482 results about "Adenocarcinoma" patented technology

The present invention is directed to an antigen found on the surface of rat and human pancreatic cancer cells and provides antibodies of high specificity and selectivity to this antigen as well as hybridomas secreting the subject antibodies. Methods for both the diagnosis and treatment of pancreatic cancer are also provided. This tissue marker of pancreatic adenocarcinoma, an approximately 43.5 kD surface membrane protein designated PaCa-Ag1, is completely unexpressed in normal pancreas but abundantly expressed in pancreatic carcinoma cells. Moreover, a soluble form of PaCa-Ag1 exists, having a molecular weight about 36 to about 38 kD, that is readily identified in sera and other body fluids of pancreatic cancer patients, using a subject antibody.

The present invention relates to methods for treating carcinomas or adenocarcinomas using at least one anti-TNF antibody.

The present invention relates to characterizing changes in mammalian bacterial gastrointestinal, cutaneous and nasal microbiota associated with antibiotic treatment and various disease conditions (such as asthma, allergy, obesity, metabolic syndrome, gastrointestinal reflux disease (GERD), eosinophilic esophagitis, gastro-esophageal junction adenocarcinomas (GEJAC), infections due to bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics, including Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), Clostridium difficile, vancomycin-resistant enterococci, etc.) and related diagnostic and therapeutic methods. Therapeutic methods of the invention involve the use of live bacterial inoculants that are capable of restoring healthy mammalian bacterial gastrointestinal, skin, and nasal microbiota.

The disclosure provides compositions and methods relating to or derived from anti-activin A binding proteins, including antibodies. In particular embodiments, the disclosure provides fully human, humanized, and chimeric anti-activin A antibodies that bind human activin A, activin A-binding fragments and derivatives of such antibodies, and activin A-binding polypeptides comprising such fragments. Other embodiments provide nucleic acids encoding such antibodies, antibody fragments and derivatives and polypeptides, cells comprising such polynucleotides, methods of making such antibodies, antibody fragments and derivatives and polypeptides, and methods of using such antibodies, antibody fragments and derivatives and polypeptides, including methods of treating or diagnosing subjects having activin A-related disorders or conditions including cachexia related to gonadal cancer, other cancers, rheumatoid arthritis, and other diseases.

A cDNA molecule corresponding to a newly discovered human gene is disclosed. The new gene, which is frequently deleted in liver cancer cells and cell lines, is called the DLC-1 gene. Because the gene is frequently deleted in liver cancer cells, but present in normal cells, it is thought to act as a tumor suppressor. This gene is also frequently deleted in breast and colon cancers, and its expression is decreased or undetectable in many prostate and colon cancers. Also disclosed is the amino acid sequence of the protein encoded by the DLC-1 gene. Methods of using these biological materials in the diagnosis and treatment of hepatocellular cancer, breast cancer, colon cancer, prostate cancer, and adenocarcinomas are presented.

The present invention provides compounds of the following structure, wherein R1, R2, R4, R4′, R6, R7, and R15 are defined above: These compounds are useful in treating neurological disorders or complications due to stroke or head injury; benign or malignant neoplastic disease, carcinomas and adenocarcinomas; proliferative disorders; and inflammatory disorders. The compounds are therefore useful as neuroprotective and neuroregenerative, anti-proliferative, and anti-inflammatory agents.

Disclosed are methods and kits for assessing risk of progression of Barrett's esophagus to adenocarcinoma.

This invention relates to methods of co-administering compounds of formula 1 which are agonists of the progesterone receptor which have the general structure: wherein: R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and Q1 are as defined herein, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, with estrogen, an estrone, or an estrogen receptor agonist for contraception, hormone replacement therapy, or treating progesterone-related carcinomas and adenocarcinomas.

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.

The present invention relates to an antibody binding to Claudin6 (CLDN6) expressed on a cell membrane. The antibody of the present invention recognizes human CLDN6 present in a native form on cell membrane surface and exhibits cytotoxicity through ADCC and / or CDC activities against cancer cell lines highly expressing human CLDN6. Moreover, the antibody of the present invention has cell growth inhibitory effect through conjugation with toxin on cancer cell lines highly expressing human CLDN6. The human CLDN6 is overexpressed in tumor tissues (lung adenocarcinoma, gastric cancer, and ovarian cancer), although its expression is not observed in normal tissues. Thus, the anti-CLDN6 antibody is expected to highly accumulate in tumors highly expressing human CLDN6 and can serve as a very effective antitumor agent.

