The application is that the application number that proposed on October 17th, 1989 is 420,597 patent applications, the United States Patent (USP) 5 that on November 15th, 1992 authorized, 171,583 continue, wherein above-mentioned patent are that the application number that proposed on October 21st, 1988 is 260,856, now resigned application for patent continues.
Osteoporosis is a kind of bone metabolism disease, shows as bone quantity on its feature pathology and definitely reduces, and shows as fracture sensitivity clinically and strengthens.Riggs etc., N, Engl.J.Med. (1986), 314:1676; Rusbach etc., Textbook ofEndocrinology, Ed (s) Williams, (1981), p.922; Riggs, Cecil Textbook of Medicine, Ed (s) Wyngaarden etc., (1985), p.1456; Riggs etc., Am.J.Med., (1983), 75:899.
Existing a few class biochemical markers together are considered for diagnosing osteoporotic patient, perhaps are used for the osteoporotic effectiveness of research treatment.For example, urine hydroxyproline excretion rate is widely used as the labelling of bone resorption.Metabolism such as Klein 2, Vol.13, No.3, March 1964,272-285; Charles etc., J.Clin.Invest., Vol, 76, December 1985 2254-2258; And Deacon etc., Clin.Chim.Acta., 1987,297-306.Pyridinoline and Deoxy-Pyridinoline are two kinds of collagen cross-linking agents that exist in the bone, they can detect in urine, equally also can be used as the labelling of bone resorption.Robins, etc., European Journal of Clinical Investigation (1991), 21:310-315.
The concentration of serum bone protein is as the biochemical marker of bone formation rate.Bone protein is by the integral protein of the synthetic organic bone matrix of bone formation cell (osteoblast) in the bone formation process.A small amount of new synthetic osteocalcin escapes into blood circulation, thereby the blood labelling of bone formation rate is provided.The concentration of osteocalcin increases along with the increase of bone formation rate, reduces along with the reduction of bone formation rate.Broun etc., TheLancet, May 19,1984, p.1091, " Serum Bone GLA-Pro-tein:A Specific Marker For Bone Formation in Post-menopausal Osteoporosis ".Another is reflected as variation (positive or negative) with phosphorus balance bone resorption/osteoplastic, and this variation is measured by the difference between the suction volume of measuring total excretion (feces and urine) and regulation food or phosphonium ion.(this balance is positive when total excretion is less than the suction volume of regulation food).
For postmenopausal women, oestrogen deficiencies has been confirmed as osteoporotic key element because of sexual factor.Existing report claims that long-term controversies in hormone replacement in the elderly may cause that postmenopausal women's osteoporosis is more serious.Johansen waits (1990) Metabolism Vol.39, No.11, pp.1122-1126; Ettinger, Ob-stetrics ﹠amp; Gynecology, (1988), 72:125-175:Ettinger etc., Annals of Internal Medicine (1985), 102:319-324.
Ratified by FDA and to osteoporotic control or to treat effective estrogenic minimum dose be the 0.625mg conjugated estrogen hormone, or other estrogenic dose,equivalent.Yet, take estrogen with this level for a long time and can cause serious health hazard.Independently study for three groups and shown that the danger that postmenopausal women is taken the carcinoma of endometrium of exogenesis estrogen trouble for a long time with above-mentioned dosage level increases.Siel waits (1975) New England Journal of Medicine, 293:1167-1170; Smith etc. (1975) New England Journal ofMedicine, 293:1164-1167; Mack etc. (1976) New EnglandJournal of Medicine, 294:1262-1267.These three groups research has reported that danger that the estrogen user suffers from carcinoma of endometrium is greater than user not 4.5 to 13.9 times.This danger was both relevant with the persistent period of treatment seemingly, and Ziel etc. are the same, relevant with estrogenic dosage again, and Mack etc. are the same.
In the estrin treatment of proof, the danger of carcinoma of endometrium, also have a kind of postmenopausal women that studies show that to take estrogen the danger that increases the trouble mastocarcinoma is arranged at least.New?England?Journal?of?Medicine(1974)290:15-19。Reported that in addition accepting estrogenic women after the menopause suffers from fixedly two to three times of the danger increases of gallbladder disease of surgery.Ditto.In addition, the menopausal women of accepting estrin treatment is suffered from thromboembolism and thrombosis angiopathy and hypertensive dangerous increasing.Pfeffer etc., (1976) Am.J.Epidemiology103:445-456.Thereby under the dosage level that effectively the treatment osteoporosis needs, estrogen may cause serious health hazard and side effect.
