71 results about "Non cancer" patented technology

The present invention concerns a pyrvinium compound or an analog thereof for the treatment of cancers. This compound inhibits Wnt activity in the cells of cancers such as adrenocortical, hepatocellular, hepatoblastoma, malignant melanoma, ovarian, Wilm's tumor, Barrett's esophageal, glioma, bladder, breast, gastric, head & neck, lung cell, mesothelioma, and cervical cancers. The present invention also provides a method for assaying for compounds that alter Wnt pathway activity. Also provided are methods for treating Wnt-related non-cancer disease states.

The reagent, pharmaceutical formulation, kit, and methods of the invention provides a new approach for treating hypoxia-related pathological conditions, such as Alzheimer's Disease, and those involving excessive angiogenesis, especially those non-cancer pathological conditions. The invention provides the use of Na+ / K+-ATPase inhibitors, such as cardiac glycosides (e.g. ouabain and proscillaridin, etc.), either alone or in combination with other standard therapeutic agents for treating such conditions. The invention also relates to the use of cardiac glycoside inhibitors / antagonists as reagents, pharmaceutical formulations, or in kits and methods for treating conditions arising from excessive amount of cardiac glycosides, including all symptoms of digitalis poisoning, depression, hypertension, etc. The pharmaceutical formulation of the invention may be delivered to a patient either systemically or locally, or both. The pharmaceutical formulations of the invention may be delivered either in one dose, or continuously over a sustained period of time using, for example, sustained drug delivery devices.

Methods and compositions for the development of effective cancer therapies using mitotic inhibitors which have limited general toxicity to normal, non-cancerous cells and tissues are provided. The methods and compositions utilize cytotoxic compounds comprised of a cell-binding agent (e.g., antibodies) conjugated to an anti-mitotic compound (e.g., maytansinoids). The invention further provides antibodies which are substantially incapable of inducing antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) and / or complement dependent cytotoxicity (CDC), thereby ensuring that the therapeutic effect is mediated primarily by the anti-mitotic component of the cytotoxic compound, rather than by indirect cell killing via ADCC and / or CDC. The antibodies of the invention further are capable of differentiating between polypeptide antigens which are more highly expressed on proliferating cancer cells as compared to proliferating non-cancer cells.

The present invention relates to methods and compositions designed for the treatment, management, or prevention of cancer, particularly, metastatic cancer. In one embodiment, the methods of the invention comprise the administration of an effective amount of one or more antibodies that bind to EphA4 and agonize EphA4. In another embodiment, the methods of the invention comprise the administration of an effective amount of one or more antibodies that bind to EphA4 and inhibit cancer cell colony formation in soft agar or tubular network formation in three-dimensional basement membrane or extracellular matrix preparation. In another embodiment, the methods of the invention comprise the administration of an effective amount of one or more antibodies that preferentially binds to an EphA4 epitope that is exposed on cancer cells but not non-cancer cells. In another embodiment, the methods of the invention comprise the administration of an effective amount of one or more antibodies that bind to EphA4 with a very low Koff to reduce EphA4 expression and, thereby, inhibit tumor cell growth and / or metastasis. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising one or more EphA4 antibodies of the invention either alone or in combination with one or more other agents useful for cancer therapy.

Compounds represented by the following structure (II) are disclosed:as are methods for making such compounds. Compositions and methods for treating various disease conditions including cancer and non-cancer diseases associated with vascular proliferation are also disclosed.

The present disclosure relates to methods for detecting unique genetic signatures derived from markers such as, for example, mutations, somatic or germ-line, in nucleic acids obtained from biological samples. The sensitivity of the methods provides for detection of mutations associated with a disease, e.g., cancer mutations, or with inherited disease, e.g., an autosomal recessive disease, in a noninvasive manner at ultra-low proportions of sequences carrying mutations to sequences carrying normal, e.g., non-cancer sequences, or a reference sequence, e.g., a human reference genome.

