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Drug eluting coating compositions are composed of at least one therapeutic agent dispersed in modified, biologically active binders. The therapeutic agents included in the coating composition are paclitaxel, sirolimus, tacrolimus, everolimus, actinomycin-D, dexamethasone, mycophenolic acid, cyclosporins, estradiol, and derivatives and analogs thereof. These therapeutic agents are applied to the surface of the medical device by a modified, biologically active binders. By using these biologically active binders, the therapeutic agents can be applied to at least one surface of a medical implant without using inert polymer carriers.

Serum-free media for growth and proliferation of chondrocytes and mesenchymal stem cells in culture are provided. A serum-free medium for growth of chondrocytes includes a serum-free composition comprising FGF-2, linoleic acid, ascorbic acid, B-mercaptoethanol, transferrin and dexamethasone. Further, the composition comprises EGF, PDGFbb, insulin and albumin. A method for growing chondrocytes in a serum free medium comprising the compostion is also provided. Also provided for mesenchymal stem cell growth, is a serum-free medium which includes a composition comprising FGF-2, LIF, SCF, pantotenate, biotin and selenium and method, therefore.

The combination of an interleukin-6 (IL-6) antagonist and an antiproliferative drug is described. In its preferred embodiment, the present invention describes the combination of an IL-6 superantagonist, particularly a superantagonist totally incapable of binding gp130 and an antiproliferative drug belonging to the glucocorticoid class (SANT-7 and dexamethasone). The combination according to the present invention has shown surprising synergism in an animal model of multiple myeloma and the ability to overcome the resistance to the antiproliferative drug developed by myeloid cells. The combination according to the present invention is useful for the preparation of a medicament for the treatment of tumours, particularly IL-6-dependent tumours.

The invention relates to a human mesenchymal stem cell culture medium. According to the culture medium, the basal culture medium comprises the following components based on the final concentration: 1-2g / L of human serum albumin, 5-10mg / L of transferring, 2-8mg / L of fibronectin, 1-4mg / L of laminin, 50g / L of Fe(NO3)3.9H2O, 417g / L of FeSO4.7H2O, 1-3mu g / L of estradiol, 2-5mu g / L of testosterone, 1-3mu g / L of progesterone, 39.25-117.74 mu g / L of dexamethasone, 5-10mg / L of insulin, 376.36mg / L of riboflavin, 80.96-242.87mg / L of coenzyme A, 4.41-6.17mg / L of butanediamine, 1-2mg / L of taurine, 0.61-1.85mg / L of aminoethanol, 8.81-26.42mg / L of pyruvic acid, 3.78-7.56mu g / L of sodium selenate, 292.3-584.6mg / L of L-glutamine, 2-8mu g / L of vascular endothelial growth factor, 4-10mu g / L of epidermal growth factor, 4-10mu g / L of basic fibroblast growth factor, 1-5mu g / L of leukaemia inhibitory factor, 1-5mu g / L of insulin-like growth factor-I and 2-8mu g / L of stem cell factor. The culture medium does not contain the animal serum, the potential animal endogenous endotoxin or virus of the animal serum is eliminated, and the culture medium is conveniently applied to clinics.

Methods of modulating uptake of extracellular lysosomal enzymes by administering a pharmaceutical agent and methods of treating a lysosomal storage disease (such as Gaucher disease, Pompe disease, Fabry disease or Niemann-Pick disease) or enhancing enzyme replacement therapy or gene therapy, comprising administering a pharmaceutical agent such as dexamethasone, glucose or insulin, are provided.

A method of propagating mammalian endodermally derived progenitors such as hepatic progenitors, their progeny, or mixtures thereof is developed which includes culturing mammalian progenitors, their progeny, or mixtures thereof on a layer of embryonic mammalian feeder cells in a culture medium. The culture medium can be supplemented with one or more hormones and other growth agents. These hormones and other growth agents can include insulin, dexamethasone, transferrin, nicotinamide, serum albumin, beta-mercaptoethanol, free fatty acid, glutamine, CUSO4, and H2SeO3. The culture medium can also include antibiotics. Importantly, the culture medium does not include serum. The invention includes means of inducing the differentiation of the progenitors to their adult fates such as the differentiation of hepatic progenitor cells to hepatocytes or biliary cells by adding, or excluding epidermal growth factor, respectively. The method of producing mammalian progenitors is useful in that the progenitors can be used subsequently in one or more of the following processes: identification of growth and differentiation factors, toxicological studies, drug development, antimicrobial studies, or the preparation of an extracorporeal organ such as a bioartificial liver.