The invention relates to an intelligent lung cancer early cell pathological image recognition processing method, which comprises image pretreatment, image segmentation, laminate cell separation and reconstruction, cell character extraction and cell classification. The invention has the advantages that the image segmentation based on reinforcement learning uses incremental learning and continuous interaction with environment to search for optimized segmentation threshold value to obtain the segmentation effect which average value is 91%, the laminate cell separation and reconstruction uses B spline and modified deBoor-Cox method to simulate true cell edge better, the classifier uses general vote method to avoid low classifying accuracy of single classifier and improve total classifying accuracy, the application of two-stage classifier can reduce the possibility of false positive and false negative. Tests prove that the classifying accuracy of cancer or no cancer can average reach 93.8%, the classifying accuracy of squamous cell carcinoma, adenocarcinoma and small cell carcinoma average reaches 75%, and the false positive and negative average reach 4-6%.

This invention relates to compounds which are agonists of the progesterone receptor which have the general structure: wherein:R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and Q1 are as defined herein, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, as well as methods of using these compounds to induce contraception or treat progesterone-related carcinomas and adenocarcinomas.

The invention belongs to the field of biological and medicine examination, relates to a tumor biomarker, and in particular relates to an early-stage lung adenocarcinoma miRNA (micro ribonucleic acid) specific expression profile and a reverse transcription primer and an application thereof. The early-stage lung adenocarcinoma miRNA specific expression profile comprises more than one of up-regulated expression miR-103, miR-146a, miR-151, miR-221, miR-222 and miR-223. The invention provides an early-stage lung adenocarcinoma diagnosis model, a reverse transcription primer of specific expression miRNA and a kit or biochip for early-stage lung adenocarcinoma diagnosis based on the specific expression profile. The technical scheme provided by the invention can realize accurate diagnosis of early-stage lung adenocarcinoma by detecting a small amount of miRNA, and provides possibility to the production of accurate, efficient and economical detection products. The established lung adenocarcinoma prediction model can distinguish lung adenocarcinoma from a healthy individual, and has great practical significance in clinic.

The present invention relates to methods for improving the diagnosis of pancreatic and ampullary adenocarcinomas by making use of specific mi RNA biomarkers and / or mi RNA classifiers.

A two-tiered classification system that can be integrated with the current algorithm used by pathologists for identification of the site of origin for ‘malignancy with unknown primary ’ is presented. In use, morphology, immunohistochemical (IHC) studies, and microarry-based top tier gene expression classifiers first subclassify cytokeratin positive carcinomas into adenocarcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, neuroendocrine carcinoma and urothelial carcinoma. Subsequently, organ-specific IHC-markers, if available, are used in conjunction with microarray-based second tier gene expression classifiers to assign the primary site of origin to the sample. This new hybrid approach combines IHC with a hierarchy of quantitative gene expression based classifiers into an algorithmic method that can assist pathologists to further refine and support their decision making process.

Compositions, preferably pharmaceutical compositions, containing micronized tanaproget, or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, microcrystalline cellulose, croscarmellose sodium, sodium lauryl sulfate, butylated hydroxyanisole, povidone, and magnesium stearate, are provided. The compositions are useful in contraception and hormone replacement therapy and in the treatment and / or prevention of uterine myometrial fibroids, benign prostatic hypertrophy, benign and malignant neoplastic disease, dysfunctional bleeding, uterine leiomyomata, endometriosis, polycystic ovary syndrome, and carcinomas and adenocarcinomas of the pituitary, endometrium, kidney, ovary, breast, colon, and prostate and other hormone-dependent tumors, and in the preparation of medicaments useful therefor. Additional uses include stimulation of food intake.

The present disclosure provides for a system and method for diagnosing biological samples that combines the visual staining features familiar to pathologists with the accurate, reliable, and nondestructive capabilities of Raman chemical imaging. The invention disclosed herein may be applied to diagnose lung cancer samples. A method may comprise illuminating a biological sample to generate interacted photons, filtering said interacted photons using a tunable filter, and detecting interacted photons to generate a test Raman data set representative of said sample. The method may further comprise applying at least one chemometric technique and / or a digital stain to said test Raman data set. This test Raman data set may be analyzed to diagnose said sample as comprising at least one of: adenocarcinoma, mesothelioma, and combinations thereof. A system may comprise an illumination source, a tunable filter, and a detector configured to generate a test Raman data set representative of a biological sample.

