The present invention relates to dual GLP-1/glucagon receptor agonists and their medical use, for example in the treatment of disorders of the metabolic syndrome, including diabetes and obesity, as well as for reduction of excess food intake.

The invention relates to composition comprising a pharmaceutically effective amount of one or more functional vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) fragments, and the use of those compositions in the treatment of fibrosis, hypertension and other disorders.

The present invention relates generally to the diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring of Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (CIRS), kits for use in the methods, and pharmaceutical compositions for use in the methods of treatment. The invention specifically relates to the diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of CIRS through a comprehensive approach comprising an assessment of a subject for case definition parameters and a proteogenomic analysis. The proteogenomic analysis for the diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring of CIRS is based on identifying proteins and/or genes that are differentially expressed in subjects suffering from CIRS compared to healthy subjects.

The present invention relates to neutralizing antibodies of the human pituitary adenylate cyclase activating polypeptide type I receptor (PAC1) and pharmaceutical compositions comprising such antibodies. Methods of treating or preventing headache conditions, such as migraine and cluster headache, using the neutralizing antibodies are also described.

Checkpoint inhibitor-induced pneumonitis (CIP) is characterized clinically by dyspnea, cough and tachypnea. Hypoxia results from a lymphocyte-dominated alveolitis leading to ground glass opacities and consolidations observed by CT scan. Histological findings include lymphocytic infiltrates, granuloma formation and eosinophilic accumulation. In the management of CIP, systemic administration of steroids such as methylprednisolone is the standard therapy. Moreover, CIP in most cases leads to discontinuation of checkpoint inhibitory therapy and steroids limit the therapeutic effect of checkpoint inhibitors resulting in progression of the underlying malignant disease. Therefore, there is a need of other therapeutic options in CIP that ideally could abrogate the alveolar inflammation induced by checkpoint inhibitors without affecting the systemic effect on the immune system. The focus of the present invention is to deliver a solution to that problem by the topic application of VIP (vasoactive intestinal peptide, a peptide of 28 amino acids). A drug for inhalative VIP therapy is commercially available under the name Aviptadil.

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a composition for preventing or treating neurotrophic keratitis. It is found that PACAP peptide exerts an effect to prevent corneal damages in a neurotrophic keratitis model and can promote neurite extension in a cultured nerve cell model. Furthermore, stability can be significantly increased by substituting a carboxyl group in an aspartic acid residue located at position-3 and/or position-8 in the sequence for PACAP by tetrazole. Provided are: a composition for preventing or treating neurotrophic keratitis, which contains PACAP peptide or stabilized PACAP peptide, and a neurite extension promoting agent.

The disclosure provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising terlipressin having increased concentration with long term storage stability.

The present invention relates to neutralizing antibodies of the human pituitary adenylate cyclase activating polypeptide type I receptor (PAC1) and pharmaceutical compositions comprising such antibodies. Methods of treating or preventing headache conditions, such as migraine and cluster headache, using the neutralizing antibodies are also described.

The present invention relates to new improved and effective administration regimen of aviptadil in order to reduce and eliminate the risks of nebulization treatment and to protect both patient relatives and healthcare workers especially in pandemic conditions such as Covid-19. Here, said dosage regimen of aviptadil for use in the treatment of lung diseases in a subject in need by thereof aims to reduce the dosing frequency. Accordingly, aviptadil is administered at least 2 times in a day and wherein the period between the administrations does not exceed 200 minutes.

The present invention relates to the medical use of specific GLP-1/glucagon receptor agonists in the prevention and/or treatment of metabolic liver disease, particularly non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), more particularly non-alcoholic fatty liver (NAFL), non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and/or NAFLD-associated liver fibrosis.