US20100105621A1 - Therapies for acute renal failure - Google Patents

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US20100105621A1
US20100105621A1 US12/583,013 US58301309A US2010105621A1 US 20100105621 A1 US20100105621 A1 US 20100105621A1 US 58301309 A US58301309 A US 58301309A US 2010105621 A1 US2010105621 A1 US 2010105621A1
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  • the present invention relates generally to methods of treatment for renal disease and, in particular, methods of treatment for mammals, including humans, afflicted with, or at risk of, acute renal failure.
  • the methods involve the administration of certain proteins of the osteogenic protein/bone morphogenetic protein (OP/BMP) family within the TGF- ⁇ superfamily of proteins.
  • OP/BMP osteogenic protein/bone morphogenetic protein
  • renal failure is, therefore, a life-threatening condition in which the build-up of catabolites and other toxins, and/or the development of significant imbalances in electrolytes or fluids, may lead to the failure of other major organs systems and death.
  • renal failure is classified as “acute” or “chronic” As detailed below, acute renal failure typically involves a rapid, drastic, life-threatening loss of renal function over a period of a few hours to several weeks. In contrast, chronic renal failure typically involves a slow, progressive loss of renal function over a period of months to years, during which time the subject's life is not immediately threatened.
  • Acute renal failure is characterized by an abrupt cessation or substantial reduction of renal function, and is typically diagnosed by relatively rapid increases in blood urea nitrogen (BUN) or serum creatinine levels over a period of a few hours or days.
  • BUN blood urea nitrogen
  • serum creatinine levels over a period of a few hours or days.
  • acute renal failure may be secondary to trauma, surgery or another acute medical condition.
  • acute renal failure may be due to pre-renal, post-renal, or intrinsic renal causes.
  • Pre-renal causes e.g., decreased cardiac output, hypovolemia, altered vascular resistance
  • post-renal causes e.g., obstructions or constrictions of the ureters, bladder or urethra
  • acute renal failure may be due to intrinsic renal causes which involve a more direct insult or injury to the kidneys, and which also may entail permanent and/or progressive damage to the nephrons or other kidney structures.
  • Intrinsic causes of acute renal failure include but are not limited to infectious diseases (e.g., various bacterial, viral or parasitic infections), inflammatory diseases (e.g., glomerulonephritis, systemic lupus erythematosus), ischemia (e.g., renal artery occlusion), toxic syndromes (e.g., heavy metal poisoning, side-effects of antimicrobial treatments or chemotherapy), and direct traumas.
  • infectious diseases e.g., various bacterial, viral or parasitic infections
  • inflammatory diseases e.g., glomerulonephritis, systemic lupus erythematosus
  • ischemia e.g., renal artery occlusion
  • toxic syndromes e.g., heavy metal poisoning, side-effects of antimicrobial treatments or chemotherapy
  • oliguria urine output ⁇ 400 ml/day
  • anuria urine output ⁇ 50 ml/day
  • BUN levels may climb 10-20 mg/dL/day or faster
  • plasma creatinine levels may climb 0.5-1.0 mg/dL/day
  • metabolic acidosis is almost always present.
  • the electrolyte and fluid imbalances e.g., hyperkalemia, acidosis, edema
  • the present invention is directed to methods of treatment, and pharmaceutical preparations for use in the treatment, of mammalian subjects in, or at risk of, acute renal failure.
  • Such subjects include subjects already in acute renal failure, as well as any subject reasonably expected to suffer acute loss of renal function.
  • Whether a particular subject is in acute renal failure, or is at risk of acute renal failure, is a determination which may routinely be made by one of ordinary skill in the relevant medical or veterinary art.
  • Subjects in acute renal failure include those showing either (1) an increase in blood urea nitrogen (BUN) at a rate of at least 2 to 4 mmol/L/day (5 to 10 mg/dL/day), or (2) an increase in serum creatinine at a rate of at least 20 to 40 ⁇ mol/L/day (0.25 to 0.5 mg/dL/day). More typically, subjects in acute renal failure show rates of increase in BUN of at least 4 to 8 mmol/L/day (10 to 20 mg/dL/day), and rates of increase of serum creatinine of at least 40 to 80 ⁇ mol/L/day (0.5 to 1.0 mg/dL/day).
  • BUN blood urea nitrogen
  • Subjects “at risk” of acute renal failure include subjects which are reasonably expected to enter acute renal failure or which are otherwise expected to otherwise suffer a rapid progressive loss of renal function. Whether a particular subject is at risk is a determination which may routinely be made by one of ordinary skill in the relevant medical or veterinary art.
  • Subjects at risk of acute renal failure include but are not limited to the following: (1) subjects in which serial determination of BUN indicates a rate of increase of at least 1 to 2 mmol/L/day (2.5 to 5 mg/dL/day); (2) subjects in which serial determination of serum creatinine indicates a rate of increase of at least 10 to 20 ⁇ mol/L/day (0.125 to 0.25 mg/dL/day); (3) subjects which have been diagnosed with a pre-renal cause of acute renal failure; (4) subjects which have been diagnosed with a post-renal cause of acute renal failure; and (5) subjects which have been diagnosed with an intrinsic renal cause of acute renal failure.
  • OP/BMP renal therapeutic agents and including members of the osteogenic protein/bone morphogenetic protein (OP/BMP) family of proteins, may be used in the treatment of subjects in, or at risk of, acute renal failure.