Compositions comprising a purified and / or isolated antibody, humanized antibodies, precipitates and anti-sera that specifically bind to or are otherwise directed against ROR1 protein. The compositions may be used for detecting ROR1 in a sample from a subject that is suspected or known to contain cancer cells. The ROR1 antibodies are especially useful in identifying and treating lymphomas and ademocarcinomas. Vaccines and related methods for protecting a subject against diseases that involve expression of ROR1 are also provided, as are human anti-sera effective in abrogating interactions between Wnt5a protein and ROR1 that contribute to the survival of certain cancer cells, such as CLL cells.

A method for the early diagnosing of selected adenocarcinomas in a human comprising the steps of removing a bodily sample from the human, and assaying the bodily sample for elevated expression of a specific gene. The gene being assayed for in the bodily sample is the TGFB-4 gene (hereinafter referred to as the endometrial bleeding associated factor (ebaf) gene. The bodily sample can be tissue from a specific organ in the body, or a blood sample. Increased levels of ebaf in the sample relative to basal levels may be indicative of a mucinous adenocarcinoma of the colon or ovaries, or an adenocarcinoma of the testis.

The invention relates to 2-[4-(quinoxaline-2-oxygroup) phenoxy] alkylamide shown as a chemical structural formula I or an optical isomer thereof. In the formula, R1 is selected from H, C1-C1alkyl, C3-C4 straight-chain or branch-chain alkyl; R2 is selected from allyl, propargyl, halogenated allyl, halogenated propargyl; and X1-X6 are selected from hydrogen, C1-C2 alkyl, trifluoromethyl, fluorine, chlorine, bromine, nitryl or trifluoromethoxy. The invention further discloses an application of 2-[4-(quinoxaline-2-oxygroup) phenoxy] alkylamide or the optical isomer thereof in preparation of anti-lung adenocarcinoma drugs.

The invention discloses application of A-nor-5 alpha-androstane compounds in preparation of malignant tumor resistant medicaments. The compounds have the following general formula I, and comprise Ia, Ib, Ic, Id, Ie and If. The growth inhibition rate of the A-nor-5 alpha-androstane compounds for in-vitro human liver cancer cell Hep 3B, human breast cancer MDA-MB-231, human lung adenocarcinoma A549 and mouse melanoma B16 is higher than 85% on average, and even up to 99.98% to the maximum. The in-vivo test proves that the inhibition rate of the A-nor-5 alpha-androstane compounds for mouse tumors, such as intestinal cancer C26, liver cancer H22, Lewis lung cancer, breast cancer, B16 melanoma and the like, is higher than 50% on average, and even up to 63.19% to the maximum. The result proves that the compounds disclosed by the invention have an obvious malignant tumor resistant action. The A-nor-5 alpha-androstane compounds disclosed by the invention have an obvious and broad-spectrum action on inhibiting growth of malignant tumor cells, and are novel targeted malignant tumor resistant medicaments with low drug toxicity and favorable treatment effect; and the A-nor-5 alpha-androstane compounds just specifically act on tumor cells, but not influence normal cells, thereby having a high clinical application value.

The present invention relates generally to nucleic acid molecules in respect of which changes to DNA methylation levels are indicative of the onset or predisposition to the onset of a neoplasm. More particularly, the present invention is directed to nucleic acid molecules in respect of which changes to DNA methylation levels are indicative of the onset and / or progression of a large intestine neoplasm, such as an adenoma or adenocarcinoma. The DNA methylation status of the present invention is useful in a range of applications including, but not limited to, those relating to the diagnosis and / or monitoring of colorectal neoplasms, such as colorectal adenocarcinomas. Accordingly, in a related aspect the present invention is directed to a method of screening for the onset, predisposition to the onset and / or progression of a neoplasm by screening for modulation in DNA methylation of one or more nucleic acid molecules.

