Manipulating nitrosative stress to kill pathologic microbes, pathologic helminths and pathologically proliferating cells or to upregulate nitrosative stress defenses
申请人:——
公开号:US20030207815A1
公开(公告)日:2003-11-06
Mammals are treated for infections or for conditions associated with pathologically proliferating mammalian cell growth (for example certain cancers, restenosis, benign prostatic hypertrophy) by administration of a manipulator of nitrosative stress to selectively kill or reduce the growth of the microbes or helminths causing the infection or of host cells infected with the microbes or of the pathologically proliferating mammalian cells. Novel agents include &agr;-alkyl-S-alkyl-homocysteine sulfoximines wherein the &agr;-alkyl contains 2 to 8 carbon atoms, and the S-alkyl-contains 1 to 10 carbon atoms. In another invention herein, mammals in need of increased nitrosative stress defenses are treated, e.g., humans at risk for a stroke because of having had a transient ischemic attack, are treated. Treatments to increase nitrosative stress defenses include, for example, repeated administrations of low doses of manipulators of nitrosative stress so that the subject treated has increased tolerance to nitrosative stress. In still another invention, mammals are treated for protozoal infections by systemic administration of L-buthionine-S-sulfoximine and agent that increases nitrosative stress.
哺乳动物被治疗感染或与病理增殖哺乳动物细胞生长相关的情况(例如某些癌症,再狭窄,良性前列腺增生)通过给予一种硝化应激调节剂,以选择性地杀死或减少微生物或蠕虫引起的感染或受微生物感染的宿主细胞或病理增殖的哺乳动物细胞的生长。新型药剂包括α-烷基-S-烷基-同型半胱氨酸亚砜,其中α-烷基含2至8个碳原子,S-烷基含1至10个碳原子。在本发明的另一种方法中,需要增加硝化应激防御的哺乳动物被治疗,例如,由于患有短暂性缺血性发作而处于中风风险的人类被治疗。增加硝化应激防御的治疗包括例如反复给予低剂量的硝化应激调节剂,以使受治疗的对象对硝化应激具有增加的耐受性。在另一种发明中,哺乳动物通过系统给药L-丁硫氧嘧啶和增加硝化应激的药物来治疗原虫感染。