44 results about "Skeletal muscle atrophy" patented technology

A patient with a disease associated with a receptor having a cysteine residue is treated with a thiol reactive agent. The diseases include neurodegenerative diseases. Diseases characterized by skeletal muscle atrophy are also treated.

The invention relates to the field of muscle pathologies, more particularly to the field of diseases where skeletal muscle degeneration occurs. The invention describes transgenic mice that do not produce prolyl-hydroxylase-1, -2 or -3. It is revealed that the phenotype of the prolyl-hydroxylase 1 knock-out mouse is characterized by a protection of skeletal muscle atrophy due to a variety of muscle damages, especially ischemic insults. The invention thus relates to the use of molecules that can bind to prolyl-hydroxylase-1 for the prevention and/or treatment of skeletal muscle degeneration.

The invention provides a sesquiterpene lactone compound as well as a preparation method and application thereof, wherein the compound has a structure shown in a structural formula (I) or (II). The sesquiterpene lactone compound provided by the invention can be used as a drug for treating cachexia of human and animals, and is capable of treating the cachexia associated with various diseases. The sesquiterpene lactone compound is capable of effectively slowing down the loss of weight caused by skeletal muscle atrophy and fat degradation atrophy, obviously reducing tumor load, inhibiting the degradation of protein and increasing the levels of cell factors TNF-A and IL-6.

The invention discloses a medicine that cures muscle atrophy after spinal cord injury and its application method: the medicine that cures muscle atrophy after spinal cord injury is losartan. The application method is that losartan activates a signal pathway of IGF1/Akt/mTOR and inhibits an expression of MuRF-1; A receptor blocking pharmacon of angiotensin II takes effect through activating the pathway of IGF-1/Art/mTOR and inhibiting a ubiquotin-proteasomes system. The receptor blocking pharmacon of angiotensin II can improve the skeletal muscle atrophy after spinal cord injury of rats and may take effect through activating the pathway of IGF-1/Akt/mTOR and inhibiting the ubiquitin-proteasomes system, which provides a part of basis for later clinical application and combined therapy.

The invention relates to application of rhodiola rosea in prevention and treatment of an amyotrophy disease. An experiment shows that the rhodiola rosea can inhibit the expression of amyotrophy specific factor Atrogin-1 in the amyotrophy generating process and the reduction of the cross sectional area of skeletal muscle fiber, and can regulate the content of protein related to the muscle fiber in amyotrophy so that slow-twitch fibers protein can be increased, and fast-twitch fibers protein can be reduced, as a result, the generation of amyotrophy is resisted. According to the application, the rhodiola rosea serving as the active ingredient can be used for preparing the medicament for preventing and controlling a skeletal muscle atrophy disease.

The present invention provides methods for the treatment of denervation-induced skeletal muscle atrophy, and generally, denervation-induced skeletal muscle degeneration diseases using agents that decrease the activity of mammalian target of rapamycin and/or the activity of at least one of the Forkhead Box Transcription Factors 1, 3 and 4.

Screening methods for identifying compounds that bind to or activate corticotropin releasing factor₂ receptors (CRF₂R) and regulate or potentially regulate skeletal muscle mass or function in vivo are disclosed. Also disclosed are screening methods for identifying compounds that prolong or augment the activation of CRF₂Rs or of CRF₂R signal transduction pathways, increase CRF₂R or increase CRF expression are provided. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising CRF₂R agonists, antibodies to CRF₂R and methods for increasing skeletal muscle mass or function or for the treatment of skeletal muscle atrophy using CRF₂R as the target for intervention and methods for treatment of muscular dystrophies are described.

The invention relates to a therapeutic drug target for preventing and treating skeletal muscle atrophy and an application of the therapeutic drug target, and provides the application of a BCKDC (branched-chain alpha-ketoacid dehydrogenase complex) or BCKDK (branched-chain alpha-ketoacid dehydrogenase kinase) as the therapeutic drug target to prevention or treatment of skeletal muscle atrophy and an application of the BCKDC or BCKDK to preparation of drugs for preventing or treating skeletal muscle atrophy and particularly provides a method for screening skeletal muscle atrophy resistant drugsin vivo and in vitro. According to the method, the BCKDC or a gene of the BCKDC is taken as a drug action object or BCKDK or a gene of BCKDK is taken as the drug action object, and an inhibitor of theBCKDC or an activator of BCKDK is selected as a primarily screened drug candidate for preventing or treating skeletal muscle atrophy. The key restrictive metabolic enzyme regulation mechanism of thetherapeutic drug target is analyzed from the perspective of tumor cachexia metabolism regulation, the drug intervention target is determined, the therapeutic drug target has potential clinical application value in treatment of skeletal muscle atrophy, and a new platform is provided for screening of the drugs for treating skeletal muscle atrophy.

Screening methods for identifying compounds that bind to or activate (D₁ or D₅ dopamine receptors individually or in combination) or potentially regulate skeletal muscle mass or function in vivo. Also disclosed are screening methods for identifying compounds that prolong or augment the activation of D₁ or D₅ dopamine receptors or of D₁ or D₅ dopamine receptor signal transduction pathways and increase D₁ or D₅ dopamine receptor expression. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising D₁ or D₅ dopamine receptor agonists, antibodies to D₁ or D₅ dopamine receptors and methods for increasing skeletal muscle mass or function or for the treatment of skeletal muscle atrophy using D₁ or D₅ dopamine receptors as the target for intervention and methods for treatment of muscular dystrophies are described.

