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The invention relates to therapeutic conjugates with improved ability to target various diseased cells containing a targeting moiety (such as an antibody or antibody fragment), a linker and a camptothecin as a therapeutic moiety, and further relates to processes for making and using the said conjugates.

The invention relates to therapeutic conjugates with improved ability to target various diseased cells containing a targeting moiety (such as an antibody or antibody fragment), a linker and a camptothecin as a therapeutic moiety, and further relates to processes for making and using the said conjugates.

Disclosed herein are compositions and methods of use comprising combinations of anti-CD22 antibodies with a therapeutic agent. The therapeutic agent may be attached to the anti-CD22 antibody or may be separately administered, either before, simultaneously with or after the anti-CD22 antibody. In preferred embodiments, the therapeutic agent is an antibody or fragment thereof that binds to an antigen different from CD22, such as CD19, CD20, CD21, CD22, CD23, CD37, CD40, CD40L, CD52, CD80 and HLA-DR. However, the therapeutic agent may an immunomodulator, a cytokine, a toxin or other therapeutic agent known in the art. More preferably, the anti-CD22 antibody is part of a DNL complex, such as a hexavalent DNL complex. Most preferably, combination therapy with the anti-CD22 antibody or fragment and the therapeutic agent is more effective than the antibody alone, the therapeutic agent alone, or the combination of anti-CD22 antibody and therapeutic agent that are not conjugated to each other. Administration of the anti-CD22 antibody and therapeutic agent induces apoptosis and cell death of target cells in diseases such as B-cell lymphomas or leukemias, autoimmune disease or immune dysfunction disease.

Several diterpene glycosides (e.g., rubusoside, rebaudioside, steviol monoside and stevioside) were discovered to enhance the solubility of a number of pharmaceutically and medicinally important compounds, including but not limited to, paclitaxel, camptothecin, curcumin, tanshinone HA, capsaicin, cyclosporine, erythromycin, nystatin, itraconazole, and celecoxib. The use of the diterpene glycoside rubusoside increased solubility in all tested compounds. The diterpene glycosides are a naturally occurring class of water solubility-enhancing compounds that are non-toxic and that will be useful as new complexing agents or excipients in the pharmaceutical, agricultural (e.g., solubilizing pesticides), cosmetic and food industries. Aqueous solutions by using rubusoside to increase the solubility of otherwise insoluble drugs will have several new routes of administration. In addition, aqueous solutions of therapeutic compounds with rubusoside were shown to retain the known pharmacological activity of the compounds.

Liposomal prodrugs include specific derivatives of camptothecin restrained by a liposomal delivery system. The derivatives of camptothecin are represented by the general formula: ##STR1## wherein when R.sub.2 is H, R.sub.1 is a C.sub.2 -C.sub.4 alkyl group, a C.sub.6 -C.sub.15 alkyl group, a C.sub.3 -C.sub.8 cycloalkyl group, a C.sub.2 -C.sub.15 alkenyl group or a C.sub.2 -C.sub.15 epoxy group; and when R.sub.2 is a nitro group, R.sub.1 is a C.sub.1 -C.sub.15 alkyl group, a C.sub.2 -C.sub.15 alkenyl group, a C.sub.3 -C.sub.8 cycloalkyl group, or an epoxy group. Processes for making these prodrugs and for using them in cancer treatment are also disclosed.

The invention relates to conjugates of anti-integrin specific antibodies with cytotoxic compounds, the synthesis, selection, and use of such conjugates for use in cancer therapy or other diseases mediated by cell proliferation, cell migration, or inflammation and which pathology involves angiogenesis or neovascularization of new tissue. In addition the invention relates to combination therapy of such diseases wherein the treatment comprises use of said conjugates in combination with one or more other treatment modalities including but not limited to: chemotherapy, surgery or radiation therapy. The preferred conjugates contain maytansinoid compounds linked to the antibody by a disulfide linkage, and preferred chemotherapeutic agents are doxorubicin, a taxane, a camptothecin, a podophyllotoxin, a nucleoside analog, or a pyrimidine analog.

Oral formulations of pharmaceuticals are provided with enhanced bioavailability by targeting specific regions of the gastrointestinal tract. Particularly, water soluble and acid-labile drugs such as cytidine analogs (e.g., decitabine) and 2'-deoxyadenosine analogs (e.g., pentostatin) are formulated with pH-sensitive polymers so that these drugs are preferably absorbed in the upper regions of the small intestine, such as the jejunum. In addition, drugs with poor oral bioavailability such as camptothecin compounds (e.g., 9-nitro-camptothecin) can also be formulated using similar strategies in order to significantly improve their oral bioavailability. These formulations can be used to treat a wide variety of diseases or conditions, such hematological disorders, benign tumors, cancer, restenosis, inflammatory diseases, and autoimmune diseases.

The disclosure includes hydroxamic compounds of Formula I: (Formula I) wherein Z, L, R1, R2, and R3 are defined herein. Also disclosed is a method for treating a neoplastic disease or an immune disease with these compounds.

