66 results about "Wasting Diseases" patented technology

This invention provides substituted acylanilide compounds and uses thereof in treating a variety of diseases or conditions in a subject, including, inter alia, a muscle wasting disease and/or disorder or a bone-related disease and/or disorder.

This invention provides SARM compounds and their use in treating a variety of diseases or conditions in a subject, including, inter-alia, a muscle wasting disease and/or disorder or a bone-related disease and/or disorder.

This invention provides SARM compounds and uses thereof in treating a variety of diseases or conditions in a subject, including, inter-alia, a muscle wasting disease and/or disorder or a bone-related disease and/or disorder.

This invention provides SARM compounds and uses thereof in treating a variety of diseases or conditions in a subject, including, inter alia, a muscle wasting disease and/or disorder or a bone-related disease and/or disorder.

This invention provides SARM compounds and uses thereof in treating a variety of diseases or conditions in a subject, including, inter-alia, a muscle wasting disease and/or disorder or a bone-related disease and/or disorder.

This invention provides SARM compounds and uses thereof in treating a variety of diseases or conditions in a subject, including, inter-alia, muscle wasting diseases and/or disorders, bone-related diseases and/or disorders, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, renal disease and others.

A highly sensitive method is provided for the detection of prions in a sample. These methods may be used to diagnose prion mediated transmissible spongiform encephalopathies such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, scrapie, or chronic wasting disease. In particular a method for serial automated cyclic amplification of prion is disclosed. The method is both rapid and highly sensitive making it ideal for high throughput testing.

This invention provides new compounds and uses thereof in treating a variety of diseases or conditions in a subject, including, inter alia, prostate cancer, muscle wasting diseases and/or disorders or a bone-related diseases and/or disorders.

Methods for treating muscular wasting diseases such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy are disclosed. Specifically, the methods include administering to a subject in need of treatment for a muscular wasting disease, an NF-κB activation inhibitor capable of blocking the activation of NF-κB.

The present invention relates to therapeutic uses of ErbB ligands, including betacellulin. The therapeutic uses include methods of using ErbB ligand family compounds alone, or in conjunction with other agents, for reducing blood glucose levels, treating Type I and Type II diabetes, obesity, muscle wasting diseases, and cardiotoxicity.

This invention provides substituted acylanilide compounds and uses thereof in treating a variety of diseases or conditions in a subject, including, inter alia, a muscle wasting disease and/or disorder such as muscular dystrophies including Duchenne muscular dystrophy and Becker muscular dystrophy.

Methods and compositions for inducing mitochondrial biogenesis are provided. In some aspects, methods for the treatment of diseases such as acute kidney disease (AKI) or a muscle wasting disease by administering tomoxetine, nisoxetine, fenoterol, formoterol, or procaterol to an individual are provided.

This invention provides new compounds and uses thereof in treating a variety of diseases or conditions in a subject, including,inter alia, prostate cancer, muscle wasting diseases and/or disorders or a bone-related diseases and/or disorders.

This invention is directed to substituted acylanilide compounds and uses thereof in treating a variety of diseases or conditions in a subject, including, inter alia, a muscle wasting disease and/or disorder such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy or Becker muscular dystrophy.

Disclosed herein are compounds and methods for decreasing PrP and preventing, ameliorating, or treating a prion disease or conformational neurodegenerative disorder, in an individual in need thereof. Examples of disease conditions that can be ameliorated with the administration of antisense compounds targeted to PrP include Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD); variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD); Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker syndrome; fatal familial insomnia; kuru; Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), e.g. “mad cow disease”; Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD); scrapie; transmissible mink encephalopathy; feline spongiform encephalopathy; ungulate spongiform encephalopathy; Alzheimer's disease; Parkinson's disease; Huntington's disease; and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).

The invention provides anti-myostatin antibodies and methods of using the same. In some embodiments, an isolated anti-myostatin antibody of the present invention binds to mature myostatin, and uptake of the antibody into cells is enhanced when complexed with the antigen. The invention also provides isolated nucleic acids encoding an anti-myostatin antibody of the present invention. The invention also provides host cells comprising a nucleic acid of the present invention. The invention also provides a method of producing an antibody comprising culturing a host cell of the present invention so that the antibody is produced. Anti-myostatin antibodies of the present invention may be for use as a medicament. Anti-myostatin antibodies of the present invention may be for use in treating a muscle wasting disease. Anti-myostatin antibodies of the present invention may be for use in increasing mass of muscle tissue. Anti-myostatin antibodies of the present invention may be for use in increasing strength of muscle tissue.

The invention discloses a method for establishing an animal model with opportunistic infections and chronic wasting diseases, and a traditional Chinese medicinal preparation for treating opportunistic infections and chronic wasting diseases. The traditional Chinese medicinal preparation is prepared by the following components in parts by weight: 100-180 parts of monkhood, 100-180 parts of dry ginger, and 100-160 parts of liquorice. The method has the positive effects that the method for establishing the animal model with opportunistic infections and chronic wasting diseases is found, and the model has high controllability, reliability and repeatability, and is convenient and economical to use; the model syndrome accords with the attack process of opportunistic infections and chronic wasting diseases; the model establishing factor accords with the theory of the Internal Canon of Medicine, and does not relates to causal organisms, so that the testing risks can be reduced, and the organism safety can be guaranteed; the traditional Chinese medicinal preparation obtained by screening has the characteristics of high efficiency, no toxicity, wide medicine sources and the like, is convenient to use and economical, can be used for prolonging the life of patients with opportunistic infections and chronic wasting diseases, improving the living quality of the patients and improving lesion of each tissue, and does not have toxic or side effect when a large dosage is used.