511 results about "IV Chemotherapy" patented technology

A pharmaceutical composition and formulations comprise preventative, prophylactic or therapeutic amounts of an oligo(s) anti-sense to a specific gene(s) or its corresponding mRNA(s), and a glucocorticoid and / or non-glucocorticoid steroid or a ubiquinone or their salts. The agents, composition and formulations are used for treatment of ailments associated with impaired respiration, bronchoconstriction, lung allergy(ies) or inflammation, and abnormal levels of adenosine, adenosine receptors, sensitivity to adenosine, lung surfactant and ubiquinone, such as pulmonary fibrosis, vasoconstriction, inflammation, allergies, allergic rhinitis, asthma, impeded respiration, lung pain, cystic fibrosis, bronchoconstriction, COPD, RDS, ARDS, cancer, and others. The present treatment is effectively administered by itself for conditions without known therapies, as a substitute for therapies exhibiting undesirable side effects, or in combination with other treatments, e.g. before, during and after other respiratory system therapies, radiation, chemotherapy, antibody therapy and surgery, among others. Each of the agents of this invention may be administered directly into the respiratory system so that they gain direct access to the lungs, or by other effective routes of administration. A kit comprises a delivery device, the agents and instructions for its use.

The present invention is directed to therapeutic methods using IL-6 antagonists such as anti-IL-6 antibodies and fragments thereof having binding specificity for IL-6 to prevent or treat anemia (e.g., anemia associated with chemotherapy) including persons on a treatment regimen with a drug or chemotherapy and / or radiation for cancer (e.g., head and neck cancer) that is associated with increased risk of anemia.

The invention discloses culturing, freezing and recovering methods of an activated lymphocyte with CD3+CD8+as major, which can solve problems that a patient needs carrying out blood sampling for many times caused by continuously utilizing the activated lymphocyte with CD3+CD8+as major. The method comprises the following steps of: (1) contacting the extracted lymphocyte of the peripheral blood with IL-2, IL-15, an anti-CD3 antibody and an anti-CD28 antibody, so as to amplify the activated lymphocyte with CD3+CD8+as major; (2) freezing and storing the activated lymphocyte; and (3) recovering the activated lymphocyte. The activated lymphocyte cultured via the method disclosed by the invention has clear components, and comprises few CD4+CD25+Treg cells and more CD8+T lymphocyte; feedback time and frequency of the activated lymphocyte can be adjusted according to other treatments for a patient, such as a radiotherapy or a chemotherapy, so that diseases, such as tumor, infectious diseases and immunodeficiency can be treated well.

A prognostic assay and kit and method of use thereof are provided. The kit and assay are used to determine the likelihood of a diseased cell or tissue having a therapeutic response to treatment with a cardiac glycoside in a disease having an etiology associated with excessive cell proliferation. The kit and assay are used to determine the ratio of isoforms of the α subunit of Na, K-ATPase obtained from the diseased cell or tissue. The kit can be used to predict the therapeutic responsiveness of cancer or tumor in a subject to treatment with a cardiac glycoside. The kit and assay can be incorporated in a method of treating a disease or disorder having an etiology associated with excessive cell proliferation with a composition comprising a cardiac glycoside.

The invention provides a medicinal composition for treating digestive system dysfunction. The medicinal composition is characterized by comprising the following components in parts by weight: 10-25 parts of ginseng, 10-25 parts of bighead atractylodes rhizome, and 12-25 parts of poria. The medicinal composition is particularly suitable for treating gastrointestinal dysfunction after radiotherapy or chemotherapy, is good in curative effect, and does not have toxic or side effect; the patients have good tolerance and can easily accept the medicinal composition; the treatment cost is low. The medicinal composition can be used for treating gastrointestinal dysfunction after radiotherapy or chemotherapy independently, and also can be used for treating malignant tumor diseases by combining radiotherapy or chemotherapy.

A prognostic assay and kit and method of use thereof are provided. The kit and assay are used to determine the likelihood of a diseased cell or tissue having a therapeutic response to treatment with a cardiac glycoside in a disease having an etiology associated with excessive cell proliferation. The kit and assay are used to determine the ratio of isoforms of the α subunit of Na, K-ATPase obtained from the diseased cell or tissue. The kit can be used to predict the therapeutic responsiveness of cancer or tumor in a subject to treatment with a cardiac glycoside. The kit and assay can be incorporated in a method of treating a disease or disorder having an etiology associated with excessive cell proliferation with a composition comprising a cardiac glycoside.