  • OP/BMP osteogenic protein/bone morphogenetic protein
  • Useful renal therapeutic agents include polypeptides, or functional variants of polypeptides, comprising at least the C-terminal six- or seven-cysteine domain of a mammalian protein selected from the group consisting of OP-1, OP-2, OP-3, BMP2, BMP3, BMP4, BMP5, BMP6, BMP9, and proteins which exhibit at least 70% or, more preferably, 75% or 80% amino acid sequence homology with the amino acid sequence of the seven-cysteine domain of human OP-1; and which are (a) capable of inducing chondrogenesis in the Reddi-Sampath ectopic bone assay (Sampath and Reddi (1981), Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.
  • the renal therapeutic agents of the invention may be administered by any route of administration which is compatible with the selected agent, and may be formulated with any pharmaceutically acceptable carrier appropriate to the route of administration.
  • Preferred routes of administration are parenteral and, in particular, intravenous, intraperitoneal, and renal intracapsular. Administration is expected to be continuous or frequent (e.g., daily) during the period of acute renal failure, typically 1-3 weeks, but may also be continued for several weeks or months after the acute phase.
  • Daily dosages of the renal therapeutic agents are expected to be in the range of about 0.01-1000 ⁇ g/kg body weight, and more preferably about 10-700 ⁇ g/kg body weight, although precise dosages will vary depending upon the particular renal therapeutic agent employed and the particular subject's medical condition and history.
  • the treatments of the present invention are useful in reducing the rate and/or degree of morbidity in mammals in, or at risk of, acute renal failure.
  • the treatments of the present invention are useful in preventing, inhibiting, delaying or alleviating the permanent or progressive loss of renal function which may result from acute renal failure.
  • the present invention has great value, not only for increasing survival rates, but also in preventing or delaying the need for chronic dialysis or renal replacement therapy, in preventing or delaying the development of chronic renal insufficiency or chronic renal failure, and/or for reducing the necessary frequency of chronic renal dialysis.
  • the OP/BMP renal therapeutic agents of the invention are useful in reducing inflammation and neutrophil-mediated tissue damage.
  • the OP/BMP therapeutic agents are also shown to be useful in reducing the expression of ICAMs, particularly ICAM-1, when administered systemically.
  • the OP/BMP therapeutics may be used to reduce ICAM expression in epithelial issue, particularly renal epithelium.
  • the OP/BMP renal therapeutic agents of the invention are useful for inhibiting apoptosis of cells in damaged or injured tissues.
  • the OP/BMP therapeutic agents are shown to reduce apoptosis of damaged or injured epithelial tissues, particularly renal epithelium.
  • the OP/BMP renal therapeutic agents of the invention may be used in the manufacture of medicaments for the treatment of any of the above-described conditions.
  • FIG. 1 is a bar graph showing the effect of OP-1 on creatinine levels in rats in which ischemic renal damage was induced by temporarily preventing renal blood flow.
  • the vertical axis of the graph is a scale of creatinine ( ⁇ mol/L).
  • FIG. 2 is a table showing the effect of OP-1 on creatinine levels and on hemodynamic parameters in rats in which renal function was impaired by administering norepinephrine.
  • Acute Renal Failure is typically defined as a rapid deterioration in renal function sufficient to result in the accumulation of nitrogenous wastes in the body (see, e.g., Anderson and Schrier (1994), in Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 13th edition, Isselbacher et al., eds., McGraw Hill Text, New York). Rates of increase in BUN of at least 4 to 8 mmol/L/day (10 to 20 mg/dL/day), and rates of increase of serum creatinine of at least 40 to 80 ⁇ mol/L/day (0.5 to 1.0 mg/dL/day), are typical in acute renal failure.
  • rates of increase in BUN may exceed 100/mg/dL/day. Rates of increase in BUN or serum creatinine are usually determined by serial blood tests and, preferably, at least two blood tests are conducted over a period of between 6 and 72 hours or, more preferably, 12 and 24 hours. A distinction is sometime made between “acute” renal failure (deterioration over a period of days) and “rapidly progressive” renal failure (deterioration over a period of weeks). As used herein, however, the phrase “acute renal failure” is intended to embrace both syndromes.
  • Pre-renal causes of acute renal failure include decreased cardiac output, hypovolemia, volume redistribution, and altered vascular resistance.
  • post-renal causes of acute renal failure include ureteral, pelvic and bladder obstructions.
  • blood clots and kidney stones may cause obstructions of the ureters or bladder. Obstructions also may arise from sloughed papillae, and fungus balls. Extrinsic obstructions may result from, for example, malignancies or hypertrophies (e.g., prostatic or bladder carcinoma), retroperitoneal fibrosis, or iatrogenic causes (e.g., inadvertent ligation).
  • Urethral strictures or phimosis may also cause pre-renal acute renal failure.