One class studies show that progestogen are attached to and the protective effect of exempting to suffer from the carcinoma of endometrium that estrogen brings out can be provided in the controversies in hormone replacement in the elderly and can improve bone metabolism.Williams etc. (1990) Am.J.Obstet.Gynecol., Vol.162, pp.438-446.Yet the adding of progestational agents can cause the high rate of side effect, and to comprise every month once hemorrhage and through preceding symptom in these side effect.Ditto.Although above-mentionedly studies show that these side effect can slow down by following administering mode: with connect the preface periodic mode and give with adopt opposite of estrogen and continue the every day mode and combine with estrogen to the dispenser of using progestogen with progestogen.But above-mentioned studies show that among 65 patients that accept to continue dosage estrogen and progestin dosage has 3 people growth that endometrial polyp is arranged.Ditto.
Another research, Ettinger, (1988), Obstetrics ﹠amp; Gynecology72:125-175, suggestion is arrived 1500mg/ days at least by the calcium suction volume that increases patient, and Dou is used for the treatment of osteoporotic estrogenic common dosage, and the above-mentioned conjugated estrogen hormone of promptly about 0.6mg reduces half.Yet, even half of the common dosage of this research hint estrogen also probably causes menstrual bleeding and other unwanted secondary use.
The United States Patent (USP) 5 that on October 15th, 1992 authorized, 171,583 (content of this application can be listed in herein as a reference) disclose improvement or the Therapeutic Method that evil is had or suffers from osteoporosis patient's osteoporosis, comprise to the compositions with the pharmaceutically useful Alkalinizing potassium salt mixture that contains treatment or prevention effective dose.Wherein the effective dose of disclosed Alkalinizing potassium salt is 40-400mmoles/70kg patient body weight/sky, preferred 40-250mmdes/70kg/ days.
One of purpose of the present invention provides a kind of ratio and uses the osteoporotic method and composition of the more effective treatment of estrin treatment separately.
Another object of the present invention provides the osteoporotic method and composition of a kind of treatment, and it can alleviate otherwise then eliminate harm and the side effect of supervening with estrin treatment.
The present invention relates to a kind of new improvement or the harmful osteoporotic method that has or suffer from the osteoporosis patient of treatment, this method comprises to the compositions with following active ingredients:
(a) pharmaceutically useful Alkalinizing potassium salt, this salt can produce hydroxyl ion and thereby can reduce the acidity (by strengthening alkalescence) of tissue fluid or urine, and described salt is selected from potassium bicarbonate and can transforms (burning) in vivo and becomes bicarbonate also so the potassium salt of alkalifiable carboxylic acid; With
(b) to the effective estrogen of osteoporotic treatment, described estrogen can be with little 1/10 amount to its normal recommended dosage, preferably with about 1/10 normal recommended dosage to recommended dose or more substantial dosed administration;
Alkalization potassium is with following amount administration: this dosage can make the more effective in fact in conjunction with administration of two kinds of medicines, and more effective 10% to up to 50% during usually than the individually dosed treatment osteoporosis of the estrogen of usefulness same amount, perhaps higher.
The pharmaceutically useful Alkalinizing potassium salt of the present invention is with estrogenic to combine cooperative effect that administration produced during osteoporosis in treatment be non-obvious to those skilled in the art before the present invention.Therefore, the invention provides than the more effective Therapeutic Method of conventional estrin treatment osteoporosis.In addition, if desired, according to the present invention, the estrogenic amount of being used in the drug combination can be low to moderate 1/10 as the estrogenic normal recommended dosage of giving a definition.The present invention is more effective to osteoporotic treatment than the estrogen and the bonded compositions of Alkalinizing potassium salt of low dosage.And can bring and alleviate otherwise then eliminate the health hazard supervened with the estrogen conventional therapy and the obvious benefit of side effect.Alkalinizing potassium salt and estrogenic together use can be avoided the harm of estrogen and the shared medicine of progestogen; On the other hand, sodium---the retention properties that the short natruresis characteristic of Alkalinizing potassium salt can the balance progestogen, thereby can improve the result of conjugated estrogen hormone-progestogen-alkalization potassium treatment gained.
