327 results about "Estrogen receptor" patented technology

This invention describes a system for generating multiple simultaneous tunable electron and photon beams and monochromatic x-rays for all field simultaneous radiation therapy (AFSRT), tumor specific AFSRT and screening for concealed elements worn on to the body or contained in a container. Inverse Compton scattering renders variable energy spent electron and tunable monochromatic x-rays. It's spent electron beam is reused for radiation with electron beam or to generate photon beam. Tumor specific radiation with Auger transformation radiation is facilitated by exposing high affinity tumor bound heavy elements with external monochromatic x-rays. Heavy elements like directly iodinated steroid molecule that has high affinity binding to estrogen receptor in breast cancer and to iodinated testosterone in prostate cancer or with directly implanted nanoparticles into the tumor are exposed with tuned external monochromatic x-rays for tumor specific radiation therapy. Likewise, screening element's atom's k, l, m, n shell specific Auger transformation radiation generated by its exposure to external monochromatic x-rays is used to screen for concealed objects. Multiple beam segments from a beam storage ring or from octagonal beam lines are simultaneously switched on for simultaneous radiation with multiple beams. The beam on time to expose a tumor or an object is only a few seconds. It also facilitates breathing synchronized radiation therapy. The intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and intensity modulated screening for concealed objects (IMSFCO) is rendered by varying beam intensities of multiple simultaneous beams. The isocentric additive high dose rate from simultaneously converging multiple beams, the concomitant hyperthermia and chemotherapy and tumor specific radiation therapy and the AFSRT's very low radiation to the normal tissue all are used to treat a tumor with lower radiation dose and to treat a radioresistant and multiple times recurrent tumors that heave no other alternative treatments.

The present disclosure relates to methods of determining a treatment course of action. In particular, the present disclosure relates to mutations in the gene encoding estrogen receptor and their association with responsiveness to estrogen therapies for cancer.

Disclosed herein are systems, methods and compositions for rapidly and reversibly destabilizing a target protein in vitro or in vivo, in the presence or absence of a cell-permeable, synthetic molecule or ligand.

A novel classification system for breast cancer based on normal breast cell phenotypes and various expression levels of estrogen receptor (ER), androgen receptor (AR), and vitamin D receptor (VDR). The various categories of the classification system are associated with different survival rates and prognoses. The invention includes a method of classifying breast cancer comprises measuring the levels of ER, AR, and VDR in the cancerous tissue, and classifying the breast cancer into one of the above-noted categories according to expression levels. The invention includes a method of predicting the prognosis of breast cancer in a patient and a method of determining a treatment regimen for breast cancer depending on the category in which the breast cancer is classified. The invention includes a method of treating breast cancer according to the expression profile of ER, AR, and VDR detected in the cancerous tissue. Kits for detecting the same are also provided.

The various embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to compositions and methods for the targeted cellular delivery of nanoparticles. More particularly, the various embodiments of the present invention are directed to the cellular delivery of nanoparticles tethered to a ligand by way of a poly(ethylene glycol) linkage, wherein the ligand demonstrates a binding specificity for a cellular target. In an exemplary embodiment, the ligand is tamoxifen and the cellular target is the estrogen receptor, which is upregulated in many breast cancer cells.

Disclosed herein are methods for diagnosing or treating pregnancy related hypertensive disorders that include the use of a polypeptide or a nucleic acid encoding a polypeptide selected from the following: follistatin related protein, interleukin 8, inhibin A, VEGF-C, angiogenin, beta fertilin, hypothetical protein, leukocyte associated Ig-like receptor secreted protein, erythroid differentiation protein, adipogenesis inhibitory factor, corticotropin releasing factor binding protein, alpha-1 anti-chymotrypsin, insulin-like growth factor binding protein-5, CD33L, cytokine receptor like factor 1, platelet derived endothelial growth factor, lysyl hydroxylase isoform 2, stanniocalcin precursor, secreted frizzled related protein, galectin-3, alpha defensin, ADAM-TS3, cholecystokinin precursor, interferon stimulated T-cell alpha chemoattractant precursor, azurocidin, sperminine oxidase, UDP glycosyltransferase 2 family polypeptide B28, neurotrophic tyrosine kinase receptor 2, neutral endopeptidase, CDC28 protein kinase regulatory subunit 2, beta glucosidase, lanosterol synthase, calcium/calmodulin-dependent serine protein kinase, estrogen receptor-alternatively spliced transcript H, chemokine (CX3C motif) receptor 1, tyrosinase-related protein 1, hydoxy-delta-5-steroid dehyrogenase, dihydropyramidinase-like-4, and cytochrome P450-family 11.

The present disclosure relates to bifunctional compounds, which find utility as modulators of estrogen receptor (target protein). In particular, the present disclosure is directed to bifunctional compounds, which contain on one end at least one of a Von Hippel-Lindau ligand, a cereblon ligand, Inhibitors of Apoptosis Proteins ligand, mouse double-minute homolog 2 ligand, or a combination thereof, which binds to the respective E3 ubiquitin ligase, and on the other end a moiety which binds the target protein, such that the target protein is placed in proximity to the ubiquitin ligase to effect degradation (and inhibition) of target protein. The present disclosure exhibits a broad range of pharmacological activities associated with degradation/inhibition of target protein. Diseases or disorders that result from aggregation or accumulation of the target protein are treated or prevented with compounds and compositions of the present disclosure.

