16599 results about "Pharmaceutical medicine" patented technology

Methods are provided for the evolution of proteins of industrial and pharmaceutical interest, including methods for effecting recombination and selection. Compositions produced by these methods are also disclosed.

Compounds having the structure of formula I are provided. In formula I, R1 is H, OH, substituted or unsubstituted C1 to C3 alkyl, C1 to C3 perfluoroalkyl, or COR6; R6 is H, substituted or unsubstituted C1 to C4 alkyl, aryl, substituted or unsubstituted C1 to C4 alkoxy, substituted or unsubstituted C1 to C3 aminoalkyl; R2 and R3 are H, substituted or unsubstituted C1 to C6 alkyl, C1 to C6 perfluoroalkyl, substituted or unsubstituted C2 to C6 alkenyl, substituted or unsubstituted C2 to C6 alkynyl, substituted or unsubstituted C3 to C6 cycloalkyl, substituted or unsubstituted aryl, or substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic; or R2 and R3 are fused to form spirocyclic rings; R4 is NHR7, OR7, NHSO2R7, or OSO2R7; Q is O, S, NR8, or CR9R10; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, ester, or prodrug thereof. Such compounds are useful as progesterone receptor modulators and for treating progesterone receptor related conditions.

The invention provides the compounds of formula (I) or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising one or more compounds of formula I or intermediates thereof and one more of pharmaceutically acceptable carriers, vehicles or diluents. The invention further provides methods of preparation and methods of use of prodrugs including NO-releasing prodrugs, double prodrugs and mutual prodrugs comprising the compounds of formula I.

Methods of treating, preventing and / or managing myclodysplastic syndromes are disclosed. Specific methods encompass the administration of an immunomodulatory compound, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, solvate, hydrate, stereoisomer, clathrate, or prodrug thereof, alone or in combination with a second active ingredient, and / or the transplantation of blood or cells. Specific second active ingredients are capable of affecting or blood cell production. Pharmaceutical compositions, single unit dosage forms, and kits suitable for use in methods of the invention are also disclosed.

Sustained release dosage forms for twice daily oral dosing to a human patient for providing relief from pain are provided. The sustained release dosage form comprises an immediate release component and a sustained release component, wherein the immediate release component and the sustained release component collectively contain a therapeutically effective amount of an opioid analgesic and a therapeutically effective amount of nonopioid analgesic. In a preferred embodiment, the nonopioid analgesic is acetaminophen and the opioid analgesic is hydrocodone and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and in preferred embodiments, the pharmaceutically acceptable salt is bitartrate. The dosage forms produce plasma profiles in a patient characterized by a Cmax for hydrocodone of between about 0.6 ng / mL / mg to about 1.4 ng / mL / mg and an AUC for hydrocodone of between about 9.1 ng*hr / mL / mg to about 19.9 ng*hr / mL / mg (per mg hydrocodone bitartrate administered) and a Cmax for acetaminophen of between about 2.8 ng / mL / mg and 7.9 ng / mL / mg and an AUC for acetaminophen of between about 28.6 ng*hr / mL / mg and about 59.1 ng*hr / mL / mg (per mg acetaminophen administered) after a single dose.