Raptor Pharmaceuticals Corp. and TorreyPines Therapeutics, Inc. Announce Merger Agreement
...dates in clinical development to treat nephropathic cystinosis , non-alcoholic steatohepatitis ("NASH") , Huntington's Disease ("HD") , and aldehyde dehydrogenase ("ALDH2") deficiency . Raptor's preclinical programs are based upon bioengineered novel drug candidates and drug-targeting plat...Raptor Pharmaceuticals Corp. to Present at 2009 Cystinosis Research Network Family Conference
...dates in clinical development to treat nephropathic cystinosis , non-alcoholic steatohepatitis ("NASH") , Huntington's Disease ("HD") , and aldehyde dehydrogenase ("ALDH2") deficiency . Raptor's preclinical programs are based upon bioengineered novel drug candidates and drug-targeting pl...Raptor Pharmaceuticals to Collaborate with Roche on Therapeutic Delivery Across Blood-Brain Barrier
... product candidates in clinical development to treat nephropathic cystinosis, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis ("NASH"), Huntington's Disease ("HD"), and aldehyde dehydrogenase ("ALDH2") deficiency. Raptor's preclinical programs are based upon bioengineered novel drug candidates and drug-targeting platform...Flushing From Alcohol a Risk Factor for Esophageal Cancer
...hen drinking alcohol occurs in about a third of East Asians (Chinese, Japanese and Koreans), mainly due to an inherited deficiency in an enzyme called aldehyde dehydrogenase 2 (ALDH2). There is increasing evidence that people with this deficiency are at much higher risk for alcohol-related esophageal cancer (...Alcohol 'flush' signals increased cancer risk among East Asians
...sk from alcohol. Dr. Brooks cites the high mortality from esophageal cancer and the large number of individuals with the deficient enzyme, known as aldehyde dehydrogenase 2 (ALDH2). "Cancer of the esophagus is particularly deadly, with five-year survival rates ranging from 12 to 31 percent throughout th...Alcohol-induced flushing is a risk factor for esophageal cancer from alcohol consumption
...g, nausea, and an increased heart rate. This so-called "alcohol flushing response" is predominantly due to an inherited deficiency in an enzyme called aldehyde dehydrogenase 2 (ALDH2). Although clinicians and the East Asian public generally know about the alcohol flushing response, few are aware of the accumu...New study shows how spikes in nitrite can have
...phenomenon shown to be caused by numerous pharmacological agents. "The proteins we have implicated include some key proteins, such as mitochondrial aldehyde dehydrogenase, that have been shown by others to be critical to cardiac protection afforded by other agents and triggers," added Perlman. "This is exc...Variations in Gene DNA Boost Drinkers' Cancer Risk
...lymorphisms and cancer. Their analysis suggests that such variations, called gene polymorphisms, in two enzymes -- alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) and aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) -- involved in metabolizing alcohol significantly increase alcohol drinkers' risk of cancers of the head and neck and the esopha...Raptor Pharmaceuticals Corp. to Present at Two Upcoming Healthcare Conferences
...e in nephropathic cystinosis, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis ("NASH"), Huntington's Disease and Batten Disease, and its ConviviaTM product candidate in aldehyde dehydrogenase ("ALDH2") deficiency. In its preclinical programs Raptor bioengineers novel drug candidates and drug-targeting platforms derived from th...Raptor Pharmaceuticals Receives Notices of Allowance for Two NeuroTrans(TM) Patent Applications
...andidates in clinical development to treat nephropathic cystinosis, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis ("NASH"), Huntington's Disease ("Huntington's"), and aldehyde dehydrogenase ("ALDH2") deficiency. Raptor's preclinical programs are based upon bioengineered novel drug candidates and drug-targeting platform...Raptor Pharmaceuticals Appoints Dr. Patrice P. Rioux as Chief Medical Officer
...e ("Huntington's"), as well as Convivia(TM), for the potential treatment of aldehyde dehydrogenase ("ALDH2") deficiency. Dr. Rioux has extensive experience...oholic steatohepatitis ("NASH"), Huntington's Disease ("Huntington's"), and aldehyde dehydrogenase ("ALDH2") deficiency. Raptor's preclinical programs are...Discovery of Marker for Colon Stem Cells Could Shed Light on What Drives Tumor Growth
...s doctors to identify, locate, and isolate normal and malignant colon stem cells, has been elusive. But the discovery by Dr. Boman and colleagues that aldehyde dehydrogenase 1 (ALDH1) is a marker for identifying and isolating colon stem cells is a potential breakthrough in the search for a key to what drives ...Raptor Pharmaceuticals Provides Update on Targeting Platforms
...the reach and benefit of existing therapeutics into underserved patient populations. The Company is currently running clinical trials in patients with aldehyde dehydrogenase ("ALDH2") deficiency, nephropathic cystinosis and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis ("NASH"). Raptor's preclinical programs are based upon b...Raptor Pharmaceuticals Enters Collaboration Agreement with UC San Diego in Liver Disease
...ensed clinical-stage product candidates towards marketing approval and commercialization and is currently involved in clinical trials in patients with aldehyde dehydrogenase ("ALDH2") deficiency as part of Raptor's Convivia(TM) program and nephropathic cystinosis as part of Raptor's DR Cysteamine program. Rap...Raptor Pharmaceuticals Corp. Initiates Phase IIa Clinical Study for Convivia(TM)
...tentially more effective or convenient treatments for their currently approved indications. Bennu's initial clinical programs include the treatment of aldehyde dehydrogenase ("ALDH2") deficiency and nephropathic cystinosis. For additional information, please visit http://www.raptorpharma.com . FORWARD LO...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- May 13, 2009
