1259 results about "Tumor tissue" patented technology

A radiation machine incorporating a diagnostic imaging system is disclosed. The invention provides a very stable design of the machine by supporting an inner gantry part, including a treatment and diagnostic radiation source and detector, by an outer gantry part at two support locations situated at opposite sides of a treatment volume in a patient to be irradiated. This stable gantry design provides a high rotation speed of the inner gantry part relative the outer gantry part around the target volume, which speed is adapted for the high resolution imaging system. Based on the obtained images, changes and developments in tumor tissue and misplacement of patient may be detected. The images may be compared to a reference image to detect any anatomical or spatial difference therebetween. Based on this comparison the settings of the radiation machine may be adapted accordingly.

A minimally-invasive fluid-cooled insertion sleeve assembly, with an attached balloon and distally-located penetrating tip, into which sleeve any of a group comprising a rigid rod, a microwave-radiator assembly and an ultrasonic-imaging transducer assembly may be inserted, constitutes a probe of the system. The sleeve assembly comprises spaced inner and outer plastic tubes with two fluid channels situated within the coaxial lumen between the inner and outer tubes. The fluid coolant input flows through the fluid channels into the balloon, thereby inflating the balloon, and then exits through that coaxial lumen. An alternative embodiment has no balloon. The method employs the probe for piercing sub-cutaneous tissue and then ablating deep-seated tumor tissue with microwave-radiation generated heat.

A system is provided for treating tumor tissue sites of a patient. At least first and second mono-polar electrodes are configured to be introduced at or near the tumor tissue site of the patient. A voltage pulse generator is coupled to the first and second mono-polar electrodes. The voltage pulse generator is configured to apply sufficient electrical pulses between the first and second mono-polar electrodes to induce electroporation of cells in the tumor tissue site, to create necrosis of cells of the tumor tissue site, but insufficient to create a thermal damaging effect to a majority of the tumor tissue site.

Genes that are upregulated in human prostate tumor tissues and the corresponding proteins are identified. These genes and the corresponding antigens are suitable targets for the treatment, diagnosis or prophylaxis of prostate cancer.

The present invention provides a bacterium belonging to the genus Bifidobacterium, by which DNA coding for a protein having an antitumor activity or DNA coding for a protein having the activity of converting a precursor of an antitumor substance into the antitumor substance is delivered to tumor tissues specifically under anaerobic conditions thereby expressing the protein encoded by the DNA, as well as a pharmaceutical composition comprising said anaerobic bacterium.

Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) may be used as a minimally invasive treatment of solid tumors, typically cancers of the liver, lung, breast, kidney and bone, most often via a percutaneous approach. In RFA tumor tissue is killed by heating. RFA requires guidance using an imaging method to correctly position the RF applicator. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can be used for guidance, and offers the additional advantage of the ability to image tissue temperature. Because MRI employs high power RF fields, the MRI scanner could serve as the source of RF energy for ablation. Described herein are an MRI-driven RF ablation device and method. The device has minimal electrical circuitry, and uses the MR scanner radio frequency field as the energy source to generate heat in tissue using an antenna and a needle. Based on the Faraday induction law, different embodiments for coupling the body coil RF energy into tissue are disclosed.

The present invention provides methods using a gene expression profiling analysis (1) to determine whether a human sample is a tumor using a gene set containing nucleic acid sequences of SEQ ID NOS: 1-7, 8-17 or 1-17; (2) to identify whether a tumor tissue is an adenocarcinoma (using a gene set containing nucleic acid sequences of SEQ ID NOS: 15, and 18-21) or a squamous cell carcinoma (using a gene set containing nucleic acid sequences of SEQ ID NOS: 22-27); and (3) to predict the prognosis of survival and metastasis in humans with tumor (using a gene set containing nucleic acid sequences of SEQ ID NOS:19, and 28-42 or SEQ ID NOS: 19, 29, 31, 40, and 42), particularly for those humans who are at the early stage of lung cancer. The gene expression profiling is preferably performed by cDNA microarray-based techniques and/or Real-Time Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction (Real-Time RT-PCR), and analyzed by statistical means.

