287 results about "Kallikrein" patented technology

The present invention provides a method for treating a thrombotic or an inflammatory disorder administering to a patient in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of at least one compound of Formula (I) or Formula (V):

or a stereoisomer or pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate form thereof, wherein the variables A, L, Z, R³, R⁴, R⁶, R¹¹, X¹, X², and X³ are as defined herein. The compounds of Formula (I) are useful as selective inhibitors of serine protease enzymes of the coagulation cascade and/or contact activation system; for example thrombin, factor Xa, factor XIa, factor IXa, factor VIIa and/or plasma kallikrein. In particular, it relates to compounds that are selective factor XIa inhibitors. This invention also provides compounds within the scope of Formula I and relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds.

The present invention is concerned with new compounds, and particularly those having a fused bicyclic ring substituted with an amidine moiety. These compounds are each potent inhibitors of Factor D of the alternate pathway of complement, C1s of the classical pathway of complement, Factors Xa, XIIa, VIIa and thrombin of the coagulation pathway, plasmin in the fibrinolytic pathway, and kallikrein and high molecular weight kininogen in the inflammatory pathways. These proteases, which have serine in their active site, are called serine proteases and they are pivotal to most of the processes of inflammation and coagulation. In fact, these various systems are interactive with one another and it is difficult to activate one pathway without it influencing the others.

The invention relates to the application of kallikrein 11, free PSA, and total PSA in the detection of prostate cancer. These markers may be used for the diagnosis, monitoring, staging, progression, prevention, treatment, and prognosis of prostate cancer, and as indicators before surgery or after relapse. A particular aspect of the invention provides a method for distinguishing prostate cancer from benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH).

The present invention provides compounds of Formula (I):

or a stereoisomer, tautomer, pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate form thereof, wherein the variables A, L, Z, R³, and ring B are as defined herein. The compounds of Formula (I) are useful as selective inhibitors of serine protease enzymes of the coagulation cascade and/or contact activation system; for example thrombin, factor Xa, factor XIa, factor IXa, factor VIIa and/or plasma kallikrein. In particular, it relates to compounds that are selective factor XIa inhibitors. This invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and methods of treating thromboembolic and/or inflammatory disorders using the same.

This invention provides: novel protein homologous of a Kunitz domain, which are capable of binding kallikrein; polynucleotides that encode such novel proteins; and vectors and transformed host cells containing these polynucleotides.

The present invention provides compounds of Formula (I):

or a stereoisomer, tautomer, pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate form thereof, wherein the variables A, B, R³ and R¹¹ are as defined herein. The compounds of Formula (I) are useful as selective inhibitors of serine protease enzymes of the coagulation cascade and/or contact activation system; for example thrombin, factor Xa, factor XIa, factor IXa, factor VIIa and/or plasma kallikrein. In particular, it relates to compounds that are selective factor XIa inhibitors or dual inhibitors of fXIa and plasma kallikrein. This invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and methods of treating thromboembolic and/or inflammatory disorders using the same.

Methods and apparatuses for predicting risk of prostate cancer and/or prostate gland volume are provided. More particularly, this disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses for providing the models and employing the models for predicting risk of prostate cancer and/or predicting prostate gland volume. The methods and apparatuses for predicting risk of prostate cancer and/or prostate gland volume are provided using, at least in part, information from a panel of kallikrein markers.

Gene expression profiling and hierarchial clustering analysis readily distinguish normal ovarian epithelial cells from primary ovarian serous papillary carcinomas. Laminin, tumor-associated calcium signal transducer 1 and 2 (TROP-1/Ep-CAM; TROP-2), claudin 3, claudin 4, ladinin 1, S100A2, SERPIN2 (PAI-2), CD24, lipocalin 2, osteopontin, kallikrein 6 (protease M), kallikrein 10, matriptase and stratifin were found among the most highly overexpressed genes in ovarian serous papillary carcinomas, whereas transforming growth factor beta receptor III, platelet-derived growth factor receptor alpha, SEMACAP3, ras homolog gene family, member I (ARHI), thrombospondin 2 and disabled-2/differentially expressed in ovarian carcinoma 2 (Dab2/DOC2) were significantly down-regulated. Therapeutic strategy targeting TROP-1/Ep-CAM by monoclonal chimeric/humanized antibodies may be beneficial in patients harboring chemotherapy-resistant ovarian serous papillary carcinomas. Claudin-3 and claudin-4 being receptors for Clostridium Perfringens enterotoxin, this toxin may be used as a novel therapeutic agent to treat ovarian serous papillary tumors.

