CN113940934A - Application of sinomenine in medicine for treating autoimmune thyroid disease - Google Patents

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CN113940934A
CN113940934A CN202111407516.4A CN202111407516A CN113940934A CN 113940934 A CN113940934 A CN 113940934A CN 202111407516 A CN202111407516 A CN 202111407516A CN 113940934 A CN113940934 A CN 113940934A
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Abstract

The invention discloses application of sinomenine in a medicament for treating autoimmune thyroid diseases. The invention discloses application of sinomenine or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof in preparing a medicament for treating autoimmune thyroid diseases. The use of sinomenine or its pharmaceutically acceptable salt in combination with antithyroid agent in the preparation of a medicament for treating autoimmune thyroid disorders. The experimental result of the invention fully supports the new application of sinomenine hydrochloride in treating refractory autoimmune thyroid diseases.

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Application of sinomenine in medicine for treating autoimmune thyroid disease
The present application claims priority to chinese patent application 202011340479.5 entitled "use of sinomenine in a medicament for the treatment of autoimmune thyroid disorders" filed on 25/11/2020, which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
Technical Field
The application relates to the field of medicines, in particular to application of sinomenine hydrochloride in medicines for treating autoimmune thyroid diseases.
Background
Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is a well-known chronic inflammatory joint disease, and its pathological features are autoimmune, pannus formation, cartilage and bone destruction, even involving heart, lung and other systemic system damage, and its prevalence rate is about 0.5-1.0% of the global population. Autoimmune thyroid disease (AITD), one of the most common organ-specific Autoimmune diseases due to the attack of the immune system on the thyroid gland, is classified as "T cell-mediated organ-specific Autoimmune disease" with a global prevalence of about 5%. Clinically, Hashimoto Thyroiditis (HT) and Graves' disease (GD) are mainly involved, showing hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism, respectively. AITD is characterized by the presence of circulating antibodies against various thyroid autoantigens and by the presence of diffuse lymphocytic infiltrates within the thyroid tissue.
Sinomenine is a Chinese medicine for dispelling pathogenic wind and removing dampness and treating arthralgia, and can inhibit inflammatory cytokine and promote apoptosis to play an anti-inflammatory role; can inhibit specific T cell in vitro activation proliferation and dendritic cell bioactivity to inhibit autoimmune reaction. However, no research report is available on the therapeutic effect of sinomenine on rheumatoid arthritis.
Disclosure of Invention
The embodiment of the application aims to provide a technical problem of application of sinomenine in a medicine for treating autoimmune thyroid diseases.
In order to achieve the purpose, the technical scheme adopted by the application is as follows:
in one aspect, the invention provides an application of sinomenine or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof in a medicament for treating autoimmune thyroid diseases.
Preferably, the sinomenine or the pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof is applied to a drug for treating Hashimoto's thyroiditis, a drug for treating toxic diffuse goiter (Graves disease) or a drug for treating toxic diffuse goiter combined with Hashimoto's thyroiditis.
Preferably, the sinomenine pharmaceutically acceptable salt is sinomenine hydrochloride.
Preferably, the dosage form of the sinomenine hydrochloride is a solid preparation, a semi-solid preparation, a liquid preparation or a gaseous preparation.
On the other hand, the invention provides the application of the sinomenine or the medicinal salt thereof in combination with an antithyroid drug in the preparation of drugs for treating autoimmune thyroid diseases;
preferably, the antithyroid drug is methimazole.
The application of the invention is that the medicine for treating autoimmune thyroid diseases is a medicine for treating Hashimoto's thyroiditis, a medicine for treating toxic diffuse goiter (Graves disease) or a medicine for treating toxic diffuse goiter combined with Hashimoto's thyroiditis (Graves disease combined with Hashimoto's thyroiditis).
According to the application, the sinomenine medicinal salt is sinomenine hydrochloride.
The application of the sinomenine hydrochloride is characterized in that the sinomenine hydrochloride is in a solid preparation, a semi-solid preparation, a liquid preparation or a gaseous preparation.
The use according to the present invention, wherein the drug is a drug that improves the level of thyroid stimulating hormone receptor antibody (Trab) in autoimmune thyroid diseases.
The use of the invention, wherein the medicament is a medicament for improving the Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH) level of autoimmune thyroid diseases.
