71 results about "Non cancer" patented technology

The present invention concerns a pyrvinium compound or an analog thereof for the treatment of cancers. This compound inhibits Wnt activity in the cells of cancers such as adrenocortical, hepatocellular, hepatoblastoma, malignant melanoma, ovarian, Wilm's tumor, Barrett's esophageal, glioma, bladder, breast, gastric, head & neck, lung cell, mesothelioma, and cervical cancers. The present invention also provides a method for assaying for compounds that alter Wnt pathway activity. Also provided are methods for treating Wnt-related non-cancer disease states.

The reagent, pharmaceutical formulation, kit, and methods of the invention provides a new approach for treating hypoxia-related pathological conditions, such as Alzheimer's Disease, and those involving excessive angiogenesis, especially those non-cancer pathological conditions. The invention provides the use of Na⁺/K⁺-ATPase inhibitors, such as cardiac glycosides (e.g. ouabain and proscillaridin, etc.), either alone or in combination with other standard therapeutic agents for treating such conditions. The invention also relates to the use of cardiac glycoside inhibitors/antagonists as reagents, pharmaceutical formulations, or in kits and methods for treating conditions arising from excessive amount of cardiac glycosides, including all symptoms of digitalis poisoning, depression, hypertension, etc. The pharmaceutical formulation of the invention may be delivered to a patient either systemically or locally, or both. The pharmaceutical formulations of the invention may be delivered either in one dose, or continuously over a sustained period of time using, for example, sustained drug delivery devices.

Methods and compositions for the development of effective cancer therapies using mitotic inhibitors which have limited general toxicity to normal, non-cancerous cells and tissues are provided. The methods and compositions utilize cytotoxic compounds comprised of a cell-binding agent (e.g., antibodies) conjugated to an anti-mitotic compound (e.g., maytansinoids). The invention further provides antibodies which are substantially incapable of inducing antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) and/or complement dependent cytotoxicity (CDC), thereby ensuring that the therapeutic effect is mediated primarily by the anti-mitotic component of the cytotoxic compound, rather than by indirect cell killing via ADCC and/or CDC. The antibodies of the invention further are capable of differentiating between polypeptide antigens which are more highly expressed on proliferating cancer cells as compared to proliferating non-cancer cells.

Compounds represented by the following structure (II) are disclosed:

as are methods for making such compounds. Compositions and methods for treating various disease conditions including cancer and non-cancer diseases associated with vascular proliferation are also disclosed.

The present disclosure relates to methods for detecting unique genetic signatures derived from markers such as, for example, mutations, somatic or germ-line, in nucleic acids obtained from biological samples. The sensitivity of the methods provides for detection of mutations associated with a disease, e.g., cancer mutations, or with inherited disease, e.g., an autosomal recessive disease, in a noninvasive manner at ultra-low proportions of sequences carrying mutations to sequences carrying normal, e.g., non-cancer sequences, or a reference sequence, e.g., a human reference genome.

A food product containing an effective amount of an active agent which is hydroxymatairesinol, a geometric isomer or stereoisomer thereof, or an acceptable salt thereof, or a mixture thereof, where the food product is selected from the group consisting of a nutritional supplement and a nutrient. The food product can increase the level of enterolactone or another metabolite of hydroxymatairesinol in a person's serum thereby causing prevention of a cancer or a certain non-cancer, hormone dependent disease in a person, based on the administration of hydroxymatairesinol to the person.

The present invention provides kits, methods and compositions for the treatment of diseases, such as, for example, non-cancer proliferative diseases, neurodegenerative diseases, diabetes and hypertension. The compositions herein contain a substantially pure preparation of at least one catecholic butane, including, for example, NDGA Compounds in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier or excipient by various routes of administration.

A cancer cell separating apparatus includes: a flow channel including an antibody fixation area having antibodies which bind specifically to cancer cells fixed thereon, wherein the cancer cells and non-cancer cells are separated using a difference in velocity of movement between the cancer cells and the non-cancer cells in cell slurry introduced into the flow channel.

The invention concerns materials and methods relating to the use of OMD (osteomodulin) and\or PRELP (Proline/arginine-rich end leucine-rich repeat protein) expression, particularly under-expression, to discriminate cancer and non-cancer cells in a variety of cancers. The invention further provides methods and materials based on OMD and\or PRELP for use in therapy e.g. to suppress cancer initiation or development.

The invention discloses a method for serologically detecting Matrix metalloproteinase 11 (MMP11) and the application thereof. The gene chip technology and the bioinformatics method are adopted to obtain stomach cancer gene expression spectra, and by taking the MMP11 gene for example, the expression characteristics of the gene in the tumor cell lines and tissues are verified at the levels of mRNA and protein. At the same time, a detection kit for the MMP11serum is established by utilizing the technique of the enzyme linked immuno sorbent assay (ELISA), and the expression level of the MMP11 protein in the serum of stomach cancer patients is detected. The level of the MMP11 protein in the serum of stomach cancer patients is obviously higher than that of a non-cancer comparison group (p is lower than 0.001), and the same tendency is also found in the breast cancer, the colon cancer/rectum cancer and the lung cancer. In the serum detection to the stomach cancer patients, the sensitivity of the MMP11 is higher than that of a tumor molecule marker such as CEA, CA199, CA72.4, CA242, etc., and MMP11 and CA199 have good correlation (p is equal to 0.017). Through the analysis of the clinic pathological data, the level of the serum MMP11 has the obvious correlation (p is equal to 0.009) with the cancerometastasis state of the stomach cancer patients. The MMP11 is possible to become a novel tumor serum marker for the diagnosis and the prognostic judgement of the tumors.

The invention belongs to the medicine technical field, and concretely relates to a heterocycle substituted pyrido-pyrrole kinase inhibitor shown in a formula (I), its pharmaceutically acceptable salt or its solvate, wherein R1, R2, R3, L, M and Q are defined as an instruction. The invention also relates to a preparation method and an application of the compounds, the pharmaceutically acceptable salt or the solvate in preparation of medicines for treating/or preventing cancer-related or non cancer-related diseases.

The invention relates to a polymolecular marker composition used for lung cancer diagnosis. The invention discloses a group of lung cancer combined markers, including hepatocyte growth factor, C-reactive protein, prolactin, Wnt induced signal path protein 1 (WISP1), imprinting site binding factor (BORIS), CA125, cytokeratin 19 segment and carcino-embryonic antigen. In serum of lung cancer patients, the expression of these proteins is obviously higher than that of non-cancer patients. These markers are combined to be applied to clinical diagnosis, so that the accuracy of lung cancer diagnosis can be obviously improved, and early-stage patients suffering from lung cancer can be detected.

The present invention relates to methods and compositions designed to treat, control or prevent cancer, particularly metastatic cancer. The methods of the invention comprise administering an effective amount of one or more antibodies that bind and stimulate EphA2, thereby increasing the phosphorylation of EphA2 and reducing the level of stimulated EphA2 in the cell. The invention also includes antibodies that bind preferentially to EphA2 epitopes exposed on cancer cells rather than non-cancer cells. The present invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising only one or more EphA2 antibodies of the present invention, or the antibodies in combination with one or more other drugs for the treatment of cancer.