  • Intrinsic Renal Causes of Acute Renal Failure include:
  • vasoconstrictive disease e.g., malignant hypertension, scleroderma, hemolytic uremic syndrome, thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura
  • vasculitis e.g., polyarteritis nodosa, hypersensitivity angiitis, serum sickness, Wegener's granulomatosis, giant cell arteritis, mixed cryoglobulinemia, Henoch-Schönlein purpura, systemic lupus erythematosus
  • Abnormalities of the glomeruli such as post-infectious abnormalities (e.g., post-streptococcal, pneumococcal, gonococcal, staphylococcal, enterococcal, viral [e.g., hepatitis B and C, mumps, measles, Epstein-Barr], malarial, or related to brucellosis, Legionella, Listeria, shunt nephritis, leprosy, leptospirosis, or visceral abscesses) and non-infectious abnormalities (e.g., rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis, membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis, Goodpasture's syndrome, systemic lupus erythematosus, Wegener's granulomatosis);
  • post-infectious abnormalities e.g., post-streptococcal, pneumococcal, gonococcal, staphyloc
  • Acute interstitial nephritis resulting from drug related causes e.g., penicillins, sulfonamides, carbenicillin, cephalosporin, erythromycin, nafcillin, oxacillin, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory agents, diuretics [furosemide, ethacrynic acid, thiazide, spironolactone, mercurials], phenytoin, phenobarbital, probenicid, allopurinol, cimetidine), infection related causes (e.g., acute pyelonephritis, streptococcal, staphylococcal, leptospirosis, malaria, salmonellosis), papillary necrosis (e.g., associated with diabetes mellitus, sickle cell diseases, analgesic abuse, alcoholism), and other, miscellaneous causes (e.g., sarcoidosis, leukemia, lymphoma
  • Intratubular obstruction from crystal deposition e.g., uric acid, oxalate, methotrexate
  • multiple myeloma and light chain disease e.g., uric acid, oxalate, methotrexate
  • Acute tubular necrosis resulting from nephrotoxins e.g., antimicrobials such as aminoglycosides, tetracyclines, amphotericin, polymyxin, cephalosporins), heavy metals (e.g., mercury, lead, arsenic, gold salts, barium), and other, miscellaneous chemical agents (e.g., cisplatin, doxorubicin, streptozocin, methoxyflurane, halothane, ethylene glycol, carbon tetrachloride), or from ischemia (e.g., hemorrhage, hypotension, sepsis, burns, renal infarction, renal artery dissection, rhabdomyolysis, trauma), or other miscellaneous causes (e.g., contrast agents, transfusion reactions, myoglobinemia, heat stroke, snake and spider bites).
  • miscellaneous chemical agents e.g., cisplatin, doxorubic
  • kidney transplantation surgery (as donor or recipient), bilateral arterial occlusion, bilateral acute renal vein thrombosis, acute uric acid nephropathy, hypovolemia, cardiovascular collapse, acute bilateral upper tract obstruction, hypercalcemic nephropathy, hemolytic uremic syndrome, acute urinary retention, malignant nephrosclerosis, essential mixed cyroimmunoglobulinemia, oxalate nephropathy, cortical necrosis, postpartum glomerulosclerosis, hypersensitivity nephropathy, scleroderma, idiopathic rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis, Goodpasture's syndrome, non-Goodpasture's anti-GBM disease, acute bacterial endocarditis or visceral sepsis, microscopic polyarteritis nodosa, Wegener's granulomatosis, allergic granulomatosis, acute radiation nephritis,
  • OP/BMP renal therapeutic agent As used herein, the terms “OP/BMP renal therapeutic agent,” “renal therapeutic agent of the invention,” and the like mean a polypeptide, or a functional variant of a polypeptide, comprising at least the C-terminal six- or seven-cysteine domain of a mammalian protein selected from the group consisting of OP-1, OP-2, OP-3, BMP2, BMP3, BMP4, BMP5, BMP6, BMP9, and proteins which exhibit at least 70% or, more preferably, 75% or 80% amino acid sequence homology with the amino acid sequence of the seven-cysteine domain of human OP-1; and which is (a) capable of inducing chondrogenesis in the Reddi-Sampath ectopic bone assay (Sampath and Reddi (1981), Proc.
  • a mammalian protein selected from the group consisting of OP-1, OP-2, OP-3, BMP2, BMP3, BMP4, BMP5, BMP6, BMP9
  • a renal therapeutic agent of the invention is said to have “therapeutic efficacy,” and an amount of the agent is said to be “therapeutically effective,” if administration of that amount of the agent is sufficient to cause a clinically significant improvement in a standard marker of renal function when administered to a mammalian subject (e.g., a human patient) in, or at risk of, acute renal failure.
  • markers of renal function are well known in the medical literature and include, without being limited to, rates of increase in BUN levels, rates of increase in serum creatinine, static measurements of BUN, static measurements of serum creatinine, glomerular filtration rates (GFR), ratios of BUN/creatinine, serum concentrations of sodium (Na+), urine/plasma ratios for creatinine, urine/plasma ratios for urea, urine osmolality, daily urine output, and the like (see, for example, Anderson and Schrier (1994), in Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 13th edition, Isselbacher et al., eds., McGraw Hill Text, New York; Kumar and Stein (1994), in Internal Medicine, 4th Edition, J. H. Stein, ed., Mosby-Year Book, Inc. St. Louis.)
  • the present invention depends, in part, upon the surprising discovery that administration of certain protein-based renal therapeutic agents to subjects in acute renal failure, or at risk of acute renal failure, can reduce mortality and/or morbidity rates, and prevent, inhibit, delay or alleviate the permanent and/or progressive loss of renal function associated with acute renal failure.
  • the present invention is particularly surprising in light of the fact that the agents of the present invention are proteins, whereas standard treatment regimes for acute renal failure include the limitation of protein intake to reduce strain on the kidneys.
