Method for treating ADAMTS-5-associated disease
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    发明申请
    Method for treating ADAMTS-5-associated disease 失效
    治疗ADAMTS-5相关疾病的方法

    公开(公告)号:US20060004066A1

    公开(公告)日:2006-01-05

    申请号:US10983981

    申请日:2004-11-08

    摘要: The present invention relates to methods of treating ADAMTS-5-associated diseases and particularly osteoarthritis comprising administering an agent capable of modulating ADMATS-5 activity to a subject afflicted with the disease. The agent is preferably a biaryl sulfonamide compound. The invention is based, in part, on the discovery that transgenic animals that do not express functional ADAMTS-5 show a reduction in the degree of osteoarthritis after the induction of osteoarthritis as compared to WT animals. Furthermore, the ADAMTS-5 transgenic animals have reduced aggrecanase activity in articular tissue as compared to WT animals. These animals are good models for ADAMTS-5-associated diseases, and for screening of drugs useful in the treatment and/or prevention of these diseases. There are no other animal models in which the deletion of the activity of a single gene is capable of abrogating the course of osteoarthritis. Accordingly, these animals also show that osteoarthritis can be prevented and/or treated by administering to a subject an ADAMTS-5 inhibitory agent and particularly an agent capable of inhibiting the aggrecanase activity of ADAMTS-5.

    摘要翻译: 本发明涉及治疗ADAMTS-5相关疾病,特别是骨关节炎的方法,其包括将能够将ADMATS-5活性调节至患有该疾病的受试者的药剂。 该试剂优选为联芳基磺酰胺化合物。 本发明部分地基于以下发现:与WT动物相比,不表达功能性ADAMTS-5的转基因动物在诱导骨关节炎之后表现出降低骨关节炎的程度。 此外,ADAMTS-5转基因动物与WT动物相比降低了关节组织中的聚集蛋白聚糖蛋白聚糖酶活性。 这些动物是ADAMTS-5相关疾病的良好模型,并且用于筛选可用于治疗和/或预防这些疾病的药物。 没有其他动物模型,其中单个基因的活性的缺失能够消除骨关节炎的过程。 因此,这些动物还显示可以通过向受试者施用ADAMTS-5抑制剂,特别是能够抑制ADAMTS-5的聚集蛋白聚糖酶活性的试剂来预防和/或治疗骨关节炎。