In still another aspect, the present invention provides a pharmaceutical composition for treating autoimmune thyroid diseases, wherein the pharmaceutical composition comprises sinomenine or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, an antithyroid drug and a pharmaceutically acceptable adjuvant or additive;
preferably, the antithyroid drug is methimazole; and/or
The medicinal salt of sinomenine is sinomenine hydrochloride.
The pharmaceutical composition of the invention, wherein the autoimmune thyroid disease is hashimoto's thyroiditis, toxic diffuse goiter or toxic diffuse goiter combined with hashimoto's thyroiditis.
The application of the sinomenine in the medicine for treating the autoimmune thyroid diseases provided by the embodiment of the application has commonality between Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) and the autoimmune thyroid diseases (AITD) in a plurality of aspects such as pathogenesis, clinical manifestation and the like.
Sinomenine has obvious curative effect on RA patients, and obviously inhibits inflammatory cytokines to play anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressive roles, so that sinomenine can be preliminarily considered to improve AITD symptoms.
The invention provides a new pharmaceutical application of sinomenine hydrochloride in autoimmune thyroid diseases. Through a series of clinical researches, the inventor finds that the combination treatment of the sinomenine hydrochloride and the methimazole can improve Trab level and TSH level of a patient, and compared with a control group, the difference is statistically significant. Obviously, sinomenine hydrochloride has advantages in improving Trab and TSH, and is helpful for patients to quickly reach the standard of anti-hyperthyroidism drug disuse. The sinomenine hydrochloride and methimazole combined treatment group has no obvious adverse reaction. The experimental result of the invention fully supports the new application of sinomenine hydrochloride in treating refractory autoimmune thyroid diseases.
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In order to make the technical problems, technical solutions and advantageous effects to be solved by the present application more clearly apparent, the present application is further described in detail below with reference to the embodiments. It should be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of the present application and are not intended to limit the present application.
It should be noted that the terms "first" and "second" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defined as "first" or "second" may explicitly or implicitly include one or more of that feature. In the description of the present application, "a plurality" means two or more unless specifically limited otherwise.
The invention provides an application of sinomenine or a medicinal salt thereof in a medicament for treating autoimmune thyroid diseases.
Preferably, the sinomenine or the pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof is applied to a drug for treating Hashimoto's thyroiditis, a drug for treating toxic diffuse goiter (Graves disease) or a drug for treating toxic diffuse goiter combined with Hashimoto's thyroiditis.
Preferably, the sinomenine pharmaceutically acceptable salt is sinomenine hydrochloride.
Preferably, the dosage form of the sinomenine hydrochloride is a solid preparation, a semi-solid preparation, a liquid preparation or a gaseous preparation.
On the other hand, the invention provides the application of the sinomenine or the medicinal salt thereof in combination with an antithyroid drug in the preparation of drugs for treating autoimmune thyroid diseases;
preferably, the antithyroid drug is methimazole.
The application of the invention is that the medicine for treating autoimmune thyroid diseases is a medicine for treating Hashimoto's thyroiditis, a medicine for treating toxic diffuse goiter (Graves disease) or a medicine for treating toxic diffuse goiter combined with Hashimoto's thyroiditis (Graves disease combined with Hashimoto's thyroiditis).
According to the application, the sinomenine medicinal salt is sinomenine hydrochloride.
The application of the sinomenine hydrochloride is characterized in that the sinomenine hydrochloride is in a solid preparation, a semi-solid preparation, a liquid preparation or a gaseous preparation.
The use according to the present invention, wherein the drug is a drug that improves the level of thyroid stimulating hormone receptor antibody (Trab) in autoimmune thyroid diseases.
The use of the invention, wherein the medicament is a medicament for improving the Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH) level of autoimmune thyroid diseases.
In still another aspect, the present invention provides a pharmaceutical composition for treating autoimmune thyroid diseases, wherein the pharmaceutical composition comprises sinomenine or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, an antithyroid drug and a pharmaceutically acceptable adjuvant or additive;
preferably, the antithyroid drug is methimazole; and/or
The medicinal salt of sinomenine is sinomenine hydrochloride.
The pharmaceutical composition of the invention, wherein the autoimmune thyroid disease is hashimoto's thyroiditis, toxic diffuse goiter or toxic diffuse goiter combined with hashimoto's thyroiditis.