A method, using high intensity ultrasound, which may also be combined with a chemotherapy agent, that can result the direct destruction of tumor cells and in the reduction or elimination of local reoccurrence of cancer after removal of cancerous tissue, such as a surgical breast lumpectomy or surgical excision of a brain tumor. The method comprises either (1) the treatment of the tumor directly with High Intensity Focused Ultrasound, or (2) the treatment of the margins of the tissue surrounding the surgical cavity or void with ablative continuous wave high intensity ultrasound and a combination of a locally delivered chemotherapy agent and high intensity ultrasound, termed sonoporation. The present invention permits both the direct destruction (ablation) of tumor tissue as well as the destruction of tissue around the surgical margin and may include the enhanced local cellular uptake of locally injected chemotherapeutic drugs, all of which can be accomplished by a therapeutic ultrasound device used during surgery.

The present invention provides novel amino acid compounds useful in detecting and evaluating brain and body tumors. These compounds have the advantageous properties of rapid uptake and prolonged retention in tumors and can be labeled with halogen isotopes such as fluorine-18, iodine-123, iodine-124, iodine-125, iodine-131, bromine-75, bromine-76, bromine-77, bromine-82, astatine-210, astatine-211, and other astatine isotopes. These compounds can also be labeled with technetium and rhenium isotopes using known chelation complexes. The compounds disclosed herein bind tumor tissues in vivo with high specificity and selectivity when administered to a subject. Preferred compounds show a target to non-target ratio of at least 2:1, are stable in vivo and substantially localized to target within 1 hour after administration. Preferred compounds include 1-amino-2-[¹⁸F]fluorocyclobutyl-1-carboxylic acid (2-[¹⁸F]FACBC) and 1-amino-2-[¹⁸F]fluoromethylcyclobutyl-1-carboxylic acid (2-[¹⁸F]FMACBC). The labeled amino acid compounds of the invention are useful as imaging agents in detecting and/or monitoring tumors in a subject by PET or SPECT.

The present invention describes a method utilizing a set of genes or gene products whose altered expression in cancer tissue, particularly head and neck cancer and other carcinomas, or its adjacent normal tissues predicts (a) probability of recurrence in time after treatment (b) sensitivity or resistance to therapies or (c) probability of metastasis at the time of initial discovery of the tumor. Furthermore, the invention describes methods of determining the molecular signature in tumor tissues, tissues adjacent to the tumor, or in saliva by using DNA microarray techniques, quantitative real-time PCR, immunohistochemistry or other methods that are used for determining gene or gene product expression levels.

The invention relates to modification of a cell penetrating peptide for realizing a low-toxicity administration system with a positive targeting selecting function. A shielding peptide, an enzymolysis substrate peptide and a cell-penetrating peptide are connected in sequence, so that an activatable cell penetrating peptide is formed; and a medicament and/or a tracer and/or a medicament carrier is connected or embedded or adsorbed to the cell penetrating peptide, so that an administration system is constructed. According to a shielding peptide sequence, positive charges carried on the surface of the administration system can be reduced or completely neutralized, the cell penetrating capability of the cell penetrating peptide is shielded, and the toxicity of the administration system on normal cells of an organism is lowered; and an enzymolysis substrate peptide sequence can be identified by enzyme systems secreted specifically by different pathological change tissue cells and fractured by enzyme hydrolysis, so that a cell penetrating peptide is released and is used for carrying a medicament and/or a medicament carrier through a cell membrane, and the medicament enters cells and is brought into play. The invention aims to actively convey an antitumor medicament to tumor tissues in a targeted way and make the antitumor medicament enter tumor cells to a larger extent by using the administration system which can be used for activating a cell penetrating function, so that the toxicity at a non-tumor position is lowered while the antitumor effect of the medicament is enhanced.

The invention discloses an in vitro culture method of a colorectal cancer organoid. The in vitro culture method comprises: 1) pretreatment of colorectal cancer biopsy tissue: washing colorectal cancerbiopsy tissue, shearing, and digesting with enzyme to obtain colorectal cancer single cell; and 2) in vitro culture of the colorectal cancer single cell: mixing the colorectal cancer single cell andmatrigel, solidifying, adding a colorectal cancer organoid culture liquid, and culturing to obtain the colorectal cancer organoid. According to the present invention, the method has characteristics ofsimpleness, good stability and high success rate; and the obtained colorectal cancer organoid has a three-dimensional structure, substantially retains the unique morphological characteristics of thepatient tumor tissue, is highly consistent with the pathological features of the biopsy tissue, and provides the material basis for the establishment of the organoid library and the screening of drugs.

