124 results about "Glomerulonephritis" patented technology

Disclosed is a composition of matter of the formula

(X¹)_a—(F¹)_d—(X²)_b—(F²)_e—(X³)_c  (I)

and multimers thereof, in which F¹ and F² are half-life extending moieties, and d and e are each independently 0 or 1, provided that at least one of d and e is 1; X¹, X², and X³ are each independently -(L)_f-P-(L)_g-, and f and g are each independently 0 or 1; P is a toxin peptide of no more than about 80 amino acid residues in length, comprising at least two intrapeptide disulfide bonds; L is an optional linker; and a, b, and c are each independently 0 or 1, provided that at least one of a, b and c is 1. Linkage to the half-life extending moiety or moieties increases the in vivo half-life of the toxin peptide, which otherwise would be quickly degraded. A pharmaceutical composition comprises the composition and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. Also disclosed are a DNA encoding the inventive composition of matter, an expression vector comprising the DNA, and a host cell comprising the expression vector. Methods of treating an autoimmune disorder, such as, but not limited to, multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes, psoriasis, inflammatory bowel disease, contact-mediated dermatitis, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, asthma, allergy, restinosis, systemic sclerosis, fibrosis, scleroderma, glomerulonephritis, Sjogren syndrome, inflammatory bone resorption, transplant rejection, graft-versus-host disease, and lupus and of preventing or mitigating a relapse of a symptom of multiple sclerosis are also disclosed.

The invention generally relates to the field of nuclear transport modulators, e.g., CRM1 inhibitors, and more particularly to new substituted-heterocyclic azole compounds, the synthesis and use of these compounds and their pharmaceutical compositions, e.g., in the treatment, modulation and/or prevention of physiological conditions associated with CRM1 activity such as in treating cancer and other neoplastic disorders, inflammatory diseases, disorders of abnormal tissue growth and fibrosis including cardiomyopathy, pulmonary fibrosis, hepatic fibrosis, glomerulonephritis, and other renal disorders, and for the treatment of viral infections (both acute and chronic).

Monoclonal antibodies are identified that bind the IL-21 protein. These antibodies are used to identify regions of the IL-21 protein to where binding neutralizes IL-21 activity. Hybridomas and methods of producing anti-IL-21 monoclonal antibodies are described. The monoclonal antibodies are useful in treating IL-21-mediated diseases, which may include autoimmune and inflammatory diseases such as pancreatitis, type I diabetes (IDDM), Graves Disease, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), Crohn's Disease, ulcerative colitis, irritable bowel syndrome, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, diverticulosis, systemic lupus erythematosus, psoriasis, ankylosing spondylitis, scleroderma, systemic sclerosis, psoriatic arthritis, osteoarthritis, atopic dermatitis, vitiligo, graft vs. host disease (GVHD), cutaneous T cell lymphoma (CTCL), Sjogren's syndrome, glomerulonephritis, IgA nephropathy, graft versous host disease, transplant rejection, atopic dermatitis, anti-phospholipid syndrome, and asthma, and other autoimmune diseases.

The present invention provides a therapeutic or prophylactic agent as a substitute for conventional steroids or immunosuppressive agents to treat or prevent systemic erythematosus, glomerulonephritis, lupus nephritis, idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura or autoimmune anemia. The agent comprises a retinoic acid receptor agonist, specifically a retinoic acid receptor subtype alpha (RARalpha) agonist, including for example:(1) carboxylic acid compounds having condensed rings represented by the following formula: (wherein the rings L and M are condensed, are the same as or different from each other, and represent an aromatic hydrocarbon which may have a substituent group or a heterocycle which may have a substituent group; the rings A and B are independent of each other and represent an aromatic hydrocarbon ring or heterocycle which may have a substituent group; and D represents a carboxyl group which may have a protective group),(2) 4-{[(3,5-bistrimethylsilylphenyl)carbonyl]amino}benzoic acid, 4-{2-[5-(3-methoxymethyl-5,6,7,8-tetrahydro-5,5,8,8-tetramethylnaphthalene-2-yl)pyrrolyl]}benzoic acid, etc.