Sinomenine is a Chinese medicine for dispelling pathogenic wind and removing dampness and treating arthralgia, and can inhibit inflammatory cytokine and promote apoptosis to play an anti-inflammatory role; can inhibit specific T cell in vitro activation proliferation and dendritic cell bioactivity to inhibit autoimmune reaction. RA and AITD patients have similar clinical characteristic expression, and immune function disorder, inflammatory factor induction and the like are used as common pathogenesis, so if a medicament has pharmacological efficacy of remarkably inhibiting inflammatory effect or regulating autoimmune reaction, the medicament can be used as a potential medicament for treating RA or AITD. Early-stage research proves that the sinomenine hydrochloride has obvious curative effect on RA, but no report that sinomenine can effectively improve AITD symptoms exists at present. Based on this, we preliminarily believe that sinomenine hydrochloride capable of effectively treating RA has the same therapeutic effect on AITD, and follow-up experiments will further study and verify the hypothesis.
1 clinical presentation and diagnostic Studies
1.1 thyroid function and antibody detection
RA and AITD patients show thyroid dysfunction and TPOAb and TGAb antibody indexes are positive, and the diagnosis result is obtained by detecting the autoantibody level in serum in clinic. AITD causes cellular damage and thyroid dysfunction through humoral and cellular immune-mediated immune mechanisms, and various enzymes and antibodies against thyroid-specific components are present in thyroid tissue. For example, autoantibody concentrations in patients with Graves' disease cannot be correlated with thyroid hormone levels, and fluctuations in antibody titers can lead to hyperthyroidism or hypothyroidism. Qinhua et al carried out thyroid function test to 100 women RA patients and 57 normal women respectively, and the result shows that complicated thyroid dysfunction 37 in the RA patient, 4 in the control group, and observe that group TPOAb, TGAb positive rate are higher than the control group, and two sets of differences all have statistical significance, indicate that RA patient complicated thyroid dysfunction degree and RA patient's state of an illness activity have the relevance. Saqre IM et al, by studying 60 RA patients and 60 normal controls, showed that 38.3% of RA patients had thyroid dysfunction, with significant differences compared to 6.7% of the normal controls, and confirmed that the levels of serum TPOAb and TGAb were significantly higher in RA patients than in controls, suggesting that most RA patients had thyroid abnormalities. Therefore, the method has practical significance for screening the thyroid hormone dysfunction of RA patients, especially young female patients and patients with high disease activity and detecting the markers TPOAb and TGAb antibodies of AITD.
1.2 thyroid abnormality in RA patients and rheumatic manifestation in AITD patients
Studies have shown that RA patients have a 3-fold higher incidence of thyroid dysfunction than the general population. Shiroky JB and other similar studies found 18/27 hypothyroidism, 6/27 confirmed HT, 1/27 confirmed Graves disease, and 2 multiple nodular goiter and familial thyroid disease in the RA cohort in case-controlled studies, suggesting that most patients with RA will have thyroid disease or thyroid hyperchromia has occurred clinically.
Early reports indicated that patients with thyroid dysfunction developed a worsening of musculoskeletal disease with clinical symptoms including scapulohumeral periarthritis, joint stiffness, shoulder girdle pain and weakness that were clinically different from myopathies associated with thyroid dysfunction and similar to RA symptoms. Careful examination of rheumatic manifestations in a population of thyroidically normal Chronic Lymphocytic Thyroiditis (CLT) patients by Tagoe CE et al has shown that a broad autoimmune process may exist in a subset of CLT patients with normal thyroid function, with significant rheumatic manifestations, more common in hypothyroidism patients. Rheumatic manifestations in AITD patients may involve a variety of organs and tissues, mainly affecting joints, muscles and skin. Delamere J P et al have shown that abnormalities or changes in thyroid status may accelerate or exacerbate musculoskeletal disease, symptoms that have been shown to be similar to polymyalgia rheumatica, supporting a correlation between RA and AITD.
2 study of pathogenesis
The pathogenesis of RA and AITD is not clear, and epidemiological data suggest that epigenetic, immune balance disorders, endocrine, environmental factors may all play a role.
