1140 results about "Doxorubicin" patented technology

The present invention concerns methods and compositions for treatment of HIV infection in a subject. The compositions may comprise a targeting molecule against an HIV antigen, such as an anti-HIV antibody or antibody fragment. The anti-HIV antibody or fragment may be conjugated to a variety of cytotoxic agents, such as doxorubicin. In a preferred embodiment, the antibody or fragment is P4 / D10. Other embodiments may concern methods of imaging, detection or diagnosis of HIV infection in a subject using an anti-HIV antibody or fragment conjugated to a diagnostic agent. In alternative embodiments, a bispecific antibody with at least one binding site for an HIV antigen and at least one binding site for a carrier molecule may be administered, optionally followed by a clearing agent, followed by administration of a carrier molecule conjugated to a therapeutic agent.

The invention relates to conjugates of anti-integrin specific antibodies with cytotoxic compounds, the synthesis, selection, and use of such conjugates for use in cancer therapy or other diseases mediated by cell proliferation, cell migration, or inflammation and which pathology involves angiogenesis or neovascularization of new tissue. In addition the invention relates to combination therapy of such diseases wherein the treatment comprises use of said conjugates in combination with one or more other treatment modalities including but not limited to: chemotherapy, surgery or radiation therapy. The preferred conjugates contain maytansinoid compounds linked to the antibody by a disulfide linkage, and preferred chemotherapeutic agents are doxorubicin, a taxane, a camptothecin, a podophyllotoxin, a nucleoside analog, or a pyrimidine analog.

Chemotherapeutic treatment for certain cancers may be combined with low intensity, intermediate frequency alternating electric fields that are tuned to a particular type of target cell. When the tuned fields were combined with Paclitaxel, Doxorubicin or Cyclophosphamide, excellent results were obtained against human breast cancer cells (MDA-MB-231) and non-small cell lung (H1299) carcinomas in culture. More specifically, cell proliferation inhibition similar to that obtained by drug alone was reached by exposure to the combined treatment at drug concentrations between one and two orders of magnitude lower than for drug-only regimens of treatment.

The present invention provides a medicinal composition having an excellent antitumor activity. That is, it provides a medicinal composition comprising a sulfonamide compound, a sulfonate compound or a salt of them, which is represented by the following formula: (wherein ring A represents an aromatic ring which may have a substituent group; ring B represents a 6-membered unsaturated hydrocarbon ring which may have a substituent group etc.; ring C represents a 5-membered hetero-ring containing one or two nitrogen atoms, and the ring C may have a substituent group; W represents a single bond or -CH=CH-; X represents -NH- etc.; and Y represents a carbon atom or a nitrogen atom; and Z represents -NH- etc.), particularly N-(3-chloro-1H-indol-7-yl)-4-sulfamoylbenzenesulfonamide or a salt thereof, combined with at least one substance selected from (1) irinotecan hydrochloride trihydrate; (2) mitomycin C; (3) 5-fluorouracil; (4) cisplatin; (5) gemcitabine hydrochloride; (6) doxorubicin; (7) taxol; (8) carboplatin; (9) oxaliplatin; (10) capecitabine; and (11) a salt of the above-mentioned (1) to (10).

The present invention provides a method for treating tumors or tumor metastases in a patient, comprising administering to said patient simultaneously or sequentially a therapeutically effective amount of a combination of an anti-cancer agent or treatment that elevates pAkt levels in tumor cells and an IGF-1R kinase inhibitor of Formula (I) (e.g. OSI-906). Examples of such anti-cancer agents or treatments include doxorubicin, cisplatin, and ionizing radiation. The present invention also provides a pharmaceutical composition comprising an anti-cancer agent that elevates pAkt levels in tumor cells and an IGF-1R kinase inhibitor of Formula (I), in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. The present invention also provides a method of identifying tumor cells that will respond most favorably to treatment with a combination of an anti-cancer agent or treatment that elevates pAkt levels in tumor cells and an IGF-1R kinase inhibitor.

