WO2001041796A1 - Procede permettant de combattre la proliferation de cellules hyperplasiques indesirables - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a new use for low molecular weight thrombin inhibitors such as melagatran and its derivatives, and for prodrugs thereof.
- thrombin-inhibiting compounds that is specifically disclosed in WO 94/29336 is HOOC-CH 2 -(R)-Cgl-Aze-Pab-H which is also known as melagatran (see Example 1 of WO 94/29336, and the list of abbreviations in that document).
- melagatran HOOC-CH 2 -(R)-Cgl-Aze-Pab-H which is also known as melagatran
- ischemic symptoms due to vessel renarrowing remains the major long-term limitation to successful treatment of coronary artery disease.
- About 10-40% of patients undergoing any kind of revascularization procedure, such as PTCA (percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty), CABG (coronary artery bypass graft) or coronary or peripheral grafting will have to undergo a second procedure within 6 months due to vessel renarrowing.
- PTCA percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty
- CABG coronary artery bypass graft
- coronary or peripheral grafting will have to undergo a second procedure within 6 months due to vessel renarrowing.
- a variety of pharmaceutical agents have been tested in clinical trials most of them have proven ineffective at reducing the rate of vessel narrowing.
- a low molecular weight thrombin inhibitor can inhibit hyperplastic cell proliferation and, surprisingly, that this effect is seen in cellular systems where cells are stimulated to proliferate in the absence of added thrombin.
- a first aspect of the invention provides a method of combating undesirable hyperplastic cell proliferation in a patient the method comprising administering to the patient an effective amount of a low molecular weight thrombin inhibitor or a prodrug thereof.
- Hyperplasia is the abnormal multiplication or increase in the number of normal cells in normal arrangement in a tissue.
- undesirable hyperplastic cell proliferation is included any undesirable hyperplastic cell proliferation in the human body, particularly that which may lead to pathologic conditions.
- the undesirable cell proliferation to be combated is undesirable proliferation of smooth muscle cells.
- Undesirable proliferation of smooth muscle cells is one component in intimal hype ⁇ lasia.
- the methods and uses of the invention may be useful in treating intimal hyperplasia.
- the undesirable cell proliferation to be combated is the undesirable cell proliferation of vascular smooth muscle cells.
- the proliferation of vascular smooth muscle cells is a key event in the development of intimal hyperplasia. Restenosis can be considered to be due to neointimal hype ⁇ lasia ie an abnormal increase in the number of normal cells in a normal arrangement in the newly formed inner layer of the blood vessels. Smooth muscle cells not only proliferate, but they will also migrate from their normal position in the media into the intimal layer of the vessel wall.
- intimal hype ⁇ lasia in the context of the invention, includes restenosis (ie a new stenosis which occurs after the primary stenosis has been removed mechanically (eg by PTCA)).
- a surgical intervention such as graft implantation, often occludes at the site of the junctions. In this case there is no primary stenosis which is responsible for the occlusion: this is also intimal hype ⁇ lasia.
- a further aspect of the invention provides a method of preventing intimal hype ⁇ lasia in a patient, the method comprising administering to the patient an effective amount of a low molecular weight thrombin inhibitor or prodrug thereof.
- the method of the invention is useful in preventing restenosis.
- Further aspects of the invention provide use of a low molecular weight thrombin inhibitor or a prodrug thereof in the manufacture of a medicament for combating undesirable cell proliferation in a patient and use of a low molecular weight thrombin inhibitor or a prodrug thereof in the manufacture of a medicament for preventing intimal hype ⁇ lasia.
- low molecular weight thrombin inhibitor will be understood by those skilled in the art.
- the term may also by understood to include any composition of matter (eg chemical compound) which inhibits thrombin to an experimentally determinable degree in in vivo and/or in in vitro tests, and which possesses a molecular weight of below 2,000, preferably below 1 ,000.
- Preferred low molecular weight thrombin inhibitors include low molecular weight peptide, and amino acid, based thrombin inhibitors and/or peptide analogue, based thrombin inhibitors.
- low molecular weight thrombm inhibitors includes thrombin inhibitors with one to four peptide linkages, and/or with a molecular weight below 1000, and includes those described in the review paper by Claesson in Blood Coagul. Fibrin.
- Preferred low molecular weight peptide-based thrombin inhibitors include those known collectively as the "gatrans". Particular gatrans which may be mentioned include HOOC-CH 2 -(R)Cha-Pic-Nag-H (known as inogatran; see International Patent Application WO 93/11152 and the list of abbreviations therein) and HOOC-CH 2 -(R)Cgl-Aze-Pab-H (known as melagatran; see International Patent Application WO 94/29336 and the list of abbreviations therein) and prodrugs thereof (see eg WO 97/23499). Particularly preferred thrombin inhibitors include melagatran.