The present technology relates to a method of treating cancer by sensitizing human tumours to DNA damaging therapies through activating FBXO32 expression. Transactivation of FBXO32 through the inhibition of EZH2, a histone methyltransferase, decreases p21 protein induction which results in the sensitization of human tumours to chemotherapy. The method further provides a prognostic method to determine if a combination treatment would be effective.

Improved methods and pharmaceutical compositions are provided herein for mobilizing hematopoietic progenitor cells from bone marrow into peripheral blood, comprising the administration of an effective amount of an inhibitor of GTPases, such as Rac1 and Rac2 alone or in combination. Specifically, methods are disclosed for mobilizing hematopoietic stem cells into a subject's peripheral blood. In particular, embodiments of the method involve inhibition of both Rac1 and Rac2 GTPases to increase the numbers of hematopoietic stem cells into a subject's peripheral blood of a subject. The subject's blood can be processed and used to repopulate the destroyed lymphohematopoietic system of a recipient and may in the future be utilized to repair a variety of non-hematopoietic tissues. Therefore, hematopoietic stem cells mobilized into a subject's peripheral blood by the method of the invention is useful as a source of donor cells in bone marrow transplantation for the treatment of a variety of disorders, including cancer, anemia, autoimmunity and immunodeficiency. They can also be used for increasing white blood cell survival and for chemotherapy.

The invention relates to a gene drug based on genes as kallistatin and vasostatin, to treat carcinoma of colon, wherein it also provides relative application to improve treatmene effect. The carrier of genes is adenovirus (AAV), while the best one is AAV7 / 8. The inventive drug can be made into injection or dried powder, and it can be injected into muscle.

Provided herein are specific doses of, and dosing regimens for, using a HIF prolyl hydroxylase inhibitor in treating or preventing anemia, such as anemia secondary to or associated with chronic kidney disease, anemia associated with or resulting from chemotherapy, or anemia associated with AIDS.

The invention provides methods for predicting whether an ovarian cancer patient's tumor will be resistant to chemotherapy. The invention also provides methods for monitoring the effectiveness of treatment, particularly a chemotherapeutic treatment, in a patient treated for ovarian cancer. The invention further provides methods for treating ovarian cancer, by reducing chemotherapeutic drug resistance in said cells. In addition, the invention provides methods of screening compounds to identify tumor cell growth inhibitors in tumor cells resistant to conventional chemotherapeutic treatment regimes.

This invention is for an improved method for making enhanced ginger capsules and for using these capsules for treating nausea and emesis in cancer patients.

The invention belongs to the field of traditional Chinese medicine and relates to a traditional Chinese medicine compound preparation for treating ovarian cancer and a preparation method of the traditional Chinese medicine compound preparation. According to the traditional Chinese medicine compound preparation, extracts of bulk medicine such as astragalus mongholicus, codonopsis pilosula, rehmannia root, sculellaria barbata, asparagus cochinchinensis, medlar, cornu cervi, fiveleaf akebia fruit, elecampane and radix paeoniae alba are prepared into solid and liquid preparations. Animal experiment results show that the weight loss and the white cell reduction can be relieved, the T lymphocyte function is improved, the bax expression is increased, the cancer cell apoptosis is promoted, the anti-tumor angiogenesis effect is realized, the oxygen deficiency microenvironment of tumor cells is improved, and the sensitivity of ovarian cancer cells on chemotherapeutics is enhanced. Clinical test results show that the clinical symptoms of later-stage ovarian cancer patients can be relieved, and the survival quality of patients is improved; the chemotherapy toxic and side effect is lightened, and the chemotherapy tolerance and the compliance of the patients are improved; and the uncontrolled and recurrence rate of later-stage ovarian cancer can be reduced, and the five-year survival rate is improved; and no obvious adverse reaction exists, and good safety is realized. The traditional Chinese medicine compound preparation is applicable to the treatment on ovarian cancer and ovarian cancer postoperative chemotherapy patients.

Provided herein are specific doses of, and dosing regimens for, using a HIF prolyl hydroxylase inhibitor in treating or preventing anemia, such as anemia secondary to or associated with chronic kidney disease, anemia secondary to or associated with non-dialysis dependent chronic kidney disease anemia associated with or resulting from chemotherapy, or anemia associated with AIDS.