2.1 common genetic relationships exist
Thomas D J et al observed that AITD occurred more frequently in the first and second parents of RA than expected, and had some familial aggregation suggesting that both may have a common susceptibility gene. By serological examination of 504 members of the 58 RA families for thyroid autoantibodies, simman a J et al compared the serological data and found that 6% of the people had thyroid disease and five times as many women as men. Thyroglobulin antibodies were present in 5% of men and 11% of women, and thyroid microsomal antibodies were present in 5% of men and 15% of women. These ratios are much larger than published ratios by the general population. Differences still exist after analysis individually by age group. The results confirmed that there was a common genetic linkage between RA and AITD.
TABLE 1 susceptibility genes for RA and AITD
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Wenjin, Sanders P A and the like found that the occurrence of AITD can be caused by a plurality of genes such as HLA gene complex, CD40, CTLA 4, PTPN22 and the like, and immunological abnormality of the genes is also a physiological mechanism influencing RA. In the review by Ivica L et al it was written that HLA-DRb1-Arg74 (human leukocyte antigen DR containing arginine at position. beta.74) carries the greatest risk among the consensus susceptibility genes involved in the pathogenesis of AITD. The TSH receptor genes CD40 and CD25 have been shown to be closely related to Graves' disease, where the reduction of T regulatory cell function by certain CD25 polymorphisms may contribute to autoimmune development. CTLA-4 is a member of the immunoglobulin superfamily, a costimulatory molecule expressed by activated T cells. Three single nucleotide polymorphisms in the CTLA-4 gene, C318T, A49G and C60T, have been shown to be associated with type 1 diabetes, RA, SLE, celiac disease, multiple sclerosis and AITD. The PTPN22 gene encodes a protein lymphotyrosine phosphatase that is a negative regulator of T cell receptor signaling, and partial polymorphisms thereof have been found to be associated with AITD, RA, and other autoimmune diseases.
2.2 being influenced by common environmental factors
The environmental factors can enhance the autoimmune ability of genetically susceptible individuals and break the tolerance of genetically resistant individuals, thereby increasing the risk of autoimmune diseases. Many environmental risk factors, such as smoking, hormones, diet, drugs, toxins, infections, stress are important in determining whether a person will develop an autoimmune disease.
Strong epidemiological evidence supports smoking as one of the dangerous environmental factors for RA development. Multiple studies have shown that smoking causes an increased risk of RA, and that there is a dose-dependent effect between the years of smoking and the development of RA, which can induce an inflammatory response as well as Th1 and Th17 cell-mediated immune responses in patients with RA. In addition to playing an important role in RA, smoking also increases the risk of AITD, and in particular may cause non-specific immunity, increase the susceptibility to Graves' disease and exacerbate its clinical manifestations. Smoking induces polyclonal activation of B cells and T cells, thereby inducing IL-2 production. Smoking or passive smoking increases serum IgE levels and increases the risk of developing allergic symptoms, possibly by destroying cells to increase antigen presentation. Viral infection is also one of the important environmental factors in pathogenesis, especially human parvovirus B19(HPVB19) and Hepatitis C Virus (HCV). Infection with HPVB19 or HCV viruses causes various immune diseases including RA, systemic lupus erythematosus, AITD, and the like.
