for binding to CD30, and exert a cytostatic or cytotoxic effect on Hodgkin's disease cells in the absence of effector cells or complement. Such proteins include derivatives of monoclonal antibodies AC10 and HeFi-1. The proteins of the invention can be human, humanized, or chimeric antibodies; further, they can be conjugated to cytotoxic agents such as chemotherapeutic drugs. The invention further relates to nucleic acids encoding the proteins of the invention. The invention yet further relates to a method for identifying an anti-CD30 antibody useful for the treatment or prevention of Hodgkin's Disease.

The present invention relates to methods and compositions for the treatment of Hodgkin's Disease, comprising administering proteins characterized by their ability to bind to CD30, or compete with monoclonal antibodies AC10 or HeFi-1 for binding to CD30, and exert a cytostatic or cytotoxic effect on Hodgkin's Disease cells. Such proteins include derivatives of monoclonal antibodies AC10 and HeFi-1. The proteins of the invention can be human, humanized, or chimeric antibodies; further, they can be conjugated to cytotoxic agents such as chemotherapeutic drugs. The invention further relates to nucleic acids encoding the proteins of the invention. The invention yet further relates to a method for identifying an anti-CD30 antibody useful for the treatment or prevention of Hodgkin's Disease.

The present invention relates to methods and compositions for the treatment of Hodgkin's Disease, comprising administering proteins characterized by their ability to bind to CD30, or compete with monoclonal antibodies AC10 or HeFi-1 for binding to CD30, and exert a cytostatic or cytotoxic effect on Hodgkin's disease cells in the absence of effector cells or complement. Such proteins include derivatives of monoclonal antibodies AC10 and HeFi-1. The proteins of the invention can be human, humanized, or chimeric antibodies; further, they can be conjugated to cytotoxic agents such as chemotherapeutic drugs. The invention further relates to nucleic acids encoding the proteins of the invention. The invention yet further relates to a method for identifying an anti-CD30 antibody useful for the treatment or prevention of Hodgkin's Disease.

The present invention relates to novel fluorescent dyes, novel fluorogenic and fluorescent reporter molecules and new enzyme assay processes that can be used to detect the activity of caspases and other enzymes involved in apoptosis in whole cells, cell lines and tissue samples derived from any living organism or organ. The reporter molecules and assay processes can be used in drug screening procedures to identify compounds which act as inhibitors or inducers of the caspase cascade in whole cells or tissues. The reagents and assays described herein are also useful for determining the chemosensitivity of human cancer cells to treatment with chemotherapeutic drugs. The present invention also relates to novel fluorogenic and fluorescent reporter molecules and new enzyme assay processes that can be used to detect the activity of type 2 methionine aminopeptidase, dipeptidyl peptidase IV, calpain, aminopeptidase, HIV protease, adenovirus protease, HSV-1 protease, HCMV protease and HCV protease.

A pyrrolobenzodiazepine dimer compound of Formula (I): or pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof is useful as a therapeutic agent for the treatment of leukaemias, especially B-cell leukaemias, that exhibit resistance to other chemotherapeutic drugs, wherein: the dotted lines indicate the optional presence of a double bond between C1 and C2 or C2 and C3; R² and R³ are independently selected from —H, ═O, ═CH₂, —CN, —R, OR, halo, ═CH—R, O—SO₂—R, CO₂R and COR; R⁶, R⁷ and R⁹ are independently selected from II, R, OII, OR, SII, SR, NII₂, NIIR, NRR′, nitro, Me₃Sn and halo; where R and R′ are independently selected from optionally substituted C_1-12 alkyl, C_3-20 heterocyclyl and C_5-20 aryl groups; R¹⁰ is a carbamate-based nitrogen protecting group and R¹⁵ is either O—R¹¹, wherein R is an oxygen protecting group, or OH, or R¹⁰ and R¹⁵ together form a double bond between N10 and C11; R″ is a C_3-12 alkylene group, which chain may be interrupted by one or more heteroatoms and/or aromatic rings, and each X is independently selected from 0, S, or NH; R^2′, R^3′, R^6′, R^7′, R^9′, R^10′ and R^15′ are all independently selected from the same lists as previously defined for R², R³, R⁶, R⁷, R⁹, R¹⁰ and R¹⁵ respectively.

The present invention relates to the use of a non-lethal preparative regimen for the treatment of a patient with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease. In a clinical trial, an HIV-positive patient was conditioned by non-lethal doses of irradiation and a chemotherapeutic drug prior to receiving donor bone marrow cells from a baboon. While long-term engraftment of donor cells was not observed, the non-lethal preparative conditioning regimen was able to reduce the viral burden and improved the clinical outcome. Such method is useful for treatment of patients with advanced acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).