The invention discloses phenylpiperazine derivatives and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The invention is characterized in that: the derivatives have the structure shown as a formula I; and in the formula, R1 refers to -H, -R, -OR, -COOR, halogen or -CN group, R refers to alkyl, the substitution position of R1 on a benzene ring is a para-position, ortho-position or meta-position of piperazine, m is a natural number ranging from 0 to 2, and R2 refers to a substituted or unsubstituted carboxyl group or sulfonic acid group. The phenylpiperazine derivatives and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof can be prepared into medicines for inhibiting tumor cell metastasis and tumor angiogenesis, medicines for treating liver cancer, breast cancer, ovarian cancer, gastric cancer, colon cancer, lung cancer or melanoma, tumor chemotherapy medicines and auxiliary medicines in surgical therapy.

The invention discloses a minimally invasive intervention implantable drug-supplying device with a one-way valve. The drug-supplying device comprises a chemotherapy pump body, an extracorporeal marking part and an auxiliary accessory, wherein the extracorporeal marking part and the auxiliary accessory are matched with the chemotherapy pump body. The chemotherapy pump body comprises a pump body with the one-way valve, the pump body is connected with a matched catheter through a locking device, a locking inner sleeve baffle is arranged between the one-way valve and the catheter, and the catheter comprises through catheter bodies and catheter bodies with crack valves on the wall and at the front end; the pump body comprises a pump base, a matched puncture diaphragm is arranged at the upper end of the pump base, a pump cover matched with the pump base is arranged at the upper end of the puncture diaphragm, the one-way valve is connected with the side end of the pump base in a sealed mode, and a pump cavity is formed among the pump cover, the puncture diaphragm, the pump base and the one-way valve in a sealed mode. The implantable drug-supplying device has the advantages that drugs can directly enter a determined portion through a drug pump and the catheter, the drug concentration and the dosage of the focus portion are increased greatly, the lethality to lesion cells is increased, the curative effect on the lesion cells is improved, and the practicability of the device is effectively improved.

A method of treating chemotherapy-induced thrombocytopenia includes administering to a subject undergoing chemotherapy a therapeutically effective amount of a Bax-inhibiting peptide.

A method for classifying cancer patients as eligible to receive cancer therapy with a Bcl-2 inhibitor comprising determination of the presence or absence in a patient tissue sample of levels of pro-GRP, as a surrogate marker for the presence of chromosomal copy number gain at chromosomal locus 18q21-q22. The classification of cancer patients based upon pro-GRP levels as a surrogate for the presence or absence of 18q21-q22 gain allows selection of patients to receive chemotherapy with a Bcl-2 family inhibitor, either as monotherapy or as part of combination therapy, and to monitor patient response to such therapy using a peripheral blood sample.

The invention is directed to a mouth piece for cooling of oral tissue of a patient during chemotherapy treatment. The mouth piece includes a cooling medium contained within the top element and the bottom element and able to retain a cooling environment within the mouth sufficient to reduce capillary blood flow to the patient's mouth. In one embodiment, an external chamber extends from the front of the mouth piece to house a cooling medium. The external chamber can be configured so that it is removably attached to the mouth piece. A support device can be utilized to support the external chamber during use.

The invention belongs to the fields of biochemistry and molecular biology, relates to a new conopeptide, and a medicinal composition, a preparation method and uses thereof, also relates to a nucleic acid construct, an expression vector of the nucleic acid construct, a converted cell of the expression vector and a fusion protein of the conopeptide, and further relates to a method for blocking out an acetylcholine receptor, and pharmaceutical uses of the conopeptide. The new conopeptide K41JM and analogs thereof can specifically block out the acetylcholine receptor (nAChRs) (such as alpha9alpha10nAChR), have can treat neuralgia, cancer chemotherapy, breast cancer, lung cancer, wound healing, encephalomyelitis, epilepsy and ischaemia, and have good application prospects in the preparation of pain easing medicines, anticancer medicines and neuroscience tool medicines.

