192 results about "Psoriatic disease" patented technology

Prodrugs of methyl hydrogen fumarate, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the prodrugs of methyl hydrogen fumarate, and methods of using the prodrugs of methyl hydrogen fumarate and the pharmaceutical compositions thereof for treating diseases such as psoriasis, asthma, multiple sclerosis, inflammatory bowel disease, and arthritis are disclosed.

The present invention relates to compounds of Formula (I),

methods for preparing these compounds, compositions, intermediates and derivatives thereof and for treating a condition including but not limited to ankylosing spondylitis, artherosclerosis, arthritis (such as rheumatoid arthritis, infectious arthritis, childhood arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, reactive arthritis), bone-related diseases (including those related to bone formation), breast cancer (including those unresponsive to anti-estrogen therapy), cardiovascular disorders, cartilage-related disease (such as cartilage injury/loss, cartilage degeneration, and those related to cartilage formation), chondrodysplasia, chondrosarcoma, chronic back injury, chronic bronchitis, chronic inflammatory airway disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes, disorders of energy homeostasis, gout, pseudogout, lipid disorders, metabolic syndrome, multiple myeloma, obesity, osteoarthritis, osteogenesis imperfecta, osteolytic bone metastasis, osteomalacia, osteoporosis, Paget's disease, periodontal disease, polymyalgia rheumatica, Reiter's syndrome, repetitive stress injury, hyperglycemia, elevated blood glucose level, and insulin resistance.

The invention relates to a polycyclic derivative inhibitor as well as a preparation method and application thereof. Particularly, the invention relates to a compound represented by a general formula,the preparation method of the compound, a pharmaceutical composition containing the compound and the application of the compound as an intracellular non-receptor tyrosine kinase to mediation of signaltransduction and activation of various cell factors. The compound plays a key role in the biological process of participating in immunoregulation, immune cell proliferation and the like, is closely related to various inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, dermatitis, psoriasis, inflammatory bowel diseases (ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease) and the like, and has the same substituent groups in the following general formula (I) as defined in the specification.

The present invention relates to amide derivatives of Formula (XIIIa) and pharmaceutical compositions thereof that modulate the activity of the PGI2 receptor. Compounds of the present invention and pharmaceutical compositions thereof are directed to methods useful in the treatment of: pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH); idiopathic PAH; familial PAH; PAH associated with a collagen vascular disease, a congenital heart disease, portal hypertension, HIV infection, ingestion of a drug or toxin, hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia, splenectomy, pulmonary veno-occlusive disease (PVOD) or pulmonary capillary hemangiomatosis (PCH); PAH with significant venous or capillary involvement; platelet aggregation; coronary artery disease; myocardial infarction; transient ischemic attack; angina; stroke; ischemia-reperfusion injury; restenosis; atrial fibrillation; blood clot formation in an angioplasty or coronary bypass surgery individual or in an individual suffering from atrial fibrillation; atherosclerosis; atherothrombosis; asthma or a symptom thereof; a diabetic-related disorder such as diabetic peripheral neuropathy, diabetic nephropathy or diabetic retinopathy; glaucoma or other disease of the eye with abnormal intraocular pressure; hypertension; inflammation; psoriasis; psoriatic arthritis; rheumatoid arthritis; Crohn's disease; transplant rejection; multiple sclerosis; systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE); ulcerative colitis; ischemia-reperfusion injury; restenosis; atherosclerosis; acne; type 1 diabetes; type 2 diabetes; sepsis; and chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD).

The invention provides a novel herbal composition containing the extracts of the leaves and/or stem of <italic>Argemone mexicana </highlight>plant, optionally containing the extracts of the fruits of <italic>Cuminum cyminum</highlight>, which exhibits useful in vitro, in vivo and interesting immunological and pharmacological activities; a process for preparation thereof; and a method of treatment of psoriasis and related immunological and biological disorders by administration of the said novel herbal composition. The useful in vitro, in vivo and interesting immunological and pharmacological activities exhibited by the extracts and fractions of the leaves and/or stem of <italic>Argemone mexicana </highlight>plant include immunosuppression, lymphoproliferation inhibition, cytokine modulation such as IL-2 inhibition, IFNgamma inhibition, IL-10 induction, keratinocyte proliferation inhibition, keratolytic activity, endothelial cell proliferation inhibition, inhibition of cell adhesion molecule expression such as ICAM-1, MEST inhibition, and enzymes inhibition such as p60src Tyrosine kinase, which are known to be involved in anti-psoriatic activity. The novel herbal composition(s) is useful in the treatment of various disorders, such as psoriasis including plaque psoriasis, gutatte psoriasis, pustular psoriasis and psoriasis of the nails; dermatitis and scleroderma; eczema; inflammatory disorders and other autoimmune diseases like psoriatic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn's disease, multiple sclerosis, irritable bowel disease, ankylosing spondilitis, systemic lupus erythremetosus and Sjogren's syndrome; allergies like asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and is safe, well-tolerated, non-toxic, with minimal and reversible adverse reactions or side effects, and most importantly, with minimal relapse or recurrence of the disease following completion of a treatment regimen. The invention also describes the presence of phosphodiesterase (III, IV and V) inhibition and 5-Lipoxygenase inhibition in the aqueous, ethanolic or aqueous-ethanolic extracts of fruits of <italic>Cuminum cyminum </highlight>plant.

