Methods and products related to treatment and prevention of hepatitis C virus infection

a technology products, applied in the field of methods and products related to the treatment and prevention of hepatitis c virus infection, can solve the problems of poor results (about 40% sustained response) for genotype 1 hcv, difficult compilation of epidemiological statistics, and inconsistently high sustained response rates

Inactive Publication Date: 2006-01-05
COLEY PHARMA GMBH +1
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Epidemiological statistics are difficult to compile since the vast majority of acute infections are subclinical; however it is estimated that 50-80% of HCV infected individuals fail to clear the virus, and most of these become life-long carriers.
Although more expensive and associated with more side effects, combination therapy consistently yields higher rates of sustained response than monotherapy.
However, results depend strongly on the genotype of virus, with better results being obtained for genotypes 2 and 3 (about 90% with 1 year of treatment with pegylated IFN-α and Ribavirin), but much poorer results (about 40% sustained response) for genotype 1 HCV.
There is currently no vaccine against HCV, or highly effective therapy for chronic infection.

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[0218] The purpose of this study was to evaluate the ability of different classes of CpG ODN to stimulate PBMC from HCV chronic carriers. PBMC were isolated from whole blood collected from normal, healthy volunteers and chronic carriers of HCV and the ability of the different classes CpG ODNs as well as soft and semi-soft molecules to stimulate B cell proliferation, cytokine secretion (IFN-g, TNF-α, IL-10 and IFN-α) and chemokine secretion (IP-10) in vitro was evaluated.

[0219] Also evaluated were the immune stimulatory effects of exogenous IFN-α-2b (Intron A) and Ribavirin, either alone, in combination with each other, and in combination with CpG ODN (B and C classes).

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[0221] All oligonucleotide stocks were resuspended in TE buffer at pH 8.0 (OmniPer®; EM Science, Gibbstown, N.J.). Dilutions of various ODNs were made in RPMI 1640 complete media (Gibco BRL, Grand Island, N.Y.) containing 10% heat inactivated, normal human AB serum (Wise...

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The invention provides methods for identifying and treating subjects having hepatitis C infections. In some instances, the subjects are those that are non-responsive to non-CpG therapy. Preferably, the subjects are treated with C class CpG immunostimulatory nucleic acids having a semi-soft backbone.

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FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0001] The invention provides methods and products for the treatment of subjects chronically infected with hepatitis C virus. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] The hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a positive strand RNA virus of the Flavivirus family that infects hepatocytes of humans and some other primates. First characterized in 1989 (1), HCV has a 9.5 kb genome that encodes for three structural proteins: core and two envelope glycoproteins (E1 and E2), as well as several non-structural (NS) proteins that are involved in the viral replication and interaction with the host cell (2). [0003] HCV is a serious public health concern, causing >90% of parenteral non-A, non-B hepatitis (1). From 0.4 to 1.5% of the world's population is infected (3, 4), including about 300,000 Canadians (Health Canada). Epidemiological statistics are difficult to compile since the vast majority of acute infections are subclinical; however it is estimated that 50-80% of HCV infected indi...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): A61K48/00A61K31/7088A61K38/21A61P31/14G01N33/576
CPCA61K31/7056A61K31/7088A61K38/212A61K39/39A61K2039/55522G01N33/5767A61K2039/55561C07H21/00A61K2300/00A61P31/00A61P31/14A61P43/00A61K38/21
Inventor AHLUWALIA, NAVNEETEFLER, SUSANDAVIS, HEATHERVOLLMER, JORG
Owner COLEY PHARMA GMBH
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