A method and devices for localized delivery of a chemotherapeutic agent to solid tumors, wherein the agent does not cross the blood-brain barrier and is characterized by poor bioavailability and / or short half-lives in vivo, are described. The devices consist of reservoirs which release drug over an extended time period while at the same time preserving the bioactivity and bioavailability of the agent. In the most preferred embodiment, the device consists of biodegradable polymeric matrixes, although reservoirs can also be formulated from non-biodegradable polymers or reservoirs connected to implanted infusion pumps. The devices are implanted within or immediately adjacent the tumors to be treated or the site where they have been surgically removed. The examples demonstrate the efficacy of paclitaxel and camptothecin delivered in polymeric implants prepared by compression molding of biodegradable and non-biodegradable polymers, respectively. The results are highly statistically significant.

At least one bioactive agent is locally delivered to a location where a stent is implanted within a lumen in a patient's body. The bioactive agent includes a: DNA minor groove binder (such as CC-1065 or Duocarmycin); apocynin; RGD peptide (such as RGDfV); stilbene compound (such as resveratrol); camptothecin; des-aspartate angiotensin I; or ADF; or an analog or derivative thereof; or a combination or blend thereof with at least one other bioactive agent. The bioactive agent is generally locally delivered, such as by elution from the stent. The compounds and methods are of particular benefit for treating or preventing atherosclerosis, stenosis, restenosis, smooth muscle cell proliferation, occlusive disease, or other abnormal lumenal cellular proliferation condition.

A four arm-polyethylene glycol-7-ethyl-10-hydroxycamptothecin conjugate, such as, is disclosed. Methods of making the conjugates and methods of treating mammals using the same are also disclosed.

It is intended to provide water-soluble derivative of camptothecins which are excellent in therapeutic effect and suitable for chemotherapy for cancer. Namely, a water-soluble high-molecular weight derivative of camptothencins being excellent in sustained-release which is obtained by ester-bonding a carboxylic acid group of a polyethylene glycol-polycarboxylic acid polymer to a phenolic hydroxyl group of phenolic camptothencins.

The present invention relates to a novel compound of use in the improved delivery of therapeutic drug agents into target cells or tissues, composition comprising the same and uses thereof. The compound is more specifically a conjugate of a peptide moiety and a camptothecin, a derivative or analog thereof which provides numerous benefits, including enhancement in terms of aqueous solubility, pharmacokinetics and tissue distribution, enlargement of the therapeutic index, and limitation of the inter-patient metabolic variability, as well as improvement of delivery of the biologically active ingredient to the target cells or tissues.

Compositions which comprise a liposomal water-soluble camptothecin and optionally a liposomal fluoropyrimidine in combination with a vascular epithelial growth factor (VEGF) inhibitor such as cetuximab or an epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) inhibitor such as bevacizumab are useful in achieving enhanced therapeutic effects for the treatment of cancer.

The present invention relates to a conjugate of hydrophilic polymer-multicarboxyl oligopeptide and drug molecule of the following formula: wherein: P is a water soluble polymer; m is an integer of 2˜12; j is an integer of 1˜6; Ri is a group selected from H, C1-12 alkyl, substituted aryl, aralkyl, heteroalkyl and substituted alkyl; X and Z are linking groups; and TA is drug molecule. The conjugate has low toxicity and an ability to carry more than one drug molecule to improve solubility, sustain and control drug release, and has a remarkably enhancing effect especially to antitumor drug such as paclitaxel and camptothecin etc.

The invention discloses a graphene / hyaluronic acid assembly taking cyclodextrin as a medium. The graphene / hyaluronic acid assembly is a nano supermolecule assembly synthesized based on beta-cyclodextrin-modified graphene and adamantine-modified hyaluronic acid, wherein graphene is modified by beta-cyclodextrin; by virtue of strong host-guest interaction between beta-cyclodextrin and adamantine, graphene and hyaluronic acid are combined together to form the supermolecule assembly. The graphene / hyaluronic acid assembly has the advantages that the supermolecule assembly greatly improves stability and biocompatibility of the cyclodextrin-modified graphene under physiological conditions; by utilizing targeted recognition action of hyaluronic acid on tumor cells, the supermolecule assembly can selectively kill the cancer cells, and has anti-cancer activity higher than that of pure drug camptothecin; the targeted drug transmission system is simple in preparation process, easy to implement and low in material cost, and has potential application prospect in clinic treatment of cancers.

The invention relates to a method for preparing a graphene oxide double-targeting medicine carrier material, and a medicine loaded by the carrier material. The method is used for preparing the carrier material and the loaded medicine. The invention solves the problems that the conventional nano-medicine carrier has a complicated structure, is high in synthetic cost and low in efficiency, and cannot be massively prepared easily. The method for preparing the graphene oxide double-targeting medicine carrier material comprises the following steps of: preparing carboxymethylated graphene oxide; preparing a graphene oxide-biologically targeting molecule composite; and preparing the graphene oxide double-targeting medicine carrier material, wherein the loaded medicine is one or more of doxorubicin hydrochloride, paclitaxel, hydroxycamptothecine and daunomycin.

The invention discloses camptothecin drugs and antibody conjugates thereof. The inventor designs a series of anti-tumor exatecan active derivatives on the basis of comprehensive understanding of ADC drugs, and experiments prove that newly designed anti-tumor molecular compounds show good anti-tumor activity in the experiments.