...eds from radio-contaminated environment. Interestingly, plants from contaminated fields produced one-third more of a protective protein called betaine aldehyde dehydrogenase the same protein known to protect human blood from radiation damage. ARTICLE #3 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE "Proteomic Analysis of Matur...Tailor-made recombinant proteins in mammals
... be generalized or scaled up." Enter Bertozzi's aldehyde tag: the tag is an aldehyde group displayed as part of an amino acid side chai...no acids that normally make up a protein. When the aldehyde tag appears at a specific site on a given protein,...Shape changes in aroma-producing molecules determine the fragrances we detect
...rants change their shape. They studied the odorant octanal, an eight-carbon aldehyde that occurs in many flowers and citrus fruits. Octanal is a structurally fl.... This work was done in Professor Firestein's laboratory at Columbia. The aldehyde molecules that could stretch to their greatest length triggered strong acti...UM researchers find new marker to identify cancer stem cells
...d in the November issue of Cell Stem Cell, the researchers found that cells from normal and cancerous breast tissue that had high levels of the enzyme aldehyde dehydrogenase activity, or ALDH, acted like breast stem cells. Further, of 577 human breast cancer tissue samples studied, those that expressed the sp...Skin oil -- ozone interactions worsen air quality in airplanes
...ed in real flights. Consistently, ozone in the cabin increased production of identifiable chemical byproducts including nonanal and decanal, a pair of aldehyde compounds associated with headaches, nasal irritation and with other symptoms of sick building syndrome. More than half of the byproducts were the ...Measuring artery repair cells could become new heart disease test
...nsuming, the researchers said. As an indicator of EPC cell levels, the new method uses measurements of the amount of a detoxification enzyme, known as aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH), which is produced in high amounts by EPCs. "Our studies have shown that using ALDH activity to determine the numbers of EPCs ...Vista Partners Updates Coverage on Raptor Pharmaceuticals Corp. (OTC Bulletin Board: RPTP)
...ensed clinical-stage product candidates towards marketing approval and commercialization and is currently involved in clinical trials in patients with aldehyde dehydrogenase ("ALDH2") deficiency as part of Raptor's Convivia(TM) program and nephropathic cystinosis as part of Raptor's DR Cysteamine program. Rap...Raptor Pharmaceuticals Expands Board of Directors and Scientific Advisory Board
...-licensed clinical-stage product candidates towards marketing approval and commercialization and is currently running clinical trials in patients with aldehyde dehydrogenase ("ALDH2") deficiency and nephropathic cystinosis. Raptor's preclinical division bioengineers novel drug candidates and drug-targeting pl...Raptor Pharmaceuticals Closes $10 Million Private Placement
...vances clinical-stage product candidates towards marketing approval and commercialization. Raptor's initial clinical programs include the treatment of aldehyde dehydrogenase ("ALDH2") deficiency, nephropathic cystinosis and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis ("NASH"). Raptor preclinical programs target cancer, n...Raptor Pharmaceuticals Corp. Announces Presentation at 5th International Cystinosis Conference 2008
...vances clinical-stage product candidates towards marketing approval and commercialization. Raptor's initial clinical programs include the treatment of aldehyde dehydrogenase ("ALDH2") deficiency, nephropathic cystinosis and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis ("NASH"). Raptor preclinical programs target cancer, n...Raptor Pharmaceuticals Corp. Enters Agreements to Advance Clinical Pipeline
...tentially more effective or convenient treatments for their currently approved indications. Bennu's initial clinical programs include the treatment of aldehyde dehydrogenase ("ALDH2") deficiency and nephropathic cystinosis. For additional information, please visit http://www.raptorpharma.com . About Path...Raptor Pharmaceuticals Acquires Orphan Clinical Program
...tentially more effective or convenient treatments for their currently approved indications. Bennu's initial clinical programs include the treatment of aldehyde dehydrogenase ("ALDH2") deficiency and nephropathic cystinosis. For additional information, please visit http://www.raptorpharma.com . ...Measurement of proteasome inhibition in live cells in Molecular Devices microplate fluorometers
... RESULTS ALLN inhibited proteasome activity in a dose-dependent manner, as expected (Figure 2a-2c). (ALLN is a peptide aldehyde that inhibits the proteasomes chymotrypsin activity and prevents the complex from degrading the ZsProsensor protein, thus allowing it to accumulate an...Novel MicroRNA Array Technology for Sensitive miRNA Profiling
... functionally verified * The simple printing process is compatible with both epoxy and aldehyde slides * Data normalization is easy with provided 4 negative controls and one positive control. ...UBC Fractions Extract from GeneTex
Description:...trate proteins such as lysozyme and beta-lactoglobulin. These conjugation fractions contain ubiquitin c-terminal hydrolases. The addition of ubiquitin aldehyde is recommended for the inhibition of UCHs and to improve overall conjugate yield. The supplied fractions do not contain 20S or 26S protein degradation...ALDEFLUOR, Stem Cell Identification, Kit from StemCell Technologies, Inc.
Description:... ALDEFLUOR Stem Cell Identification Kit. ALDEFLUORs proprietary technology comprises a substrate for the enzyme aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) that is highly expressed in all viable stem cells, making ALDH an extremely useful marker for counting and isolating viable stem ...