  • the renal therapeutic agents of the invention are members of the osteogenic protein/bone morphogenetic protein (OP/BMP) family within the TGF- ⁇ superfamily of proteins.
  • OP/BMP osteogenic protein/bone morphogenetic protein
  • the renal therapeutic agents of the present invention are naturally occurring proteins, or functional variants of naturally occurring proteins, in the osteogenic protein/bone morphogenetic protein (OP/BMP) family within the TGF- ⁇ superfamily of proteins. That is, these proteins form a distinct subgroup, referred to herein as the “OP/BMP family,” within the loose evolutionary grouping of sequence-related proteins known as the TGF- ⁇ superfamily.
  • OP/BMP family within the loose evolutionary grouping of sequence-related proteins known as the TGF- ⁇ superfamily.
  • Members of this protein family comprise secreted polypeptides that share common structural features, and that are similarly processed from a pro-protein to yield a carboxy-terminal mature protein.
  • the 30 kDa protein When reduced, the 30 kDa protein gives rise to two glycosylated peptide subunits having apparent molecular weights of about 16 kDa and 18 kDa.
  • the unglycosylated protein has an apparent molecular weight of about 27 kDa.
  • the 27 kDa protein When reduced, the 27 kDa protein gives rise to two unglycosylated polypeptide chains, having molecular weights of about 14 kDa to 16 kDa.
  • the naturally occurring OP/BMP proteins are translated as a precursor, having an N-terminal signal peptide sequence, a “pro” domain, and a “mature” protein domain.
  • the signal peptide is typically less than 30 residues, and is cleaved rapidly upon translation at a cleavage site that can be predicted using the method of Von Heijne (1986), Nucleic Acids Research 14:4683-4691.
  • the “pro” domain is variable both in sequence and in length, ranging from approximately 200 to over 400 residues.
  • the pro domain is cleaved to yield the “mature” C-terminal domain of approximately 115-180 residues, which includes the conserved six- or seven-cysteine C-terminal domain of 97-106 residues.
  • the “pro form” of an OP/BMP family member refers to a protein comprising a folded pair of polypeptides, each comprising a pro domain in either covalent or noncovalent association with the mature domains of the OP/BMP polypeptide.
  • the pro form of the protein is more soluble than the mature form under physiological conditions.
  • the pro form appears to be the primary form secreted from cultured mammalian cells.
  • the “mature form” of the protein refers to mature C-terminal domain which is not associated, either covalently or noncovalently, with the pro domain. Any preparation of OP-1 is considered to contain mature form when the amount of pro domain in the preparation is no more than 5% of the amount of “mature” C-terminal domain.
  • OP/BMP family members useful herein include any of the known naturally-occurring native proteins including allelic, phylogenetic counterpart and other variants, thereof, whether naturally-sourced or biosynthetically produced (e.g., including “muteins” or “mutant proteins”), as well as new, active members of the OP/BMP family of proteins.
  • Particularly useful sequences include those comprising the C-terminal seven cysteine domains of mammalian, preferably human, OP-1, OP-2, OP-3, BMP2, BMP3, BMP4, BMP5, BMP6, BMP8 and BMP9.
  • Other proteins useful in the practice of the invention include active forms of GDF-5, GDF-6, GDF-7, DPP, Vgl, Vgr-1, 60A, GDF-1, GDF-3, GDF-5, GDF-6, GDF-7, BMP10, BMP11, BMP13, BMP15, UNIVIN, NODAL, SCREW, ADMP or NURAL and amino acid sequence variants thereof.
  • the renal therapeutic agents of the invention are selected from any one of: OP-1 OP-2, OP-3, BMP2, BMP3, BMP4, BMP5, BMP6, and BMP9.
  • OP-1 and OP-2 U.S. Pat. No. 5,011,691, U.S. Pat. No. 5,266,683, and Ozkaynak et al. (1990), EMBO J. 9:2085-2093; OP-3: WO94/10203; BMP2, BMP3, and BMP4: U.S. Pat. No. 5,013,649, W091/18098, WO88/00205, and Wozney et al. (1988), Science 242:1528-1534; BMP5 and BMP6: WO90/11366 and Celeste et al. (1991), Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.
  • useful proteins include biologically active biosynthetic constructs, including novel biosynthetic proteins and chimeric proteins designed using sequences from two or more known OP/BMP family proteins. See also the biosynthetic constructs disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,011,691, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference (e.g., COP-1, COP-3, COP-4, COP-5, COP-7, and COP-16).
  • the renal therapeutic agents useful herein include therapeutically effective proteins in which the amino acid sequences comprise a sequence sharing at least 70% amino acid sequence “homology” and, preferably, 75% or 80% homology with the C-terminal seven cysteine domain present in the active forms of human OP-1 (i.e., residues 330-431, as shown in SEQ ID NO: 2 of U.S. Pat. No. 5,266,683).
  • the renal therapeutic agents useful herein include therapeutically effective proteins in which the amino acid sequences comprise a sequence sharing at least 60% amino acid sequence identity and, preferably, 65% or 70% identity with the C-terminal seven cysteine domain present in the active forms of human OP-1.
  • homologous or functionally equivalent sequences include functionally equivalent arrangements of the cysteine residues within the conserved cysteine skeleton, including amino acid insertions or deletions which alter the linear arrangement of these cysteines, but do not materially impair their relationship in the folded structure of the dimeric protein, including their ability to form such intra- or inter-chain disulfide bonds as may be necessary for biological activity.