The active component of bound drug of the present invention, i.e. (a) pharmaceutically useful Alkalinizing potassium salt and (b) can be with independent dosage form (the Seperate doseage form) administration that mutually combines to the effective estrogen of osteoporosis therapy is promptly with identical or by different timetable administrations.On the other hand, following description more fully preferably is mixed into unit dosage form with Alkalinizing potassium salt and estrogen, and this dosage form needing have been avoided giving respectively to the time spent and used these active component.
Used herein term " treatment " or " treatment " comprise the treatment of any osteoporosis, and comprise: (1) prevention of osteoporosis is the host who does not suffer from osteoporosis or be not diagnosed with yet in the host of osteoporosis and occur; (2) suppress or stop advancing of disease; Or degenerate or reverse osteoporosis state (3).
Term as herein described " normal recommended dosage " when being used for estrogen, meaning and gives with effectively treating osteoporotic estrogenic amount suffering from osteoporotic patient, and promptly it can cause column effect down in human body:
(a) reduce urine hydroxyproline excretion rate;
(b) reduce urine collagen cross-linking excretion rate; With
(c) strengthen calcium and phosphorus balance, even they are the more weak negative and stronger positive.For example, in osteoporotic treatment, known estrogenic normal recommended dosage as conjugated estrogen hormone (being defined as follows) is 0.625mg, by the periodic manner administration, i.e. and three weeks of administration, one week of drug withdrawal.Referring to Pysicians Desk Reference, 1993 editions, P2624 ... 25.(whether above-mentioned effect no matter give simultaneously with all producing with progestogen by estrogen).
As used herein, " the described estrogen of same dose when individually dosed " is meant identical estrogenic same amount in the bound drug of the present invention, only gives with estrogen and no longer to the Alkalinizing potassium salt composition with bound drug of the present invention in this case.
As used herein, term " collagen cross-linking thing " is meant Pyridenoline and deoxy-pyridinoline cross-linking agent.
As used herein, term " calcium balance " is meant the difference between calcium total excretion (feces and urine) and regulation food calcium suction volume.Equally, term " phosphorus balance " is meant the difference between phosphorus total excretion (feces and urine) and regulation food phosphorus suction volume.
Adoptable in the methods of the invention Alkalinizing potassium salt is meant when being present in the human body fluid can produce hydroxyl ion, thereby can reduce the Alkalinizing potassium salt of tissue fluid or uric acid (strengthening alkalescence).A large amount of pharmaceutically useful Alkalinizing potassium salts are known, wherein severally see Berg etc., and described in J.pharmaceut.Sci (1977) 66:1, the document can be incorporated this paper into as a reference.If above-mentioned document is disclosed in this, those skilled in the art is easy to can be used in the osteoporotic pharmaceutically useful alkalization salt of treatment by adopting the known method and the choice of technology and filtering out.Best selected salt should have therapeutic activity, and is easily received and have a tolerance relatively preferably in the human body.Can select different salt according to specific route of administration and preferred preparation way.
So the Alkalinizing potassium salt of administration is preferably selected from potassium bicarbonate (KHCO
3) and pharmaceutically acceptable, nontoxic carboxylic acid potassium salt such as potassium gluconate (C
6H
11KO
7) and potassium citrate (C
6H
5K
3O
7).Especially preferably use potassium bicarbonate.The preparation of these salt, for example they use in the purposes with numerous treatment backgrounds but not aspect the purposes described herein usually.The special aspects method for preparing this class salt is usually seen Remington ' s Pharmaceutical Sciences, Mack PublishingCompany, and Easton, Pennsylvania, 16th Ed., 1982, this data can be listed in this paper as a reference.
Used herein, this language " estrogen " is meant to have the bioactive any natural or synthetic of energy postpartum estrus hormone, and is used for the treatment of osteoporosis.Useful estrogen preferably includes and has following structure in the present invention's practice, comprises the estrogen of its pharmaceutically useful salt and ester:
R wherein
1Be hydroxyl and R
2Be selected from H ,-C=C, and-C ≡ C, perhaps
R
1And R
2Together the oxygen of two keys and molecular linkage is passed through in expression,
R
3Perhaps be hydrogen or for hydroxyl, and
R
4Be selected from H, methyl, and cyclopenta and
Wherein said estrogen or have two keys at 6-7 and 8-9 position has two keys in the 7-8 position, perhaps 6,7, and the unparalleled key in 8 and 9 position.