Conjugates of transferrin, albumin and polyethylence glycol consisting of native or thiolated transferrin or albumin or of polyethylene glycol (MW between approximately 5,000 and 20,0000) with at least one HS-, HO- or H2N group and cytostatic compounds derived through maleinimide or N-hydroxysuccinimide ester compounds, such as doxorubicin, daunorubicin, epirubicin, idarubicin, mitoxandrone, chloroambucil, melphalan, 5-fluorouracyl, 5'-desoxy-5-fluorouridine, thioguanine, methotrexate, paclitaxel, docetaxel, topotecan, 9-aminocamptothecin, etoposide, teniposide, mitopodoside, vinblastine, vincristine, vindesine, vinorelbine or a compound of general formula A, B, C or D, where n=0-6, X=-NH2, -OH, -COOH, -O-CO-R-COR*, -NH-CO-R-COR*, where R is an aliphatic carbon chain with 1-6 carbon atoms or a substituted or unsubstituted phenylene group and R* H, phenyl, alkyl with 1-6 carbon atoms.

This invention relates to new uses of anti-CD40 antibodies in the treatment of diseases or conditions associated with neoplastic B-cell growth in particular use of anti-CD40 antibodies in combination with cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine and prednisone (CHOP). The invention is particularly useful for the treatment of patients who have previously been administered (i) CHOP, (ii) the chimeric anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody rituximab, or (iii) combination therapy with CHOP and rituximab.

Chemotherapeutic treatment for certain cancers may be combined with low intensity, intermediate frequency alternating electric fields that are tuned to a particular type of target cell. When the tuned fields were combined with Paclitaxel, Doxorubicin or Cyclophosphamide, excellent results were obtained against human breast cancer cells (MDA-MB-231) and non-small cell lung (H1299) carcinomas in culture. More specifically, cell proliferation inhibition similar to that obtained by drug alone was reached by exposure to the combined treatment at drug concentrations between one and two orders of magnitude lower than for drug-only regimens of treatment.

The present invention provides oral dosage forms and compositions for administering antineoplastic agents, such as irinotecan, etoposide, paclitaxel, doxorubicin and vincristine, whose oral effectiveness is limited by pre-systemic and systemic deactivation in the GI tract. Gelling of the gastric retention vehicle composition, and in the case of solid forms concomitant expansion of the composition, retains the antineoplastic drug in the patient's stomach, minimizing pre-systemic and / or systemic deactivation of the drug.

A group of new compounds, N-(all-trans-Retinoyl)-L-cysteic acid, N-(13-cis-Retinoyl)-L-cysteic acid, N-(all-trans-Retinoyl)-L-cysteinesulfinic acid, N-(13-cis-Retinoyl)-L-cysteinesulfinic acid, N-(all-trans-Retinoyl)-L-homocysteic acid, N-(13-cis-Retinoyl)-L-homocysteic acid, and sodium salts of these compounds, including sodium salts of their esters and amides, is shown to exhibit therapeutic effects per se, and which compounds in combination with cytotoxic compounds, such as docetaxel, paclitaxel, doxorubicin and mitoxantrone, exhibit a synergistic effect. These compounds make it possible to manufacture new formulations of poorly soluble pharmaceutical compounds, and the present invention discloses a process of manufacturing water-soluble formulations of such compounds, exemplified by docetaxel, and paclitaxel, exhibiting enhanced pharmacological activity, and formulations of water-soluble pharmaceuticals exemplified by doxorubicin and mitoxantrone, exhibiting improved therapeutic efficacy.

The present invention concerns methods and compositions for treatment of HIV infection in a subject. The compositions may comprise a targeting molecule against an HIV antigen, such as an anti-HIV antibody or antibody fragment. The anti-HIV antibody or fragment may be conjugated to a variety of cytotoxic agents, such as doxorubicin. In a preferred embodiment, the antibody or fragment is P4 / D10. Other embodiments may concern methods of imaging, detection or diagnosis of HIV infection in a subject using an anti-HIV antibody or fragment conjugated to a diagnostic agent. In alternative embodiments, a bispecific antibody with at least one binding site for an HIV antigen and at least one binding site for a carrier molecule may be administered, optionally followed by a clearing agent, followed by administration of a carrier molecule conjugated to a therapeutic agent.

The invention provides a human antibody that binds human CSF-1R with high affinity. Antibodies of the present invention have significant advantages over the antibodies known in the art by being multifunctional: inhibiting signaling of CSF-1R, internalizing and inducing CSF-1R degradation and stimulating ADCC in cell including tumors, macrophages and monocytes. They are also shown to be effective in treating leukemia, breast, endometrial and prostate cancer alone or in combination with docetaxel, paclitaxel, Herceptin® or doxorubicin.