A method of stimulating an immune response to a tumor in an immunocompetent subject by administering a p53 expression construct to a tumor. The construct expresses p53 in tumor cells in an amount sufficient to stimulate an immune response against the tumor. Both viral and non-viral delivery systems are contemplated. The method can be combined with chemotherapy agents as well as with other cancer therapies.

The invention discloses a full-function liquid medicine preparation intelligent robot and a medicine preparation method thereof. The full-function liquid medicine preparation intelligent robot comprises a shell, a medicine rack, a bottle taking mechanical arm, a liquid pumping mechanical arm, a bottle clamping mechanism and a liquid medicine shaking device, and is characterized in that: the shellis provided with an operating door with a seal; the medicine rack is arranged in the shell and corresponds to the operating door; the medicine rack has a rotary structure with more than two side faces; and each side face of the medicine rack is provided with accommodating areas for different medicines, and an indoor constant temperature and disinfecting cotton ball accommodating area. The intelligent robot has the property of full functions of preparing medical liquid, nutrient solution and chemical therapy medicines, radically changes the traditional mode of preparing cytotoxic medicines andthe manual preparation environment, has the characteristics of accurate liquid preparation, sterile preparation process and no cross-infection, protects the health safety of medical workers, avoids the leakage of the cytotoxic medicines, is environment-friendly, and saves cost of hospital medication and labor cost.

The present invention provides compositions useful in treating drug-resistant microorganisms and cells, as well as related methods of identifying and using such compositions. In addition, the present invention includes compositions useful in enhancing the sensitivity of both drug-resistant and drug-sensitive microorganisms and cells to microbicidal and cytotoxic agents, including antibiotics and chemotherapeutic drugs. Methods of identifying these compositions, as well as methods of using these agents in treating both drug-resistant and drug-sensitive diseases and conditions are further provided.

The reagent, pharmaceutical formulation, kit, and methods of the invention provides a new approach to alleviate or eliminate certain negative effects associated with the use of certain cancer treatment agents (e.g. chemotherapy therapeutics, etc.) or regimens (e.g. radio therapies, etc.), including stimulation of the hypoxic stress response in tumor cells.

A method, using high intensity ultrasound, which may also be combined with a chemotherapy agent, that can result the direct destruction of tumor cells and in the reduction or elimination of local reoccurrence of cancer after removal of cancerous tissue, such as a surgical breast lumpectomy or surgical excision of a brain tumor. The method comprises either (1) the treatment of the tumor directly with High Intensity Focused Ultrasound, or (2) the treatment of the margins of the tissue surrounding the surgical cavity or void with ablative continuous wave high intensity ultrasound and a combination of a locally delivered chemotherapy agent and high intensity ultrasound, termed sonoporation. The present invention permits both the direct destruction (ablation) of tumor tissue as well as the destruction of tissue around the surgical margin and may include the enhanced local cellular uptake of locally injected chemotherapeutic drugs, all of which can be accomplished by a therapeutic ultrasound device used during surgery.

The presence of tumor nodules in organs often results in serious clinical manifestations and the permeation by cancer cells of sheaths surrounding organs often produces clinical manifestations of pleural effusion, ascites or cerebral edema. The present invention addresses this problem by providing a method for treating tumors comprising (a) intratumoral administration of a superantigen and/or (b) intrathecal or intracavitary administration of a superantigen directly into the sheath. Intratumoral superantigen results in significant and sustained reduction of the tumor size. Intrathecal administration produces significant sustained reduction of the fluid accumulation associated with clinical improvement and prolonged survival. Useful superantigen compositions for intrathecal and intratumoral injection include tumoricidally effective homologues, fragments and fusion proteins of native superantigens. Also disclosed is combined therapy that includes intratumoral or intrathecal superantigen compositions in combination with (i) intratumoral low, non-toxic doses of one or more chemotherapeutic drugs or (ii) systemic chemotherapy at reduced and non-toxic doses of chemotherapeutic drugs.

