1274 results about "Molecular Targeted Therapies" patented technology

Disclosed are compositions, systems and methods for treating a subject's body, body part, tissue, body fluid cells, pathogens, or other undesirable matter involving the administration of a targeted thermotherapy that comprises a bioprobe (energy susceptive materials that are attached to a target-specific ligand). Such targeted therapy methods can be combined with at least one other therapy technique. Other therapies include hyperthermia, direct antibody therapy, radiation, chemo- or pharmaceutical therapy, photodynamic therapy, surgical or interventional therapy, bone marrow or stem cell transplantation, and medical imaging, such as MRI, PET, SPECT, and bioimpedance. The disclosed therapies may be useful in the treatment of a variety of indications, including but not limited to, cancer of any type, such as bone marrow, lung, vascular, neuro, colon, ovarian, breast and prostate cancer, epitheleoid sarcomas, AIDS, adverse angiogenesis, restenosis, amyloidosis, tuberculosis, cardiovascular plaque, vascular plaque, obesity, malaria, and illnesses due to viruses, such as HIV.

Targeted therapeutics that localize to a specific subcellular compartment such as the lysosome are provided. The targeted therapeutics include a therapeutic agent and a targeting moiety that binds a receptor on an exterior surface of the cell, permitting proper subcellular localization of the targeted therapeutic upon internalization of the receptor. Nucleic acids, cells, and methods relating to the practice of the invention are also provided.

Described herein are therapeutic targets expressed in cancer stem cells and methods for treating and diagnosing cancer by targeting such cells with antibodies, compounds, nucleic acid, or other therapeutic agent. In one embodiment described herein, therapeutic agents for the treatment of cancer are provided based on the identification of cancer stem cell targets. The present invention also includes therapeutic targets for cancer therapy and cancer stem cell-targeted therapy. The invention includes the treatment of cancer by the administration of compounds or agents that target cancer stem cells.

Disclosed are thermotherapeutic compositions for treating disease material, and methods of targeted therapy utilizing such compositions. These compositions comprise a) stable single domain magnetic particles; b) magnetic nanoparticles comprising aggregates of superparamagnetic grains; or c) magnetic nanoparticles comprising aggregates of stable single magnetic domain crystals and superparamagnetic grains. These compositions may also comprise a radio isotope, potential radioactive isotope, chemotherapeutic agent. These methods comprise the administration to a patient's body, body part, body fluid, or tissue of bioprobes (energy susceptive materials attached to a target-specific ligand), and the application of energy to the bioprobes so as to destroy, rupture, or inactivate the target in the patient. Energy forms, such as AMF, are utilized to provide the energy. The disclosed methods may be useful in the treatment of a variety of indications, including cancers, diseases of the immune system, central nervous system and vascular system, and pathogen-borne diseases.

Targeted therapeutics that localize to a specific subcellular compartment such as the lysosome are provided. The targeted therapeutics include a therapeutic agent and a targeting moiety that binds a receptor on an exterior surface of the cell, permitting proper subcellular localization of the targeted therapeutic upon internalization of the receptor. Nucleic acids, cells, and methods relating to the practice of the invention are also provided.

Methods for preventing damage to epithelial tissue during PDT induced using a photosensitizing agent or pre-photosensitizing agent are provided. The methods of the present invention utilize spatial confinement to control photoactivation of the photoactive species to protect the epithelial tissue. In one embodiment, epithelial tissue surrounding a targeted treatment site can be protecting by decreasing the oxygen-content in the tissue, thereby preventing the conversion of the photosensitizer into the phototoxic species in the epithelial tissue.

Provided herein are cells, vectors and viruses in association with a mutant polypeptide that has emerged in response to a therapeutic or prophylactic agent; compositions comprising such cells, vectors and viruses and methods for their use in eliciting an immune response to the mutant polypeptide. In some examples, the immune response is a cellular immune response.

Provided herein are compositions and methods for targeted ablation of mutational escape in the face of cancer therapeutic agents. Compositions comprising the yeast-based vehicles are used in combination with other cancer therapeutic agents.

Fusion of the viral envelope, or infected cell membranes with uninfected cell membranes, is an essential step in the viral life cycle. Recent studies involving the human immunodeficiency virus type 1(HIV-1) demonstrated that synthetic peptides (designated DP-107 and DP-178) derived from potential helical regions of the transmembrane (TM) protein, gp41, were potent inhibitors of viral fusion and infection. A computerized antiviral searching technology (C.A.S.T.) that detects related structural motifs (e.g., ALLMOTI 5, 107x178x4, and PLZIP) in other viral proteins was employed to identify similar regions in the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). Several conserved heptad repeat domains that are predicted to form coiled-coil structures with antiviral activity were identified in the EBV genome. Synthetic peptides of 16 to 39 amino acids derived from these regions were prepared and their antiviral activities assessed in a suitable in vitro screening assay. These peptides proved to be potent inhibitors of EBV fusion. Based upon their structural and functional equivalence to the known HIV-1 inhibitors DP-107 and DP-178, these peptides should provide a novel approach to the development of targeted therapies for the treatment of EBV infections.