Methods for diagnosing and monitoring ovarian cancer in a subject comprising measuring a plurality of kallikrein polypeptides, and optionally CA125, or nucleic acids encoding the polypeptides in a sample from the subject. The kallikrein polypeptides include kallikrein 5, kallikrein 6, kallikrein 7, kallikrein 8, kallikrein 10 and kallikrein 11.

The present invention provides compounds of formula (I): compositions comprising such compounds; the use of such compounds in therapy (for example in the treatment or prevention of a disease or condition in which plasma kallikrein activity is implicated); and methods of treating patients with such compounds; wherein R¹ to R⁹ are as defined herein.

The present invention provides compounds of Formula (I):

or a stereoisomer or pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate form thereof, wherein the variables A, L, Z, X¹, X², X³, X⁴, and X⁵ are as defined herein. The compounds of Formula (I) are useful as selective inhibitors of serine protease enzymes of the coagulation cascade and/or contact activation system; for example thrombin, factor Xa, factor XIa, factor IXa, factor VIIa and/or plasma kallikrein. In particular, it relates to compounds that are selective factor XIa inhibitors. This invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and methods of treating thromboembolic and/or inflammatory disorders using the same.

There are provided inter alia multisubstituted aromatic compounds useful for the inhibition of thrombin and/or kallikrein, which compounds include substituted triazolyl. There are additionally provided pharmaceutical compositions. There are additionally provided methods of treating and preventing certain diseases or disorders, which diseases or disorders are amenable to treatment or prevention by the inhibition of thrombin and/or kallikrein.

The invention provides novel peptide prodrugs that contain cleavage sites specifically cleaved by human kallikrein 2 (hK2). These prodrugs are useful for substantially inhibiting the non-specific toxicity of a variety of therapeutic drugs. Upon cleavage of the prodrug by hK2, the therapeutic drugs are activated and exert their toxicity. Methods for treating cell proliferative disorders are also featured in the invention.

The present invention provides inhibitors and/or antagonists of plasma kallikrein. Also provided are methods of utilizing the inhibitors as therapeutics.

A method for detecting a kallikrein 8 polypeptide associated with ovarian cancer in a patient is provided comprising detecting kallikrein 8 polypeptide in a sample from the patient. Methods are also provided for monitoring the progression of ovarian cancer in a patient, determining whether ovarian cancer has metastasized or is likely to metastasize in the future, and assessing the aggressiveness or indolence of ovarian cancer. In addition, methods for assessing the potential efficacy of a test agent for inhibiting ovarian cancer in a patient, selecting an agent for inhibiting ovarian cancer in a patient, and assessing the ovarian cancer cell carcinogenic potential of a test compound are described. The invention also contemplates a method of treating a patient susceptible to, or having a cancer that expresses a kallikrein 8 polypeptide.

Disclosed are novel dipeptide analogs compounds of Formula (I), (II) or (III):

or a stereoisomer, a tautomer, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, a solvate, or a prodrug thereof, which are inhibitors of factor XIa and/or plasma kallikrein, compositions containing them, and methods of using them, for example, for the treatment or prophylaxis of thrombotic diseases.

The present invention provides compounds of Formula (I): or stereoisomers, tautomers, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein all the variables are as defined herein. These compounds are selective factor XIa inhibitors or dual inhibitors of FXIa and plasma kallikrein. This invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and methods of treating thromboembolic and/or inflammatory disorders using the same.