The present invention relates to furanopyridine compounds having the general Formula I:

and stereoisomers, tautomers, solvates, pharmaceutically acceptable salts and derivatives, and prodrugs thereof. The invention also includes pharmaceutical compositions comprising a compound of Formula I, methods of modulating Lck and ACK-1 enzymes and of treating various related diseases and conditions, including inflammation, inhibition of T cell activation, proliferation, arthritis, organ transplant, ischemic or reperfusion injury, myocardial infarction, stroke, multiple sclerosis, inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn's disease, lupus, hypersensitivity, type 1 diabetes, psoriasis, dermatitis, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, Sjogren's syndrome, autoimmune hyperthyroidism, Addison's disease, autoimmune diseases, glomerulonephritis, allergic diseases, asthma, hayfever, eczema, cancer, colon carcinoma, thymoma, just to name a few, in a mammal, comprising administering to the mammal a therapeutically effective amount a compound of Formula I, as described above, and methods of manufacturing medicaments comprising the compound of Formula I.

The invention generally relates to the field of nuclear transport modulators, e.g., CRM1 inhibitors, and more particularly to new substituted-heterocyclic azole compounds, the synthesis and use of these compounds and their pharmaceutical compositions, e.g., in the treatment, modulation and/or prevention of physiological conditions associated with CRM1 activity such as in treating cancer and other neoplastic disorders, inflammatory diseases, disorders of abnormal tissue growth and fibrosis including cardiomyopathy, pulmonary fibrosis, hepatic fibrosis, glomerulonephritis, and other renal disorders, and for the treatment of viral infections (both acute and chronic).

A compound of formula (I) wherein R<1> and R<2> are as defined in the description, R<2> being an aromatic group, useful in the treatment and condition selected from the group consisting of the group meningitis and salpingitis, septic shock, disseminated intravascular coagulation, and/or adult respiratory distress syndrome, acute or chronic inflammation, arthritis, cholangitis, colitis, encephalitis, endocarditis, glomerulonephritis, hepatitis, myocarditis, pancreatitis, pericarditis, reperfusion injury, vasculitis, acute and delayed hypersensitivity, graft rejection, and graft-versus-host disease, auto-immune diseases including Type 1 diabetes mellitus and multiple sclerosis, periodonate diseases, interstitial pulmonary fibrosis, cirrhosis, systemic sclerosis, keloid formation tumors which produce IL-1 as an autocrine growth factor, cachexia, Alzeimer's disease, percussion injury, depression, atherosclerosis, osteoporosis in a mammal, including a human.

The present invention relates to furanopyrimidine compounds having the general Formula I:

and stereoisomers, tautomers, solvates, pharmaceutically acceptable salts and derivatives, and prodrugs thereof. The invention also includes pharmaceutical compositions comprising a compound of Formula I, methods of treating various diseases and conditions in a mammal, including inflammation, inhibition of T cell activation, proliferation, arthritis, organ transplant, ischemic or reperfusion injury, myocardial infarction, stroke, multiple sclerosis, inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn's disease, lupus, hypersensitivity, type 1 diabetes, psoriasis, dermatitis, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, Sjogren's syndrome, autoimmune hyperthyroidism, Addison's disease, autoimmune diseases, glomerulonephritis, allergic diseases, asthma, hayfever, eczema, cancer, colon carcinoma and thymoma, comprising administering to the mammal a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of Formula I. The invention also relates to methods of manufacturing medicaments, which comprise one or more compounds of Formula I.

