285 results about "Dysostosis" patented technology

Extracts of various species of the Moraceae family have estrogenic properties. For example, aqueous and ethanolic extracts of Morus alba L. species possess estrogenic properties in both ERα+ and ERβ+ cells. These estrogenic effect include estrogen response element (ERE) stimulation as well as tumor necrosis factor (TNF) repression. Methods are provided for treating climacteric symptoms, breast and / or uterine cancer, and osteoporosis.

The invention relates to a method for increasing the toughness and / or stiffness of bone and / or reducing the likelihood and / or severity of bone fracture by administering a parathyroid hormone. The method can be employed to increase toughness or stiffness of bone at a site of a potential or actual trauma, such as the hip or spine of a person at risk of or suffering from osteoporosis. The method of the invention can reduce the incidence of vertebral fracure, reduce the incidence of multiple vertebral fractures, reduce the severity of vertebral fracture, and / or reduce the incidence of non-vertebral fracture.

Methods and devices are described for the regulation of Transforming Growth actor (TGF)-β1, β2, and / or β3 protein gene expression in bone cells and other tissues via the capacitive coupling or inductive coupling of specific and selective electric fields to the bone cells or other tissues, where the specific and selective electric fields are generated by application of specific and selective electric and electromagnetic signals to electrodes or one or more coils or other field generating device disposed with respect to the bone cells or other tissues so as to facilitate the treatment of diseased or injured bone and other tissues. By gene expression is meant the up-regulation or down-regulation of the process whereby specific portions (genes) of the human genome (DNA) are transcribed into mRNA and subsequently translated into protein. Methods and devices are provided for the targeted treatment of injured or diseased bone and other tissue that include generating specific and selective electric and electromagnetic signals that generate fields in the target tissue optimized for increase of TGF-β1, β2, and / or β3 protein gene expression and exposing bone and other tissue to the fields generated by specific and selective signals so as to regulate TGF-β1, β2, and / or β3 protein gene expression in such tissue. The resulting methods and devices are useful for the targeted treatment of bone fractures, fractures at risk, delayed unions, nonunion of fractures, bone defects, spine fusions, osteonecrosis or avascular necrosis, as an adjunct to other therapies in the treatment of one or all of the above, in the treatment of osteoporosis, and in other conditions in which TGF-β1, β2, and / or β3 protein may be implicated.

A method for transdermal administration of parathyroid hormone by iontophoresis, which comprises applying electric current at least 2 times a day, which method is repeated one to four times each week, or an apparatus for the iontophoresis can be widely applied for not only the prevention or treatment of osteoporosis but also for general bone diseases which require promotion of bone morphogenesis, for example, treatment of ordinary fractures.The method of the present invention produces excellent pharmacological effects such as few side effects and a high bioavailability in long term administration for the prevention and treatment of bone diseases.

The present invention provides a storage-stable composition containing a parathyroid hormone-related protein (PTHrP) and methods of using a PTHrP and the PTHrP compositions described herein to treat osteoporosis, to increase bone mass or to increase bone quality. The composition is storage stable, in sterile form, and in general may be stored at room temperature for at least several weeks to allow convenient parenteral administration to human patients.

The present invention is directed to a method of treating, preventing, or reducing the risk of bone deterioration or osteoporosis in a peri- or post-menopausal female subject. The method involves selecting a peri- or post-menopausal female subject in need of treating, preventing, or reducing the risk of bone deterioration or osteoporosis and administering hepcidin to the selected subject under conditions effective to treat, prevent, or reduce the risk of bone deterioration or osteoporosis.

The present invention provides a composition including an isolated or recombinant peptide component that has osteogenic cell proliferative activity. The peptide, which promotes proliferation of osteoblasts, is useful for treatment of fractures, as a filler in deficient sites of bone, for inhibition of decrease in bone substance related to osteoporosis and periodontic diseases, and for prevention of fractures associated with osteoporosis and rheumatoid arthritis. The peptide, or cells that have been genetically engineered to produce the peptide, can be combined with a bone-compatible matrix to facilitate slow release of the peptide to a treatment site and / or provide a structure for developing bone.

The present invention relates to a compound preparation in the field of traditional Chinese medicine, in particular to a drug formulation for treating osteoporosis. The present invention includes the following raw materials with the parts by weight: 200 to 1200 parts of radix rehmanniae preparata, 100 to 600 parts of desertliving cistanche, 50 to 500 parts of epimedium herb, 100 to 600 parts of Chinese pyrola herb, 100 to 600 parts of fortune's drynaria rhizome, 100 to 600 parts of himalayan teasel root, 100 to 600 parts of east Asian tree fern rhizome, 100 to 600 parts of eucommia bark, 100 to 1200 parts of membranous milkvetch root, 50 to 500 parts of angelica, 100 to 1000 parts of tuber fleeceflower root, 100 to 1000 parts of suberect spatholobus stem, 100 to 600 parts of Chinese taxillus twig, 50 to 600 parts of Chinese clematis root, 100 to 600 parts of largehead atractylodes rhizome, 50 to 600 parts of twotooth achyranthes root, 100 to 600 parts of barbary wolfberry fruit, 100 to 600 parts of cornu cervi degelatinatum, 100 to 600 parts of medicinal indianmulberry root, 50 to 400 parts of liquoric root and 200 to 2000 parts of oyster. The traditional Chinese medicine preparation of the present invention mainly cures kidney and liver insufficiency, malnutrition of bones and tendons and blood stasis blocking syndromes; and the syndromes are pains at the waist and the back, weak legs and pains etc. The present invention is mainly applicable to the people with the symptoms of osteoporosis. The present invention has reliable efficacy and no adverse reactions, which is proved by the clinical applications.

The invention provides method, system and device for determining trabecular bone structure and strength by digital topological analysis, and offers, for the first time, a demonstration of superior associations between vertebral deformity and a number of architectural indices measured in the distal radius, thus permitting reliable and noninvasive detection and determination of the pathogenesis of osteoporosis. A preferred embodiment provides imaging in three dimension of a region of trabecular bone, after which the 3D image is converted into a skeletonized surface representation. Digital topological analysis is applied to the converted image, and each image voxel is identified and classified as a curve, a surface, or a junction; and then associated with microarchitectural indices of trabecular bone to quantitatively characterize the trabecular bone network. The invention is applicable in vivo, particularly on human subjects, or ex vivo.

The invention discloses a medicine composition for treating osteoporosis and a preparation method thereof. The medicine composition is prepared from collagen, chondroitin sulfate sodium salt, calcium carbonate, rhizoma drynariae extract, kudzu vine root extract, D-glucosamine hydrochloride and pseudo-ginseng. The medicine composition can be used for treating the pathogenesis, namely destruction of bone microstructure, of osteoporosis, is capable of solving the problem of bone density abnormality and radically preventing and treating osteoporosis; and the medicine composition can be used for relieving symptoms of ostealgia of osteoporosis patients, healing of bone fracture can be promoted, and the living quality of osteoporosis patients can be improved.

A method and system for detection and tracking of osteoporosis is disclosed. A method of characterizing an image of a target vertebra includes building a computer model from a set of sample images of pathological and non-pathological variations of vertebrae representing variations in shape of the vertebrae. The method also includes receiving an image of a target vertebra of a subject and automatically estimating contours of lateral outlines of the superior and the inferior cortical endplates of the image. The parameters of the model are varied to determine a set that represents a model shape that approximates the estimated contours of the outlines of the cortical endplates. The method includes automatically characterizing the target vertebra based on the set of model parameters that are determined and outputting on a display device the characterization of the target vertebra.