Use of antimicrobial proteins and peptides for the treatment of otitis media and paranasal sinusitis

a technology of paranasal sinusitis and antimicrobial proteins, which is applied in the direction of antibacterial agents, peptide/protein ingredients, metabolic disorders, etc., can solve the problems of reducing the number of effective antibiotics, conductive hearing loss, and a yearly cost exceeding $5 billion

Inactive Publication Date: 2007-09-06
HOUSE EAR INSTITUTE
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Problems solved by technology

Otitis media (OM) and sinusitis are two very common infections which are difficult to treat for a number of reasons, including antibiotic resistance.
OM is the most prevalent infectious disease affecting young children, and the major cause of conductive hearing loss among this group.
OM results in 31 million annual visits to physicians' offices and is estimated to have a yearly cost exceeding $5 billion.
This has resulted in a reduction of the number of effective antibiotics for this disease and begun to pose a major public health threat.
Thus, the use of antibiotics is becoming more complicated as resistance increases, necessitating the testing of microbes before treatment, which can sometimes fatally delay the necessary treatment.
In addition, wide antibiotic use is further contributing to the problem of resistance.
The need to identify new antibiotics is causing the price of these substances to be so high as to be prohibitive in some cases.

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[0087] Expression of innate immune molecules: Lysozyme, Lactoferrin, and human beta defensins in the middle ear and the middle ear mucosa normally and in response to pathogens

[0088] As shown in FIG. 1, a gel overlay assay was performed to show that experimentally induced effusion in rats contained molecules electrophoretically consistent with the molecules of innate immunity and which had anti-microbial activity. Rats were inoculated with 1.0 mg of S. typhimurium endotoxin in 100 μl of sterile saline. Animals were sacrificed after 48 hours and the effusion was collected. The microbicidal activity of the samples was then evaluated using the gel over-lay assay. The radial assay method of Lehrer and coworkers was used, with minor modifications (Lehrer et al., 1991 J Immunol Methods 137:167-73). The subcultured bacteria (4×106 CFU / 10 ml underlay gel) were mixed with melted underlay gel at 42° C. (0.1 X culture broth—BHI for NTHi and Moraxella and THB for S. pneumoniae-10 mM sodium phos...

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The Effect of Lysozyme, Lactoferrin and Human Beta-Defensins on OM Pathogens

[0092] The radial assay method of Lehrer and coworkers was used, with minor modifications (Lehrer et al., 1991 J Immunol Methods 137:167-73). The subcultured bacteria (4×106 CFU / 10 ml underlay gel) were mixed with melted underlay gel at 42° C. (0.1× culture broth—BHI for NTHi and Moraxella and THB for S. pneumoniae-10 mM sodium phosphate, 0.8% low electroendosmosis (EEO)-type agarose) and poured into 8 cm×8 cm square Petri plates. The gel was allowed to solidify in the Petri plates and wells were punched out with a calibrated 200 μl micropipette tip, cut off at the 50 μl mark (approximately 3 mm). The antimicrobial peptides and proteins were dissolved in 0.01% acetic acid and 4 μl was added to each well. The plates were then incubated for 3 hours at 37° C. in the 5% CO2 incubator. They were next overlaid with the overlay gel (0.5× culture broth, 10 mM sodium phosphate, 0.8% low EEO-type agarose) and covered...

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[0095] A dose response analysis is performed for each molecule in order to determine the concentration range where the best effect is observable as well as a synergistic effect of different combinations. Thus, various concentrations of lactoferrin with various concentrations of defensins are used as in Example 1 and the concentrations at which maximum effectiveness of the combination occurs are used in further treatments.

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Abstract

The pharmaceutical composition and a method of treatment of infectious diseases, such as otitis media, paranasal sinusitis, labyrinthitis and meningitis are described. The composition comprises EP2E or homologues thereof.

Description

RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] This application is a divisional of U.S. application Ser. No. 10 / 971,559 filed Oct. 22, 2004, which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. application Ser. No. 10 / 819,714 filed Apr. 6, 2004, which is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 09 / 998,547 filed Nov. 27, 2001, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,716,813, which claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 60 / 253,492 filed Nov. 28, 2000, all of which are expressly incorporated herein by reference in their entireties.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] 1. Field of the Invention [0003] The invention relates generally to the use of human beta defensins, lysozyme, and lactoferrin as a new class of non-antibiotic antimicrobials. More specifically, the invention relates to the use of these antimicrobials for the treatment of otitis media and paranasal sinusitis. [0004] 2. Description of the Related Art [0005] The rapid worldwide increase in antibiotic resistance among pathogens has given rise to an urgent need...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): A61K38/16A61K38/17A61K38/40A61K38/47
CPCA61K38/40C12Y302/01017A61K38/1729A61K38/47A61P31/04
Inventor LIM, DAVID J.LEE, HAA-YUNGWEBSTER, PAULANDALIBI, ALILI, JIAN-DONGGANZ, TOMASCHA, KIWEON
Owner HOUSE EAR INSTITUTE
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