The invention relates to a Chinese medicament for treating glomerulonephritis, which is characterized in that: the Chinese medicament comprises the following main components: 20g of cherokee rose fruit, 20g of cassia twig, 20g of south dodder seed, 20g of lalang grass rhizome, 20g of glossy privet fruit, 20g of medlar, 20g of plantain seed, 20g of tangerine peel, 20g of danshen root, 30g of codonopsis pilosula, 30g of dandelion, 30g of rice bean, 15g of fish poison yam, 15g of motherwort, 10g of largehead atractylodes rhizome, 30 to 60g of membranous milkvetch root, and the like. A method for preparing the Chinese medicament comprises the following steps: putting the herbal medicaments in a crock; adding water and decocting the herbal medicaments to prepare 300g of decoction; filtering the decoction, and decocting each dose of Chinese medicinal herb twice; and mixing the decoction decocted twice, and dividing the mixed decoction into two shares, and taking 20 days as a course of treatment. The components in the prescription are all natural Chinese medicinal herbs, so the Chinese medicament has the advantages of easy acquisition of materials, simple preparation method, good therapeutic effect and cheap medicament price, and is particularly suitable for patients who dwell at rural towns and remote mountainous areas. Because the Chinese medicament has low treatment cost, the problems that the local medical condition is insufficient and the patients cannot be treated due to high treatment cost are solved.

The present invention relates to an inhibitor of matrix metalloprotease (MMP) production and tumor necrosis factor (TNF) production, and medicines for the treatment of diseases such as chronic rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, allergic diseases, psoriasis, transplant rejection, arterial sclerosis, ischemic re-perfusion disorder, diabetic nephritic and ocular diseases, cancer, autoimmune glomerulonephritis, infectious diseases, Crohn's disease, inflammatory intestinal diseases and autoimmune hepatitis, each comprising certain polyazanaphthalene compounds or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof as active ingredients.

The present application discloses compounds of formula (I) wherein X is ═O, ═S, ═NH, ═NOH and ═NO-Me; A is —C(═O)—, —S(═O)₂—, —C(═S)— and P(═O)(R⁵)—; B is, —O—, —(CH₂)_3-6—, and O—(CH₂)_2-5—; D is, —O—, —CR⁷R⁸— and —NR⁹; m is 0-12, n is 0-12, m+n is 1-20; p is 0-4; R¹ is opt.sub. heteroaryl; and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and prodrugs thereof. The application also discloses the compound for use as a medicament for the treatment of a disease or a condition caused by an elevated level of nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase (NAMPRT), e.g. inflammatory and tissue repair disorders; dermatosis; autoimmune diseases, Alzheimers disease, stroke, athersclerosis, restenosis, diabetes, glomerulonephritis, cancer, cachexia, inflammation associated with infection and certain viral infections, including Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), adult respiratory distress syndrome, ataxia telengiectasia.

A Chinese medicine for treating nephrosis (glomerulonephritis) is prepared from 12 chinese-medicinal materials including phellodendron bark, honeysuckle flower, astragalus root, liquorice root, etc. Its preparing process is also disclosed.

The invention discloses a glomerulonephritis pathology intelligent classifier training method, a diagnostic instrument and a storage medium. The method is implemented on the basis of a convolutionalalneural network, and comprises the following steps: constructing a pathological intelligent classification convolutionalal neural network model of glomerulonephritis; obtaining training samples; pre-processing the training samples; inputting the pre-processed training samples into the glomerulonephritis pathological intelligent classification convolutionalal neural network model, and training theglomerulonephritis pathological intelligent classification convolutionalal neural network model, so that the glomerulonephritis pathological intelligent classification convolutionalal neural network model is trained into the glomerulonephritis pathological intelligent classifier. The glomerulonephritis pathology intelligent classifier trained by the invention can realize automatic detection of theglomerulonephritis pathological cell image and carry out specific glomerulonephritis classification, and provides a basis for the treatment of clinical glomerulonephritis.

Some specific autoantigens of MGN are discovered by using the integrated platform. Moreover, according to the specificity between antibodies and antigens, a method for diagnosing MGN are constructed. This diagnostic method is cooperated with ELISA, RIA, immunofluorescence, or other immunochromatography techniques. Finally, a diagnostic kit is provided to implement the method above.