435 results about "Tumor angiogenesis" patented technology

An apparatus, system, method, and computer readable medium containing computer-executable code for implementing image analysis uses multivariate statistical analysis of sample images, and allows segmentation of the image into different groups or classes, depending on a correlation to one or more sample textures, or sample surface features. In one embodiment, the invention performs multivariate statistical analysis of ultrasound images, wherein a tumor may be characterized by segmenting viable tissue from necrotic tissue, allowing for more detailed in vivo analysis of tumor growth beyond simple dimensional measurements or univariate statistical analysis. Application of the apparatus and method may also be used for characterizing other types of samples having textured features including, for example, tumor angiogenesis biomarkers from Power Doppler.

The present disclosure provides a method of inhibiting angiogenesis within a tissue of interest by providing either intact or nicked beta2-Glycoprotein 1 (beta2GP1) to cells associated with the tissue. The presence of beta2GP1 inhibits angiogenesis within the tissue, in part by preventing neovascularization into the tissue. The disclosure also provides a method for treating tumors by providing beta2GP1 to the tumor.

The present invention provides cloned, genetically modified, endothelial cells, and the stem cells from which they are derived, which are produced by somatic cell nuclear transfer. The invention further provide novel therapeutic methods in which such cells are administered to a patient with tumors to inhibit and/or disrupt angiogenesis of the tumors, thereby inhibiting tumor growth and killing tumor cells.

Improved DLL4 binding proteins are described, including antibodies, CDR-grafted antibodies, human antibodies, and DLL4 binding fragments thereof, proteins that bind DLL4 with high affinity, and DLL4 binding proteins that neutralize DLL4 activity. The DLL4 binding proteins are useful for treating or preventing cancers and tumors and especially for treating or preventing tumor angiogenesis, and/or other angiogenesis-dependent diseases such as ocular neovascularization, or angiogenesis-independent diseases characterized by aberrant DLL4 expression or activity such as autoimmune disorders including multiple sclerosis.

The invention relates to a method for preparing isoflavone metal complexes shown as formulas I and II, and application of the isoflavone metal complexes. The definition of each group is shown in the description. The compounds and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof or hydrates thereof or solvate medicinal compositions thereof can be used for treating tumors and tumor angiogenesis or tumor metastasis medicaments. The structural formulas are shown in the attached figure 1 of the abstract.

A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) methodology is provided for simultaneous measurement of dynamic susceptibility contrast (DSC) MRI and dynamic contrast enhanced (DCE) MRI perfusion and permeability parameters using a combination of dual echo and spiral acquisition techniques with no contrast agent preload. T1 and T2/T2* leakage effects are eliminated, thereby permitting accurate measurement of blood volume, blood flow and vascular permeability which are used in evaluating tumor angiogenesis.

The present invention provides antibodies specifically against hDlk-1 and having anti-tumor activity in vivo (anti-hDlk-1 antibodies), a fragments of the antibodies, hybridomas that produce the antibodies, a complex of the antibody or antibody fragment and an agent, a pharmaceutical composition comprising the antibody and the like, a tumor therapeutic agent, a tumor angiogenesis inhibitor, a tumor diagnostic agent, a method for detecting tumor, a kit for detecting and/or diagnosing tumor, etc.

The invention provides, in a general sense, a new labeling strategy employing compounds that are are N₂S₂ chelates conjugated to a targeting ligand, wherein the targeting ligand is a disease cell cycle targeting compound, a tumor angiogenesis targeting ligand, a tumor apoptosis targeting ligand, a disease receptor targeting ligand, amifostine, angiostatin, monoclonal antibody C225, monoclonal antibody CD31, monoclonal antibody CD40, capecitabine, a COX-2 inhibitor, deoxycytidine, fullerene, herceptin, human serum albumin, lactose, leuteinizing hormone, pyridoxal, quinazoline, thalidomide, transferrin, or trimethyl lysine. The present invention also pertains to kits employing the compounds of interest, and methods of assessing the pharmacology of an agent of interest using the present compounds.

To gain a better understanding of tumor angiogenesis, new techniques for isolating endothelial cells (ECs) and evaluating gene expression patterns were developed. When transcripts from ECs derived from normal and malignant colorectal tissues were compared with transcripts from non-endothelial cells, over 170 genes predominantly expressed in the endothelium were identified. Comparison between normal- and tumor-derived endothelium revealed 79 differentially expressed genes, including 46 that were specifically elevated in tumor-associated endothelium. Experiments with representative genes from this group demonstrated that most were similarly expressed in the endothelium of primary lung, breast, brain, and pancreatic cancers as well as in metastatic lesions of the liver. These results demonstrate that neoplastic and normal endothelium in humans are distinct at the molecular level, and have significant implications for the development of anti-angiogenic therapies in the future.