The invention provides a lipidosome-polymer drug-loaded nanoparticle and a preparation method and application thereof. The lipidosome-polymer drug-loaded nanoparticle comprises a three-layer structure, wherein the innermost layer is the drug-loaded nanoparticles formed by taking an amphiphilic cationic polymer as a carrier-coated chemotherapeutic drug; the intermediate layer is a platelet inhibitor layer adsorbed onto the surface of the drug-loaded nanoparticles; and the outermost layer is a lipid bilayer connected with tumor microenvironment responsiveness polypeptides. The lipidosome-polymer drug-loaded nanoparticle disclosed by the invention is capable of specifically targeting tumor tissues, has tumor microenvironment responsiveness, and can achieve the effects of improving tumor vascular permeability without influencing functions of blood vessels at normal tissue or cell parts, enhancing permeability and retention of the drug-loaded nanoparticles to tumor cells, enhancing the EPR effect, improving enrichment of the drug-loaded nanoparticles at tumor location and realizing high tumor killing efficiency.

Disclosed are methods for treating cancer comprising administering a xenotypic antibody and a chemotherapeutic drug to a patient suffering from cancer. Also disclosed is a method for inducing a host immune response in a patient against a multi-epitopic in vivo tumor antigen present in the host serum, which antigen does not elicit an effective host immune response, comprising administering to the patient a chemotherapeutic drug and a composition comprising a binding agent that specifically binds to a first epitope on the antigen and allowing the binding agent to form a binding agent/antigen pair, wherein an effective host immune response is elicited against a second epitope on the antigen.

The invention discloses a mitochondrion-targeting nano-drug delivery system, comprising polyethylene glycol connected with TPP and thioketal linker connected with a chemotherapeutic drug, the polyethylene glycol and the thioketal linker are connected with each other through amino and carboxyl condensation. This system also comprises DSPE-PEG and a photosensitizer; the chemotherapeutic drug forms a hydrophobic core inside, a hydrophilic shell layer is formed in the center of the polyethylene glycol, a mitochondrion-targeting crown is formed outside the TPP, and the photosensitizer is of hydrophobic structure distributed inside the core and/or around the core. TPP is selectively positioned to mitochondrion. This system is ROS responsive, the photosensitizer is laser excited to release ROS, and ROS cuts the thioketal linker to release the chemotherapeutic drug and can carry out photodynamic therapy at the same time, thus enabling synergic therapy of mitochondrion-targeting photodynamic therapy and chemotherapy. The invention also discloses a preparation method and application of the mitochondrion-targeting nano-drug delivery system.

A generic structure for the peptides of the present invention includes A-X-B-C, where C is a cargo moiety, the B portion includes basic amino acids, X is a cleavable linker sequence, and the A portion includes acidic amino acids. The intact structure is not significantly taken up by cells; however, upon extracellular cleavage of X, the B-C portion is taken up, delivering the cargo to targeted cells. Cargo may be, for example, a contrast agent for diagnostic imaging, a chemotherapeutic drug, or a radiation-sensitizer for therapy. Cleavage of X allows separation of A from B, unmasking the normal ability of the basic amino acids in B to drag cargo C into cells near the cleavage event. X is cleaved extracellularly, preferably under physiological conditions. D-amino acids are preferred for the A and B portions, to minimize immunogenicity and nonspecific cleavage by background peptidases or proteases.

Therapeutic methods for inhibiting the growth of preneoplastic/neoplastic vertebrate cells that abnormally express MN protein are disclosed. Screening assays are provided for identifying compounds, preferably organic compounds, preferably aromatic and heterocylic sulfonamides, which inhibit the enzymatic activity of MN/CA IX and that are useful for treating patients with preneoplastic/neoplastic disease. Further, the CA IX-specific inhibitors when labeled or linked to an appropriate visualizing means can also be used diagnostically/prognostically for preneoplastic/neoplastic disease, and for imaging use, for example, to detect hypoxic precancerous cells, tumors and/or metastases, by selectively binding to activated CA IX, preferably CA IX activated under hypoxic conditions, and not to inactive CA IX. Such detection of hypoxic conditions can be helpful in determining effective treatment options, and in predicting treatment outcome and the prognosis of disease development. Still further, the CA IX-specific inhibitors can be used therapeutically to selectively target hypoxic cells expressing activated CA IX. The CA IX-specific inhibitors can be labelled or conjugated to radioisotopes for radiotherapy of hypoxic cells. Alternatively, the CA IX-specific inhibitors can be used for gene therapy coupled to vectors for targeted delivery to hypoxic preneoplastic/neoplastic cells expressing activated CA IX on their surfaces. In an alternative mode of the invention, CA IX-specific inhibitors may be used therapeutically to target acidic conditions of a tumor, e.g., to increase pHe in order to enhance the efficacy of weak base chemotherapeutic drugs.