A food product containing an effective amount of an active agent which is hydroxymatairesinol, a geometric isomer or stereoisomer thereof, or an acceptable salt thereof, or a mixture thereof, where the food product is selected from the group consisting of a nutritional supplement and a nutrient. The food product can increase the level of enterolactone or another metabolite of hydroxymatairesinol in a person's serum thereby causing prevention of a cancer or a certain non-cancer, hormone dependent disease in a person, based on the administration of hydroxymatairesinol to the person.

The invention relates to compositions and methods for cancer cell detection in bodily samples wherein a cancer cell can be detected within a mixed population of cancer cells and non-cancer cells. The invention also relates to compositions and methods that may be used in cancer cell detection, specifically viruses that are replication-competent conditional to a cancer cell, in particular an oncolytic herpes virus, such as NV 1066 and a vaccinia virus, such as GLV-1h68. Provided are methods and kits for using these viruses that preferentially replicate in cancer cells and may also preferentially infect cancer cells for specific identification of such cancer cells, even when a cancer cell is present, for example, at a ratio of one infected cancer cell in a background often thousand non-cancer cells, thus further providing a reproducible and sensitive screening method for cancer detection, monitoring and prognosis.

The present invention relates to methods and compositions designed for the treatment, management, or prevention of cancer, particularly, metastatic cancer. The methods of the invention comprise the administration of an effective amount of one or more antibodies that bind to and agonize EphA2, thereby increasing EphA2 phosphorylation and decreasing EphA2 levels in cells which EphA2 has been agonized. The invention also encompasses antibodies that preferentially bind an EphA2 epitope exposed on cancer cells but not non-cancer cells. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising one or more EphA2 antibodies of the invention either alone or in combination with one or more other agents useful for cancer therapy.

The present invention provides kits, methods and compositions for the treatment of diseases, such as, for example, non-cancer proliferative diseases, neurodegenerative diseases, diabetes and hypertension. The compositions herein contain a substantially pure preparation of at least one catecholic butane, including, for example, NDGA Compounds in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier or excipient by various routes of administration.

A cancer cell separating apparatus includes: a flow channel including an antibody fixation area having antibodies which bind specifically to cancer cells fixed thereon, wherein the cancer cells and non-cancer cells are separated using a difference in velocity of movement between the cancer cells and the non-cancer cells in cell slurry introduced into the flow channel.

A targeted osmotic lysis (TOL) of tumor cells that over-express voltage-gated sodium channels (VGSCs) has been developed that uses a combined therapy of a drug that blocks sodium, potassium-adenosine triphosphatase (Na+, K+-ATPase) that is then followed by an activation of VGSCs, for example, by electrical or pharmacological stimulation. Activation of VGSCs conducts sodium into the cancer cells in much greater amounts than non-cancer cells. Water follows this sodium gradient into the cancer cells, causing swelling and lysis. Because non-cancerous cells do not over-express VGSCs, less sodium and less water will enter the cells, and the non-cancerous cells will not lyse. This method is applicable to all cells that over-express VGSCs, including, but not limited to, highly invasive breast cancer, prostate cancer, small cell lung cancer, non-small cell lung carcinoma, lymphoma, mesothelioma, neuroblastoma, and cervical cancer.

The invention concerns materials and methods relating to the use of OMD (osteomodulin) and\or PRELP (Proline / arginine-rich end leucine-rich repeat protein) expression, particularly under-expression, to discriminate cancer and non-cancer cells in a variety of cancers. The invention further provides methods and materials based on OMD and\or PRELP for use in therapy e.g. to suppress cancer initiation or development.