The invention belongs to the field of chemical drugs, and discloses a ruthenium complex capable of inhibiting tumor angiogenesis and a preparation method and application thereof. The ruthenium complex provided by the invention has a structure shown in a formula I or II. The preparation method comprises the following steps of: dropwise adding a silver nitrate solution to a sodium salt solution, stirring and reacting, then filtering, washing and vacuum drying a precipitate, and thereby obtaining a ligand O-O; taking ruthenium chloride, L, and lithium chloride to be dissolved in N-, N-dimethyl formamide, heating and refluxing under the protection of argon atmosphere to obtain an intermeidate Ru (L2) Cl22 +; allowing the ligand O-O and the Ru (L2) Cl22 + to be dissolved in an ethanol/water mixed solvent, heating and refluxing to obtain the ruthenium complex shown in the formula I; and allowing the Ru (L2) Cl22 +, 8- hydroxyquinoline, and ammonium acetate to be dissolved in ethanol, and heating and refluxing under the protection of argon atmosphere to obtain the ruthenium complex shown in the formula II. The ruthenium complex has the advantages of good stability, uneasiness in hydrolysis, good solubility, low toxicity, and the ability to inhibit tumor angiogenesis, and is easily absorbed by the human body.

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 a novel pharmaceutical composition of benproperine derivatives for preventing and treating angiogenesis-related diseases. The benproperine derivatives and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof according to the present invention inhibit cancer cell migration and the angiogenesis of vascular endothelial cells, and therefore can be effectively used not only as an anticancer agent, but also as an agent for preventing and treating diseases caused by abnormal angiogenesis, such as diabetic retinopathy and corneal transplant rejection.

The invention belongs to the technical field of genetically engineered antibody, in particular relates to a fusion protein of tumor vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2 (VEGFR2/KDR3) antibody and MICA as well as a preparation method and use thereof. In the invention, a full-length antibody of VEGFR2 is linked with a ligand MHC I molecule associated protein A (MICA) of activated receptor of NK cell (NKG2D) through a flexible linker and expressed by CHO cells by utilizing the genetic engineering technology, and the formed fusion protein can act on VEGFR on the surface of a tumor cell to inhibit or kill tumor and inhibit or destroy tumor angiogenesis, and on the other hand, the formed fusion protein can increase the level of MICA on the surface of the tumor cell and stimulate the NK cells to kill tumor cells through identification of NKG2D on the surfaces of the NK cells, thereby reestablishing the immunological surveillance of an body activated by the NKG2D pathway, and enhancing effects of antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) and the like mediated by the Fc region of the antibody to kill tumor cells.

Cholesterol-uptake-blocking drugs inhibit angiogenesis and are useful to inhibit diseases perpetuated by angiogenesis. Cholesterol reduction with the use of the drugs increases the intratumoral level of thrombospondin-1, an angiogenesis inhibitor. Ezetimibe (Zetia®), a specific cholesterol-uptake blocking drug, also retards the growth of human tumors, most preferably in combination with low-cholesterol diet. The pharmacologic reduction in serum cholesterol retards prostate cancer growth by inhibiting tumor angiogenesis to combat the growth of prostatic tumors which are directly accelerated by hypercholesterolemia.

To gain a better understanding of tumor angiogenesis, new techniques for isolating endothelial cells (ECs) and evaluating gene expression patterns were developed. When transcripts from ECs derived from normal and malignant colorectal tissues were compared with transcripts from non-endothelial cells, over 170 genes predominantly expressed in the endothelium were identified. Comparison between normal- and tumor-derived endothelium revealed 79 differentially expressed genes, including 46 that were specifically elevated in tumor-associated endothelium. Experiments with representative genes from this group demonstrated that most were similarly expressed in the endothelium of primary lung, breast, brain, and pancreatic cancers as well as in metastatic lesions of the liver. These results demonstrate that neoplastic and normal endothelium in humans are distinct at the molecular level, and have significant implications for the development of anti-angiogenic therapies in the future.

The invention relates to an anti-tumor drug compound and application thereof. The compound includes a glutaminase inhibitor and a tumor angiogenesis inhibitor which are used together with each other. The invention especially provides the glutaminase inhibitor as shown as formula (I) listed in a specification. The glutaminase inhibitor has an obvious inhibiting effect for glutaminase activity. The inhibition for the growth of the tumor strain can reach up to 90% or above under the condition that the dosage of the drug combination is only 1/5 of the dosage of singly used drugs, the generation of the bloods surrounding human tumors and the transfer of the tumors are obviously restrained and the corresponding side effect of the drug combination is much lower than that of single drug, so that the drug combination of the glutaminase inhibitor and the tumor angiogenesis inhibitor at a certain ratio is effective in treating tumors and the drug combination compared with the single drug has an obvious synergic effect and is an efficient low-toxicity antitumor drug combination.