The invention discloses a tumor-targeted nanometer drug delivery system for cooperative chemotherapy and photodynamic therapy and a preparation method thereof. The drug delivery system is prepared from carboxymethyl chitosan, folate, a photosensitizer chlorine e6 and adriamycin, wherein the chlorine e6 and the folate are coupled to a carboxymethyl chitosan chain segment through an amido bond, and are loaded to polymer nanoparticles of the adriamycin through an ion exchange method. The nanometer material prepared by the method is high in yield, regular in shape and even in distribution. In-vivo and in-vitro experiments prove that the tumor targeting property of the nanometer preparation can be significantly improved by folate receptor mediation; enrichment on the tumor part is achieved and drug release is controlled. The photosensitizer is capable of effectively reversing the chemotherapy drug resistance and significantly inhibiting the growth of tumors after being irradiated by near-infrared light. Therefore, the related nanometer drug delivery system has good application prospect in the aspect of breast cancer treatment.

Compositions which comprise an anthracycline agent, and a cytidine analog are encapsulated in liposomal carriers. The preferred anthracycline agent is selected from the group of daunorubicin, doxorubicin, and idarubicin, while the preferred cytidine analog is selected from the group of cytarabine, gemcitabine, or 5-azacytidine. The combination of the anthracycline agent and cytidine analog encapsulated in said liposomal carriers are useful in achieving a drug retention and a sustained drug release for each therapeutic agent.

The invention relates to a liver targeting anticancer nanometer prodrug system basing on dendritic polymer, provides a method for preparing the prodrug system and the uses thereof and belongs to the technical field of biological medicine as well as the technical field of nano medicine. With the polyethylene glycol modified PAMAM treelike polymer of distal liver targeting group (T) as a carrier (T-PEG-PAMAM) and Doxorubicin (DOX) as treatment drug, the invention obtains the prodrug (T-PEG-PAMAM-DOX) through the covalent bond connection with degradable lysosome between the carrier and the Doxorubicin. The invention further provides the application of the liver targeting anticancer nanometer prodrug system basing on the dendritic polymer in the preparation of drugs for treating solid tumors. With the long-acting cycle in blood, the liver targeting anticancer nanometer prodrug system basing on the dendritic polymer can enhance the phagocytosis of hepatoma cells on polymers nano-micelles, realize the active and passive targeting on liver tumor tissues, improve the clinical efficacy and the bioavailability of present liver cancer therapeutic drugs and lower toxic and side effects.

Methods of treating a human body for cancer are provided. In one aspect, a therapeutic amount of doxorubicin is administered in combination with ET-743 in a dose range between 0.5 and 1 mg / m2. In a related aspect, an effective therapeutic amount of ET-743 is administered in combination with doxorubicin in a dose range between 40 and 80 mg / m2.

The invention provides a nanometer capsule of a macromolecule adriamycin bonding medicine with a targeting function and a preparation method thereof. The nanometer capsule is mixed assembled with two block copolymers of poly ethylene glycol-polylactic acid, wherein the polylactic acid chain end of one block copolymer is connected with adriamycin, with a molar ratio of 98-70 percent in the nanometer capsule, while the poly ethylene glycol chain end of the other block copolymer is connected with lactose, with a molar ratio of 2-30 percent in the nanometer capsule. The adriamycin connected with the polylactic acid chain end is located in the capsule inner core, which is double protected by polylactic acid and poly ethylene glycol and has sustained release function; while the lactose connected with the poly ethylene glycol chain end is located in the outer layer of the capsule, which has targeting function and leads the nanometer capsule preferentially enter the cells carrying the lactose receptors.

The invention relates to a mesoporous nano silicon ball compound targeting drug delivery system as well as a preparation method and application thereof. The preparation method of the mesoporous nano silicon ball compound targeting drug delivery system comprises the following steps: 1) preparing amino-functionalized drug loading mesoporous silicon dioxide microspheres; 2) preparing hyaluronic acid-hydrosulphonyl polypeptide-adriamycin (HA-RGD-DOX); 3) preparing mesoporous microsphere-hyaluronic acid-hydrosulphonyl polypeptide-adriamycin--paclitaxel (MSNs-HA-RGD-DOX_PTX); and 4) preparing fluorescent marker modified mesoporous microsphere-hyaluronic acid-hydrosulphonyl polypeptide-adriamycin--paclitaxel compound (MSNs-HA-RGD-DOX-PTX). The mesoporous nano silicon ball compound targeting drug delivery system has the beneficial effects that firstly multi-targeting synergistic drug delivery is realized, multiple tumour cells and tissues can be killed, and reversal drug resistance is good; secondly, blood stability is excellent; thirdly, invisibility, drug release degree and controlled release properties are good; fourthly, in vivo tracing function is good; and fifthly, the mesoporous nano silicon ball compound targeting drug delivery system has good general applicability.