2.3 helper T cell subset imbalance
Helper T cells can be divided into various cell subtypes: th1, Th2, Th17 and Treg cells, and Th1/Th2 and Th17/Treg cell subset imbalance are important factors causing the development of RA and AITD diseases. The balance shift of Th1/Th2 cytokines can cause a series of pathophysiological changes and immune dysfunction of the body. Most studies have shown that Th1 and Th2 cells are a bridge between GD and HT interconversion, and when Th1 cell-mediated immunity plays a major role, cytotoxic T cells and macrophages are activated, thyroid follicular epithelial cells are destroyed, and then the thyroid gland undergoes various degrees of damage and functional changes, and when Th2 cells begin to dominate, B cells and plasma cells become active and produce large amounts of thyroid autoantibodies resulting in immune tolerance. Th17 lymphocyte is a kind of lymphocyte characterized by producing IL-17A, IL-17F, IL-21 and IL-22, can strengthen autoimmune reaction, and can stimulate blood vessel related cells (epithelial cells) or connective tissue cells (fibroblasts and macrophages) in the occurrence and development of AITD diseases, and the cells can cause tissue damage under autoimmune inflammation conditions. Treg cells are primarily responsible for maintaining immune tolerance and immunosuppression. Forkhead box protein 3(forkhead box P3, Foxp3) is a marker molecule of Treg cells, and is involved in the differentiation, maintenance and functional processes of Treg cells. In AITD disease, dysfunction of the Foxp3 gene can cause immune dysregulation, resulting in a breakdown of immune tolerance. In the initial stage of arthritis diseases, the Th1 subgroup has obvious advantages compared with Th2, a large amount of cytokines such as TNF-alpha, IFN-gamma, IL-2 and the like secreted by Th1 cells exist in synovial membrane and peripheral blood of RA, the proliferation of RA synovial cells and cartilage destruction can be promoted, and pannus formation can be promoted by inducing endothelial cell activation and chemokine amplification to cause disease aggravation; pain and fever symptoms can be induced by promoting prostaglandin E2 synthesis and hyperalgesia. The increased Th17/Treg ratio in RA patients stimulates the body to produce more proinflammatory cytokines, chemokines and other inflammatory mediators including nitric oxide, prostaglandins and matrix metalloproteinases to exacerbate the inflammatory response, and promotes pannus formation by activating endothelial cells and stimulating fibroblasts to secrete vascular endothelial growth factor.
2.4B lymphocyte, tumor necrosis factor family B cell activating factor (BAFF) abnormalities
B lymphocytes are involved in autoimmune processes, while BAFF plays an important role in proliferation and activation of B cells, and the over-expression of BAFF may accelerate the disease progression of autoimmune diseases. B cells are activated in patients with Graves and produce trabs which, by binding to the receptor, chronically stimulate the receptor, as a result of which the production and secretion of the thyroid hormones T4 and T3 increase, leading to hyperthyroidism. During HT, B cells produce both Tg and TPO thyroid autoantibodies, and antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity is an important factor in causing apoptosis of thyroid follicular cells. In the early stage of RA, BAFF can inhibit phagocytic function of cells, potentiate inflammatory factors, induce production of inflammatory mediators, and under the influence of BAFF, T cells differentiate into Th1 and Th17 cells, and B cells are activated and produce autoantibodies. Thus, overexpression of B lymphocytes and BAFF catalyzes RA with AITD disease.
2.5 involvement of cytokines in Induction
Research shows that six cytokines such as interleukin, interferon, tumor necrosis factor and the like are all involved in the common pathogenesis of RA and AITD. In RA, IL-2 and IL-6 are key inflammatory cytokines, which can promote infiltration of lymphocytes to thyroid tissue and induce osteoclast differentiation to cause articular surface damage. In RA synovium and peripheral blood of patients with large amount of cytokines such as TNF-alpha, IFN-gamma, etc., in RA synovium, the fibroblast subpopulation highly expressing IL-6 and IFN-gamma inducible protein 30 is excessive, and in addition, IFN-gamma produced by CD8+ T cells is enriched. IFN- γ plays an important role in innate and adaptive immune responses, contributing to the development and progression of RA as it activates antigen presenting cells, CD4+ T cells, monocytes/macrophages and induces Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) class II expression on cells, thereby increasing abnormal immune responses. In vitro experiments have demonstrated that IL-1, IFN-gamma and TNF-alpha stimulate thyroid follicular cells to produce cytokines which increase expression of thyroid follicular cell surface adhesion molecules, pro-inflammatory cell infiltration, and possibly nitric oxide and prostaglandin production, thereby increasing the inflammatory response of AITD. Thyroid tissue cytokines also play a role in T cell antigen presentation by increasing MHC class I and class II expression on the surface of thyroid follicular cells, leading to destruction of the thyroid by the cytotoxic action of T cells. In thyroid eye disease, the pathogenic effects of IL- β, TNF- α and IFN- γ exacerbate the inflammation and proliferation of fibroblasts, leading to the accumulation of glycosaminoglycans within the orbit. In Graves' disease, IL-1 β stimulates the production of hyaluronic acid in thyroid epithelial cells and fibroblasts, thereby promoting the development of goiter.
