Epoxysqualene-lanosterol cyclase (lanosterol synthase, OSLC) inhibitors have been reported in a University of Texas System patent as potentially useful for the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, glioblastoma, multiple sclerosis, neurodegeneration, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s diseases.
Escient Pharmaceuticals Inc. has patented quinoline derivatives acting as Mas-related G protein-coupled receptor member X2 (MRGPRX2) antagonists and thus reported to be useful for the treatment of pain, psoriasis, inflammatory disorders, atopic dermatitis, eczema, pruritus, urticaria and autoimmune disease, among others.
Celero Systems Inc. reported details of a patent filing for gastric residency systems for its ingestible devices, in the form a plurality of retention arms with non-deployed and deployed states sized and configured to temporarily retain the ingestible devices in the stomach for periods of up to a week.
Mindrank AI Co. Ltd. has described macroheterocyclic compounds acting as ALK mutant and ROS1 inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer and immunological disorders.
Chemocentryx Inc. has divulged chemokine CXCR6 receptor antagonists reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, autoimmune hepatitis, ischemia-reperfusion injury, myocardial ischemia, autoimmune disease and inflammatory disorders.
Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. has synthesized lysine-specific histone demethylase 1A (KDM1A; LSD1) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Researchers from Case Western Reserve University have filed for patent protection for a system and method for treating obesity or other gastric and/or metabolic disorders via closed-loop vagus nerve stimulation.