Methods and compositions for the development of effective cancer therapies using mitotic inhibitors which have limited general toxicity to normal, non-cancerous cells and tissues are provided. The methods and compositions utilize cytotoxic compounds comprised of a cell-binding agent (e.g., antibodies) conjugated to an anti-mitotic compound (e.g., maytansinoids). The invention further provides antibodies which are substantially incapable of inducing antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) and / or complement dependent cytotoxicity (CDC), thereby ensuring that the therapeutic effect is mediated primarily by the anti-mitotic component of the cytotoxic compound, rather than by indirect cell killing via ADCC and / or CDC. The antibodies of the invention further are capable of differentiating between polypeptide antigens which are more highly expressed on proliferating cancer cells as compared to proliferating non-cancer cells.

The invention discloses a method for serologically detecting Matrix metalloproteinase 11 (MMP11) and the application thereof. The gene chip technology and the bioinformatics method are adopted to obtain stomach cancer gene expression spectra, and by taking the MMP11 gene for example, the expression characteristics of the gene in the tumor cell lines and tissues are verified at the levels of mRNA and protein. At the same time, a detection kit for the MMP11serum is established by utilizing the technique of the enzyme linked immuno sorbent assay (ELISA), and the expression level of the MMP11 protein in the serum of stomach cancer patients is detected. The level of the MMP11 protein in the serum of stomach cancer patients is obviously higher than that of a non-cancer comparison group (p is lower than 0.001), and the same tendency is also found in the breast cancer, the colon cancer / rectum cancer and the lung cancer. In the serum detection to the stomach cancer patients, the sensitivity of the MMP11 is higher than that of a tumor molecule marker such as CEA, CA199, CA72.4, CA242, etc., and MMP11 and CA199 have good correlation (p is equal to 0.017). Through the analysis of the clinic pathological data, the level of the serum MMP11 has the obvious correlation (p is equal to 0.009) with the cancerometastasis state of the stomach cancer patients. The MMP11 is possible to become a novel tumor serum marker for the diagnosis and the prognostic judgement of the tumors.

The present invention relates to methods and compositions designed for the treatment, management, or prevention of cancer, particularly, metastatic cancer. In one embodiment, the methods of the invention comprise the administration of an effective amount of an antibody that binds to EphA2 and agonizes EphA2, thereby increasing EphA2 phosphorylation and decreasing EphA2 levels. In other embodiments, the methods of the invention comprise the administration of an effective amount of an antibody that binds to EphA2 and inhibits cancer cell colony formation in soft agar, inhibits tubular network formation in three-dimensional basement membrane or extracellular matrix preparation, preferentially binds to an EphA2 epitope that is exposed on cancer cells but not non-cancer cells, and / or has a low Koff, thereby, inhibiting tumor cell growth and / or metastasis. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising one or more EphA2 antibodies of the invention either alone or in combination with one or more other agents useful for cancer therapy.

A targeted osmotic lysis (TOL) of tumor cells that over-express voltage-gated sodium channels (VGSCs) has been developed that uses a combined therapy of a drug that blocks sodium, potassium-adenosine triphosphatase (Na+, K+-ATPase) that is then followed by an activation of VGSCs, for example, by electrical or pharmacological stimulation. Activation of VGSCs conducts sodium into the cancer cells in much greater amounts than non-cancer cells. Water follows this sodium gradient into the cancer cells, causing swelling and lysis. Because non-cancerous cells do not over-express VGSCs, less sodium and less water will enter the cells, and the non-cancerous cells will not lyse. This method is applicable to all cells that over-express VGSCs, including, but not limited to, highly invasive breast cancer, prostate cancer, small cell lung cancer, non-small cell lung carcinoma, lymphoma, mesothelioma, neuroblastoma, and cervical cancer.

The invention belongs to the medicine technical field, and concretely relates to a heterocycle substituted pyrido-pyrrole kinase inhibitor shown in a formula (I), its pharmaceutically acceptable salt or its solvate, wherein R1, R2, R3, L, M and Q are defined as an instruction. The invention also relates to a preparation method and an application of the compounds, the pharmaceutically acceptable salt or the solvate in preparation of medicines for treating / or preventing cancer-related or non cancer-related diseases.