  • an alignment algorithm such as the dynamic programming algorithm described in Needleman et al., J. Mol. Biol.
  • a similarity score is first calculated as the sum of the aligned pair-wise amino acid similarity scores. Insertions and deletions are ignored for the purposes of percent homology and identity. Accordingly, gap penalties are not used in this calculation.
  • the raw score is then normalized by dividing it by the geometric mean of the scores of the candidate compound and the seven cysteine skeleton of hOP-1. The geometric mean is the square root of the product of these scores. The normalized raw score is the percent homology.
  • amino acid sequence “homology” is understood herein to include both amino acid sequence identity and similarity and, as used herein, a percentage “homology” between two amino acid sequences indicates the percentage of amino acid residues which are identical or similar between the sequences.
  • similar residues are “conservative substitutions” which fulfill the criteria defined for an “accepted point mutation” in Dayhoff et al. (1978), supra.
  • conservative substitutions are residues that are physically or functionally similar to the corresponding reference residues, having similar size, shape, electric charge, and/or chemical properties such as the ability to form covalent or hydrogen bonds, or the like.
  • conservative substitutions include the substitution of one amino acid for another with similar characteristics, e.g., substitutions within the following groups: (a) valine, glycine; (b) glycine, alanine; (c) valine, isoleucine, leucine; (d) aspartic acid, glutamic acid; (e) asparagine, glutamine; (f) serine, threonine; (g) lysine, arginine, methionine; and (h) phenylalanine, tyrosine.
  • conservative substitution or “conservative variation” also includes the use of a substituted amino acid in place of an unsubstituted parent amino acid in a given polypeptide chain, provided that the resulting substituted polypeptide chain also has therapeutic efficacy in the present invention.
  • a renal therapeutic agent of the present invention is (a) capable of inducing chondrogenesis in the Reddi-Sampath ectopic bone assay (Sampath and Reddi (1981), Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.
  • the Reddi-Sampath ectopic bone assay is well known in the art as an assay of chondrogenic activity.
  • the assay which can be easily performed, is described and discussed in, for example, Sampath and Reddi (1981), Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. ( USA ) 78:7599-7603; and Wozney (1989), “Bone Morphogenetic Proteins,” Progress in Growth Factor Research 1:267-280.
  • Many equivalent assays, using other animals and tissue sites, may be employed or developed by those of skill in the art to evaluate the biological activity of the renal therapeutic agents of the present invention. See, for example, the bioassays described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,226,683.
  • the renal therapeutic agents of the present invention also may be tested in animal models of acute renal failure.
  • Mammalian models of acute renal failure in, for example, mice, rats, guinea pigs, cats, dogs, sheep, goats, pigs, cows, horses, and non-human primates, may be created by causing an appropriate direct or indirect injury or insult to the renal tissues of the animal.
  • Animal models of acute renal failure may, for example, be created by inducing in the animal the conditions or diseases described above as placing a subject “at risk” of acute renal failure.
  • an animal model is employed in which acute renal failure is induced by the controlled administration of nephrotoxic agents (e.g., cisplatin, aminoglycoside antibiotics, heavy metals).
  • the renal therapeutic agents of the present invention may be evaluated for their therapeutic efficacy in causing a clinically significant improvement in a standard marker of renal function when administered to a mammalian subject (e.g., a human patient) in, or at risk of, acute renal failure.
  • markers of renal function are well known in the medical literature and include, without being limited to, rates of increase in BUN levels, rates of increase in serum creatinine, static measurements of BUN, static measurements of serum creatinine, glomerular filtration rates (GFR), ratios of BUN/creatinine, serum concentrations of sodium (Na+), urine/plasma ratios for creatinine, urine/plasma ratios for urea, urine osmolality, daily urine output, and the like (see, for example, Anderson and Schrier (1994), in Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 13th edition, Isselbacher et al., eds., McGraw Hill Text, New York; Kumar and Stein (1994), in Internal Medicine, 4th Edition, J. H. Stein, ed., Mosby-Year Book, Inc. St. Louis).
  • the renal therapeutic agents contemplated herein can be expressed from intact or truncated genomic or cDNA or from synthetic DNAs in prokaryotic or eukaryotic host cells.
  • the dimeric proteins can be isolated from the culture media and/or refolded and dimerized in vitro to form biologically active compositions.
  • Heterodimers can be formed in vitro by combining separate, distinct polypeptide chains. Alternatively, heterodimers can be formed in a single cell by co-expressing nucleic acids encoding separate, distinct polypeptide chains. See, for example, WO93/09229, or U.S. Pat. No. 5,411,941, for several exemplary recombinant heterodimer protein production protocols.
  • host cells include, without limitation, prokaryotes including E. coli, or eukaryotes including yeast, Saccharomyces, insect cells, or mammalian cells, such as CHO, COS or BSC cells.
  • prokaryotes including E. coli
  • eukaryotes including yeast, Saccharomyces, insect cells, or mammalian cells, such as CHO, COS or BSC cells.
  • mammalian cells such as CHO, COS or BSC cells.
  • the methods of the present invention may be utilized for any mammalian subject in, or at risk of, acute renal failure.
  • Mammalian subjects which may be treated according to the methods of the invention include, but are not limited to, human subjects or patients.