2.6X chromosome inactivation
There are studies that indicate that X chromosome inactivation bias (XCI) may be associated with better onset of RA and AITD in women and related immune pathogenesis. Women have a clear advantage over the background of susceptibility genes, as the X chromosome contains a number of sex-and immune-related genes, such as AR, IL2 receptor gamma chain, CD40 ligand and Foxp3, which are critical for determining hormone levels and immune tolerance. Ghazi C et al simultaneously examined the skewed XCI of 106 female patients with RA and 145 female patients with AITD, as controlled by 257 similarly aged healthy women. The results show that the prevalence of XCI profoundly skewed in female blood cells is significantly higher in RA and AITD patients (P <0.0001) compared to the control group, and it is believed that XCI may play a role in the etiology of autoimmune diseases, and in the female dominance of RA and AITD.
Clinical treatment
By consulting the Chinese and Western medicine clinical medicine discovery about treating RA and AITD diseases in recent ten years, only selenium supplement, vitamin D, glucocorticoid and methotrexate have the curative effect of treating RA and AITD in Western medicine, while single Chinese medicine or compound Chinese medicine has common curative effect on RA and AITD in traditional Chinese medicine, and common Chinese medicines include thunder god vine, bupleurum tenuifolium, astragalus mongholicus and the like.
Vitamin D plays an important role in the pathogenesis of RA and AITD in the treatment of disease in western medicine, and is associated with disease activity. The 1, 25-dihydroxyvitamin D3(1,25(OH)2D3) can directly act on a plurality of immune cells of a human body, and can selectively inhibit the proliferation and secretion of Th1 cells, thereby reducing the production of cytokines such as IL-2, INF-gamma and the like, and inhibiting over-active inflammatory reaction and adaptive immune activity. In experimental researches of Reishi Xiang and the like, RA model rats are found to have certain curative effect by applying selenium nanoparticles to treatment, selenium can participate in vivo antioxidant enzyme synthesis so as to regulate and control inflammatory reaction, and can play a role in immunoregulation by promoting the synthesis of immune globulin in immune cells, regulating the balance of Th1/Th2 cells and other mechanisms. Experimental research on the Wangbeilin shows that glucocorticoid has a treatment effect on RA patients. Such as prednisone, can effectively reduce capillary permeability to reduce inflammatory fluid exudation, inhibit expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase, regulate lymphocyte proliferation to induce apoptosis, and reduce production of IL-1 and TNF-alpha to exert immunosuppressive effect.
In the traditional Chinese medicine for treating RA, astragalus and radix bupleuri exert curative effects by reducing the level of inflammatory cytokines in serum and regulating signal pathways, and tripterygium wilfordii exerts curative effects from multiple pathogenesis. Tripterine can reduce the number of osteoclasts in arthritis; the ability to dose-dependently inhibit the expression of proinflammatory factors; can directly resist inflammatory mediators; can inhibit arthritis and the like by regulating the ratio of Th17/Treg cells. Tripterygium wilfordii is a Chinese herbal medicine anti-inflammatory immunomodulator, can reduce the level of thyroid gland autoantibodies, has a corrective effect on disorders of EAT mice in cellular immunity and humoral immunity, can inhibit hyperthyroidism autoimmune reaction, and can reduce, soften or eliminate the diffusely swollen thyroid gland or thyroid nodule.
At present, although no research supports that sinomenine hydrochloride can effectively treat AITD, the curative effect of treating RA is definite, and currently, the traditional Chinese medicine preparation, namely Zhengqingfengtongning, is clinically applied. Sinomenine treatment RA focuses on the anti-inflammatory analgesic effect of sinomenine, and sinomenine can play an anti-inflammatory role by reducing inflammatory cytokines such as TNF-alpha, IL-1 beta, IL-6, PGE2, 5-HT and the like in a sinomenine rat model experiment for reducing carrageenan inflammation, so that the phagocytic capacity of macrophages is enhanced, and bone erosion and joint structure damage are reduced; prostaglandin is one of main inflammation mediators, cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) induced by Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) can promote the synthesis of prostaglandin, and in vitro experiments prove that sinomenine has strong inhibition effect on the COX-2 and presents dose dependence, which indicates that the anti-inflammatory effect of sinomenine is partially derived from the sinomenine; in addition, sinomenine can also regulate and control inflammatory reaction by intervening NF-kB signal channel and negatively regulating the expression and activation of MMP-2 and MMP-9 in joint tissues. Besides the obvious anti-inflammatory effect, sinomenine also has unique advantages in the aspect of immunosuppression, can down-regulate the expression of intercellular adhesion molecule-1, regulate and control the ratio of T lymphocyte subtype Th1/Th2, improve the apoptosis level of lymphocytes, inhibit the differentiation of Th17 cells with pathogenic effect in RA patients, improve the proportion of Treg cells with immunosuppressive effect, and reduce B lymphocytes to generate antibodies so as to play the immunosuppressive effect.