The invention provides the application of tetracyclic triterpenoids compound cucurbitacins E in preparing anti-angiogenic drugs. The cucurbitacins E can inhibit tumor angiogenesis, arthritis pathological tissue vessel angiogenesis, neovascular eye disease, hemangioma pathological tissue angiogenesis, psoriasis pathological tissue vessel angiogenesis, solid tumor pathological tissue angiogenesis, hemangioma, Kaposi' s sarcoma pathological tissue angiogenesis, leukocythemia, lymphadenoma, myeloma blood cancer and Paget' s disease angiogenesis. The invention also provides the application of a compound containing effective dose of cucurbitacins E and pharmacy acceptable ingredients in preparing the anti-angiogenic drugs.

The present invention relates to kinase modulators of the naphthyridine type and to the preparation and use thereof as medicaments for the modulation of misdirected cellular signal transduction processes, in particular for influencing the function of tyrosine and serine/threonine kinases and for the treatment of malignant or benign tumours and other disorders based on pathological cell proliferation, such as, for example, restenosis, psoriasis, arteriosclerosis and cirrhosis of the liver.

The present invention relates to compounds of Formula (I),

methods for preparing these compounds, compositions, intermediates and derivatives thereof and for treating a condition including but not limited to ankylosing spondylitis, artherosclerosis, arthritis (such as rheumatoid arthritis, infectious arthritis, childhood arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, reactive arthritis), bone-related diseases (including those related to bone formation), breast cancer (including those unresponsive to anti-estrogen therapy), cardiovascular disorders, cartilage-related disease (such as cartilage injury/loss, cartilage degeneration, and those related to cartilage formation), chondrodysplasia, chondrosarcoma, chronic back injury, chronic bronchitis, chronic inflammatory airway disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes, disorders of energy homeostasis, gout, pseudogout, lipid disorders, metabolic syndrome, multiple myeloma, obesity, osteoarthritis, osteogenesis imperfecta, osteolytic bone metastasis, osteomalacia, osteoporosis, Paget's disease, periodontal disease, polymyalgia rheumatica, Reiter's syndrome, repetitive stress injury, hyperglycemia, elevated blood glucose level, and insulin resistance.

The invention relates to clinical application of a substituted aryl hydrazone compound and a derivative thereof serving as an anti-tumor necrosis factor inhibitor. A test result shows that the compound has a lower cytotoxicity in animal bodies, so the medical compound is expected to be used as an anti-TNF-alpha and TNF-beta inhibitor in the clinical application and is mainly used for treating some TNF related immunological diseases such as rheumatic arthritis, inflammatory bowel diseases, diabetes, hematosepsis, psoriasis, ankylosing spondylitis and some communicable diseases including HIV. A current TNF related research also shows that the medical compound can be used for treating clinical blood and solid tumor such as myelodysplastic syndrome, myelofibrosis, acute bone marrow cell leucocythemia, acute/chronic graft-versus-host reaction, ovarian cancer, nephrocyte cancer and the like.

The invention discloses a traditional Chinese medicine composition and application thereof. The traditional Chinese medicine composition is prepared from, by weight, 5-30 parts of rhizoma curcumae, 5-30 parts of glabrous sarcandra herb, 5-30 parts of Sinkiang arnebia root, 5-30 parts of red peony root, 5-60 parts of glabrous greenbrier rhizome, 5-30 parts of dark plum, 3-25 parts of liquorice, 3-25 parts of angelica sinensis, 3-25 parts of Szechuan lovage rhizome and 5-60 parts of radix rehmanniae. The traditional Chinese medicine composition has the advantages that the traditional Chinese medicine composition has remarkable treatment effects and little toxicity when being used for treating psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis or malignant tumors; the traditional Chinese medicine composition is capable of clearing away heat and toxic materials and promoting blood circulation to remove blood stasis and is exact in treatment effect when being used for treating the psoriasis; the traditional Chinese medicine composition is capable of dispelling wind-evil, clearing heat, eliminating dampness, dispersing swelling and promoting blood circulation to remove meridian obstruction and is exact in treatment effect when being used for treating the psoriatic arthritis and the rheumatoid arthritis; the traditional Chinese medicine composition is capable of resolving dampness, clearing heat, promoting blood circulation to remove blood stasis, detoxifying and resolving masses and is exact in treatment effect when being used for treating the malignant tumors.

The invention relates to application of carnosic acid in preparing a medicament for suppressing angiogenesis. The invention has the advantages that: the novel application of the carnosic acid discovers the effect of the carnosic acid in resisting angiogenesis for the first time, and the carnosic acid can effectively suppress proliferation, migration and canaliculization of vascular endothelial cells for the first time, which proves that the carnosic acid has the activity of resisting the angiogenesis, can be used as an angiogenesis suppressant, and can be applied to preparation of angiogenesis medicaments as the angiogenesis suppressant to treat neovascularization dependent and neovascularization related diseases, such as tumors, arthritis, psoriasis, ocular diseases, atherosclerosis, and the like.

N-(2-aryl-propionyl)-amides of formula (I) are described. The process for their preparation and pharmaceutical preparations thereof are also described. The amides of the invention are useful in the prevention and treatment of tissue damage due to the exacerbate recruitment of polymorphonuclear neutrophils (leukocytes PMN) at the inflammatory sites. In particular, the invention relates to the R enantiomers of N-(2-aryl-propionyl)amides of formula (I) for use in the inhibition of the chemotaxis of neutrophils induced by IL-8. The compounds of the invention are used in the treatment of psoriasis, ulcerative cholitis, glomerular nephritis, acute respiratory insufficiency, idiopathic fibrosis, and rheumatoid arthritis.