Abstract:
A method for treating a brain tumor by administering to a patient (i) a multispecific antibody comprising at least one targeting arm that binds to a brain cancer antigen and at least one capture arm that binds to a radionuclide carrier; (ii) a therapeutic radionuclide carrier to which is bound a therapeutic radionuclide, wherein the multispecific antibody, radionuclide carrier and therapeutic radionuclide are administered in a substantially equimolar ratio.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a method for targeting boron atoms to tumor cells in a patient. The method includes the steps of: (A) administering a targeting composition comprising a conjugate of: (i) at least one first antibody or antigen-binding antibody fragment which selectively binds to an antigen produced by or associated with the tumor cells and present at the tumor cells, and (ii) at least one second antibody or antibody fragment which specifically binds to a hapten on a boron compound; (B) optionally, a clearing composition; (C) said boron compound; and (D) optionally, a second clearing composition. The method may further comprise the step of irradiating the boron atoms of the boron compound, thereby effecting BNCT of the tumor cells. Compositions and kits for carrying out the method also are provided.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a bi-specific antibody or antibody fragment having at least one arm that specifically binds a targeted tissue and at least one other arm that specifically binds a targetable conjugate. The targetable conjugate comprises a carrier portion which comprises or bears at least one epitope recognizable by at least one arm of said bi-specific antibody or antibody fragment. The targetable conjugate further comprises one or more therapeutic or diagnostic agents or enzymes. The invention provides constructs and methods for producing the bi-specific antibodies or antibody fragments, as well as methods for using them.
Abstract:
An improved method of detecting and/or treating lesions in a patient in which a pre-targeting approach is used wherein the total amount of radionuclide delivered to a target cell, tissue, or pathogen is dramatically increased. In this method, the chelate conjugate may be purified by chromatography after chelate formation, may contain multiple chelates or a blood transit-modifying linker or added within the chelate conjugate, or both; or a combination of these. The improved chelate conjugates can be used as detection of therapeutic agents to detect or treat the targeted cell, tissue, or pathogen.
Abstract:
A method of radiolabeling a peptide, e.g., somatostatin or an analogue thereof or vasoactive intestinal peptide, with a radioisotope of technetium or rhenium, comprises the steps of: (a) reacting the peptide with an acetyl-protected t -thiol-containing, amine-reactive bifunctional chelating agent; (b) deprotecting the acetyl- t -thiol group to generate a free t -thiol group; and either (c) admixing the peptide- t -thiol-containing conjugate with a stannous salt; and (d) reacting the mixture of step (c) with pertechnetate or perrhenate, or (c') adding reduced pertechnetate or perrhenate to said peptide- t -thiol-containing conjugate, thereby forming a radiolabeled peptide. Kits for effecting the radiolabeling method, and methods of tumor detection/imaging or therapy are provided.
Abstract:
Disclosed are a method of treating cancer in a cell, a method of enhancing the chemotherapeutic treatment of a cancer treatment agent, a method of reducing resistance of a cancer cell to a chemotherapeutic agent, a method of reducing the amount or activity of an ABC-family mRNA and/or protein, a method of reducing the amount or activity of the ABCB1 mRNA and/or protein or the ABCC1 mRNA and/or protein in an animal cell undergoing cancer treatment, a method of reducing the amount or activity of glutathione and/or Bcl2 in the cancer cell, a method of treating other multidrug resistant diseases, and a method of treating a multidrug resistant cell such as a bacterial multidrug resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), tuberculosis, fungal infection, or MDR malaria, by administering a compound of the Formula (I): a diastereoisomer thereof, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein R 1 -R 4 are as described herein. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions comprising a compound of formula (I), a diastereoisomer thereof, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.
Abstract:
Improved synthesis methods are provided for preparing conjugates of proteins and chelating agents. In the synthesis methods, non-stable bonds are hydrolyzed after the conjugate is synthesized, for example by treating the conjugate with a quenching agent. The synthesis method provides conjugates that are substantially free of non-stable bonds between the protein and the chelating agent, such that the chelating agent is less likely to dissociate with the conjugate after the conjugate has been stored for extended periods. The conjugate may be useful for therapeutic or diagnostic methods.
Abstract:
Methods are described for conjugating radioiodinated peptides or carbohydrate structures to proteins with improved yields and qualities of conjugates. In one method, specially designed radioiodinated bifunctional peptides containing nonmetabolizable bonds such as amide bonds are coupled to cell targeting protein. In a second method, radioiodinated nonmetabolizable bifunctional peptides, which also contain aminopolycarboxylates, are coupled to protein. In a third method, radioiodinated bifunctional aminopolycarboxylates are coupled to protein. In a fourth method, a hydrazide-appended protein is coupled to a radioiodinated carbohydrate or a thiolated protein is coupled to a hydrazide-appended and radioiodinated carbohydrate. In a fifth method a monoderivatized cyanuric chloride is used to conjugate thiolated protein. Radioiodinated residualizing protein conjugates made by these methods are particularly stable in vivo and are suitable for radioimmunodetection and radioimmunotherapy.
Abstract:
Composite probes for super resolution optical techniques using super resolution via transiently activated quenchers (STAQ) include a donor moiety and an acceptor moiety joined by a linker, wherein the acceptor moiety, when excited by incident radiation, is excited to a state which, for example, absorbs in the donor emission region, such that the acceptor moiety in its excited state quenches at least a portion of the donor moiety emission. Other transiently activated quenching mechanisms and moieties could accomplish the same task by reducing donor population. Also disclosed are methods for irradiating a selected region of a target material including the composite probe, wherein the composite probe enables improved resolution by point spread function modification and/or nanoscale chemical reactions.