The invention discloses a medical application of an enzymatic hydrolysate of icariin and a main component baohuoside I of the icariin, and particularly relates to an application of the enzymatic hydrolysate of icariin and the main component baohuoside I of the icariin in preparing a medicine for treating skeletal muscle atrophy. In-vitro and in-vivo experiments prove that the enzymatic hydrolysateof icariin or baohuoside I can significantly reduce the skeletal muscle atrophy degree, including increase of muscle fiber cross-sectional area, gastrocnemius muscle wet weight/body mass ratio and aerobic exercise ability, and can up-regulate skeletal muscle protein content by regulating an autophagy system, thus having great application prospects.

The invention relates to acylamino-phthalic acid amides and related compounds of formula (I) wherein A is —CON—R³R⁴, —NR⁵COR⁶, —NHR⁷, —OR⁸, —SR⁹, —CH₂NR¹⁰R¹¹, —(CH2)2-R¹², —CH═CH—R¹², —C≡C—R¹², optionally substituted phenyl, optionally substituted thiophenyl, or optionally substituted 1,2,3-triazol-4-yl, W is hydrogen, hydroxy or carboxymethoxy, Y is carboxy, methoxycarbonyl or 2H-tetrazol-5-yl, and the various substituents R have the meanings indicated in the description. These compounds are useful for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of skeletal muscle atrophy, schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease, and as cognitive enhancers.

The present disclosure provides methods and compositions for preventing or treating MV-induced or disuse-induced skeletal muscle infirmities in a mammalian subject. The methods further include administering to the subject an effective amount of an aromatic-cationic peptide.

Screening methods for identifying compounds that bind to or activate (D₁ or D₅ dopamine receptors individually or in combination) or regulate or potentially regulate skeletal muscle mass or function in vivo. Also disclosed are screening methods for identifying compounds that prolong or augment the activation of D₁ or D₅ dopamine receptors or of D₁ or D₅ dopamine receptor signal transduction pathways and increase D₁ or D₅ dopamine receptor expression. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising D₁ or D₅ dopamine receptor agonists, antibodies to D₁ or D₅ dopamine receptors and methods for increasing skeletal muscle mass or function or for the treatment of skeletal muscle atrophy using D₁ or D₅ dopamine receptors as the target for intervention and methods for treatment of muscular dystrophies are described.

The invention provides application of cryptotanshinone in preparing a medicine for preventing and treating cachexia skeletal muscle atrophy. The medicine comprises an active component of cryptotanshinone and further comprises pharmaceutically acceptable auxiliary materials. Cryptotanshinone is capable of alleviating C2C12 myotube atrophy, and in addition, remarkably reducing expression of proteinsp-STAT3, MuRF1 and Atrogin-1 in muscles to inhibit degradation of skeletal muscle proteins, and novel ideas are provided for preparing medicines for treating and preventing cachexia skeletal muscle atrophy.

The embodiment of the invention provides an application of rhamnose monosulfate and a derivative thereof in resisting skeletal muscle atrophy. The rhamnose monosulfate or the rhamnose monosulfate derivative is applied to a medicine for resisting skeletal muscle atrophy, or the rhamnose monosulfate or the rhamnose monosulfate derivative is applied to a functional food for resisting skeletal muscleatrophy. The rhamnose monosulfate is used for inhibiting differentiation inhibition of TNF-alpha on skeletal muscle cells C2C12, promoting generation of myosin MHC and myoblast myogenin of C2C12, andpromoting conversion of skeletal muscle myocytes into muscle fibers.

The present invention includes methods and compositions for treating a skeletal muscular atrophy caused by a defect in the function of one or more sarco/endoplasmic reticulum Ca²⁺-ATPase (SERCA) pumps comprising: identifying a subject having a muscular atrophy caused by a defect in the function of the one or more SERCA pumps, and providing the subject with an effective amount of an activator that enhances an activity of the one or more SERCA pumps.

The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition useful in the prevention and treatment of atrophy or of degeneration of skeletal muscle caused by pathologies or of sarcopenia. The composition includes a combination of molecules that are modulators of the sphingosine-1-phosphate receptors S1PR and one or more pharmaceutically acceptable excipients and/or carriers.

The invention relates to novel application of sarcopenia, in particular to application of deferasirox to preparation of a drug for treating the sarcopenia disease, and belongs to the technical field of medical novel application. At present, drugs for treating sarcopenia as a result of an iron accumulation factor are absent at the present clinically. Deferasirox is proved to be capable of remarkably inhibiting skeletal muscle atrophy and oxidative stress injury under a sarcopenia pathology state, and is suitable for developing a prevention drug for the sarcopenia.

Methods for identifying compounds that bind to or activate prostanoid IP receptors and potentially regulate skeletal muscle mass or function are disclosed. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising IP receptor agonists and methods for increasing skeletal muscle mass or function or for the treatment of skeletal muscle atrophy using IP receptor as the target for intervention and methods for treatment of muscular dystrophies are described.