National Institutes of Health, a Component of the US Dept. of Health & Human Services

Other

Ramot at Tel-aviv University Ltd.

Kannalife Sciences, Inc.

The United States of America As Represented by the Secretary of

The United States of America As Represented by the Department of Health

Ramot University Authority for Applied Research and Industrial Development Limited

Ramot University Authority for Applied Research and Industrial

National Institute of Health

Ramot-university Authority for Applied Research and Development Ltd.

Fox Chase Chemical Diversity Center, Inc.

Advanced Neural Dynamics, Inc.

Douglas E Brenneman

Illana Gozes

Catherine Y Spong

Merav Bassan

Rachel Zamostiano

Albert Pinhasov

William Alvin Kinney

Mark E McDonnell

Terry W Moody

Eliezer Giladi

Dean Petkanas

Edgar Gelber

Allen B Reitz

Matityahu Fridkin

Garry Robert Smith

Yan Zhang

Yanming Du

Raquel Castellon

Mati Fridkin

Janet M Hauser

Mati M Fridkin

Terry Moody

Mark Mcdonnell

Pharmaceutical compositions of the invention include novel functionalized 1,3-benzenediols having a disease-modifying action in the treatment of hepatic encephalopathy and related conditions. Pharmaceutical compositions of the invention further include novel neuroprotective agents.

Method for treating hepatic encephalopathy or a disease associated with free radical mediate stress and oxidative stress with novel functionalized 1,3-benzene diols

Functionalized 1,3-benzene diols and their method of use for the treatment of hepatic encephalopathy

Pharmaceutical compositions of the invention include hydroxylated sulfamide derivatives having a disease-modifying action in the treatment of diseases associated with excitotoxicity and accompanying oxidative stress that include epilepsy, Alzheimer's disease, and any neurodegenerative disease involving glutamate toxicity.

Hydroxylated sulfamides exhibiting neuroprotective action and their method of use

This invention provides an ADNF polypeptide comprising an active core site, the active core site comprising at least one D-amino acid. The invention also provides a pharmaceutical composition comprising an ADNF polypeptide comprising an active core site, the active core site comprising at least one D-amino acid. In particular, the pharmaceutical composition of the invention is orally active. The invention further provides methods for reducing neuronal cell death, methods for reducing oxidative stress, and methods for reducing a condition associated with fetal alcohol syndrome using the ADNF polypeptides and the pharmaceutical compositions of the invention.

Orally active peptides that prevent cell damage and death

The invention relates to methods for reducing a condition associated with fetal alcohol syndrome in a subject who is exposed to alcohol in utero with an ADNF polypeptide (e.g, ADNF I polypeptides, ADNF III polypeptides, or mixtures of ADNF I and ADNF III polypeptides). In one embodiment, the present invention relates to methods for reducing a condition associated with fetal alcohol syndrome in a subject who is exposed to alcohol in utero with a mixture of ADNF I and ADNF III polypeptides. The present invention further relates to methods for reducing neuronal cell death by contacting neuronal cells with a mixture of ADNF I and ADNF III polypeptides. Still further, the present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising a mixture of ADNF I and ADNF III polypeptides.

Prevention of fetal alcohol syndrome and neuronal cell death with ADNF polypeptides

This invention relates to Activity Dependent Neurotrophic Factor I complex (ADNF I complex) and polypeptides of this complex, which produce their neurotrophic effects through multiple proteases intrinsic to the ADNF I complex. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising ADNF I complex polypeptides, as well as methods for reducing neuronal cell death in vitro and in vivo, methods for treating oxidative stress in a patient, methods for reducing a condition associated with fetal alcohol syndrome in a subject, and methods of enhancing learning and memory both pre- and post-natally, all of which methods use the ADNF I complex polypeptides of the invention.

Neurothrophic components of the ADNF I complex

The present invention provides methods for improving performance (e.g. learning and/or memory) using (ADNF) polypeptides, by treating the subject prenatally or postnatally with an Activity Dependent Neurotrophic Factor (ADNF) polypeptide in an amount sufficient to improve postnatal learning and/or memory of the subject.

Post-natal administration of activity-dependent neurotrophic factor-derived polypeptides for enhancing learning and memory

The present invention relates generally to Activity Dependent Neurotrophic Factor III (ADNF III), also known as Activity Dependent Neuroprotective Protein (ADNP). More particularly, the present invention relates to nucleic acid sequences encoding ADNF III polypeptides; ADNF III polypeptides encoded by such nucleic acid sequences; antibodies to ADNF III polypeptides; and methods of using such ADNF III polypeptides for the treatment of neurological deficiencies and for the prevention of cell death associated with (1) gp120, the envelope protein from HIV; (2) N-methyl-D-aspartic acid (excito-toxicity); (3) tetrodotoxin (blockage of electrical activity); and (4) &#x3b2;-amyloid peptide, a substance related to neuronal degeneration in Alzheimer's disease.

Activity dependent neurotrophic factor III (ADNF III)

This invention relates to a method for reducing a condition associated with fetal alcohol syndrome in a subject who is exposed to alcohol in utero with an ADNF polypeptide. In particular, the present invention relates to a method of reducing a condition associated with fetal alcohol syndrome in a subject who is exposed to alcohol in utero with a combination of ADNF I and ADNF III polypeptides. The present invention further relates to a method for reducing neuronal cell death by contacting neuronal cells with a combination of ADNF I and ADNF III polypeptides. Still further, the present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising a combination of ADNF I and ADNF III polypeptides.

The present invention provides methods of using antisense ADNF III oligonucleotides to inhibit the growth of pathologically proliferating cells. The invention also provides methods and kits for using ADNF III nucleic acid probes to detect the presence of pathologically proliferating cells in human tissues.

Methods of inhibiting cancer cells with ADNF III antisense oligonucleotides

The present invention relates to combination therapy using a pharmaceutical composition comprising a polypeptide which is an antagonist of the vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP) and a chemotherapeutic agent. Methods of using the pharmaceutical composition are also disclosed.

Combination therapy with VIP antagonist

The present invention relates generally to Activity Dependent Neurotrophic Factor III (ADNF III), also known as Activity Dependent Neuroprotective Protein (ADNP). More particularly, the present invention relates to nucleic acid sequences encoding ADNF III polypeptides; ADNF III polypeptides encoded by such nucleic acid sequences; antibodies to ADNF III polypeptides; and methods of using such ADNF III polypeptides for the treatment of neurological deficiencies and for the prevention of cell death associated with (1) gp120, the envelope protein from HIV; (2) N-methyl- -aspartic acid (excito-toxicity); (3) tetrodotoxin (blockage of electrical activity); and (4) &bgr;-amyloid peptide, a substance related to neuronal degeneration in Alzheimer's disease.

The present invention relates generally to Activity Dependent Neurotrophic Factor (ADNF). More particularly, the present invention relates to a family of polypeptides derived from ADNF that exhibit neuroprotective/neurotrophic action on neurons originating in the central nervous system and to uses thereof for the treatment of neurological deficiencies and for the prevention of cell death. The present invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions designed to prevent neuronal cell death.

Neurotrophic peptides of activity dependent neurotrophic factor

The present invention relates to a purified non-neuronal activity-dependent neurotrophic factor (ADNF) protein that increase the survival of spinal cord neuron cells, cerebral cortical cells and hippocampal neuron cells which has a molecular weight of 16,000 to 18,000 Daltons as determined by sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, and a basic pI of about 8.1.

Growing community of inventors

North Wales, PA, United States of America

Douglas E Brenneman