Variants (mutants) of recombinant activated protein C (APC) or recombinant protein C (prodrug, capable of being converted to APC) that have substantial reductions in anticoagulant activity but that retain normal levels of anti-apoptotic activity are provided. Two examples of such recombinant APC mutants are KKK191-193AAA-APC and RR229 / 230M-APC. APC variants and prodrugs of the invention have the desirable property of being cytoprotective (anti-apoptotic effects), while having significantly reduced risk of bleeding. The invention also provides a method of using the APC variants or prodrugs of the invention to treat subjects who will benefit from APC's cytoprotective activities that are independent of APC's anticoagulant activity. These subjects include patients at risk of damage to blood vessels or tissue in various organs caused, at least in part, by apoptosis. At risk patients include, for example, those suffering (severe) sepsis, ischemia / reperfusion injury, ischemic stroke, acute myocardial infarction, acute or chronic neurodegenerative diseases, or those undergoing organ transplantation or chemotherapy, among other conditions. Methods of screening for variants of recombinant protein C or APC that are useful in accordance with the invention are also provided.

The present disclosure relates to substituted amide compounds that are inhibitors of Fatty Acid Amide Hydrolase (FAAH), their stereoisomers, tautomers, prodrugs, polymorphs, solvates, pharmaceutically acceptable salts, and pharmaceutical compositions containing them. These compounds are useful in the treatment, prevention, prophylaxis, management, or adjunct treatment of all medical conditions related to inhibition of Fatty Acid Amide Hydrolase (FAAH), such as pain including acute and post operative pain, chronic pain, cancer pain, cancer chemotherapy induced pain, neuropathic pain, nociceptive pain, inflammatory pain, back pain, pain due to disease of various origin such as: diabetic neuropathy, neurotropic viral disease including human immunodeficient virus (HIV), herpes zoster such as post herpetic neuralgia; polyneuropathy, neurotoxicity, mechanical nerve injury, carpal tunnel syndrome, immunologic mechanisms like multiple sclerosis; sleep disorders, anxiety and depression disorders, inflammatory disorders, weight and eating disorders, Parkinson's disease, addiction, spasticity, hypertension or other disorders. The disclosure also relates to the process of preparation of the amide compounds. Formula (1). The present disclosure also relates to methods for the preparation of such compounds, and to pharmaceutical compositions containing them.

The invention relates to a prognosis prediction method, system and equipment, which are applied to prognosis prediction of tumor cell reduction and deactivation and peritoneal hyperthermia perfusion chemotherapy. The invention belongs to the technical field of risk prediction. The method comprises the steps of obtaining prediction parameters of a target individual, and scoring the prediction parameters, thereby obtaining a total score of a prognosis prediction risk value of the target individual; obtaining the one-year survival possibility, the two-year survival possibility or the three-year survival possibility of the target individual through the total score and the preset survival possibility model, so that the prognosis condition of the target individual is judged through the survivalpossibility, and the higher the survival possibility is, the better the prognosis of the target individual is, and the higher the possibility of the long lifetime of the target individual is. A patient or a medical worker can accurately know the prognosis risk of gastric cancer peritoneal cancer treatment through tumor cell reduction and deactivation and abdominal cavity hyperthermia perfusion chemotherapy, and therefore a choice is made.

The invention relates to an oral spray for controlling nausea and vomit of chemotherapy and radiation therapy, the formula of the oral spray is composed of ingredients with the following parts by weight: 5-50 parts of drug absorption enhancer, 2-20 parts of drug active ingredient and 30-90 parts of buffer, the drug absorption enhancer can be any one or the combination of more of the following ingredients: azone, propylene glycol, polysorbate (Tween), ethylene glycol deoxycholic acid sodium salt, brij, sodium decanoate, lauric acid, stearic acid, sodium lauryl sulphate, stearyl alcohol sodium sulfate, dioctyl succinate sodium sulfonate, oleic acid, GK2, menthol and borneol; the drug active ingredient can be any one combination of the following ingredients: palonosetron hydrochloride, granisetron, ondansetron, azasetron and tropisetron; and the ingredients of the buffer are sodium citrate buffer solution and phosphate buffer solution. The oral spray provides a formulation which is safer, painless and convenient for patients with advanced tumor, elderly and weak patients, children patients and the patients who suffer from the metal illness and do not obey the oral administration or the injection drug administration.

This invention relates to a use of G-CSF dimer in the treatment of neutropenia. In particular, the recombinant human G-CSF of the present invention can enhance the differentiation and development of neutrophils in animal, and thus effectively reduce the severity of the severe neutropenia and shorten the time of severe neutropenia for the post-chemotherapy cancer patients. Serum half-life of G-CSF dimer of this invention is prolonged and the biological activity thereof is increased, providing a better effect in the treatment of neutropenia.