The present invention is directed to novel heterocyclic benzo[c]chromene derivatives, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use in the treatment of disorders mediated by one or more estrogen receptors. The compounds of the invention are useful in the treatment of disorders associated with the depletion of estrogen such as hot flashes, vaginal dryness, osteopenia and osteoporosis; hormone sensitive cancers and hyperplasia of the breast, endometrium, cervix and prostate; endometriosis, uterine fibroids, osteoarthritis and as contraceptive agents, alone or in combination with a progestogen or progestogen antagonist.

The present invention concerns a method of treatment or prevention of myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury by diagnosing that a person is in need of treatment or prevention of myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury and administering a therapeutically effective amount of a ligand which modulates NF-kB transcription factor by interaction with estrogen receptor ER-α, estrogen receptor ER-β, or both ER-α and ER-β estrogen receptors with a substantial absence of creatine kinase stimulation. In certain preferred embodiments, the administration is substantially without uterotropic activity.

This invention is benzothiophene-based estrogen receptor downregulators and their compositions and uses to treat estrogen-related medical disorders.

The present invention provides isolated polypeptides having an amino acid sequence having at least 70% identity to SEQ ID N0:20, wherein the polypeptide has ER-α36 activity. The invention further provides methods for identifying agents that bind to such polypeptides, methods for detecting such polypeptides, and methods for altering the activity of such polypeptides. Also provided are antibodies that specifically bind to an amino acid sequence depicted at SEQ ID NO:1, or an immunogenic fragment thereof, and methods for making and using such antibodies.

The invention relates to an inducible inheritance recombinase system CrexER. The CrexER is a fusion protein; the fusion protein is a protein formed by fusing recombinase Cre, estrogen receptors ER andrecombination sites rox specifically recognized by recombinase Dre. The invention also provides a coding sequence of the fusion protein, a nucleic acid construct containing the coding sequence, a host cell and the like. The ahead occurrence of Dre-rox homologous recombination is used for inducing the subsequent occurrence of Cre-loxP homologous recombination; the targeted operation of the A-Dre and B-Cre mark cell intersection (A+B+) is realized. The application range of the inheritance targeted operation is greatly expanded; a precious strategy is provided for the precise inheritance targeted operation and biomedical research.

The invention relates to the fields of pharmaceutical chemistry and organic chemistry, in particular to isoquinolinone derivatives. The compounds can be used for treating various medical indications associated with postmenopausal symptoms, uterine fiber lesions and arterial smooth muscle cell proliferation, particularly ER-(+) breast cancer by inhibiting alpha-estrogen receptor subtype (ER alpha) and through vascular endothelial growth factor receptor (VEGFR-2) bi-target. Meanwhile, the compounds have an obvious inhibiting effect on tumor metastasis, and have a general formula I.

Compounds of the formula (I) for use as an estrogen receptor-β-selective ligand are described wherein: X is O or S; and R¹, R³ R⁶ are as described in the specification. The use of these compounds in treating Alzheimer's disease, anxiety disorders, depressive disorders, osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease, rheumatoid arthritis and prostate cancer is described; as are processes for making them.

The invention belongs to the field of Chinese medicine pharmacy, and relates to a traditional Chinese medicine composition for treating menopausal syndrome and a preparation method of the traditional Chinese medicine composition. The traditional Chinese medicine composition comprises traditional Chinese medicine radix rehmanniae, radix paeoniae alba, rhizoma anemarrhenae, golden cypress, morinda officinalis, herba epimedii, raw oyster shell, crude dragon bone, radix bupleuri and tuber fleeceflower stem as main medicines, and is blended with auxiliary materials to be prepared into the preparation for treating the symptoms related to menopause, i.e. the heating, the sweating, the agitated emotion, the insomnia and the like. The experiment proves that the traditional Chinese medicine composition provided by the invention has the definite functions for improving the blood serum E2 and reducing the blood serum FSH (follicle-stimulating hormone), the hypothalamus estrogen receptors Er alpha, Er beta gene expression and protein expression can be continuously adjusted, and the situation of hypothalamus aging can be improved, so that the menopausal syndrome can be effectively cured.

The present invention relates to a method for the prevention or treatment of certain breast cancers or ovarian cancer comprising administering to a patient in need thereof of a therapeutically effective amount of a 17,20-lyase inhibitor, wherein the breast cancer or ovarian cancer is estrogen receptor (ER) negative.

Disclosed herein are novel di-phenyl compounds and methods for using various di-phenyl compounds for treatment and prevention of diseases and disorders related to estrogen receptors.

The present invention relates to methods of treating androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) induced hot flashes and severe hot flashes in a subject.

Disclosed herein are novel di-aromatic compounds and methods for using various di-aromatic compounds for treatment and prevention of diseases and disorders related to estrogen receptors.