This invention provides a method of synthesizing new active compounds for pharmaceutical uses including cancer treatment, wherein the cancers comprise breast, leukocytic, liver, ovarian, bladder, prostatic, skin, bone, brain, leukemia, lung, colon, CNS, melanoma, renal, cervical, esophageal, testicular, splenic, kidney, lymphatic, pancreatic, stomach and thyroid cancers. This invention provides compounds and compositions for up regulating levels of biomarker of Death Receptors including DR1, DR4 and DR5 or alike thereof, for the treatment of cancer and inhibition of cancer cell growth in a subject, and up regulating levels of biomarker of said Death Receptors in cells for the inhibition of cell growth. This invention is an anti-adhesion therapy which uses the compound as a mediator or inhibitor of adhesion proteins and angiopoietins, inhibiting excess adhesion and cell attachment. It modulates angiogenesis. The compounds are also used as mediators of cell adhesion receptor, cell circulating, cell moving and inflammatory diseases.

The invention relates to a ligand-effector moiety provided with at least one saponin and antibody-effector moiety provided with at least one saponin. An aspect of the invention is a composition comprising the ligand-effector moiety provided with at least one saponin or the antibody-effector moiety provided with at least one saponin of the invention. The invention also relates to an antibody-drug conjugate comprising covalently linked saponin and to an antibody-oligonucleotide conjugate comprising covalently linked saponin. An aspect of the invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising the ligand-effector moiety provided with at least one saponin or the antibody-effector moiety provided with at least one saponin of the invention, and optionally further comprising a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient. The invention also relates to the ligand-effector moiety provided with at least one saponin or the antibody-effector moiety provided with at least one saponin, for use as a medicament. The invention also relates to the ligand-effector moiety provided with at least one saponin or the antibody-effector moiety provided with at least one saponin of the invention for use in the treatment or prophylaxis of a cancer.

Disclosed herein are novel C17-heteroaryl derivatives of oleanolic acid, including those of the formula: ##STR00001##
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, for example, as antioxidant inflammation modulators, and compositions thereof are also provided.

The invention relates to antibody-drug conjugates (ADC) that are potentiated by co-administration of the ADC with a moiety comprising covalently linked saponin. The invention also relates to antibody-oligonucleotide conjugates (AOC) that are potentiated by co-administration of the AOC with a moiety comprising covalently linked saponin. The invention also relates to ADCs and AOCs which are conjugated with a saponin via a covalent linker. The invention further relates to an effector moiety such as a toxin or an antisense oligonucleotide such as for example a BNA, conjugated with a saponin via a covalent linkage. The invention also relates to a BNA covalently conjugated with a targeting moiety such as an antibody. The invention also relates to therapeutic combinations comprising a first pharmaceutical composition comprising a conjugate of a cell-targeting moiety such as an antibody and an antisense oligonucleotide such as a BNA covalently bound thereto, and comprising a second pharmaceutical composition comprising either a free saponin, or a conjugate of a cell-targeting moiety such as an antibody with a saponin covalently linked thereto. Furthermore, the invention relates to any of these conjugates or therapeutic compositions or therapeutic combinations, for use as a medicament. The invention also relates to any of these conjugates or therapeutic compositions or therapeutic combinations, for use in a method for the treatment or the prophylaxis of a cancer. Finally, the invention relates to methods for producing any of these conjugates of the invention.

The invention relates to the field of medicine and to the chemical and pharmacological industry, and concerns agents for the treatment of cancer. 3-O-Sulfamate 16,16-dimethyl-D-homoequilenin is proposed as an anti-cancer agent in monotherapy and adjuvant therapy of oncological diseases such as hepatocellular carcinoma, gastric carcinoma, lung cancer, chronic myelogenous leukemia, and breast cancer including triple negative breast cancer. The new compound has not any uterotropic activity in animals and does not influence on endometrium.

The present invention provides a compound of formula (I) or a salt thereof: (Formula (I)) wherein X, L, V, R.sub.1; R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4, are as defined herein. The claimed compounds inhibit the enzyme 11-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 2 (11-HSD2) and as a result are useful in the treatment of hyperkalemia by preventing cortisol from being oxidised to cortisone and thus allowing it to occupy the mineralocorticoid receptor, thus stimulating potassium excretion.

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The invention relates to a therapeutic combination, comprising a first proteinaceous molecule comprising a first binding site for binding to a first epitope of a first cell-surface molecule, the first proteinaceous molecule provided with at least one saponin covalently bound to an amino-acid residue of said first proteinaceous molecule, and comprising a second pharmaceutical composition comprising a second proteinaceous molecule different from the first proteinaceous molecule, the second proteinaceous molecule comprising a second binding site for binding to a second epitope of a second cell-surface molecule different from the first cell-surface molecule, and comprising an effector moiety, wherein the second epitope is different from the first epitope. An aspect of the invention is a composition comprising the first proteinaceous molecule and the second proteinaceous molecule of the invention. The invention also relates to a composition or therapeutic combination comprising an antibody-drug conjugate or antibody-oligonucleotide conjugate and the first proteinaceous molecule of the invention. An aspect of the invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising the composition or the antibody-drug conjugate of the invention, and optionally further comprising a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient. The invention also relates to the therapeutic combination or the composition or the antibody-drug conjugate or the pharmaceutical composition of the invention, for use as a medicament. The invention also relates to the therapeutic combination of the invention for use in the treatment or prophylaxis of a cancer.

The present invention relates to a steroid compound, a use thereof and a preparation method therefor. It is expected that such compound can effectively treat mental and neurological diseases, and has good active efficacy, pharmacokinetic (PK) performance, oral bioavailability, stability, safety, clearance rate, and/or metabolic performance and the like.

A drug design method associated with natural products, includes: acquiring a molecular structure of a to-be-modified natural product with a specific biological activity; using the molecular structure as a template molecule, selecting a plurality of natural products as a reference molecule set, where the plurality of natural products has the specific biological activity and a structural similarity thereof to the template molecule is within a threshold range; and selecting one or more reference molecules from the reference molecule set, comparing the one or more reference molecules with the template molecule and determining at least one different active functional group therebetween; and constructing the at least one different active functional group on a molecular scaffold shared by the template molecule and the one or more reference molecules, thereby obtaining a modified molecular structure of the natural product with the specific biological activity.

The present invention relates generally to the compound: N-((4aS,6aR,6bS,8aR,12aS,14aR,14bS)-11-cyano-2,2,6a,6b,9,9,12a-heptamethyl-10,14-dioxo-1,2,3,4,4a,5,6,6a,6b,7,8,8a,9,10,12a,14,14a,14b-octadecahydropicen-4a-yl)-2,2-difluoropropanamide,
polymorphic forms thereof, methods for preparation and use thereof, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and kits and articles of manufacture thereof.