The first clinical results appear in patients with a genetic form of anterior dementia (FTD) that promoting progeans in the brain may stop the development of the disease. If it succeeds, this approach, which is likely to modify diseases, may reveal new ways to treat other neurological degenerative diseases.
The genetic medicine that delivers prouganolin in the brains of patients with a rare form of dementia has shown a promise in an early safety experience, paper in Nature Medicine It was mentioned last year. At least six companies follow the prorogenolin path to treat the front dementia (table 1). What they find not only may the transformation of this rare disease but it can also represent a gateway to treat other types of dementia. “The fact that there are many companies in this space really exciting, which is exciting for patients with FTD and neurological degeneration in general,” says William Chu, President and CEO of Vitter Bio, a vital program that runs a FTD program.
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FTD is the most common form of dementia in people under the age of 60. The symptoms generally between the ages of 45 and 65, but sometimes they appear early in 30 signs in wrong behavior, the inability to control emotions, the difficulty of using words and a rapid decline in the ability to perform daily tasks.
Up to 40 % of all cases of genetic FTD, mostly With one of three genes involved: Dubious (Protein associated with tubes Tau), TAU coding; Open reading framework C9orf72Which is not fully characterized by the protein product; Jane Al -Habibiya (GrnProganoline coding.
In people inheritance Grn R493X mutation, where Arginine code is replaced with a termination signal, the least boganolin is produced from the infected gene. Many other FTD mutations have the same effect, but R493X is the most common in human population. These mutations directly affect the production of progeanolin: healthy people have average 96-125 ng/ml of vampireBut it decreases in more than half, to less than 50 ng/ml, in those who carry FTD mutations. Variable amounts of progetoline in the blood can be a diagnostic biological mark and the disease is severely predicted.
The age of appearance and the development of the disease can vary widely, but people who inherit a boom will always develop into FTD, and always make Grn Jin Sebby for a sub-group of front dementia (FTD-GRN). The mutations that reduce the production of propagranoline by neurons in Alzheimer’s disease have also been identified, and on the contrary, it seems that prouganolin has preventive effects in the animal models of Als, Parkinson’s disease, stroke, arthritis and atherosclerosis.
Progranoline is a chopped sugar protein An organizer like “beads on a chain”, with individual granules connected to short links. Protein is secreted and expressed in the central nervous system, and it is also absorbed inside the cell: inside the lysosat, it is treated in individual protease intended to destroy and digest vital molecules and pathogens. When Brogenolin’s production is insufficient, as in patients with FTD-GRN, this leads to nervous inflammation as well as peripheral inflammation. Perhaps this is due to defective lyzosom biology, especially fat metabolism, which changes the activity of the baccalaureate and leads to the accumulation of toxic proteins, nervous inflammation and nervousness.
Given that propanolin deficiency is closely related to nerve diseases, many have suggested intensifying progeanoline production or restoring its levels to stop the changes that are heading towards FTD-GRN. “This is a job loss,” says Laura Mitik, president and community organizations of civil society organizations in the Bluefield project, a non -profit union based in San Francisco. “Most individuals have a heterogeneous loss of the job, a bad version that does not produce any prouganolin.” For a therapeutic effect, prorogenoline can be delivered although the bloodstream and cerebral pillar of the cerebral pillar to the required areas. “Nerve cells need this, and small glial cells and the star cells need,” she says.
Companies publish a set of strategies to restore prouganolin, including inserting a corrected gene in genetic remedies using the Edino virus (AAV) Grn Delivery of genes, dosages of people with prouganoline engineering to cross blood barrier and blood inflammation, and prohibit the degradation of prouganolin with unilateral antibodies targeting transport receptors.
Among the six companies with ongoing clinical trials, some try to enhance prouganolin in people who have already developed FTD-GRN symptoms. Others benefit from genetic tests to start treatment shortly after the initial diagnosis, to verify whether these factors may prevent symptoms from growing in the first place.
The most advanced treatment belongs to Alector Therapeutics, in cooperation with GSK. It connects the monozinemab al001 anti -monozinemab al001 antibodies and increases the levels of prouganolin by preventing its transportation in the lyzosom, thus preventing its destruction. “The idea is that if we can find a way to restore protein to normal levels, we can find a treatment,” says Arnon Rosental, co -founder and CEO of Alcort.
