68 results about "Testicular cancer" patented technology

The present invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions and dietary supplement comprising yeast cells that can produce a healthful benefit in a subject inflicted with testicular cancer. The biological compositions can be used to retard the growth of testicular cancer cells and/or prolonging the time of survival of the subject. The invention also relates to methods for manufacturing the biological compositions.

Objective methods for diagnosing a predisposition to developing cancer, particularly bladder cancer, gastric cancer, colorectal cancer, breast cancer, esophageal cancer, lung cancer, lymphoma, pancreatic cancer and testicular cancer, are described herein. In one embodiment, the diagnostic method involves determining an expression level of PRMT1 gene. The present invention further provides methods of screening for therapeutic agents useful in the treatment of PRMT1 associated disease, such as a cancer, e.g. bladder cancer, gastric cancer, colorectal cancer, breast cancer, esophageal cancer, lung cancer, lymphoma, pancreatic cancer and testicular cancer. The present invention further provides methods of inhibiting the cell growth and treating or alleviating symptoms of PRMT1 associated diseases. The present invention also features products, including double-stranded molecules and vectors encoding thereof as well as to compositions comprising them.

Disclosed are compositions and methods comprising a novel mammalian gene, designated MORC, that is expressed in male germ cells. Also disclosed are polynucleotide compositions comprising a MORC gene from human and murine sources, and polypeptides encoded by these nucleic acid sequences. Methods for preparing MORC polypeptides, transformed host cells, and antibodies reactive with MORC polypeptides are also provided. In certain embodiments, the invention describes methods for diagnosing and treating infertility or testicular cancer, as well as methods for identifying MORC-related polynucleotide and polypeptide compositions.</PTEXT>

Compounds and methods are disclosed in which a prodrug can be delivered in an elevated oxidative state to cells by means of graphitic nanoparticles to which the prodrug is attached by a hydrophilic polymer and which have been made soluble by a hydrophilic polymer, such as PEG. The graphitic nanoparticle may be a single walled carbon nanotube (SWNT). The prodrug may be a DNA-binding metal-based drug. Exemplified is a platinum(IV) complex c,c,t-[Pt(NH₃)₂Cl₂(OEt)(O₂CCH₂CH₂CO₂H)], which is nearly nontoxic to testicular cancer cells, but displays a significantly enhanced cytotoxicity profile when attached to the surface of amine-functionalized soluble SWNTs. An amine functionality on the hydrophilic polymer may be used to link the prodrug.

The present invention provides antibodies useful as therapeutics for treating and/or preventing diseases associated with cells expressing CLDN6, including tumor-related diseases such as ovarian cancer, lung cancer, gastric cancer, breast cancer, hepatic cancer, pancreatic cancer, skin cancer, malignant melanoma, head and neck cancer, sarcoma, bile duct cancer, cancer of the urinary bladder, kidney cancer, colon cancer, placental choriocarcinoma, cervical cancer, testicular cancer, and uterine cancer.

The present invention is concerned with deuterium-enriched pyrimidine compounds of formula I, their derivatives, enantiomers, diastereomers, solvates and pharmaceutical salts thereof,

and their uses in the treatment, prevention and modulation of various diseases including chronic liver diseases, liver cirrhosis, liver fibrosis, hepatocellular carcinoma, liver cancer, renal cell carcinoma, kidney cancer, colorectal cancer, brain cancer, breast cancer, blood cancer, lung cancer, thyroid cancer, ovarian cancer, pancreas cancer, prostate cancer, stomach cancer, testicular cancer, uterus cancer, intestinal cancer, skin cancer, and other forms of cancer, carcinoid tumors, teratocarcinoma, tumor progression, metastasis and fibrosis in the neuroendocrine neoplasia, fibrotic processes as well as a disease state modulated directly or indirectly with 5-HT receptors, 5-HT₁, 5-HT_1A, 5-HT₂ receptors, 5-HT_2A and 5-HT_2B receptors, dopamine receptors and multiple kinase pathways.