For example the present invention's estrogen that can give usefulness is including, but not limited to all following estrogen and their mixture: estrone (3-hydroxyl female-1,3,5 (10)-triolefins-17-ketone); 17 beta estradiols (17 β-female-1,3,5 (10)-triolefins-3,17-glycol); 17 alpha-estradiols (female-1,3,5 (10)-triolefins-3,17 salmefamol); Ethinylestradiol (17 α-acetenyl-1,3,5 (10)-estratriene-3,17-isoallopregnane-3); 1,3,5,7-estratetraen-3-ol-17-one (3-hydroxyl female-1,2,5 (10), 7-tetraene-17-ketone); Equilenin (3-hydroxyl female-1,2,3,5,7,9-pentaene-17-ketone); 17 α-dihydroequilin (17 α-female-1,3,5 (10), 7-tetraene-3,17-glycol); 17 β-dihydroequilin (17 β-female-1,3,5 (10), 7-tetraene-3,17-glycol); 17 α-dihydro equilenin (17-female-1,3,5,7,9-pentaene-3,17-glycol); 17 β-dihydro equilenin (17 β-female-1,3,5,7,9-pentaene-3,17-glycol); Quinestrol methyl ether (17-α-acetenyl-3-methoxyl group-1,3,5 (10)-estratriene-17 β-alcohol); Q1 (estriol 3-cyclopenta ether); Quinestrol (the female alcohol ring of 17 alpha-acetylenes amyl ether); Estradiol benzoate (17 β-female-1,3,5 (10)-triolefins-3,17-glycol 3-benzoate); 17 β-estradiol cypionate (17 β-female-1,3,5 (10)-triolefins-3,17-glycol 17-cipionate); And conjugated estrogen hormone.
As described herein, this language " conjugated estrogen hormone " is meant the mixture of the conjugated estrogen hormone that is existed by the sodium-salt form with water solublity estrogen sulfuric ester that obtains in the natural resources, described sulfuric ester is the mixing average composition of representative from the material in the pregnant mare urine, and its main component is the estrone sulfuric ester.Conjugated estrogen hormone is to be sold with " PREMARIN " trade mark by Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories.Referring to Physicians Desk Reference, 1993 Edition, P2624-26.
Aforementioned various estrogenic preparation separates and purification is known for those skilled in the art.Existing lot of documents has described how to prepare these estrogen, and these documents are drawn record with aforementioned estrogenic title by Merck Index (11th Ed.1989).Merk Index and the narration of being quoted thereof prepare these estrogenic documents and can be incorporated herein as a reference.
The administration of pharmaceutically useful Alkalinizing potassium salt of the present invention or estrogenic component can and can be given by any acceptable administering mode of the medicament that uses in the known osteoporosis therapy and use for described Pharmaceutical composition form hereinafter.For Alkalinizing potassium salt, these methods comprise a mouthful newspaper, parenterai administration, and other mode that is administered systemically.Different Alkalinizing potassium salts can mix and give usefulness simultaneously, perhaps in some situation, separates, and may be obtained some benefits with them in order.For estrogen, these methods comprise oral, parenterai administration, percutaneous dosing, and other mode that is administered systemically.
According to predetermined administering mode, the Alkalinizing potassium salt composition can be solid, semisolid or liquid dosages form, and as, tablet, capsule, pill, powder, granule, crystal, liquid, dosage forms such as suspending agent preferably are fit to have the unit dosage form of relatively accurate dosed administration.Equally, estrogenic component can be a solid tablet, and the form of capsule or pill is preferably the unit dosage form that is fit to have relatively accurate dosed administration.