The present invention relates to a new method of adjuvant therapy in the treatment of early breast cancer, comprising administering six cycles of docetaxel, doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide to a patient in need thereof, wherein said dosages have a marked therapeutic effect when compared to other adjuvant therapies.

The invention relates to a folate-targeted reduction sensitive drug-carrying polymer nano-micelle as well as a preparation method and application thereof. The delivery carrier is prepared by taking anamphiphilic triblock copolymer PCL-ss-PEG-ss-PCL as a material, and a chemotherapeutic drug adriamycin amycin and a photosensitizer indocyanine green are entrapped in a hydrophobic core of the micelle. Besides, phospholipid DSPE-PEG-NH2 with an active group is introduced into the preparation process, the DSPE end of the phospholipid has strong hydrophobic property and is inserted into the hydrophobic PCL core of the polymer micelle, the flexible hydrophilic PEG long chain exists on the outer surface of the micelle, FA with a targeting effect is connected to a PEG active distal end of the surface of the polymer micelle, and functions of active tumor targeting and reduction response drug release are integrated. The folate-targeted reduction sensitive drug-carrying polymer nano-micelle disclosed by the invention has the advantages of being small in particle size, high in dispersion property, high in drug loading capacity and encapsulation efficiency and excellent in photothermal conversion effect, can realize reduced trigger drug release, fluorescence imaging of tumor sites, tumor targeting drug delivery and chemotherapy-photothermal combination therapy and improve the tumor inhibition effect, and has wide application prospects in the targeted combination therapy aspect of tumors.

The invention relates to methods and kits for the prediction of a likely outcome of chemotherapy in a cancer patient. More specifically, the invention relates to the prediction of tumour response to chemotherapy based on measurements of expression levels of a small set of marker genes. The set of marker genes is useful for the identification of breast cancer subtypes responsive to taxane based chemotherapy, such as e.g. a taxane-anthracycline-cyclophosphamide-based (e.g. Taxotere (docetaxel)-Adriamycin (doxorubicin)-cyclophosphamide, i.e. (TAC)-based) chemotherapy.

The invention relates to a dual-sensitivity amphiphilic polysaccharide-doxorubicin conjugate.According to the conjugate, hydrophobic antitumor drug doxorubicin is introduced in a polysaccharide framework through a connecting arm containing a disulfide bond and a hydrazone bond, so that the polysaccharide-doxorubicin conjugate has an amphiphilic property, can be self-assembled into a nano-micelle in water and directly used for tumor treatment, and can also be physically loaded with an antitumor drug to be used for antitumor treatment.The conjugate is mainly characterized in that after the nano-micelle reaches a focus, the disulfide bond in the connecting arm can be degraded specifically by high-concentration reduction substances in focus cells, and meanwhile the hydrazone bond in the connecting arm can be degraded in a special pH environment of the focus, so that the micelle is degraded, the drug is quickly released, and the treatment effect is improved; the antitumor drug is loaded in two modes of chemical conjugation and physical package, and therefore the joint treatment effect is achieved.The polysaccharide conjugate and a pharmaceutical composition can be used for injection or oral administration or external administration, can remarkably improve antitumor activity, and provides a new thought for development of the antitumor drug.

Nanosecond pulsed electric field (nsPEF) treatments of a tumor are used to cause the tumor to express calreticulin and stimulate an immune response against the tumor and other tumors in a subject. An immune response biomarker can be measured, and further nsPEF treatments can be performed if needed to stimulate or further stimulate the immune response. Cancers that have metastasized may be treated. The treatment can be combined with CD47-blocking antibodies, doxorubicin, CTLA-4-blocking antibodies, and / or PD-1-blocking antibodies. Electrical characteristics of nsPEF treatments can be based on the size, type, and / or strength of tumors and / or a quantity of tumors in the subject.