- Low molecular weight thrombin inhibitors include any pharmaceutically acceptable derivatives of the inhibitors described above.
- “Pharmaceutically acceptable derivatives” includes salts (eg pharmaceutically acceptable non-toxic organic or inorganic acid addition salts) and solvates.
- the low molecular weight thrombin inhibitors for use in the methods of the invention, including melagatran, and derivatives and prodrugs thereof, may be administered for systemic delivery to the site of undesirable cell proliferation, or may be administered for delivery directly (locally) to that site, using appropriate means of administration that are known to the skilled person. It is believed that a combination of an acute intravenous infusion during the intervention and a prolonged oral prophylaxis might be the optimal treatment.
- the low molecular weight thrombin inhibitor such as melagatran, and derivatives and prodrugs thereof, may be administered orally, intravenously, subcutaneously, buccally, rectally, dermally, nasally, tracheally, bronchially, topically, by any other parenteral route, or via inhalation, in the form of a pharmaceutical preparation comprising the active ingredient in a pharmaceutically acceptable dosage form.
- the compositions may be administered at varying doses.
- Preferred modes of delivery are systemic.
- preferred modes of administration are parenteral, more preferably intravenous, and especially subcutaneous.
- preferred modes of administration are oral.
- the low molecular weight thrombin inhibitors and prodrugs thereof may be administered alone, but will generally be administered as a pharmaceutical formulation in admixture with a pharmaceutically acceptable adjuvant, diluent or carrier, which may be selected with due regard to the intended route of administration and standard pharmaceutical practice.
- thrombin inhibitors such as melagatran, derivatives and prodrugs thereof
- the preparation of suitable formulations for use in administering low molecular weight thrombin inhibitors such as melagatran, derivatives and prodrugs thereof is described in the literature, for example as described in inter alia International Patent Applications WO 94/29336, WO 96/14084, WO 96/16671 , WO 97/23499, WO 97/39770, WO 97/45138 and WO 98/16252, the disclosures in which documents are hereby inco ⁇ orated by reference. Otherwise, the preparation of suitable formulations may be achieved non- inventively by the skilled person using routine techniques.
- Suitable formulations for use in administering thrombin inhibitors are known in the art, and include those known from US Patent N° 4,346,078; International Patent Applications WO 93/11152, WO 93/18060, WO 93/05069, WO 94/20467, WO 94/29336, WO 95/35309, WO 95/23609, WO 96/03374, WO 96/06832, WO 96/06849, WO 96/25426, WO 96/32110, WO 97/01338, WO 97/02284, WO 97/15190, WO 97/30708, WO 97/40024, WO 97/46577, WO 98/06740, WO 97/49404, WO 97/11693, WO 97/24135, WO 97/47299, WO 98/01422 and WO 98/57932; and European Patent Applications 648 780, 468 231, 559
- the amount of low molecular weight thrombin inhibitor or prodrug thereof, in the formulation will depend on the severity of the condition, and on the patient, to be treated, as well as the compound(s) which is/are employed, but may be determined non-inventively by the skilled person.
- a pharmaceutical formulation for use in combating undesirable cell proliferation or for use in preventing neointimal hype ⁇ lasia comprising an effective amount of a low molecular weight thrombin inhibitor or a pharmaceutically acceptable derivative or prodrug thereof, in admixture with a pharmaceutically acceptable adjuvant, diluent or carrier.
- Low molecular weight thrombin inhibitors and prodrugs thereof may also be combined with other therapeutic agents that are useful in combating undesirable cell proliferation and/or other therapeutic agents that are useful in the treatment of a disease characterised by undesirable cell proliferation as one of its symptoms.
- the active ingredients may be administered together in the same formulation, or administered separately (simultaneously or sequentially) in different formulations.
- Heparin, and platelet aggregation inhibitors are presently used to prevent acute vessel occlusion.
- low molecular weight thrombin inhibitors may be “combined" with prodrugs of low molecular weight inhibitors, the inhibitor and prodrug being administered together in the same formulation, or administered separately (simultaneously or sequentially) in different formulations.
- Suitable doses of low molecular weight thrombin inhibitor such as melagatran, prodrugs and derivatives thereof, in the therapeutic and/or prophylactic treatment of mammalian, especially human, patients are typically those which give a mean plasma concentration in the range 0.001 to 5 ⁇ mol/L.