5 conclusion and prospect
RA and AITD have commonness in many aspects such as pathogenesis, clinical manifestation, most western medicines can improve the index to a certain extent and can not regulate the visceral function by exerting the anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressive effects, if the medicines for treating RA complicated with AITD are to be developed, the traditional Chinese medicine starts from the disease mechanism, achieves the treatment purpose by regulating the visceral and organism immunologic functions, and has more prospective, and the compound dialectical treatment is also the unique advantage of the traditional Chinese medicine.
Although no experiment supports the curative effect of sinomenine on AITD, the anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressive effects of sinomenine are undoubted, and on the basis of the effect, sinomenine can be preliminarily considered to improve AITD symptoms.
EXAMPLE 1 treatment of Graves disease with Sinomenine hydrochloride in combination with antithyroid drugs
The main component of the zhengqingfengtongning sustained release tablet is sinomenine hydrochloride, and unless specifically stated otherwise, the zhengqingfengtongning sustained release tablet is used in combination with antithyroid drug therapy in the application
1.1 study design
Treatment group (zhengqing fengtongning enteric-coated tablet combined with methimazole): the patient information of taking the Zhengqing Fengtongning enteric-coated tablets and the MMI for the first time is collected firstly, and the selected objects cannot be selected or selected in an omission way until the collection of the number of cases using the Zhengqing Fengtongning enteric-coated tablets is completed or is not less than 100 cases.
Control treatment group (methimazole treatment): in the above queue, the initial recording point of the first patient is the starting point, and the information of the patients who have first visit and do not take the zhengqing fengtong ning enteric-coated tablets and take the MMI in the whole course is collected until the number of eligible cases is not less than 100 cases, or all eligible cases are collected until the last patient in the last queue is taken. The selected object cannot be selected, and the selected object cannot be missed.
1.2 randomized design and Blind implementation
The study used a continuous registration to control the queue's selective bias and the researcher's bias, and all study data had to be sourced from the unit's electronic information system to avoid information bias.
1.3 evaluation index
(1) The evaluation index of the curative effect is as follows: thyroid function, TRab, TSab, clinical symptoms (exophthalmos, diplopia, ghosting, nodules, etc.), urinary routine, and thyroid ultrasound.
(2) A safety index; adverse events such as hematuria, liver and kidney function, etc
1.4 results of the experiment
In this example, a total of 234 patients were enrolled, 144 in the treatment group and 90 in the control treatment group, with the results shown in table 2. The two cohorts did not differ statistically in gender, age, and whether they originated from professional departments.
TABLE 2 number of patients grouped in each center
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1.41TSH Change
The results of comparing the TSH values at different time points with each other by considering the normal distribution of the TSH mean values are shown in Table 3, wherein at 3 rd month, the TSH values of the treatment group and the control treatment group have statistical significance (P < 0.05) for the difference between the groups, and the difference between the other time points has no statistical significance (P > 0.05).
The results of the intra-group comparisons of TSH decline at different time points are shown in Table 4, and at 6 months, the treatment groups showed statistical differences (P < 0.05), and at 12 months, they showed similar trends.
TABLE 3 comparison between TSH mean groups at different time points
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TABLE 4 Intra-group comparison of TSH degradation values at different time points
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1.42Trab Change
Considering the normal distribution characteristic of the Trab mean, the means of different time points are compared among groups, and as shown in table 5, the results show that the Trab drop values of different time points are compared among groups, the statistical difference (P < 0.05) exists in the comparison among groups at the 6 th month, and the statistical difference does not exist in other time points.
The results of the intra-group comparisons of Trab decline values at different time points are shown in table 6, showing that all time points, at 6 th, 9 th, 12 th and 15 th months, the intra-group comparisons of both groups showed statistical significance (P < 0.05), while at 3 months, the intra-group comparisons of both groups showed no statistical significance.