  • the invention may be employed in the treatment of domesticated mammals which are maintained as human companions (e.g., dogs, cats, horses), which have significant commercial value (e.g., dairy cows, beef cattle, sporting animals), which have significant scientific value (e.g., captive or free specimens of endangered species), or which otherwise have value.
  • the subjects for treatment with the methods of the present invention need not present indications for treatment with the agents of the invention other than those associated with acute renal failure or risk of acute renal failure. That is, the subjects for treatment may be otherwise free of indications for treatment with the agents of the invention. In some number of cases, however, the subjects may present with other symptoms (e.g., osteodystrophy) for which renal therapeutic agent treatment would be indicated. In such cases, the renal therapeutic agent treatment should be adjusted accordingly so to avoid excessive dosing.
  • a diagnosis that a subject is in acute renal failure, or at risk of entering acute renal failure is made on the basis of serial blood tests measuring, among other factors, the circulating levels of serum creatinine and blood urea nitrogen.
  • serial blood tests may be taken every few hours immediately upon admittance of an undiagnosed patient presenting with symptoms of acute renal failure. More typically, however, consecutive serial blood tests are separated by a period of at least 6 hours, not more than 72 hours, and preferably 12-24 hours. On the basis of two or more blood tests within a 24 or 72 hour period, it is possible to calculate a rate of increase of serum creatinine or BUN.
  • subjects possessing a single kidney may be considered to be at increased risk of acute renal failure. This is particularly true for those subjects in which one kidney has been lost due to a disease or condition which may afflict the remaining kidney.
  • subjects which are already recipients of a renal transplant, or which are receiving chronic dialysis e.g., chronic hemodialysis or continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis
  • the OP/BMP renal therapeutic agents of the invention are useful in reducing inflammation and neutrophil-mediated tissue damage.
  • Example 3, below in which it is seen that systemically administered OP-1 reduces inflammation, the accumulation and activity of neutrophils, and neutrophil-mediated damage in a rat ischemia-reperfusion injury model of ARF.
  • the OP/BMP therapeutic agents are shown to be useful in reducing inflammation, the accumulation and activity of neutrophils, and neutrophil-mediated damage in injured or damaged epithelial tissue, and particularly renal epithelial tissue.
  • the OP/BMP therapeutic agents are also shown to be useful in reducing the expression of ICAMs, particularly ICAM-1, when administered systemically.
  • the OP/BMP therapeutics are shown to be useful in reducing ICAM expression in epithelial issue, particularly renal epithelial tissue.
  • the OP/BMP renal therapeutic agents of the invention are useful for inhibiting apoptosis of cells in damaged or injured tissues. This is also demonstrated in Example 3, below, in which it is seen that systemically administered OP-1 reduces the number of apoptotic cells in a rat ischemia-reperfusion injury model of ARF. Thus, the OP/BMP therapeutic agents are shown to be useful in inhibiting apoptosis of damaged or injured epithelial tissues, particularly renal epithelium.
  • the renal therapeutic agents of the present invention may be administered by any route which is compatible with the particular renal therapeutic agent employed.
  • administration may be oral or parenteral, including intravenous, intraperitoneal, and renal intracapsular routes of administration.
  • administration may be by periodic injections of a bolus of the renal therapeutic agent, or may be made more continuous by intravenous or intraperitoneal administration from a reservoir which is external (e.g., an i.v. bag) or internal (e.g., a bioerodable implant or implanted pump).
  • the renal therapeutic agents of the invention may be provided to an individual by any suitable means, preferably directly (e.g., locally, as by injection or topical administration to a tissue locus) or systemically (e.g., parenterally or orally).
  • the agent preferably comprises part of an aqueous solution.
  • the solution is physiologically acceptable so that in addition to delivery of the desired agent to the subject, the solution does not otherwise adversely affect the subject's electrolyte and/or volume balance.
  • the aqueous medium for the agent thus may comprise normal physiologic saline (e.g., 9.85% NaCl, 0.15M, pH 7-7.4).
  • a given renal therapeutic agent or other agent may be made more soluble by association with a suitable molecule.
  • association of a mature OP/BMP dimer with an OP/BMP pro domain results in the pro form of the renal therapeutic agent which typically is more soluble or dispersible in physiological solutions than the corresponding mature form.
  • endogenous members of the OP/BMP family are thought to be transported (e.g., secreted and circulated) in the mammalian body in this form.
  • This soluble form of the protein can be obtained from culture medium of OP/BMP-secreting mammalian cells, e.g., cells transfected with nucleic acid encoding and competent to express the protein.
  • a soluble species can be formulated by complexing the mature dimer (or an active fragment thereof) with a pro domain or a solubility-enhancing fragment thereof (described more fully below).
  • a solubility-enhancing fragment thereof Another molecule capable of enhancing solubility and particularly useful for oral administrations, is casein. For example, addition of 0.2% casein increases solubility of the mature active form of OP-1 by 80%.
  • Other components found in milk and/or various serum proteins also may be useful.
  • Useful solutions for parenteral administration may be prepared by any of the methods well known in the pharmaceutical art, described, for example, in Remington's Pharmaceutical Sciences (Gennaro, A., ed.), Mack Pub., 1990.
  • the agents described herein may be administered orally.
  • Oral administration of proteins as therapeutics generally is not practiced as most proteins are readily degraded by digestive enzymes and acids in the mammalian digestive system before they can be absorbed into the bloodstream.