The invention is directed to an improved drug delivery system that includes a micelle, comprising polyethylene glycol and a lipid component, and a pharmaceutical agent dispersed in the lipid component. The delivery system may also include a targeting ligand. The micelle delivery system of the invention is capable of stabilizing, inter alia, poorly soluble pharmaceutical agents and increasing their delivery efficacy. Appropriate pharmaceutical agents useful in the system of the invention include anti-inflammatory agents, agents for photodynamic therapy, anti-tumor agents, anti-neoplastic agents, anti-metastatic agents, and imaging agents, as well as hydrophobized derivatives thereof. Specifically, the pharmaceutical agent can be porphyrin, chlorine-6-trimethyl ester, tamoxifen, paclitaxel, 1,3-bis(2-chloroethyl)-1-nitrosourea, camptothecin, ellipticine, rhodamine, dequalinium, diphenylhexatriene, vitamin K3, diethylene triamine pentaacetic acid, or a functional derivative thereof. The micelles in the system of the invention have low critical micellar concentration and high kinetic stability, which provides great advantages in biodistribution, for example, accumulation at the site of a tumor.

A stable liposome composition comprises camptothecin or derivatives thereof, phospholipid, cholesterol, organic acids and the buffer salts of the camptothecins, and pharmaceutically-acceptable excipient. The composition can specifically increase the stability of the camptothecins, improve the curative effect, and reduce the toxic and side effects of the camptothecins.

Camptothecin drugs are stabilized in their antitumor active lactone form by complexation with an oligonucleotide including RNA or catalytic RNA. The oligonucleotide-camptothecin drug complex may be incorporated within a macromolecular assembly including both viral and non-viral oligonucleotide vectors. The invention allows combination gene and camptothecin drug therapy.

The invention discloses a 9-anthracenecarboxaldehyde-4,5-dihydro-1H-imidazol-2-yl-hydrazone cisplatin complex and a synthesis method and use thereof. In the invention, the two N atoms in 9-anthracenecarboxaldehyde-4,5-dihydro-1H-imidazol-2-yl-hydrazone and a central metal ion Pt(II) are chelated and coordinated to form a chelate having a five-membered ring. Particularly, a direct complexing synthesis method or intermediate complexing synthesis method is adopted. In the technical scheme adopted by the invention, organic alkali 9-IHA having antitumor activity is used as a ligand to coordinate with the Pt(II) to form a complex; and the result of the observation of the activity of the complex for inhibiting the proliferation of human tumor cells and human normal liver cells indicates that the overall in-vitro cell toxicity of the complex is lower than that of a 9-IHA ligand and is similar to that of CDDP (cisplatin), AMSA(amsacrine) and HCPT (hydroxycamptothecine) which are clinic anticancer medicines and that the complex has high potential medical value and can be used in preparation of various antitumor medicines.

A hydroxycamptothecin emulsion is prepared from hydroxycamptothecin 0.01-2.2 %, emulsifier 0.3-8%, triglyceride 2-30%, glycerine for injection 2.0-3.0 % and water for injection through dissolving the 10-hydroxycamptothecin in the oil phase containing triglyceride and emulsifier, adding water phase, mixing, and ultrasonic or homogeneous emulsifying. Its advantages are high curative effect and stability, and good target to tissue.

Medical implants are provided which release an anthracycline, fluoropyrimidine, folic acid antagonist, podophylotoxin, camptothecin, hydroxyurea, and / or platinum complex, thereby inhibiting or reducing the incidence of infection associated with the implant.

An antitumor agent for chemoradiotherapy of rectal cancer comprising a combination of TS-1 (a combination drug of tegafur, gimeracil, and oteracil potassium at a 1:0.4:1 molar ratio) and CPT-11 (irinotecan hydrochloride). The antitumor agent of the invention can achieve marked tumor volume reduction without causing major side effects, especially by coadministering it with preoperative radiation therapy. The volume of even large tumors that are refractory to surgical resection can be reduced by coadministering the antitumor agent of the invention with preoperative radiation therapy, making the subsequent surgical resection of the tumor easier.

The invention belongs to the field of pharmaceutical preparations, and relates to preparation of a novel target nano carrier and application of the novel target nano carrier in a camptothecin drug targeting delivery system. The system can be represented as PAMAM-HA / drug, wherein PAMAM is polyamide amine-amine arboraceous macromolecules of different generations, HA is hyaluronic acid of different molecular weights, and the drug is one or more of camptothecin anticancer drugs such as camptothecin, 10- hydroxycamptothecine, topotecan and the like. The carrier is used for wrapping the camptothecin drugs, and has the actions of prolonging the drug blood circulation time, improving the drug bioavailability, reducing the non-tumor part concentration of the drug, reducing the drug cytotoxicity, and simultaneously protecting the lactonic rings of the camptothecin drugs from damage, thereby improving the tumor treatment efficiency from multiple aspects. The nano carrier provided by the invention has important significance in promoting the safe delivery of the camptothecin drugs and the effective treatment of tumor.