The invention relates to a silver cicada Chinese medicine preparation for treating liver cancer, esophagus cancer and gastric cancer and a preparation method thereof. The silver cicada Chinese medicine preparation for treating the liver cancer, the esophagus cancer and the gastric cancer is prepared from the following raw materials in the certain parts by weight: silver foil, full scorpion, cicada slough, red dates, dragon's blood, full toad, ancient lime, ledebouriella seseloides, lucid ganoderma, borneol and sugar. The silver cicada Chinese medicine preparation has the curative effects of eliminating cancers, relieving pain, clearing blood and clearing away toxic materials, and activating the blood circulation and benefiting qi, has the functions of eliminating cancer cells, releasing patient pain, and modifying organs of cancer patients, has unique curative effect on the cancers, the gastric cancer and the esophagus cancer, can be used for largely releasing pains of patients on a chemotherapy and an operation, and also reducing the economic burden of the patients; in addition, the raw materials utilized in the silver cicada Chinese medicine preparation disclosed by the invention are abundant, the preparation method is simple and convenient, the cost is low, and the silver cicada Chinese medicine preparation is economical and applicable.

The invention discloses a system for predicting prognosis of patients with lung adenocarcinoma and judging benefit of an adjuvant chemotherapy. The system comprises a system used for detecting expression quantities of six proteins, i.e., c-Src, Cyclin E1, TTF1, p65, CHK1 and JNK1, and a protein expression quantity data processing system. The system used for detecting the expression quantities of the six proteins can determine the expression quantities of the proteins by using an immunohistochemistry staining method; the protein expression quantity data processing system converts the expression quantities of the six proteins in lung adenocarcinoma tissues, separated from to-be-predicted patients with the lung adenocarcinoma, into a prognosis score, and predicting the prognosis of the to-be-predicted patients with the lung adenocarcinoma according to the prognosis score, and / or predicting whether the to-be-predicted patients with the lung adenocarcinoma are benefited from the adjuvant chemotherapy or not according to the prognosis score.

The invention relates to application of paclitaxel in preparation of medicament for treatment of non small cell lung cancer EGFR-TKI (epidermal growth factor receptor-tyrosine kinase inhibitor) resistance. Lung cancer ranks the first in cancer incidence and mortality all over the world. Curative effects of Gefitinib and Erlotinib in NSCLC are often limited by acquired resistance, and currently known main mechanism of acquired resistance is due to mutation of second generation of EGFRT790M and acquired amplification of MET gene. The invention shows that when EGFR-TKI acquired resistance appears, paclitaxel may reverse the resistance. That is to say, non small cell lung cancer patients who generate acquired resistance from Erlotinib / Gefitinib treatment can reconsider the use of Erlotinib / Gefitinib treatment after chemotherapy with paclitaxel, so as to make the erlotinib / gefitinib continue to function; meanwhile, paclitaxel may also inhibit tumor, and thus play rotary resistance and synergism.

The present invention discloses and claims: (i) compositions, methods, and kits which lead to an increase in patient survival time in cancer patients receiving chemotherapy; (ii) compositions and methods which cause cytotoxic or apoptotic potentiation of the anti-cancer activity of chemotherapeutic agents; (iii) compositions and methods for maintaining or stimulating hematological function in patients in need thereof, including those patients suffering from cancer; (iv) compositions and methods for maintaining or stimulating erythropoietin function or synthesis in patients in need thereof, including those patients suffering from cancer; (v) compositions and methods for mitigating or preventing anemia in patients in need thereof, including those patients suffering from cancer; (vi) compositions and methods for maintaining or stimulating pluripotent, multipotent, and unipotent normal stem cell function or synthesis in patients in need thereof, including those patients suffering from cancer; (vii) compositions and methods which promote the arrest or retardation of tumor progression in those cancer patients receiving chemotherapy; (viii) compositions and methods for increasing patient survival and / or delaying tumor progression while maintaining or improving the quality of life in a cancer patient receiving chemotherapy; (ix) novel methods of the administration of taxane and / or platinum medicaments and a Formula (I) compound of the present invention to a cancer patient; and (x) kits to achieve one or more of the aforementioned physiological effects in a patient in need thereof, including those patients suffering from cancer.