  • the renal therapeutic agents described herein typically are acid stable and protease-resistant (see, for example, U.S. Pat. No. 4,968,590).
  • at least one of these renal therapeutic agents, OP-1 has been identified in mammary gland extract, colostrum and 57-day milk.
  • the OP-1 purified from mammary gland extract is therapeutically efficacious and also is detected in the bloodstream.
  • soluble form OP-1 e.g., mature OP-1 associated with the pro domain
  • oral and parenteral administration are viable means for administering the renal therapeutic agents of the invention to an individual.
  • the mature forms of certain renal therapeutic agents described herein typically are sparingly soluble
  • the form found in milk (and mammary gland extract and colostrum) is readily soluble, probably by association of the mature, therapeutically efficacious form with part or all of the pro domain of the intact sequence and/or by association with one or more milk components:
  • the compounds provided herein also may be associated with molecules capable of enhancing their solubility in vitro or in vivo.
  • the compounds provided herein also may be associated with molecules capable of targeting the renal therapeutic agent to the desired tissue.
  • molecules capable of targeting the renal therapeutic agent to the desired tissue may be used.
  • an antibody, antibody fragment, or other binding protein that interacts specifically with a surface molecule on cells of the desired tissue may be used.
  • Useful targeting molecules may be designed, for example, using the single chain binding site technology disclosed, for example, in U.S. Pat. No. 5,091,513.
  • the formulated compositions contain therapeutically effective amounts of the renal therapeutic agent. That is, they contain amounts which provide appropriate concentrations of the agent to the renal tissues for a time sufficient to prevent, inhibit, delay or alleviate permanent or progressive loss of renal function, or otherwise provide therapeutic efficacy.
  • concentration of the compounds described in a therapeutic composition of the present invention will vary depending upon a number of factors, including the biological efficacy of the selected agent, the chemical characteristics (e.g., hydrophobicity) of the compounds employed, the formulation of the compound excipients, the administration route, and the treatment envisioned, including whether the active ingredient will be administered directly into a kidney or renal capsule, or whether it will be administered systemically.
  • the preferred dosage to be administered also is likely to depend on such variables such as the condition of the renal tissues, extent of renal function loss, and the overall health status of the particular subject. Dosages are preferably administered continuously, but daily, multi-weekly, weekly or monthly dosages may also be employed. For subjects which would otherwise require continuous, bi-weekly or tri-weekly hemodialysis sessions, continuous, bi-weekly or tri-weekly intravenous or intraperitoneal infusions are not considered unduly inconvenient. In addition, in order to facilitate frequent infusions, implantation of a semi-permanent stent (e.g., intravenous, intraperitoneal or intracapsular) may be advisable.
  • a semi-permanent stent e.g., intravenous, intraperitoneal or intracapsular
  • the renal therapeutic agents of the invention may, of course, be administered alone or in combination with other molecules known to be beneficial in the treatment of the conditions described herein. When used in combination with other agents, it may be advisable to alter the dosages of the renal therapeutic agents of the present invention accordingly.
  • the present invention provides for the use of the OP/BMP renal therapeutic agents of the invention in the manufacture of medicaments for the treatment of any of the above-described conditions.
  • OP-1 treatment is associated with a creatinine level which peaks at the 24 hour measurement to a level only half that of the placebo group, after which it begins to decrease.
  • the creatinine level of the placebo treated rats was at least twice as high as that of the OP-1 treated animals.
  • the upper table of FIG. 2 presents creatinine levels of vehicle- and OP-1 treated rats.
  • the animals which had been treated with OP-1 on the second day after injury had creatinine levels which are significantly lower than the levels of the vehicle-treated controls.
  • the data presented in the lower table of FIG. 2 shows that OP-1 treatment was also associated with improvements in renal blood flow, GFR, and urine flow as compared to controls.
  • Wistar male rats of 200-250 g (Pliva Breeding Laboratory, Zagreb, Croatia) were fasted for 12 h prior to surgery.
  • ketamin (20 mg/kg) anesthetic
  • both renal arteries were dorsally occluded for 60 minutes with microaneurysm clamps (Roboz).
  • Vehicle buffer or OP-1 containing 20 mM sodium acetate buffer (500 ⁇ l) were administered via the tail vein. All animals were subjected to intraperitoneal administration of 1-3 ml of pre-warmed (37° C.) saline (0.9% NaCl) to compensate for any fluid loss during the surgery. Experiments were blind, and rats were terminated at different time intervals ranging from 30 min to 18 days.
  • Blood samples (0.5 ml) were obtained from the orbital plexus at 0 h, 24 h, 48 h, and 72 h and, in some cases, at 30 min, 2 h, 8 h, and 96 h, and 18 days following reperfusion.
  • urine was collected from metabolic cages for 24 h as previously described (Vukicevic et al. (1989) Bone Miner. 6:125-39). Serum and urine creatinine was measured by the Jaffe method (Whelton et al. (1994) in Clinical Chemistry, Burtis and Ashwood, eds., Amer. Assn. Clin.
  • BUN blood urea nitrogen
  • phosphorus was measured by a molybdate method
  • calcium was measured by an o-cresolphtaleine method.
  • Serum electrolytes were measured by indirect potentiometry. Fifteen independent experiments with a total of 456 rats were performed.
  • OP-1 was administered 10 minutes prior to surgery and then at 24 h, 48 h, and 72 h thereafter.