The invention relates to a common carrier material based on graphene oxide for a targeting anticancer drug and a gene and application and application. Folic acid, lactobionic acid and other tumor cell targeting or liver targeting molecules and part of amino groups of soluble chitosan are connected by amide bonds to prepare a conjugate, the conjugate is then connected with graphene oxide, quaternization is performed by using an epoxy compound with a quaternary ammonium group, and gene molecules are loaded by the quaternizationquaternized part of the chitosan through electrostatic attraction; and then the anticancer drug is loaded by pi-pi conjugates, hydrogen bonds and hydrophobic effects in a non-covalent bond method. By adopting the targeting performance of targeting molecules and effects of graphene oxide of a particular size to enhance penetration and retention in tumor tissues and combining the performance of the graphene oxide for pH response control release of the loaded drug, the drug can be realized released in a tumor cell, an intelligent delivery system for the common carrier of the tumor targeting or liver targeting anticancer drug and the gene is synthesized from the perspective of synergetic medication, and a theoretical basis and a method basis are provided for combined therapy of tumor.

There is disclosed an improved high-throughput and quantitative process for determining methylation patterns in genomic DNA samples based on amplifying modified nucleic acid, and detecting methylated nucleic acid based on amplification-dependent displacement of specifically annealed hybridization probes. Specifically, the inventive process provides for treating genomic DNA samples with sodium bisulfite to create methylation-dependent sequence differences, followed by detection with fluorescence-based quantitative PCR techniques. The process is particularly well suited for the rapid analysis of a large number of nucleic acid samples, such as those from collections of tumor tissues.

The present invention is directed to a conjugate which includes at least one vitamin D moiety thereof and at least one targeting molecule moiety to pharmaceutical compositions of the conjugate, and to methods for using the conjugate for target-specific delivery of vitamin D or analogs thereof to tissues in need thereof. When a particularly preferred form is administered to a patient, the targeting molecule component of the conjugate of this invention seeks out and binds to a tissue of interest, such as bone or tumor tissue, where the vitamin D has a therapeutic effect.

The invention provides a lipidosome-polymer drug-loaded nanoparticle and a preparation method and application thereof. The lipidosome-polymer drug-loaded nanoparticle comprises a three-layer structure, wherein the innermost layer is the drug-loaded nanoparticles formed by taking an amphiphilic cationic polymer as a carrier-coated chemotherapeutic drug; the intermediate layer is a platelet inhibitor layer adsorbed onto the surface of the drug-loaded nanoparticles; and the outermost layer is a lipid bilayer connected with tumor microenvironment responsiveness polypeptides. The lipidosome-polymer drug-loaded nanoparticle disclosed by the invention is capable of specifically targeting tumor tissues, has tumor microenvironment responsiveness, and can achieve the effects of improving tumor vascular permeability without influencing functions of blood vessels at normal tissue or cell parts, enhancing permeability and retention of the drug-loaded nanoparticles to tumor cells, enhancing the EPR effect, improving enrichment of the drug-loaded nanoparticles at tumor location and realizing high tumor killing efficiency.

The use of various biomarkers to assess a subject's suitability for treatment with a EGFR/ErbB2 kinase inhibitor for a solid tumor are described. The biomarkers include TGFalpha, pS6, IGF-1R and levels of apoptosis occurring in tumor tissue.

A method for analysis and processing of fluorescent images. Fluorescent light is emitted by tumor tissue in an illuminated surgical area detected by an image detection device and is forwarded to an image processing system. After determination of a maximal intensity, the image processing system determines a threshold value as a predefined fraction of the maximal intensity. With basic morphological operations of image processing, limit intensity lines which separate the tumor tissue of intensities above the threshold value and normal tissue of intensities below the threshold value are generated and imaged in a line profile image, wherein the line profile image can be superimposed on the fluorescent image.

The present disclosure describes an IHC assay for detecting and quantifying spatially proximal pairs of PD-1-expressing cells (PD-1+ cells) and PD-Ligand-expressing cells (PD-L+ cells) in tumor tissue, and the use of the assay to generate proximity biomarkers that are predictive of which cancer patients are most likely to benefit from treatment with a PD-1 antagonist. The disclosure also provides methods for testing tumor samples for the proximity biomarkers, as well as methods for treating subjects with a PD-1 antagonist based on the test results.