The invention relates to combinations comprising an HDAC inhibitor and an immunomodulatory drug for the treatment of multiple myeloma in a subject in need thereof. The combinations may, optionally, further comprise an anti-inflammatory agent, such as dexamethasone. Also provided herein are methods for treating multiple myeloma in a subject in need thereof comprising administering to the subject an effective amount of one of the above combinations.

Medical devices comprising an interventional component for delivering multiple beneficial agents in which a hydration inhibitor controls release of at least one beneficial agent from the device. The hydration inhibitor is relatively less hydrophilic than the beneficial agent and preferably is a drug. Suitable beneficial agents include (I) dexamethasone, estradiol, anti-proliferative agents, anti-platelet agents, anti-inflammatory agents, anti-thrombotic agents, cytotoxic drugs, agents that inhibit cytokine or chemokine binding, cell de-differentiation inhibitors, anti-lipacdemic agents, matrix metalloproteinase inhibitors, cytostatic drugs, or combinations of these drugs, radiopaque markers, beta-carotene, tocopherols, tocotrienols, and antioxidants

Methods of making room temperature-curable polymers. Reactants include siloxane-terminated polymers and silanols. The reactants are mixed, and the polymerization allowed to proceed in air at room temperature. The polymers are exceptionally useful because they allow for the incorporation into the polymers themselves of one or more therapeutic compounds. Thus, medical devices from which controlled drug release is desirable (for either local or systemic delivery) can be coated with therapeutic compound-containing polymers of the invention. In a preferred embodiment, a polymer of poly(MPCw:LAMx:HPMAy:TSMAz) where w, x, y, and z represent the molar ratios of monomers used in the feed for preparing the polymer; MPC represents the unit 2-methacryoyloxyethylphosphorylcholine, LMA represents the unit lauryl methacrylate, HPMA represents the unit 2-hydroxypropyl methacrylate, and TSMA represents the unit 3-trimethoxysilylpropyl methacrylate is reacted with polydimethylsiloxane. In another preferred embodiment, a therapeutic compound is incorporated into the polymer, such as dexamethasone.

The invention provides an inducing method and inducing culture medium for differentiation of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells into osteoblasts in vitro. The inducing culture medium is composed of 1*10<-8> mol / L of dexamethasone, 50 mu mol / L of ascorbic acid and 10 mmol / L of sodium beta-glycerophosphate; and solvent is a supernatant of a sclerite complete culture medium and comprises 10% of fetal calf serum, 100 U / mL of penicillin, 100 mg / L of streptomycin, a mixture of DMEM culture fluid and F12 culture fluid and multiple growth factors secreted by bone cells in the sclerite culture process. According to the invention, bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells of a mouse are purified by replacing the cell culture fluid through an adherent cell passage method, the obtained cells of the first generation are induced, and the supernatant of the sclerite complete culture medium cultured for 72-96 hours is used as the solvent of osteoblast differentiation inducer, thereby obviously improving the in vitro osteogenic differentiation efficiency of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells.

OX40L inhibits the generation of IL-10-producing Tr1 cells from naïve and memory CD4+ T cells induced by the immunuosuppressive drugs dexamethasone and vitamin D3. This unique function of OX40L is not shared by two other costimulatory TNF-family members, GITR-ligand and 4-1BB-ligand. OX40L also strongly inhibits the generation of IL-10-producing Tr1 cells induced by two physiological stimuli provided by inducible costimulatory ligand and immature DCs and inhibits the production of IL-10 by regulatory T cells. It has thus been shown that signaling the OX40-receptor on human T cells by monoclonal antibodies, small molecules, or OX40L regulates the generation and function of IL-10 producing immunosuppressive T cells. Also provided are high throughput methods for identifying substances that promote or inhibit the generation and function of IL-10 producing T cells. Numerous disease states, such as human allergic, autoimmune, and autoimmune diseases, and cancer, may be treated by targeting OX40 / OX40L.