Pharmaceutical composition comprising antibodies or antigen binding fragments thereof that bind to stage-specific embryonic antigen 4 (SSEA-4) are disclosed herein, as well as methods of use thereof. Methods of use include, without limitation, cancer therapies and diagnostics. The antibodies of the disclosure can bind to certain cancer cell surfaces. Exemplary targets of the antibodies disclosed herein can include carcinomas, such as breast cancer, lung cancer, esophageal cancer, rectal cancer, biliary cancer, liver cancer, buccal cancer, gastric cancer, colon cancer, nasopharyngeal cancer, kidney cancer, prostate cancer, ovarian cancer, cervical cancer, endometrial cancer, pancreatic cancer, testicular cancer, bladder cancer, head and neck cancer, oral cancer, neuroendocrine cancer, adrenal cancer, thyroid cancer, bone cancer, skin cancer, basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, melanoma, and/or brain tumor.

The present invention provides antibodies useful as therapeutics for treating and/or preventing diseases associated with cells expressing Claudin-6 (CLDN6), including tumor-related diseases such as ovarian cancer, lung cancer, gastric cancer, breast cancer, hepatic cancer, pancreatic cancer, skin cancer, malignant melanoma, head and neck cancer, sarcoma, bile duct cancer, cancer of the urinary bladder, kidney cancer, colon cancer, placental choriocarcinoma, cervical cancer, testicular cancer, and uterine cancer.

We provide VHZ for use in a method of treatment, prophylaxis or alleviation of a cancer in an individual selected from the group consisting of: colon cancer, lung cancer, squamous cell carcinoma including lip, larynx, vulva, cervix and penis cancer, pancreatic cancer, brain cancer, oesophageal cancer, stomach cancer, bladder cancer, kidney cancer, skin cancer, ovary cancer, prostate cancer and testicular cancer. We provide an anti-VHZ agent for the treatment, prophylaxis or alleviation of such a cancer. The anti-VHZ agent may comprise SEQ ID NO:4 or SEQ ID NO: 5, or both.

The invention relates to endogenic non-coding microRNA (micro Ribonucleic Acid), a medicine composition containing the microRNA, and new application of the medicine composition for treating or preventing the testicular cancer. According to the invention, the microRNA belonging to the family member (miR-302) of the microRNA-302 and platinum-type anti-tumour medicines are utilized jointly, so that the treatment effect of the platinum-type anti-tumour medicines for the testicular cancer can be obviously improved, and simultaneously, the administration dose, the administration time course and the side effects of the platimun-type anti-tumour medicines can be reduced. The invention also improves a molecular mechanism of the platinum-type anti-tumour medicines for treating the testicular cancer and develops a new treatment target spot for treating the testicular cancer, thereby having a significant value.

The present invention concerns compositions and methods for evaluating fertility in humans and animals. The invention may also be used to identify reproductive cancers such as testicular cancer. In various embodiments of the invention, an Sptrx-3 enzyme is used as a fertility marker. Sptrx-3 may be detected in accordance with the invention in vitro or in vivo.

The present invention is a biomarker of chemotherapeutic drug-resistant cancer stem cells and a method of inhibiting the growth of drug-resistant cancer stem cells. In one embodiment the cancer stem cells are testicular cancer germ cells. In another embodiment the present invention is a method of overcoming drug resistance in cancer treatment where the combination of low dose decitabine and administration of a chemotherapeutic drug to which cancer cells were resistant results in successful cancer treatment.

The invention features methods and reagents useful for the treatment of excessive or insufficient apoptosis in cells, and, particularly, in germ-line cells. The invention is useful in treating testicular cancers, cancers of germ-line cells, cancers in non-germ-line cell tissues, infertility (e.g., male infertility), and for birth control (e.g., male birth control).

The invention discloses application of proguanil to preparation of an anti-tumor drug and application of proguanil to preparation of a drug for inhibiting primary tumor growth and/or metastatic tumorgrowth; a tumor is a malignant tumor or a benign tumor, wherein the malignant tumor comprises one or more of a bladder tumor, melanoma, mastadenoma, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a colorectal cancer, a pancreatic cancer, an endometrial cancer, a prostate cancer, renal carcinoma, renal cell carcinoma, a non-melanoma skin cancer, leukemia, a thyroid cancer, a lung cancer, a cervical cancer, an ovarian cancer, a testicular cancer and a central nervous system tumor; the drug is a proguanil single component or a pharmaceutical composition containing an effective dose of proguanil, a drug mixture or a molecular structure modifier. Study results show that the proguanil realizes a strong anti-cancer effect by key protein AMPK in targeting tumor cell energy metabolism, and the effect of the proguanil ontumor treatment is stronger than that of N-(4-fluorophenyl) biguanidine, metformin and other biguanidine drugs.