During the second stage experience, individuals with FTD-GRN received intravenous batches from Al001 every four weeks. Within two weeks of the first dose, prouganoline increased to three times in basic quantities of plasma and more than weakness in the spinal fluid, and this remains throughout the 12 -month study period. Alector also compared cognitive, behavioral, linguistic and functional measurements to patients treated with FTD-GRN with these historical controls on a similar time frame and found that progress slowed 54 %. The contraction of the brain that was measured by MRI is 48 % in the infected people compared to historical controls. “This, we think, a very deep effect.”
The company has already closed joining the third stage of the AL001 evaluation both in symptoms and in 16 people before positive symptoms Grn Mutations. “In the end, the ideal situation is the treatment of patients with genetic mutations with prevention treatment before they suffer from symptoms-and this is our goal in the long run,” says Rosental. But given the inability to start starting, it is difficult to know when people will start developing signs of the disease. So far, none of the patients other than the study showed FTD symptoms. He says: “But we do not know whether this is medicine or disease,” he says.
Vesper Bio also aims to Sortilin, but with a small oral molecule. Vesper Sortilin vs001 inhibitors can organize the plasma in the brain of animal models and humans. “Vespar appears quickly, in the hope that Alcort will be approved,” says MITIC. “Then they can follow the right to use the same path with orally. I think patients may appreciate it.”
It is still unclear any mechanism to balance the levels of prouganolin that will result in the best results. It is possible that the various methods used in the composition of the effectiveness of genes reinforced for proghinolin can enhance. in studies Still unpublished, the mice that suffer from a deficiency of prouganolin, when treating them with genetic therapy and factors to prevent gender travel, showed greater beneficial effects on nervous degeneration than similar mice that deal with any of the approach alone.
Denali Therapeutics tries to restore the levels of prouganolin in the 1/2 stage in patients with FTD-GRN using systemic injection from the damaged prouganolin. Since brurbanin is a large protein, to ensure its movement via blood barrier, blood inflammation and in the central nervous system, Denali has designed what he calls “”Transport vehicleThis benefits from the transistor receptors (TFR1). Transferin receptors are usually transmitted on the blanket cells of the blood barrier in the brain from the blood from the blood. DNL593 from Denali crawls progeanolin to a portion of antibodies that are associated with transistorine receptors. This ensures that the damaged prouganolin in DNL593 is transmitted in the brain.
“We will only be able to cross the blood barrier and inflammation, but we are able to climb to the surface of the cell and get the lesusum,” says Richard Tsai, the great medical director of Denali, from the company’s brain. Shuttle technology.
To date, Denali has made healthy volunteers with DNL593, a full -length propannolin it turns vein. With the progress of the trial, in cooperation with Takeda, Tsai says, they intend to maintain a close tab Bioxinity indicators of nervous degeneration Like nerve light chains in order to determine the optimum dose of the drug.
Others are betting on genetic therapy: Avadubio, the passage of the CV, and participates in partnership with Eli Lily. Although their methods differ slightly, they all aim to enhance prouganoline by inserting a corrected gene -corrected gene in the brain cells using a glandular virus. Since glandular viruses do not express the blood-brain barrier in particular, however, the treatment must be delivered by CT injection. Aviadobio delivers the treatment directly through the injection in the accent area of the brain, while the traffic prevails in the injection in Cisterna Magna, a space filled with shed fluid (CSF) located behind the cerebellum, and relying on CSF to transfer AAV -PROGRANULIN to build the gene in the brain. Once merged into the cells, construction enables them to get out of Brojanoline.
Distinguishing the vital traffic therapy in its choice of the glandular virus. “All glandular viruses have different capsules. Zhu says:” What we saw in the first five patients we wounded is very high prouganolin level To ten times the usual, but Chou does not see this.
Aviadobio AAV9 uses and delivers it directly to the mulch, in the depth of the brain. It is a rare strategy, and their patients are the first adults to receive treatment that is delivered in cases. “The Thaamus is a sensory deportation center,” says Lisa Deschamps, CEO of Aviadobio, a vital technical company that cooperates with Astellas Parma. “By handing directly to the mulch, let her work on behalf of you.”
Alextor experience is expected to read the third stage by the end of the year, and watch the entire field. Everyone who succeeds will enjoy the way to agree to anyone else working on FTD, says MITIC. With a fixed infrastructure for assessing symptoms, testing and more, development will accelerate. People with GRN-FTD’s family history can also be allowed to test the disease, and if it is positive, treatment begins for a bogantoline shortage before they become symptoms.
Central nervous system diseases began to see an explosion of therapeutic methods and targeted treatments. “This is the beauty of the presence of competing companies: You can get a faster answer about what is important to delivery, dose, for the date of intervention,” says METIC. “It is great that there is interest in this field because it will be translated into knowledge faster, for the benefit of patients.”