Methods for the simple, reliable application and local controlled release of selected anti-arrhythmia drugs from a hydrogel applied to or polymerized on the tissues of the heart or its vessels, especially in conjunction with cardiac bypass or other cardiac surgery, have been developed. The anti-arrhythmia drugs are incorporated along with an anti-inflammatory agent into hydrogels that biodegrade and adhere to the tissues to which the anti-arrhythmic drugs are to be delivered. The hydrogels may be formed in vitro or in vivo. In a preferred embodiment, the drugs are effective to lengthen atrial effective refractory period and minimize the inflammatory response. A particularly preferred drug is amiodarone and dexamethasone.

The invention discloses a medicament formula for relieving pain caused by infusion medicament and preventing phlebitis. The medicament formula can be used for relieving pain caused by intravenous supplementing potassium, infusion mannitol, azithromycin, fructose diphosphate sodium and chemotherapeutic medicaments, and can be used for effectively preventing and treating extravasation phlebitis caused by long-term use of a remaining needle, infusion of vein high-nutrition medicaments, infusion of chemotherapeutic medicaments, infusion extravasation and the like. According to the medicament formula, 20-35ng of anisodamine, 6-13ml of lidocaine, 15-26mg of dexamethasone and 4-6ml of glycerin are arranged in a sterile kidney basin, sterile gauze is coated above a puncture part after being uniformly wetted, and an external preservative film is wound on the gauze. The medicinal formula has the advantages of continually and efficiently relieving local pain caused by infusion medicaments, and effectively preventing and treating local inflammation, swelling pain and stripped cable change caused by infusion.

The invention provides a proliferation culture medium and differentiation culture medium for hepatocyte culture and liver organ preparation. The proliferation culture medium and the differentiation medium both take a culture medium for growth of mammalian cells as a basic culture medium, and an agent for supplementing L-glutamine, a pH value modifier for maintaining the pH values of the culture media stable, a primary cell culture antibiotic, a serum substitute, N-acetylcysteine, arbitrary nicotinamide and any one or more of a BMP inhibitor, a Wnt agonist, a growth factor, a Rock signaling pathway inhibitor, a P38 signal path inhibitor, a Notch signal path inhibitor, dexamethasone, BMP7 and a cAMP activator are added into the culture media. By using the culture media for culturing liver cells, functional liver organs can be obtained.

The invention belongs to the field of traditional Chinese medicine pharmacy, and relates to the novel medical usage of icaritin, in particular to the usage of icaritin in preparation of medicine for preventing and treating endotoxemia. Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is used for stimulating the macrophage system RAW264.7 of a mouse and establishing an extraneous endotoxic inflammation model, LPS is used for stimulating the C57BL / 6J mouse and establishing the endotoxemia animal model, icaritin is adopted for intervention, and dexamethasone is used as reference. The experiment result shows that the icaritin can reduce the death rate, the level of the inflammatory factor, the inflammatory mediator and the adhesion molecules and infiltration of inflammatory cells of the tissue after the mouse is attacked by endotoxin, and proves that the icaritin can effectively prevent and treat endotoxemia and can be used for further preparing effective drug for preventing and treating endotoxemia, including dosage forms such as oral and enteric capsules or intravenous injections.

The invention provides a composition and a method for inducing mesenchymal stem cells to be differentiated to cartilage cells. The composition comprises 20-80 uM of L-ascorbic acid-2-phosphate, 2-10 ng / ml of TGF beta 3, 50-150 nM of dexamethasone, 10-50 ug / ml of vitamin C, 10-50 ug / ml of proline, 0.5-5 ug / ml of indometacin, 1xITS+1premix and 0.5-10 ug / ml of chlormadinone ester. The combination when being used as an inducer of a culture medium can improve differentiation activity and differentiation directionality.

An analgesic composition, is disclosed which comprises a mixture of piroxicam, dexamethasone, ketamine, lidocaine injection, dimethyl sulfoxide, gabapentin and Vanicream™, preferably in the form of a cream or ointment. The composition is applied topically for the relief of pain of arthritis, neuropathy, post-herpetic (shingles) conditions, sore muscles, tendons and ligaments, and local reactions to insect bites or stings.

A method of treating blepharitis includes administering to the affected eye of a subject an effective amount of an active ingredient in an ophthalmically acceptable vehicle for a sufficient period of time to treat blepharitis. The active ingredient consists essentially of a glucocorticoid in an ophthalmically acceptable vehicle that includes an aqueous polymer suspension that when mixed with tear fluid provides a sustained release of said active ingredient. The aqueous polymer suspension includes a carboxyl-containing polymer having less than about 5% by weight cross-linking agent and has a viscosity in a range from about 1,000 to about 30,000 centipoises. A kit includes: (a) a composition comprising about 0.1% by weight dexamethasone in this ophthalmically acceptable vehicle and (b) instructions for using the composition of (a) for the treatment of blepharitis.

