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A method for promoting bone growth in a patient (e.g., a mammal such as a human), said method including the step of administering a therapeutically effective amount of adrenomedullin or an adrenomedullin agonist to said patient.
摘要:
A method for promoting bone growth in a patient (e.g., a mammal such as a human), said method including the step of administering a therapeutically effective amount of adrenomedullin or an adrenomedullin agonist to said patient.
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The present invention is directed to peptide analogues of glucagon-like peptide-1, the pharmaceutically-acceptable salts thereof, to methods of using such analogues to treat mammals and to pharmaceutical compositions useful therefor comprising said analogues.
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In general, the invention features a linear (i.e., non-cyclic) bombesin analog of biologically active mammalian gastrin-releasing peptide (GRP) and amphibian bombesin, having an active site and a binding site responsable for the binding of the peptide to a receptor on a target cell; cleavage of a peptide bond in the active site of naturally occuring bombesin or GRP is unnecessary for in vivo bilogical activity. The analog has one of the following modifications: (a) a deletion of a residue within the active site and a modification of a residue outside of the active site, or (b) a remplacement of one or two residues within the active site with a synthetic amino acid. The analog is capable of binding to the receptor and acting as a competitive inhibitor of the naturally occurring peptide by binding to the receptor and, by virtue of one of the modifications, failing to exhibit the in vivo biological activity of the naturally occurring peptide.
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A method of treating a mammal suffering from cancer by administering to the mammal somatostatin or an analog thereof, the analog being a hexapeptide analog or higher, in a dosage of at least 25 µg/kg/day.
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This invention relates to analogs of pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP), which are agonists for the PACAP/vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) receptors: PAC 1 , VPAC 1 and VPAC 2 receptors. These PACAP analogs can be used as prophylactic/therapeutic agents for a wide range of medical disorders. These PACAP analogs coupled to suitable radionuclides can be used in the localization, diagnosis and treatment of disseminated cancers and metastatic tumors, and coupled to small molecule therapeutics can be used as vectors for targeted drug delivery. This invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions of one or more PACAP analogs of the invention either alone or in combination with one or more other prophylactic/therapeutic agent.
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Disclosed are methods and compositions for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases associated with aberrant expression of a somatostatin receptor (e.g., cancer) or with increased production of a factor regulatable by somatostatin (e.g., acromegaly). The compounds of the invention are of the general formulae: a) (Y)n+1P, b) (Y)n-Ala-Y-P, or c) (I), wherein P is a somatostatin peptide analog which binds to a somatostatin receptor, Y is D-tyrosine, L-tyrosine, or desamino-tyrosine, n is an integer from 1 to 32, inclusive, each q, independently, is an integer from 1 to 32, inclusive, and each s, independently, is an integer from 1 to 32, inclusive, where q and s can be the same or different, and X is of the formula D-NH2-CH(CH2)mNH2-CO2H or L-NH2-CH(CH2)mNH2-CO2H, wherein m is an integer from 1 to 10, inclusive.
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Un analogue linéaire (c'est-à-dire non cyclique) de bombésine amphibienne biologiquement active ou d'un peptide de libération de gastrine mammifère (GRP) possède un site actif et un site de liaison responsable de la liaison du peptide sur un récepteur d'une cellule cible. Le clivage d'une liaison peptide dans le site actif de la bombésine se produisant naturellement ou du GRP n'est pas nécessaire pour une activité biologique in vivo. L'analogue possède l'une des modifications suivantes: (a) une délétion d'un reste d'acide aminé dans le site actif et une modification d'un acide aminé à l'extérieur du site actif, (b) un remplacement de deux restes d'acides aminés dans le site actif par un acide aminé synthétique, un reste beta-amino acide, ou un reste gamma-amino acide, ou (c) une liaison non peptide au lieu d'une liaison peptide entre un reste d'amino acide du site actif et un reste amino acide adjacent.