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Method for Preventing and Treating Diabetes Using Neurturin

a diabetes and neurturin technology, applied in the field of diabetes prevention and treatment using neurturin, can solve the problems of increased blood glucose levels, impaired beta-cell function, and increased beta-cell apoptosis, and the effect of impaired pancreatic endocrine function

Inactive Publication Date: 2008-10-02
DEVELOGEN AKTIENGES
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[0018]Thus, the present invention provides methods for treating patients suffering from a disease caused by, associated with, and / or accompanied by functionally impaired and / or reduced numbers of pancreatic islet cells, particularly insulin producing beta-cells, by administering a therapeutically effective amount of a neurturin product or a compound that influences the neurturin expression level or function. Functional impairment or loss of pancreatic islet cells may be due to e.g. autoimmune attack such as in diabetes type I or LADA, and / or due to cell degeneration such as in progressed diabetes type II. The methods of the present invention may also be used to treat patients at risk to develop degeneration of insulin producing beta-cells to prevent the start or progress of such process.

Problems solved by technology

The amount of insulin produced by the remaining pancreatic islet cells is too low, resulting in elevated blood glucose levels (hyperglycemia).
High blood glucose levels (and also high blood lipid levels) in turn lead to an impairment of beta-cell function and to an increase in beta-cell apoptosis.
However, after such a treatment the pancreatic endocrine function would remain impaired due to the only slightly increased regeneration rate.
However, due to the relatively slow regeneration of human beta-cells such treatments can only be successful if they are combined with agents that can stimulate beta-cell regeneration.
Diabetes is a very disabling disease, because today's common anti-diabetic drugs do not control blood sugar levels well enough to completely prevent the occurrence of high and low blood sugar levels.
Out of range blood sugar levels are toxic and cause long-term complications like for example renopathy, retinopathy, neuropathy and peripheral vascular disease.
Apart from the impaired quality of life for the patients, the treatment of diabetes and its long term complications presents an enormous financial burden to our healthcare systems with rising tendency.

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Generation of ES Cells Expressing the Pax4 Gene

[0092]Mouse R1 ES cells (Nagy et al. (1993) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 90: 8424-8428) were electroporated with the Pax4 gene under the control of the CMV promoter and the neomycin resistance gene under the control of the phosphoglycerate kinase I promoter (pGK-1).

[0093]ES cells were cultured in Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium containing 4.5 g / l glucose, 10−4 M beta-mercaptoethanol, 2 nM glutamine, 1% non-essential amino acids, 1 nM Na-pyruvate, 15% FCS and 500 U / ml leukaemia inhibitory factor (LIF). Briefly, approximately 107 ES cells resuspended in 0.8 ml phosphate buffered saline (PBS) were subjected to electroporation with 25 μg / ml of linearized expression vector (Joyner, Gene Targeting: A Practical Approach, Oxford University Press, New York, 1993). Five minutes after electroporation, ES cells were plated on petri dishes containing fibroblastic feeder cells previously inactivated by treatment with 100 μg / ml mitomycin C. One day ...

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Differentiation of ES Cells into Insulin-Producing Cells (Referred to as ‘Control’ in FIG. 1)

[0094]The ES cell line R1 (wild type, ‘wt ES’ in FIG. 1) and ES cells constitutively expressing Pax4 (‘Pax4 ES’ in FIG. 1) were cultivated as embryoid bodies (EB) by the hanging drop method, as described in patent application PCT / EP02 / 04362, published as WO 02 / 086107 and by Blyszczuk et al., 2003, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 100: 998-1003, which are incorporated herein by reference, with media as described below and in Table 2. The embryoid bodies were allowed to form in hanging drop cultures for 2 days and then transferred for three days to suspension cultures in petri dishes. At day 5, EBs were plated separately onto gelatin-coated 6 cm cell culture dishes containing a differentiation medium prepared with a base of Iscove modified Dulbecco's medium. After dissociation and replating at day 14, cells were cultured up to 40 days in the differentiation medium prepared with a base of Dulbecco's mod...

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Expression of Pancreas Specific Genes after Differentiation of ES Cells into Insulin-Producing Cells

[0095]Expression levels of pancreas specific genes was measured by semi-quantitative RT-PCR analysis. Differentiated wild type ES and Pax4 ES cells were collected after embryoid body formation and suspended in lysis buffer (4 M guanidinium thiocyanate, 25 mM sodium citrate, pH 7; 0.5% sarcosyl, 0.1 M beta-mercaptoethanol). Total RNA was isolated by the single step extraction method described by Chomczynski & Sacchi, 1987, Anal. Biochem. 162: 156-159). mRNA was reverse transcribed using PolyT tail primer Oligo d(T)16 (PerkinElmer) and the resulting cDNA was amplified using oligonucleotide primers complementary and identical to transcripts of beta-cell glucose transporter Glut2 and insulin. The house keeping gene beta-tubulin was used as internal standard. Reverse transcription (RT) was performed with MuLV reverse transcriptase (Perkin Elmer). Multiplex PCRs were carried out using Ampli...

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Abstract

The present invention relates generally to methods for preventing and / or treating pancreatic disorders, particularly those related to diabetes, by administering a neurturin protein product.

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[0001]The present invention relates generally to methods for preventing and / or treating pancreatic disorders, particularly those related to diabetes, by administering a neurturin product.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]The pancreas is an exocrine gland that secretes digestive enzymes directly into the digestive tract as well as an endocrine gland that secretes hormones into the blood stream. The exocrine function is assured by acinar and centroacinar cells that secrete various digestive enzymes via intercalated ducts into the duodenum. The functional unit of the endocrine pancreas is the islet of Langerhans. Islets are scattered throughout the exocrine portion of the pancreas and are composed of four main cell types: alpha-, beta-, delta- and PP-cells (reviewed for example in Kim & Hebrok, 2001, Genes Dev. 15: 111-127). Beta-cells produce insulin, represent the majority of the endocrine cells and form the core of the islets, while alpha-cells secrete glucagon and are located in the...

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IPC IPC(8): C12N5/08C12N5/06A61K35/39A61K38/18C12N5/071G01N33/50
CPCA61K38/185C12N5/0676C12N2501/13A61K45/06G01N33/507A61K38/1709C12N2506/02A61P3/10A61P3/08
Inventor AUSTEN, MATTHIASBURK, ULRIKE
Owner DEVELOGEN AKTIENGES
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