The invention relates to 2-(4-aryloxyphenoxy)alkylamide represented by a chemical structural formula I or an optical isomer thereof, wherein R1 is selected from H, C1-C1 alkyl, and C3-C4 straight-chain or branched-chain alkyl; R2 is selected from allyl, propargyl, halogenated allyl, and halogenated propargyl; X1-X6 are selected from hydrogen, C1-C2 alkyl, fluoro, chloro, bromo, or cyan. The invention also relates to the application of the 2-(4-aryloxyphenoxy)alkylamide or the optical isomer thereof in preparing anti-lung-adenocarcinoma medicines.

The present invention provides compositions, desirably pharmaceutical compositions, containing micronized tanaproget. The compositions can also contain microcrystalline cellulose, croscarmellose sodium, anhydrous lactose, and magnesium stearate; or can contain microcrystalline cellulose, croscarmellose sodium, sodium lauryl sulfate, povidone, and magnesium stearate. The compositions are useful in contraception and hormone replacement therapy and in the treatment and / or prevention of uterine myometrial fibroids, benign prostatic hypertrophy, benign and malignant neoplastic disease, dysfunctional bleeding, uterine leiomyomata, endometriosis, polycystic ovary syndrome, and carcinomas and adenocarcinomas of the pituitary, endometrium, kidney, ovary, breast, colon, and prostate and other hormone-dependent tumors, and in the preparation of medicaments useful therefore Additional uses include stimulation of food intake.

A method for unsupervised classification of histological images of prostatic tissue includes providing histological image data obtained from a slide simultaneously co-stained with NIR fluorescent and Hematoxylin-and-Eosin (H&E) stains, segmenting prostate gland units in the image data, forming feature vectors by computing discriminating attributes of the segmented gland units, and using the feature vectors to train a multi-class classifier, where the classifier classifies prostatic tissue into benign, prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PIN), and Gleason scale adenocarcinoma grades 1 to 5 categories.

Methods and pharmaceuticals for inhibiting or preventing metastasis formation in animals, including humans, having primary tumors, through the administration of phosphorothioates including their thiol and disulfide metabolites are disclosed. These compounds stimulate angiostatin levels, inhibit matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs), and stimulate manganese superoxidase dismutase (MnSOD). Phosphorothioates, of which amifostine is an example, can be administered as a combination therapy with traditional cancer therapies, including chemotherapy, radiotherapy, surgery, immunotherapy, hormone therapy and gene-therapy. Inhibition or prevention of metastasis by phosphorothioates is independent of tumor type, including adenocarcinomas and sarcomas.

The invention relates to a 1-substituted-4, 4-bis-substituted thiosemicarbazide compound, a relative preparation method and application thereof, wherein the compound is represented as formula I, R1, R2 and R3 are defined as description. The inventive compound can restrain A-549 (human lung adenocarcinoma), P388 (mouse leukemia cell line), and HT-29 (human intestinal cancer cell line), with strong inhibition of cell proliferation, which can be used to develop new anti-cancer drug.

The invention provides a peripheral blood mRNA marker for predicting prognosis of patients with lung adenocarcinoma and a screening method and application thereof and belongs to the technical fields of medical molecular biology and clinical medicine. The screening method includes the steps of 1), comparatively analyzing gene expression profiles of wild-type human lung cancer cell lines and Nrf2 gene knockout human lung cancer cell lines to obtain Nrf2 target genes; 2), analyzing the relationship between Nrf2 target gene expression and the prognosis survival rate of lung adenocarcinoma by the aid of a discovery group database and screening out the genes with the Nrf2 target gene expression Wald statistics greater than 2 in the discovery group database to obtain the periphery blood MRNA marker for predicting prognosis of the patients with the lung adenocarcinoma. The marker obtained with the screening method is applied to predicting prognosis of the patients with clinical lung adenocarcinoma, good flexibility, stability and specificity are achieved, and spreading use can be realized.

The invention relates to lung adenocarcinoma-related gene signatures and an application thereof. The invention relates to a group of 27 prognosis related gene signatures based on lung adenocarcinoma and a detection result of an expression level of the gene signatures in a clinical sample, a prediction value is calculated to evaluate clinical prognosis of lung adenocarcinoma, and the invention alsoprovides an application of the gene signatures. A system is used for preventing lung adenocarcinoma patient prognosis and guiding a clinical treatment decision, and a purpose of accurate or individualized medicine can be achieved. According to the system and different detection technical platforms, a corresponding 27 gene expression measuring kit is designed and exploited.