Genes encoding the transcription factors controlling the core circadian oscillator (BMAL, Clock, NPAS, Per) and their regulatory targets (Rev-erbα, Rev-erb) have been found in adipose tissue. The circadian pattern of these genes was entrained using restricted feeding. The circadian gene expression profiles were examined in mice and in undifferentiated and adipocyte-differentiated human adipose stem cells following exposure to nuclear hormone receptor ligands (dexamethasone or thiazolidinedione) or 30% fetal bovine serum. All three agents induced the initiation of a cyclic expression profile in representative circadian genes in the human adipose stem cells. The circadian genes studied displayed an oscillatory expression profile, characterized by both a zenith and nadir within a 24-28 hr phase. The circadian gene pattern has been lengthened with use of an inhibitor of glycogen synthase kinase 3 beta. Modulation of the circadian pattern to lengthen or shorten can be used to affect weight gain or loss, respectively.

The invention relates to a method for inducing differentiation from mesenchymal stem cells to cartilage cells and application of the mesenchymal stem cells in osteoarthritis, and provides a method for preparing umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells differentiated to the cartilage cells, mesenchymal stem cells differentiated to the cartilage cells and application of the prepared drug prepared by the mesenchymal stem cells in treatment of the osteoarthritis. The method comprises the following steps of: inducing and culturing the mesenchymal stem cell in a 15ml taper-bottom centrifuge tube by using a globule method; and slightly shaking the centrifuge tube for one time every 24 hours to separate cell sphere from the bottom of the tube, wherein the differentiation inducing culture medium is prepared by adding 100mu g / ml of sodium pyruvate, 10ng / ml TGFbeta3, 100nM of dexamethasone, 25mu g / ml of vitamin C, 40mu g / ml of proline and 1*ITS and 1 of premix into a high-glucose dulbecco modified eagle medium (DMEM). A non-bracket cartilage built by the method can be used for repairing damaged articular cartilages.

Disclosed is a cornea middle term preserving fluid which comprises RPMI 1640 culture liquid, chondroitin sulfate, hyaluronic acid, HEPES cushioning liquid, dexamethasone, low-molecular-weight seaweed polysaccharides, Tobramycin or vancomycin, the preserving fluid has stabilized cell activity during storage period, and higher endothelial cell metabolizing function can be maintained than the US's Opthiol.

The invention discloses a method for inducing human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells in vitro into liver cells and application thereof. The method comprises the following steps of: at the culture logarithmic growth phase of human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells, adding a liver cell induced differentiation culture medium and performing differentiated induction to obtain the liver cells formed by the differentiation of the human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells. The liver cell induced differentiation culture medium consists of the basic culture medium is an IMDM culture medium containing 10 to 70 ng / ml of liver cell growth factor, 3 to 30 ng / ml of fibroblast growth factor, 4.5 to 50 ng / ml of oncostatin, 2 to 40 ng / ml of alkali fibroblast growth factor, 20 ng / ml of epidermal growth factor, 1 mu M of dexamethasone and 50 mg / ml of ITS+premix. The method has the characteristics of one step method, simplicity, high repeatability, short duration time of differentiation process and good induced differentiation effect. The method can be applied to the research on turning mesenchymal stem cells into liver cells by induced differentiation.

The invention provides a kit and method for inducing differentiation from bone mesenchymal stem cells to osteoblasts. The kit comprises an osteoblast inducing culture solution and an osteoblast identification solution, wherein the inducing culture solution comprises a cell culture solution A, a cell culture solution B, a cell culture solution C, a cell culture solution D and a cell culture solution E; the osteoblast identification solution comprises a cell immobilizing solution, coloring agents and a detergent; the cell culture solution A is an alpha-minimum essential medium (MEM) liquid culture medium; the cell culture solution B is fetal bovine serum; the cell culture solution C is a dexamethasone solution; the cell culture solution D is a beta-sodium glycerophosphate solution; the cell culture solution E is a vitamin C solution; the cell immobilizing solution is 4% paraformaldehyde; the coloring agents include sodium thiosulfate, silver nitrate and neutral red; and the detergent is double distilled water.