The invention relates to a polymolecular marker composition used for lung cancer diagnosis. The invention discloses a group of lung cancer combined markers, including hepatocyte growth factor, C-reactive protein, prolactin, Wnt induced signal path protein 1 (WISP1), imprinting site binding factor (BORIS), CA125, cytokeratin 19 segment and carcino-embryonic antigen. In serum of lung cancer patients, the expression of these proteins is obviously higher than that of non-cancer patients. These markers are combined to be applied to clinical diagnosis, so that the accuracy of lung cancer diagnosis can be obviously improved, and early-stage patients suffering from lung cancer can be detected.

The present invention provides a method for examining colorectal cancer and colorectal adenoma, which enables to detect colorectal cancer patients and patients at high risk of colorectal cancer at a high probability and is useful for diagnosis of colorectal cancer and colorectal adenoma, and provides the examination reagents thereof. The present inventors discovered that there are significant differences in the distribution of GlcNAc-6-sulfotransferase isozymes, sulfation enzymes of sugar residues, among non-cancer colorectal tissues, colorectal cancer tissues and colorectal adenoma tissues. Furthermore the inventors applied the discovery to diagnosis and found that colorectal cancers and adenomas are detected specifically by assaying a definite range of GlcNAc-6-sulfated sugar residues in tissues from patients or feces samples. MECA-79 antibody (Pharmingen, catalog No. 09961D, Distributor: Becton Dickinson), reacting with GlcNAc-6-sulfated sugar residues, which are produced specifically by the enzyme present in colorectal cancer and colorectal adenoma tissues could be used for the examination of colorectal cancers and colorectal adenomas.

The invention relates to methods of treating diseases including but not limited to, cancer, non-cancer proliferative disease, sepsis, autoimmune disease, viral infaction, atheroscleosis, Type 1 or 2 diabetes, obesity, inflammatory disease, or Myc-depenent disorder including by modulating biological processes by the inhibition of PI3 kinase and / or bromodomain protein binding to substrates composing the administration of a compound(s) of Formula I-IX (or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof) as defined herein.

The invention relates to the technical field of medical diagnostics. Thyroid tumors can be divided into two types including benign tumors and cancers. The property of a thyroid nodule is difficult to determine clinically; and even if biopsy is carried out, the benign tumors and the cancers are not easy to clearly identify due to thyroid adenomas and focal nodular hyperplasia. The invention provides a blood micro-molecular metabolin specific chromatogram which is used for identifying papillary thyroid carcinomas, benign thyroid tumors and blood of normal people, and a manufacturing method of the blood micro-molecular metabolin specific chromatogram. A micro-molecular metabolin comprises two blood metabolin marks, namely palmityl carnitine and carnitine; the molecular weights of the palmityl carnitine and the carnitine are 400.2634 and 161.20; and corresponding ions detected on a mass spectrum are 404.5532 and 160.7866. A clinical experiment shows that the accuracy of applying a chromatogram formed by a specific value of the two metabolism micro-molecules to judge the thyroid cancer is 74% and the accuracy of judging non-cancer (the benign thyroid tumor and the normal people) is 72.3%. The blood micro-molecular metabolin specific chromatogram disclosed by the invention has the advantage of high sensitivity and can be prepared into a diagnosis kit for screening and auxiliary diagnosis of the thyroid cancer.

The present invention relates to methods and compositions designed to treat, control or prevent cancer, particularly metastatic cancer. The methods of the invention comprise administering an effective amount of one or more antibodies that bind and stimulate EphA2, thereby increasing the phosphorylation of EphA2 and reducing the level of stimulated EphA2 in the cell. The invention also includes antibodies that bind preferentially to EphA2 epitopes exposed on cancer cells rather than non-cancer cells. The present invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising only one or more EphA2 antibodies of the present invention, or the antibodies in combination with one or more other drugs for the treatment of cancer.