摘要:
The present invention discloses and claims compositions, methods of treatment, and kits which cause an increase in the time of survival in cancer patients, wherein the cancer: (i) overexpresses thioredoxin or glutaredoxin and/or (ii) exhibits evidence of thioredoxin- or glutaredoxin-mediated resistance to one or more chemotherapeutic interventions. The present invention also discloses and claims methods and kits for the administration of said compositions to properly treat cancer patients. Additionally, the present invention discloses and claims methods and kits for quantitatively determining the level of expression of thioredoxin or glutaredoxin in the cancer cells of a cancer patient, methods of using those determined levels in the initial diagnosis and/or planning of subsequent treatment methodologies for said cancer patient, as well as ascertaining the potential growth “aggressiveness” of the particular cancer and treatment responsiveness of the particular type of cancer. Further, the present invention discloses and claims novel pharmaceutical compositions, methods, and kits used for the treatment of patients with medical conditions and disease where there is the overexpression of thioredoxin and/or glutaredoxin, and wherein this overexpression is associated with deleterious physiological effects in the patients.
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The field of the present invention comprises pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical treatments, including, for example, (i) compounds and formulations which cause the augmentation of anti-cancer activity (i.e., by enhancement of the lethal cytotoxic action in stimulatory [inducing oxidative stress] and/or depletive [decreasing anti-oxidative capacity] manner) of chemotherapeutic agents, in a selective manner; (ii) methods of administering said anti-cancer augmentation compounds and formulations; (iii) delivery devices containing said anti-cancer augmentation compounds and formulations; and (iv) methods of using said anti-cancer augmentation compounds, formulations, and devices to treat subjects in need thereof.
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This invention relates to a method of treating a patient suffering from ionizing radiation exposure, or of treating a patient about to undergo ionizing radiation therapy. The method includes administering to a patient in need of treatment an effective amount of a thiol or reducible disulfide compound according to the formula set forth in the specification.
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This invention relates to a method of treating patients afflicted with atherosclerosis or to prevent the development of atherosclerosis in patients assessed to be high risk of developing the disease. The method includes administering to a patient in need of treatment an effective amount of a thiol or reducible disulfide compound according to the formula set forth in the specification.
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This invention provides for pharmaceutical formulations of compounds which are useful as protective agents when administered to patients also receiving antineoplastic drugs. The invention also includes methods of reducing the toxicity of various antineoplastic agents by administering an effective amount of the protective agent to a patient receiving one or more antineoplastic agents. The compounds useful as protective agents have either a sulfhydryl moiety or are reducible disulfides.
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This invention relates to a method of treating patients afflicted with diabetic nephropathy. The method includes administering to a patient in need of treatment an effective amount of a thiol or reducible disulfide compound according to the formula set forth in the specification.
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Pharmaceutical formulations of Highly Lipophilic Camptothecin Derivatives (HLCD) include HLCD dissolved in N-methyl Pyrrolidinene (NMP). The formulations also include quantities of pharmaceutically acceptable excipients and diluents incorporated thereinto.
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This invention describes a novel formulation containing both cis-diammine dichloro platinum and a water soluble disulfide, 2,2'-dithio-bis-ethane sulfonate in the same solution, wherein the presence of the disulfide and the parenteral administration of the formulation reduces the risk of cisplatin induced nephrotoxicity when treating human patients with cancer.
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The present invention discloses and claims novel pharmaceutical compositions, methods, and kits used for the contemporaneous, heterogeneously-oriented, multi-targeted therapeutic modification and/or modulation of cellular metabolic anomalies or other undesirable physiological conditions, including cancer, where the normal cellular biochemical function and/or the expression levels of various proteins/enzymes (i.e., the target molecules) are abnormal and must be modified and/or modulated in order to treat these metabolic anomalies or other undesirable physiological conditions, including cancer. The aforementioned target molecules, by way of non-limiting example, include: anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK), mesenchymal epithelial transition (MET) kinase, the receptor tyrosine kinase (ROS1), epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), peroxiredoxin (Prx), excision repair cross-complementing protein 1 (ERCC1), insulin growth factor 1 receptor (IGF1R), ribonucleotide reductase (RNR), tubulin, farnesyltransferase, and various other classes of proteins/enzymes. Additionally, the present invention discloses and claims methods and kits for (a) the selection of subjects for treatment; (b) the determination of the most effective medicinal agent(s) to be administered in combination with the administration of the sulfur-containing, amino acid-specific small molecules of the present invention; (c) the dosage of the medicinal agent(s) to be administered; (d) the determination of the length and/or number of treatment cycles; (e) the adjustment of the specific medicinal agent(s) used and the dosage administered during treatment; and/or (f) ascertaining the potential treatment responsiveness of the specific disease to the medicinal agents (s) selected for administration to a subject suffering from one or more types of: (i) cancer or (ii) metabolic anomalies or other undesirable physiological conditions by quantitatively determining the level of the abnormal biochemical activity and/or abnormal expression of any combination of the aforementioned target molecules; by use of quantitative measurement methodologies including, but not limited to: fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), nucleic acid microarray analysis, immunohistochemistry (IHC), radioimmunoassay (RIA), quantitative immunofluorescence and/or automated quantitative analysis; ELISA and flow cytometry-based analyses; PCR coupled with MS approaches; mass spectroscopy-based methods; and X-ray crystallography, and other related analytic methodologies.
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The present invention discloses and claims methods and compositions for the treatment of platinum and/or taxane cancer treating agent-resistant/-refractory sub-populations and/or the mucinous adenocarcinoma sub-type of ovarian cancer subjects with the silicon-containing highly lipophilic camptothecin derivative (HLCD), Karenitecin (also known as BNP1350; cositecan; 7-[(2′-trimethylsilyl)ethyl]-20(S) camptothecin). The administration of Karenitecin by intravenous (i.v.) and/or oral methodologies are also disclosed and claimed. Karenitecin analogues, including but not limited to, Germanium-substituted Karenitecin, Deuterated Karenitecin, and “flipped” E-ring Karenitecin, are disclosed and claimed. In addition, Karenitecin and one or more cancer treating agents administered either concomitantly or in series via oral and/or i.v. means, are also disclosed and claimed. Methods for the administration of Karenitecin to: (i) increase Progression Free Survival (PFS); (ii) increase the platinum-free time interval; (iii) decrease CA-125 marker levels; and (iv) mitigate or prevent chemotherapeutic drug-resistance from developing are disclosed and claimed herein. Methods for the use of Karenitecin to treat advanced solid tumors; refractory or recurrent solid tumors; recurrent malignant glioma; primary malignant glioma; persistent or recurrent epithelial ovarian or primary peritoneal carcinoma; and other identified cancer types are also disclosed and claimed.