A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Phase Ib Study to Evaluate the Safety, Tolerability, And Pharmacokinetics of Gusacitinib in Subjects With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)

Background:
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), also called lupus, is a disease that causes the body s immune system to attack healthy tissue. Lupus causes swelling and inflammation in the skin, skin, joints, kidneys, brain, blood vessels, and other organs. There is no cure for lupus. Current treatments do not help everyone and may have adverse effects. Better treatments are needed.
Objective:
To test a study drug (Gusacitinib) in people with lupus.
Eligibility:
People aged 18 years and older with lupus.
Design:
Participants will be screened. They will have a physical exam with blood and urine tests and a test of their heart function. They will have a chest X-ray. They will have tests that use blood pressure cuffs to measure blood flow and pressure throughout the body.
Participants will have 9 clinic visits and 6 phone visits over about 7 months.
The study has 3 parts.
Part 1: Gusacitinib is a tablet taken by mouth. Participants will be divided into 3 groups. One group will receive the study drug, and a second group will get a placebo. The placebo looks like the study drug but does not contain any medicine. Both of these groups will take their tablets once a day for 12 weeks. The third group will continue to take their usual medications for lupus throughout the study.
Part 2: All participants who took the study drug or placebo in part 1 will take the study drug once a day for 12 weeks.
Part 3: All participants who took the study drug will stop taking it for 4 weeks.

Start Date04 Nov 2024

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NCT04416516 / CompletedPhase 2

A Phase 2A Study to Assess the Safety and Efficacy of ASN-002 Combined With a Hedgehog Pathway Inhibitor in the Treatment of Multiple Low Risk Basal Cell Carcinomas in Sporadic or Basal Cell Nevus Syndrome Patients

The primary objectives are to:
Evaluate the safety and tolerability of intralesional ASN-002 when administered in combination with oral vismodegib in patients with Basal Cell Carcinomas (BCC)s;
Evaluate the efficacy of intralesional ASN-002 in target tumours when administered in combination with oral vismodegib in patients with BCCs.
The secondary objective is to:
1) Evaluate the efficacy of intralesional ASN-002 in non-target tumours when administered in combination with oral vismodegib in patients with BCCs.
The exploratory objective is to:
1) Evaluate immunological biomarkers during the course of treatment.

Start Date16 Jul 2020

Sponsor / Collaborator

Ascend Biopharmaceuticals Ltd.

NCT03728504 / CompletedPhase 2

A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Phase 2 Study to Evaluate the Efficacy, Safety, Tolerability, and Pharmacokinetics of ASN002 in Subjects With Moderate To Severe Chronic Hand Eczema Refractory to Corticosteroid Therapy

Randomized double-blind/placebo study to evaluate the efficacy of ASN002 in subjects with severe chronic hand eczema.

Start Date03 Jan 2019

Sponsor / Collaborator

Asana BioSciences LLCStartup

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01 Sep 2022·European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry

Dual-target Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitors: Comprehensive review on the JAK-based strategies for treating solid or hematological malignancies and immune-related diseases

Review

Author: Wang, Yezhi ; Qin, Lian ; Jia, Xiangxiang ; Shen, Pei ; Li, Zhiyu ; Feng, Xi ; Qiu, Zhixia ; Xu, Pengfei

Janus kinases (JAKs) are the non-receptor tyrosine kinases covering JAK1, JAK2, JAK3, and TYK2 which regulate signal transductions of hematopoietic cytokines and growth factors to play essential roles in cell growth, survival, and development. Dysregulated JAK activity leading to a constitutively activated signal transducers and activators of transcription (STAT) is strongly associated with immune-related diseases and cancers. Targeting JAK to interfere the signaling of JAK/STAT pathway has achieved quite success in the treatment of these diseases. However, inadequate clinical response and serious adverse events come along by the treatment of monotherapy of JAK inhibitors. With better and deeper understanding of JAK/STAT pathway in the pathogenesis of diseases, researchers start to show huge interest in combining inhibition of JAK and other oncogenic targets to realize a broader regulation on pathological processes to block disease development and progression, which has hastened extensive research of dual JAK inhibitors over the past decades. Until now, studies of dual JAK inhibitors have added BTK, SYK, FLT3, HDAC, Src, and Aurora kinases to the overall inhibitory profile and demonstrated significant advantage and superiority over single-target inhibitors. In this review, we elucidated the possible mechanism of synergic effects caused by dual JAK inhibitors and briefly describe the development of these agents.