Preferably will alkalize salt and estrogenic component is combined into tablet, the unit solid dosage of capsule or pill, thereby eliminated the needs of giving respectively with these compositions.The solid-state bond dosage form can comprise conventional pharmaceutical carrier or excipient, but also can comprise other medicament.Thereby unit dosage forms can combine with conventional non-toxic solid carrier, and described carrier for example is other mannitol of pharmaceutical grade, lactose, starch, magnesium stearate, Talcum, fine little element, glucose, sucrose, magnesium carbonate or the like.This compositions can contain the 50-90% that has an appointment active component of the present invention, preferred 70-90%.
On the other hand, the Alkalinizing potassium salt composition can with the bonded individually dosed form administration of estrogen activity composition administration.Thereby two kinds of medicines can be with identical planning chart or different planning chart administrations according to their common administering modes.Give usefulness when the Alkalinizing potassium salt composition with independent dosage form, it can be a tablet, pill, and capsule, powder, granule, crystal, sustained release formses etc. also contain the form of any aforementioned excipients, and perhaps the composition forms that pharmaceutically can use with liquid state is given and is used.This fluid composition can be dissolved in as water as potassium bicarbonate and optional pharmaceutical adjuvant by for example with salt, and D/W prepares in the carriers such as glycerol, thereby forms solution or suspension.If desired, independent alkalization salt dosage form also can contain a small amount of avirulence auxiliary substance such as pH buffer agent etc., for example, and Sorbitan list lemon palmitic acid acid esters, triethanolamine, sodium acetate, triethanolamine oleate etc.The current methods for preparing this dosage form is known, is conspicuous to those skilled in the art perhaps; Referring to aforesaid Remington ' s Pharmaceutical Sciences, Mack PublishingCompany, Easton, Pennsylvania, 16th Ed., 1982.The active potassium salt composition of bound drug such as potassium bicarbonate for example can pills, and being applied directly to the granule of food and food arbitrary way that powder is supplied with provides, or are dissolved in that the form with conventional medication provides in the drinking water.
The estrogenic component of bound drug of the present invention can be as small as the amount of 1/10 normal recommended dosage and gives usefulness.The Alkalinizing potassium salt composition of bound drug of the present invention is given with following dosage and is used.To be bound drug when giving with same amount estrin treatment osteoporosis separately more effective 10% for this dosage, perhaps up to 50% or higher.
As preferably, the oral amount of usefulness of giving of estrogenic component is equivalent to (based on dosage every day) 0.06 to 1.25mg, preferred 0.06 to 0.625mg conjugated estrogen hormone.Alkalinizing potassium salt is 30-120 to consumption in the bound drug, preferred 30 to 60 milliequivalents.Under these levels, the result when giving separately with same amount estrogen compares, and can be observed following relative result:
(a) reduction of urine hydroxyproline excretion rate (press Klein, method is measured described in the above-mentioned document of Charles etc. and Deacon etc.) is above 10%;
(b) reduction of urine collagen cross-linking excretion rate (the described method of above-mentioned document of press Robins etc. is measured) is above 10%; And
(c) increase of calcium and phosphorus balance (measuring according to a conventional method) is for example high to 10%, or higher.
As what see from the front, the conjugate of active component of the present invention demonstrates cooperative effect in the treatment osteoporosis, and promptly the binding ratio of two kinds of medicines is given with same amount estrogen more effective in fact separately.Most preferably estrogen can be oral to using the amount administration that is low to moderate the 0.06mg conjugated estrogen hormone to be equal to.When using in the present invention's combination, estrogenic lowest dose level is effectively to the treatment osteoporosis not only, and can significantly reduce health hazard and the side effect of using routine dose estrogen to be supervened.
Amount according to the estrogenic component of administration of the present invention depends on employed specific estrogenic effectiveness and administering mode certainly.Various estrogenic relative and equal effectiveness are that those skilled in the art is known.For example, according to osteoporotic effectiveness of estrin treatment and ability, the 0.6mg conjugated estrogen hormone is equivalent to micronized 17 beta estradiols of 2.0mg.These are openly listed in herein, and those skilled in the art is easy to select to be equivalent to the estrogen and the dosage level of estrogen as herein described and dosage level.
Bound drug of the present invention can perhaps replace administration in a periodic manner with continuation mode administration every day, i.e. three all medications, all drug withdrawals.Same those skilled in the art is appreciated that except that giving with the bound drug described in the invention, preferably also should replenish patient's calcium suction volume, if desired, keeps sucking 1500mg calcium every day.