The invention discloses a method for producing an important steroid hormone dexamethasone methyl tetraenes (5ST) intermediate, which comprises the following steps of: dissolving a methyl dehydrate into an organic solvent, adding a reducing agent into the solution at the temperature of between 5 DEG C below zero and 20 DEG C, and performing one-step reaction to obtain methyl tetraenes with less than 0.8 percent of single impurity, wherein the reducing agent is a mixed reducing agent of 1 to 15 weight parts of chromium trichloride and 0.2 to 8 weight parts of zinc powder. The method for producing the 5ST shortens the reduction reaction into one-step reaction from three-step reaction so as to save the reaction time and facilitate the operation. The method reduces the consumption of chemical raw materials and dangerous goods, reduces the environmental pollution, and reflects the environment-friendly idea of green chemistry.

Methods of modulating uptake of extracellular lysosomal enzymes by administering a pharmaceutical agent and methods of treating a lysosomal storage disease (such as Gaucher disease, Pompe disease, Fabry disease or Niemann-Pick disease) or enhancing enzyme replacement therapy or gene therapy, comprising administering a pharmaceutical agent such as dexamethasone, glucose or insulin, are provided.

A method of propagating mammalian endodermally derived progenitors such as hepatic progenitors, their progeny, or mixtures thereof is developed which includes culturing mammalian progenitors, their progeny, or mixtures thereof on a layer of embryonic mammalian feeder cells in a culture medium. The culture medium can be supplemented with one or more hormones and other growth agents. These hormones and other growth agents can include insulin, dexamethasone, transferrin, nicotinamide, serum albumin, β-mercaptoethanol, free fatty acid, glutamine, CuSO4, and H2SeO3. The culture medium can also include antibiotics. Importantly, the culture medium does not include serum.The invention includes means of inducing the differentiation of the progenitors to their adult fates such as the differentiation of hepatic progenitor cells to hepatocytes or biliary cells by adding, or excluding epidermal growth factor, respectively.The method of producing mammalian progenitors is useful in that the progenitors can be used subsequently in one or more of the following processes: identification of growth and differentiation factors, toxicological studies, drug development, antimicrobial studies, or the preparation of an extracorporeal organ such as a bioartificial liver.

The invention relates to a dexamethasone-RGD polypeptide conjugate shown as general formula i, a preparation method thereof and application. In the formula i, RGDX is tetrapeptide Arg-Gly-Asp-X, wherein X is any amino acid of Val, Phe and Ser. Proved by experiments, the compound of the present invention has excellent immunosuppressive effect and anti-inflammatory effect, and the side effects of osteoporosis is reduced. The conjugate can be used as an immunosuppressant and anti-inflammatory agent for the side effect of low osteoporosis clinically. At the same time, the dexamethasone-RGD polypeptide conjugate of the present invention can self-assemble into stable nanoparticles with particle size of 200-500 nm, therefore the conjugate can be prepared into a target drug of immunosuppressive pharmacosome, microemulsion or liposome.

The present invention relates generally to methods for treating cancer. In one respect, the present invention relates to a method of treating a hematological cancer (e.g., multiple myeloma, leukemia, lymphoma) comprising administering to a patient in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of a histone deacetylase inhibitor, for example, a histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitor as described herein, for example, PXD-101. In another respect, the present invention relates to a method of treating cancer (e.g., solid tumour cancer, e.g., rectal cancer, colon cancer, ovarian cancer; hematological cancer, e.g., multiple myeloma, leukemia, lymphoma) comprising administering to a patient in need thereof, a first amount of a histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitor, for example, a histone deacetylase inhibitor as described herein, for example, PXD-101, and a second amount of an other chemotherapeutic agent, for example, an other chemotherapeutic agent selected from: an antibody against VEGF, Avastin®, an antibody against CD20, rituximab, bortezomib, thalidomide, dexamethasone, vincristine, doxorubicin, and melphalan, wherein the first and second amounts together comprise a therapeutically effective amount.

The invention provides an induced culture method of liver cells, particularly provides a method for directional induced differentiation of human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells into liver cells and more particularly relates to a method for staged directional induced differentiation of human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells into liver cells by extracting human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells from abandoned umbilical cords through a cell climbing sheet technique, culturing the extracted stem cells, and adding an epidermal growth factor, dexamethasone, a liver cell growth factor, oncostatin and the like.