The present invention relates to polymer-modified quinone-containing and carbonyl-containing therapeutic agents, including polymer-modified β-lapachone compounds, and methods of treating cancer by administering the polymer-modified therapeutic agents to a subject. Polymer-modification of therapeutic agents, such as β-lapachone compounds, provides effective transport of polymer-modified therapeutic agents to tumor cells or tumor tissues by exploiting the EPR effect in tumor tissues.

The invention discloses an automatic fast segmenting method of a tumor pathological image. The method comprises the following steps: firstly filtering a tumor original pathological image through the adoption of a Gaussian pyramid algorithm to respectively obtain pathological images with equal resolution, double resolution, fourfold resolution, eightfold resolution and 16-fold resolution; determining an initial region of interest containing the tumor on the equal resolution image through a RGB color model and morphological close operation; iteratively optimizing the initial regions of interest from the equal resolution to the fourfold resolution through the adoption of bhattacharyya distance; judging that the contribution of the RGB color model to the tumor region of interest has been reduced to zero when the bhattacharyya distance achieves a set threshold value; performing the self-adaptive high resolution selection of the deep precise segmentation through the adoption of a convergence exponent filtering algorithm, thereby further segmenting under the most suitable high resolution; and finally segmenting out a normal tissue and a tumor tissue in the tumor region of interest through the adoption of a bag of words model based on random projection. The method disclosed by the invention has the features of being accurate, fast and automatic.

The invention relates to the technical field of biological medicines, and particularly to an amphiphilic conjugate nano-particle for treating tumors, as well as a preparation method and application of the amphiphilic conjugate nano-particle. The nano-particle comprises an amphiphilic conjugate formed by esterification of a carboxyl containing hydrophobic anti-tumor medicine and a hydroxyl hydrophilic anti-tumor medicine. Compared with the prior art, self-assembly of the amphiphilic conjugate in water can be achieved to form the nano-particle, no medicine is required for conveying a carrier, the conjugate can achieve the medicine conveying, and the nano-particle can enter a tumor cell more effectively and reduce the toxic and side effects for normal cell through permeability enhancing and retention effects of a tumor tissue; and after the conjugate nano-particle enters the tumor cell, two types of antitumor medicines can be released through ester bond degradation, and the purpose of collaborative treatment of cancers by the two types of medicines can be achieved.

The present invention involves methods, systems, and devices for analyzing a biological material, such as a cellular or other specimen. The method includes placing the specimen on a substrate having different capture regions, such as contiguous layers, wherein the different capture regions of the substrate contain different identification molecules, and transferring components of the specimen through the capture regions under conditions that allow the components to interact with different identification molecules in the different regions of the substrate. The components of the specimen can be transferred through the different layers (or other regions) of the substrate by capillary action of a solution moving through the cellular specimen or by electrophoresis. The transfer of components of the specimen through the substrate may occur while maintaining a geometric correspondence to the specimen, such as the cytoarchitecture of a cellular specimen, for example by moving the components through parallel layers having positions that correspond to positions within the specimen. When the cellular architecture of the specimen is maintained, a correlation between the different identification molecules and the components of the cellular specimens may be made. The analysis can occur with one or more different discrete (for example cellular) specimens on a surface of the substrate. Examples of cellular specimens include, but are not limited to tissue sections, particularly tumor tissue sections. The cellular specimen can also include cultured cells or a cytology sample. Cytostat tissue sections cut slightly thicker than usual, that is about 25 to about 50 μm, improves the ability to detect molecules of moderate and low level abundance.

Factors affecting the fragmentation pattern of cell-free DNA (e.g., plasma DNA) and the applications, including those in molecular diagnostics, of the analysis of cell-free DNA fragmentation patterns are described. Various applications can use a property of a fragmentation pattern to determine a proportional contribution of a particular tissue type, to determine a genotype of a particular tissue type (e.g., fetal tissue in a maternal sample or tumor tissue in a sample from a cancer patient), and/or to identify preferred ending positions for a particular tissue type, which may then be used to determine a proportional contribution of a particular tissue type.