  • the first OP-1 injection was administered either at 1 h or 16 h after reperfusion, followed by injections at 24 h intervals up to 96 h following reperfusion.
  • each kidney was split longitudinally and one half was fixed in 4% paraformaldehyde.
  • Two consecutive sections from paraffin embedded blocks were stained with H&E and PAS.
  • the morphometric measurements were done on longitudinal sections using an eye-piece grid that contains 100-point grid lines under a Nikon microscope (Nikon Optiphot-2; MVI, Avon, Mass.).
  • the grid was calibrated by a stage micrometer and the area of a specific feature was measured by counting the number of intersects (points or hits) that were superimposed on the tissue of interest. All counts were done through a 1 ⁇ objective lens. Each point or hit represents an area of 0.61 mm 2 . Verification of features were done at a higher magnification, if they could not be discerned through the 1 ⁇ objective lens.
  • a dilated tubule was defined as a tubular structure having distended lumen and identifiable epithelial cells.
  • a plugged tubule was defined as a tubular structure having debris-filled lumen and identifiable epithelial cells.
  • An infarcted area was defined as a portion or a zone of the kidney showing identifiable tissue profiles and lost cellular details, which was stained bright pink by H&E stain, and which was associated with regional congestion in the outer medulla.
  • a necrotic area was defined as a portion or a zone of the kidney located in the infarcted area showing loss of both tissue profits and cellular details.
  • Immunocytochemistry was performed using the immunoperoxidase detection system (Zymed, San Francisco, Calif.). The following monoclonal antibodies were used: PCNA (proliferating cell nuclear antigen; Dako, Denmark), smooth muscle ⁇ -actin (SMA) (Dako, Denmark), smooth muscle myosin IgG (BTI, Stoughton, Mass.) and ICAM (CD 54; Dako, Denmark). A minimum of 3000 cells were counted per kidney section stained for PCNA and SMA, and the number of positive cells was expressed as a percentage of total counted cells in the subdivisions of cortex, and/or S 3 zone.
  • PCNA proliferating cell nuclear antigen
  • SMA smooth muscle ⁇ -actin
  • ICAM ICAM
  • Apoptotic cells were detected by a TACS 2 TdT in situ apoptosis system (Trevigen, Gaithersburg, Md.). The total number of apoptotic cells were counted in cortex and medulla in three sections per kidney from eight independent animals per group, sacrificed at days 1, 2, 3, and 5 following reperfusion.
  • the neutrophil infiltration was determined using naphthol AS-D chloroacetate esterase staining (Sigma) on histologic sections.
  • the neutrophils were counted in the cortex and S 3 zone (outer medulla and inner cortex) using an ocular grid. Data were expressed as number of neutrophils per mm 2 , evaluated on 100 high power fields per section, two sections per animal from 8 independent rats at 24 h following injury.
  • neutrophil activity was determined at 24 h following injury by myeloperoxidase activity (MPO).
  • kidneys were extracted in 0.5% HTAB (Sigma) in 50 mM KPO 4 buffer, pH 6.0, homogenized for 10 min, sonicated for 5 min and, finally, the lysate was centrifuged for 60 min at 20,000 ⁇ g. Ten ⁇ l of extract was incubated with 1 ml of 50 mM KPO 4 buffer containing 0.167 mg/ml O-dianisidine (Sigma) and 0.0005% H 2 O 2 at 25° C. Absorbance was determined at 460 nm using a myeloperoxidase standard (Oxis) and normalized to kidney wet weight.
  • HTAB mM KPO 4 buffer, pH 6.0
  • the OP-1 dose which successfully protected the kidney against ischemic injury varied with age of the animal and severity of ischemia and reperfusion, and was within a range of 50-250 ⁇ g/kg. GFR measured at 24 h after reperfusion was significantly higher in OP-1 treated rats than in vehicle-treated rats. Specifically, sham rats had a GFR (ml/min) of 4.7 ⁇ 0.8; vehicle-treated ARF rats had a GFR of 0.25 ⁇ 0.11; and OP-1 treated rats had a GFR of 0.45 ⁇ 0.17 (p ⁇ 0.05 vs ARF). To examine the therapeutic potential of OP-1 for the treatment of established ARF, OP-1 was administered either at 1 h or 16 h following reperfusion.
  • peritubular capillary-derived smooth muscle cells revealed that at 24 h post-injury, approximately 5-fold more cells in the S 3 zone of OP-1 treated kidneys expressed ⁇ -actin as compared to vehicle treated kidneys, suggesting that OP-1 therapy supports the maintenance of a vascular smooth muscle phenotype.
  • Cell proliferation evaluated by PCNA staining indicated an increase in proximal tubule cell growth in the cortex and outer medulla of OP-1 treated rats.
  • OP-1 had a similar protective action on kidney histology.
  • animals treated 16 h after reperfusion the structural damage was similar to vehicle-treated animals at 24 h following injury.
  • ICAM-1 has been reported to play an important role during the onset of ARF, we determined the effect of OP-1 on the expression of ICAM-1 at different time points following ischemia and reperfusion.
  • OP-1 treatment 10 min prior to ischemia attenuated the expression of ICAM-1 as determined by molecular and histochemical analyses of kidneys obtained at 30 min, 2 h and 8 h following reperfusion.
  • Significant neutrophil accumulation in vehicle-treated rats was observed at 24 h following reperfusion in the S 3 zone.
  • MPO tissue myeloperoxidase activity

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