摘要:
The invention discloses suitable gene and polypeptide targets for the development of new therapeutics to treat, prevent or ameliorate neurodegenerative conditions. The invention also relates to methods to treat, prevent or ameliorate said conditions and pharmaceutical compositions therefor, as well as to a method to identify compounds with therapeutic usefulness to treat neurodegenerative conditions.
摘要:
Transgenic flies displaying altered phenotypes due to expression of the Abeta and C99 portions of the human APP gene are disclosed. Use of these flies in a method to identify Drosophila genes and the human homologs of these Drosophila genes, that are potentially involved in Alzheimer's Disease, is also disclosed. The use of said human homologs as drug targets for the development of therapeutics to treat Alzheimer's Disease and other conditions associated with defects in the APP pathway, as well as pharmaceutical compositions comprising substances directed to these genes, are also disclosed.
摘要:
Transgenic flies displaying altered phenotypes due to expression of the Abeta and C99 portions of the human APP gene are disclosed. Use of these flies in a method to identify Drosophila genes and the human homologs of these Drosophila genes, that are potentially involved in Alzheimer's Disease, is also disclosed. The use of said human homologs as drug targets for the development of therapeutics to treat Alzheimer's Disease and other conditions associated with defects in the APP pathway, as well as pharmaceutical compositions comprising substances directed to these genes, are also disclosed.
摘要:
Antisense compounds, compositions and methods are provided for modulating the expression of trapoxin A regulated genes, including but not limited to those genes induced by ectopic expression of p21waf1 that are disclosed herein. The compositions comprise antisense compounds, particularly antisense oligonucleotides, targeted to nucleic acids encoding these genes. Methods of using these compounds for modulation of expression of these genes and for treatment of diseases associated with these genes, as well as those associated with abnormal HDAC activity, particularly cancer or others characterized by abnormal cell proliferation, are provided. Furthermore, the invention relates to the use of RhoB as a biomarker to evaluate the efficacy of treatment of humans with abnormal HDAC activity including proliferative diseases such as cancer. Also disclosed is a method for identifying HDAC inhibitors and trapoxin analogs based on the surprising discovery that up regulation or RhoB and increased RhoB protein levels are associated with HDAC inhibition.
摘要:
Epothilone resistant cells lines are disclosed. The invention also discloses methods for identifying substances which are cytotoxic to epothilone resistant cells or which are chemosensitizers or analogs of epothilone. The invention further discloses methods for identifying epothilone resistant cells and for inhibiting the growth of epothilone resistant cells in vitro and in vivo. The invention also discloses antibodies specific for epothilone resistant cells. Also disclosed is a method to identify microtubule stabilizing agents using the epothilone resistant cell lines disclosed.
摘要:
The invention relates to the use of gene and protein expression levels as a marker for HDAC inhibition. Also disclosed are in vivo and in vitro methods for screening a compound for HDAC inhibitory activity, as well as methods for monitoring the therapeutic efficacy of an HDAC inhibitor in a subject in vivo and for determining resistance to an HDAC inhibitor in vitro or in vivo.
摘要:
The invention discloses previously unknown modifiers of Aβ secretion. These proteins are identified as suitable targets for the development of new therapeutics to treat, prevent or ameliorate pathological conditions associated with Aβ secretion, including Alzheimer's Disease. The invention also relates to methods to treat, prevent or ameliorate said pathological conditions and pharmaceutical compositions therefore comprising modulators with inhibitory effects on the activity and/or expression of these modifiers.