The invention provides an STAG2 gene mutant sequence and a detection method thereof as well as use of STAG2 gene mutation in detecting bladder cancer and belongs to the technical field of the molecular biology gene detection. The detection method comprises the following steps: (1) extracting a tumor tissue DNA and a peripheral blood DNA from a tumor tissue and the peripheral blood of a bladder cancer patient; (2) performing whole genome sequencing and whole exon sequencing on the two DNAs extracted in the step (1), respectively; (3) performing whole exome sequence alignment and somatic mutation detection on the sequencing results of the step (2), thereby obtaining a mutant gene; (4) verifying the somatic replacement, insertion and deletion of the mutant gene obtained in the step (3) by use of Sanger sequencing; and (5) identifying the mutant gene as the remarkable mutant gene. The detection method has the advantage that the mutation of the STAG2 is one of unfavorable indexes of the bladder cancer and also is capable of serving as a new acting target for treating the bladder cancer.

A medicinal preparation is desired which has no harmful side effects such as hypersensitive reaction, heightens the water solubility of a sparingly water-soluble anticancer agent, maintains a high drug concentration in the blood, accumulates a drug in a tumor tissue at a high concentration, heightens the pharmacological effect of the sparingly water-soluble anticancer agent, and diminishes the side effects of the anticancer agent. Provided are: a novel block copolymer which can be a drug carrier having no harmful side effects such as hypersensitive reaction; a micelle preparation in which micelles are formed and which contains a sparingly water-soluble anticancer agent, especially paclitaxel, incorporated in the micelles in an amount necessary for a disease treatment without bonding it to the block copolymer and which can heighten the solubility of the drug in water; and an anticancer agent which comprises the micelle preparation as a medical ingredient, maintains a high concentration in the blood, has more potent drug activity, and is reduced in toxicity.

Nanoparticle mediated microvascular embolization (NME) of tumor tissue may occur after systemic administration of PEM, leading to widespread shutdown of vascular flow, hemorrhage, and necrosis. PEM constructs are developed that incorporate large amounts of iron-containing protein, possess high oxygen affinities, and demonstrate delayed nitric oxide binding. Such properties induce selective NME of tumors after extravasation, and will likely enhance the effect of VEGFR TKIs and/or mTOR inhibitors.

Systems, methods, and apparatuses can determine and use methylation profiles of various tissues and samples. Examples are provided. A methylation profile can be deduced for fetal/tumor tissue based on a comparison of plasma methylation (or other sample with cell-free DNA) to a methylation profile of the mother/patient. A methylation profile can be determined for fetal/tumor tissue using tissue-specific alleles to identify DNA from the fetus/tumor when the sample has a mixture of DNA. A methylation profile can be used to determine copy number variations in genome of a fetus/tumor. Methylation markers for a fetus have been identified via various techniques. The methylation profile can be determined by determining a size parameter of a size distribution of DNA fragments, where reference values for the size parameter can be used to determine methylation levels. Additionally, a methylation level can be used to determine a level of cancer.

The present invention relates to the identification of nucleic acid and amino acid sequences that are characteristic of tumor tissues such as ovarian tumor and lung tumor tissues and which represent targets for therapy or diagnosis of tumor diseases in a subject.

The invention relates to a hyaluronic-acid-based double-targeting nano-composite medicament and a preparation method thereof. Hydrophobic group ursodeoxycholic acid is included in a hyaluronic acid nano-polymer structure and can form an amphipathic polymer and automatically generate micelles in an aqueous solution, and polyethylene glycol can be introduced into the micelles to improve the dispersity and stability of a composite. An anti-tumor medicament can enter a nano-carrier through electrostatic adsorption or physical inclusion to generate a nano-medicament composite, wherein the nano-medicament composite is selectively concentrated in a tumor cell under an active targeting effect of hyaluronic acid and a surface CD44 receptor of a tumor cell, and promotes a tumor tissue to absorb the nano medicament-carrying composite by using a passive osmotic accumulation effect (EPR) at the same time. After an anti-tumor medicament is wrapped by a modified hyaluronic acid polymer, the anti-tumor medicament has the advantages of improving the bioavailability of the medicament, improving the targeting property, reducing the toxic and side effects, prolonging the half-life period of the medicament, being stably stored and the like, so that the tumor targeting therapy efficiency is improved in many ways.