Methods and compositions for improving the delivery and/or efficacy of a therapy (e.g., a cancer therapy) are disclosed. In one embodiment, methods and compositions for treating or preventing a cancer (e.g., a solid tumor such as a desmoplastic tumor) by administering to a subject an anti-hypertensive agent, as a single agent or in combination with a microenvironment modulator and/or a therapy, e.g., a cancer therapy (for example, a therapeutic agent or therapy, including immunotherapy (e.g., antibodies, vaccine, cell-based), nanotherapeutics, radiation therapy, photodynamic therapy, low molecular weight chemotherapeutics, molecularly targeted therapeutics and/or oxygen radical) are disclosed.

Gene expression profiling and hierarchical clustering analysis readily identify differential gene expressions in normal renal epithelial cells and renal cell carcinomas. Genes identified by this analysis would be useful for diagnosis, prognosis and development of targeted therapy for the prevention and treatment of conventional renal cell carcinoma.

A biomedical device assembly, such as a stent, for the targeted treatment of a tissue, such as the inhibition of restentosis. The stent is coated with an antigen, which is an example of a lock. The antigen can be bound by a labelled antibody, which is an example of a key and an effector. The antibody is preferably labelled with a radioactive source. According to one method of preparing the biomedical device assembly, after the stent has been placed in the blood vessel of the subject, the antibody is injected. The antibody then binds to the antigen on the stent, thereby localizing the radioactive source to the area to be treated, for example for restenosis. Other biomedical devices, such as a coil, an artificial valve or a vascular graft, could also be used in the place of the stent. The biomedical device could be placed in another biological passageway, such as the gastrointestinal tract, an airway or the genitourinary tract.

The invention relates to a preparation method of a protein magnetic imprinting nano sphere, in particular to a preparation method of a protein magnetic imprinting nano sphere which takes one of hemoglobin, muramidase or serum protein as template molecules; the preparation method includes the following steps: synthesizing magnetic nano particles which are Fe3O4 nano particles covered with silicon dioxide on the surfaces; carrying out silanization to the amino-groups on the surface of the magnetic sphere; using glutaric dialdehyde to connect protein; using silylation agent to fix the space structure of template protein; alkaline eluting the protein on the surface of the magnetic sphere to form imprinting sites. The hemoglobin, muramidase or serum protein magnetic nano imprinting polymer sphere prepared by the invention combines the precise and specific identification property of molecular imprinting and the quick separation property of the magnetic nano sphere under the action of an external magnetic field, integrates the advantages of molecular imprinting and the magnetic nano sphere, avoids complex centrifugation operation, plays vital roles in the separation of cells, protein and nucleic acid, the detection of biomolecules, tumor diagnosis and medicine targeting therapy and has promising application prospect in the field of isolation analysis.

The invention discloses a medicine carrying system based on nano graphene oxide, and is characterized in that the surface of the nano graphene oxide contains two hydrophilic potential groups of carboxyl and sulfonic acid group, carboxyl of the nano graphene oxide is subject to coupling with targeted molecules of folacin, polypeptide or antibody with the help of chemical cross-linker, and carbon atoms of nano graphene oxide absorb and load with one or more than one medicine molecules containing aromatic nucleus to form a targeted medicine carrying system. Proved by application in laboratories,the medicine carrying system can practically improve targeted medicine application and targeted cytotoxicity on each disease point where the medicine is applied, and provides a new thought for targeted therapy on tumor, cancer and other pathogeny.

The present invention is directed to a conjugate which includes at least one vitamin D moiety thereof and at least one targeting molecule moiety to pharmaceutical compositions of the conjugate, and to methods for using the conjugate for target-specific delivery of vitamin D or analogs thereof to tissues in need thereof. When a particularly preferred form is administered to a patient, the targeting molecule component of the conjugate of this invention seeks out and binds to a tissue of interest, such as bone or tumor tissue, where the vitamin D has a therapeutic effect.

The invention discloses a humanized monoclonal antibody targeting to human CD19 antigen. The humanized monoclonal antibody is applied to construction and preparation of chimeric antigen receptor T cells; and subsequent in-vitro experiments verify the tumor treatment effect of the chimeric antigen receptor T cells. A chimeric antigen receptor targeting to the human CD19 antigen is composed of a leader peptide, a single-chain antibody targeting to the human CD19 antigen, a hinge area for connection with ScFv, a transmembrane domain and an immune receptor tyrosine activation motif; a lentiviral expression vector is constructed from the chimeric antigen receptor and then used for infection of immune cells, so the chimeric antigen receptor targeting to the human CD19 antigen can be expressed in the immune cells; and tumors expressing the CD19 antigen are killed by recognizing the CD19 antigen on the surfaces of tumor cells, so the purpose of tumor treatment is achieved. The invention provides a novel tool for targeting therapy of tumors.

The invention relates to a bio-assay reagent for early diagnosis of tumor and a prodrug for the targeted therapy of tumor, in particular to a targeted tracing noble metal fluorescence probe and an anti-tumor prodrug. Through experiment, the synthesized probe does not have cytotoxicity and is safe and effective, can realize the level imaging of cells and the imaging of in-vivo tumor, and has good prospect when used as the targeted fluorescence probe or the prodrug.