TABLE 5 comparison between different time-point Trab descending mean groups
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TABLE 6 comparison of Trab descent values at different times
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And (4) analyzing results:
the differences between the groups of TSH at month 3 were statistically significant in the treated group compared to the control treated group.
The differences between the TSH and Trab reduction values at month 6 in the treated group compared to the control group were statistically different. The same results were shown for the group comparison of TT3 (similar trends were shown at 12 months). The same was not shown in the contemporary control treatment group.
1.5 safety assay
The laboratory test abnormality data for the treatment and control patients are listed and detailed in table 7. In general, there were 83 cases with an abnormal value in the control treatment group and 57 cases with an abnormal value in the treatment group. Considering that the number of treatment groups in this study was 1.5 times the number of control treatment groups, the comparative differences between the two groups were statistically significant. Therefore, the safety of the laboratory examination after the combined application of zhengqing fengtongning is probably better than that of the control treatment group.
TABLE 7 laboratory survey anomaly data
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And (4) conclusion:
in laboratory tests with Trab, the control treatment group was shown to increase initially with methimazole and then decrease. The decline of the treatment group is stable and continuous, the decline values of the two groups are statistically different at the 6 th month of medication, the decline trends of the 3 rd month and the 6 th month are consistent, and the 9 th month and the 12 th month still show the decline trend except the continuous decline trend. The differences between the groups of TSH at month 3 were statistically significant in the treated group compared to the control treated group.
The differences between the TSH and Trab reduction values at month 6 in the treated group compared to the control group were statistically different. The same results were shown for the group comparison of TT3 (similar trends were shown at 12 months). The same was not shown in the contemporary control treatment group. .
In general, there were 83 cases with an abnormal value in the control treatment group and 57 cases with an abnormal value in the treatment group. Considering that the number of treatment groups in this study was 1.5 times the number of control treatment groups, the comparative differences between the two groups were statistically significant. Therefore, the safety of the laboratory examination after the combined application of zhengqing fengtongning is probably better than that of the control treatment group.
In consideration of the consistent trend of various indexes, the applicant considers that sinomenine hydrochloride has advantages in the aspects of improving Trab and TSH, and is helpful for patients to quickly reach the standard of anti-hyperthyroidism drug withdrawal. The sinomenine hydrochloride and methimazole combined treatment group has no obvious adverse reaction. The experimental result of the invention fully supports the new application of sinomenine hydrochloride in treating refractory autoimmune thyroid diseases.
The above description is only exemplary of the present application and should not be taken as limiting the present application, as any modification, equivalent replacement, or improvement made within the spirit and principle of the present application should be included in the protection scope of the present application.

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1. The use of sinomenine or its pharmaceutically acceptable salt in preparing medicine for treating autoimmune thyroid diseases is provided.
2. The use of sinomenine or its pharmaceutically acceptable salt in combination with antithyroid agent in the preparation of a medicament for treating autoimmune thyroid disorders;
preferably, the antithyroid drug is methimazole.
3. The use according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the medicament for the treatment of autoimmune thyroid disorders is a medicament for the treatment of hashimoto's thyroiditis, a medicament for the treatment of toxic diffuse goiter or a medicament for the treatment of toxic diffuse goiter combined with hashimoto's thyroiditis.
4. The use according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the pharmaceutically acceptable salt of sinomenine is sinomenine hydrochloride.
5. The use according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the sinomenine hydrochloride is in a solid, semi-solid, liquid or gaseous formulation.
6. Use according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the medicament is a medicament for ameliorating the thyroid stimulating hormone receptor antibody levels of autoimmune thyroid disorders.
7. The use according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the medicament is a medicament for ameliorating the thyroid stimulating hormone level of autoimmune thyroid disorders.
8. The pharmaceutical composition for treating autoimmune thyroid diseases is characterized by comprising sinomenine or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, antithyroid drugs and pharmaceutically acceptable auxiliary materials or additives;
preferably, the antithyroid drug is methimazole; and/or
The medicinal salt of sinomenine is sinomenine hydrochloride.
9. The pharmaceutical composition of claim 8, wherein the autoimmune thyroid disorder is hashimoto's thyroiditis, toxic diffuse goiter, or toxic diffuse goiter combined with hashimoto's thyroiditis.
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