Abstract:
The present invention provides a method for producing caffeine, wherein the method comprises: (a) combining a coffee extract comprising caffeine with an aqueous organic acid; (b) crystallizing the coffee extract and the aqueous organic acid so as to form caffeine-organic acid co-crystals in an aqueous phase; (c) separating the caffeine-organic acid co-crystals from the aqueous phase; and (d) extracting caffeine from the co-crystals obtained in step (c), wherein step (d) comprises placing the co-crystals in an aqueous solution so as to form a caffeine precipitate and a solution comprising the organic acid. Also provided is a method for producing a decaffeinated coffee extract comprising chlorogenic acids.
Abstract:
This invention proposes an agent to block the "fuel supply" that energizes cancer cell growth by protecting surrounding cells to the cancer, particularly stromal fibroblast cells. The invention disables the products of surrounding cells useable for energy conversion by the cancer cell thereby crippling the cell and disabling its growth process. This application describes the use of a formulation of liposomally encapsulated glutathione that is preferably used orally to increase the level of glutathione in tissues in order to prevent and reverse the metabolic changes in cells that results in the formation of the metabolic fuel that supports cancer cells and to prevent the oxidative stress that damages normal support cells such as fibroblasts and can prevent and reverse these cells from the steps of autophagy and mitophagy that results in the cells decreasing the normal mitochondrial production of ATP for energy and resorting to the use of aerobic glycolysis for energy production. The use of oral liposomally encapsulated glutathione will maintain the presence and normal function of caveolin in fibroblast and other cells, thus preventing their conversion to autophagic tumor stromal cells. By stopping the formation of autophagic cells, the production of the metabolic fuel needed by cancer cells is stopped, which results in the death of the cancer cells. Compositions using liposomally encapsulated glutathione and other compounds that enhance the favorable effects of liposomal glutathione on cancer disease are referenced.
Abstract:
Compounds of the following formula are provided for use in inhibiting Poly (ADP-ribose) Polymerase (PARP): wherein the variables are defined herein. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions, kits and articles of manufacture comprising such compounds, methods and intermediates useful for making the compounds, and methods of using the compounds.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to certain compounds and to methods for the preparation of certain compounds that can be used in the fields of chemistry and medicine. Specifically, described herein are methods for the preparation of various compounds and intermediates, and the compounds and intermediates themselves. More specifically, described herein are methods for synthesizing KW-3902 derivatives of Formula (I), (II), (HI), (IV), (V), and (VI).
Abstract:
A preventive and/or therapeutic agent for drug dependence which contains as an active ingredient either a compound having antagonistic activity against an adenosine A 2A receptor, such as a xanthine derivative represented by, e.g., the formula (I) (wherein R 1 , R 2 , and R 3 are the same or different and each represents hydrogen, lower alkyl, lower alkenyl, or lower alkynyl; R 4 represents cycloalkyl, -(CH 2 ) n -R 5 , or the formula (II); and X 1 and X 2 are the same or different and each represents oxygen or sulfur) or a pharmacologically acceptable salt of the compound.
Abstract translation:作为药物依赖性的预防和/或治疗剂,其含有对腺苷A 2A受体具有拮抗作用的活性成分,例如由式(I)表示的黄嘌呤衍生物 )(其中R 1,R 2,R 3和R 3相同或不同,各自表示氢,低级烷基,低级链烯基或 低级炔基; R 4表示环烷基, - (CH 2)n - R 5,或式( II); X 1和X 2相同或不同,各自表示氧或硫)或化合物的药理学上可接受的盐。
Abstract:
Nanoparticles of double-stranded nucleic acid complexed about a complexing agent such as the melamine derivatives of formulae I and II, preferably forming a trimeric nucleic acid complex. In alternative embodiments, polyarginine or a polymer of Gln and Asn further complexed with the double-stranded nucleic acid complex. In a preferred embodiment, the ds nucleic acid is a double stranded RNA having 15 to 30 base pairs suitable for RNA interference. In another aspect of the invention, a ds RNA is produced in which all of the uridines are changed to 5-methyluridine. Preferably, the resultant ds RNAs have 15 to about 30 base pairs and are suitable for RNA interference.
Abstract:
A method of using modified xanthine molecules as a binding agent is disclosed. Xanthine molecules with at least one substitution of a methyl group at the N1, N3, N7, or N9 position bind to intercalating molecules efficiently. This method can be applied to inhibiting intercalating molecules from binding to nucleic acids, as well as removing intercalating molecules that have been bound to nucleic acids. This method can also be applied to synthesize an efficient drug delivery system for compounds that have low solubility in aqueous media, including anti-neoplastic agents. The method can also be applied to flurosecently labeling nucleic acids.
Abstract:
The invention relates to an enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) kit for the rapid determination of metabolic phenotypes including but not limited to CYP 1A2, N-acetyltamferase-1 (NAT-1), CYP 2P6, CYP 2E1 and CYP 3A4, which can be used on a routine basis in a clinical laboratory. The ELISA kit allows physicians to a) individualize therapy of drugs such as theophylline, tamoxifen, and clozapine and b) to predict susceptibility to carcinogen induced diseases such as colon rectal cancers. To reduce the number of patients undergoing clinical testing by selecting for patients with the appropriate phenotype most likely to respond.
Abstract:
Novel intermediates and improvements in the synthesis of acyclic guanine nucleoside prodrugs of the formula (R)-9-[(2-alkanoylmethyl)-4-(aminoacyloxy)butyl]guanine (for example valtamociclovir stearate), including purine salts amenable to one pot alkylation with the acyclic side chain, acyclic 2-amino-6-halo-purine and protected guanine precursors, one pot manipulations thereof and last step work up procedures.
Abstract:
This application relates to compounds such as compounds of Formula (I) that block SREBP2-induced hepatic PCSK9 expression, compositions comprising these compounds and methods of use thereof; for example, for treating diseases, disorders or conditions treatable by blocking SREBP2 activation and/or PCSK9 gene expression. (I)