01 Dec 2021·InflammationQ2 · MEDICINE

Network-Based Integrated Analysis of Transcriptomic Studies in Dissecting Gene Signatures for LPS-Induced Acute Lung Injury

Q2 · MEDICINE

Article

Author: Cao, Fang ; Long, Danling ; Mao, Kaimin ; Zhong, Hua ; Wang, Chunyan ; Deng, Yujuan

Acute lung injury (ALI) is a type of serious clinical syndrome leading to morbidity and mortality. However, the precise pathogenesis of ALI remains elusive. Here, we implemented an integrative meta-analysis of six GEO microarray studies with 76 samples in the ALI mouse model. A total of 958 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were identified in LPS relative to normal samples. Then, a network-based meta-analysis was used to mine core DEGs and to unfold the interactions among these genes. We found that Ebi3 was the top upregulated genes in the LPS-induced ALI. GO, KEGG, and GSEA analyses were performed for functional annotation. qRT-PCR revealed augmented expression of six candidate genes (Stat1, Syk, Jak3, Rac2, Ripk1, and Traf6) in the established ALI mouse model with LPS exposure. Taken together, our study investigated comprehensively hub DEGs and their networks for LPS-stimulated ALI, which might afford an additional approach to determine biomarkers and therapeutic targets and explore the molecular pathophysiology toward ALI.

01 Jan 2021·Journal of Molecular ModelingQ4 · CHEMISTRY

Investigation of Alpinia calcarata constituent interactions with molecular targets of rheumatoid arthritis: docking, molecular dynamics, and network approach

Q4 · CHEMISTRY

Article

Author: Ekambaram, Sanmuga Priya ; Coumar, Mohane Selvaraj ; Erusappan, Thamizharasi ; Kondapuram, Sree Karani

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic autoimmune disorder that commonly affects multiple joints of the body. Currently, there is no permanent cure to the disease, but it can be managed with several potent drugs that cause serious side effects on prolonged use. Traditional remedies are considered promising for the treatment of several diseases, particularly chronic conditions, because they have lower side effects compared to synthetic drugs. In folklore, the rhizome of Alpinia calcarata Roscoe (Zingiberaceae) is used as a major ingredient of herbal formulations to treat RA. Phytoconstituents reported in A. calcarata rhizomes are diterpenoids, sesquiterpenoid, flavonoids, phytosterol, and volatile oils. The present study is intended to understand the molecular-level interaction of phytoconstituents present in A. calcarata rhizomes with RA molecular targets using computational approaches. A total of 30 phytoconstituents reported from the plant were used to carry out docking with 36 known targets of RA. Based on the docking results, 4 flavonoids were found to be strongly interacting with the RA targets. Further, molecular dynamics simulation confirmed stable interaction of quercetin with 6 targets (JAK3, SYK, MMP2, TLR8, IRAK1, and JAK1), galangin with 2 targets (IRAK1 and JAK1), and kaempferol (IRAK1) with one target of RA. Moreover, the presence of these three flavonoids was confirmed in the A. calcarata rhizome extract using LC-MS analysis. The computational study suggests that flavonoids present in A. calcarata rhizome may be responsible for RA modulatory activity. Particularly, quercetin and galangin could be potential development candidates for the treatment of RA. Investigation of Alpinia calcarata constituent interactions with molecular targets of rheumatoid arthritis: docking, molecular dynamics, and network approach.

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