Nanosecond pulsed electric field (nsPEF) treatments of a tumor are used to cause the tumor to express calreticulin and stimulate an immune response against the tumor and other tumors in a subject. An immune response biomarker can be measured, and further nsPEF treatments can be performed if needed to stimulate or further stimulate the immune response. Cancers that have metastasized may be treated. The treatment can be combined with CD47-blocking antibodies, doxorubicin, CTLA-4-blocking antibodies, and / or PD-1-blocking antibodies. Electrical characteristics of nsPEF treatments can be based on the size, type, and / or strength of tumors and / or a quantity of tumors in the subject.

The invention provides application of dehydrogenated silibinin diether in the preparation of medicaments for preventing and treating leukemia and relates to medical application of lignin flavone silibinin to the prevention and treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia. Particularly, the invention relates to application of dehydrogenated silibinin diether, of which the seventh bit and the twentieth bit are substituted by 1-butylene, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof in the preparation of medicaments for preventing and treating chronic myeloid leukemia. Natural products of the silibinin are treated by simple steps to synthesize the compound. The pharmacological tests prove that the compound can potently inhibit the in-vitro proliferation of human chronic myeloid leukemia cell strains(K562) and adriamycin drug-resistant strains (K562 / ADR), and the IC50 values are 11.9+ / -1.6 micromoles and 15.9+ / -1.2 micromoles respectively.

The invention relates to a bifunctional polyethylene glycol and adriamycin conjugate and a preparation method thereof. The bifunctional polyethylene glycol and adriamycin conjugate is prepared in the following steps: modifying methoxy polyethylene glycol which serves as a raw material through hydroformylation, carrying out a reductive amination reaction on the modified methoxy polyethylene glycol and disulfide-bond containing dihydrazide to generate terminal-hydrazide polyethylene glycol, and carrying out a reaction on the terminal hydrazide of the terminal-hydrazide polyethylene glycol and the ketone carbonyl of the adriamycin to generate a hydrazone bond to obtain the bifunctional polyethylene glycol and adriamycin conjugate. The bifunctional polyethylene glycol and adriamycin conjugate provided by the invention can adapt to the reductive acidic environment in a cancer cell to release drugs rapidly to improve the cancer treatment effect and reduce the drug resisting possibility of the cancer cell, and in addition, the bifunctional polyethylene glycol and adriamycin conjugate can be self-assembled into a nano particle in a water phase to be able to circulate for a long time in blood to improve the pharmacokinetics of the doxorubicin. The method for preparing the bifunctional polyethylene glycol and adriamycin conjugate has the advantages of simple process, mild reaction conditions, high drug carrying rate and low cost, and the raw materials are easy to obtain. The bifunctional polyethylene glycol and adriamycin conjugate has potential application values in the aspects of targeted delivery of drugs, controlled release of drugs and improvement of clinical cancer resisting and treating effects.

The invention discloses a self-emulsifying doxorubicin nanometer medicament, which is prepared by connecting carbonyl of 8-hydroxyl acetyl on doxorubicin and hydrophilic groups by in-vivo degradable chemical bonds; and a precursor of the medicament introduces small molecular hydrophilic groups or hydrophilic polymer short chains into hydrophobic doxorubicin (DOX) molecules, so that the DOX molecules are hydrophilic-hydrophobic molecules. The self-emulsifying doxorubicin nanometer medicament can be subjected to self-assembly in water to form nanometer granules or nanometer vesicles, can target tumor tissues by utilizing the enhanced permeability and retention (EPR) effect, and has the characteristics of maintaining the high cytotoxicity of the doxorubicin, along with high medicament carrying capacity, and small toxic and side effects. The invention also discloses a preparation method for the self-emulsifying doxorubicin nanometer medicament which has high medicament carrying capacity and high yield and is suitable for industrial production.

Elastin-like polypeptide (ELP) serves as a vector for thermally-targeted delivery of therapeutics, including cytotoxic chemotherapeutic drugs such as doxorubicin. Examples of an ELP-based delivery vehicle can comprise: (1) a cell penetrating peptide, such as a Tat protein, (2) ELP, and (3) the lysosomally degradable glycylphenylalanylleucylglycine (GFLG) spacer and a cysteine residue conjugated to therapeutic such as doxorubicin, or a analog thereof.