- the physician, or the skilled person will be able to determine the actual dosage which will be most suitable for an individual patient, which is likely to vary with the age, weight, sex and response of the particular patient.
- concentrations are exemplary of the average case; there can, of course, be individual instances where higher or lower dosage ranges are merited, and such are within the scope of this invention.
- the low molecular weight thrombin inhibitor or prodrug thereof may be administered in an appropriate dose on an "as required" basis (ie as needed or desired).
- prodrug of a low molecular weight thrombin inhibitor includes any compound that, following oral or parenteral administration, is metabolised in vivo to form a low molecular weight thrombin inhibitor (as defined herein), in an experimentally-detectable amount, and within a predetermined time (eg within a dosing interval of between 6 and 24 hours (ie once to four times daily)), following oral or parenteral administration.
- Prodrugs of the thrombin inhibitor melagatran include those disclosed in international patent application WO 97/23499.
- Preferred prodrugs are those of the formula R' ⁇ 2 C-CH 2 -(R)Cgl-Aze-Pab- OH (see the list of abbreviations in WO 97/23499), wherein R 1 represents benzyl or linear or branched C 1-6 alkyl (eg Cj -4 alkyl, especially methyl, propyl and, particularly, ethyl) and the OH group replaces one of the amidino hydrogens in Pab.
- R 1 represents benzyl or linear or branched C 1-6 alkyl (eg Cj -4 alkyl, especially methyl, propyl and, particularly, ethyl) and the OH group replaces one of the amidino hydrogens in Pab.
- Figure 1 shows the inhibition of serum stimulated human smooth muscle cells by melagatran.
- Figure 2 shows the inhibition of thrombin stimulated human smooth muscle cell proliferation by melagatran.
- IC 50 concentration that inhibited cell proliferation by 50%
- Minimal medium As above but with 0.5 % FBS instead of 10%.
- the technique used to study cell proliferation is based on the inco ⁇ oration of a thymidine analogue (5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine, BrdU) into the DNA of proliferating cells. After inco ⁇ oration into the DNA, BrdU is detected by immunoassay using monoclonal antibodies labelled with peroxidase (POD).
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- BrdU-POD was prepared by dilution in 1.1 ml redistilled water and stored in 100 ⁇ l aliquots at -20°C.
- the anti-BrdU-POD stock solution was further diluted 1 : 100 immediately before use.
- Example 2 Effect of melagatran on cell proliferation of thrombin- stimulated smooth muscle cells
- Human thrombin was obtained from Haematologic Technologies Inc.
- Minimal medium Fetal calf serum was exchanged for 0. 1 % human albumin.
- step 2 in Example 1 above two extra steps have been introduced: 3a. Replace again with 80 ⁇ l minimal medium and add directly 10 ⁇ l of thrombin (2 units/ml) to all wells except one set with minimal medium as a control for non-proliferating cells. Add directly lO ⁇ l of the test compounds or just minimal medium to the controls and to one set measuring the thrombin effect in the absence of inhibitors. Incubate for 48 h.
- the antiproliferative effect of melagatran on vascular smooth muscle cells was studied in male Sprague-Dawley rats. After anaesthesia, a balloon catheter was inserted into the right common carotid artery. Endothelial denudation was achieved by mechanically pulling a balloon catheter inflated at 3 atm pressure 5 times within a distance of 1 to 1.5 cm in the vessel lumen. The rats were given melagatran as an intravenous bolus dose of 4 ⁇ mol/kg immediately after denudation of the endothelium and then as a continuous intravenous infusion from a peristaltic pump placed under the skin on the neck. The infusion rate was 1.5 ⁇ mol/kg per hour and continued for 14 days.
- Rat infused with saline served as controls. At the end of the experiment the rats were anaesthetised with foren and the abdominal part of the aorta was uncovered. A catheter was then inserted into the aorta and the vessels of the rat were perfused with saline until the perfusate was almost free of blood and the rats were dead. The vessels were then perfused with 4% formaldehyde at 110 mm Hg pressure and at a speed of 20 ml/min. The right common carotid artery was isolated and immersed in 4% formaldehyde, dehydrated and finally embedded in paraffin.
- the artery in the paraffin block was then sliced ( ⁇ 5 ⁇ m thick) and cross-sections were mounted on glass slides and stained with hematoxylin. The area of the intimal hype ⁇ lasia (neointima) was then measured under light microscopy connected to a computer.
- neointima area ( ⁇ m ) from all rats are summarised in the table below.
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