申请人:University of Pittsburgh—of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
公开号:US10300083B2
公开(公告)日:2019-05-28
The present invention relates to methods of treating infectious, inflammatory and post-traumatic disorders by administering various compounds newly discovered to have TLR4 inhibitory activity. In addition to methods of treatment, the present invention further provides for pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds, together with a suitable pharmaceutical carrier. Because TLR4 is the most upstream receptor in the pro-inflammatory LPS signaling cascade, treatments of the invention, which inhibit or antagonize TLR4 action, may avoid the pitfalls associated with other cytokine inhibitors that act further down the pathway and accordingly play a less specific (and perhaps non-critical) role.
本发明涉及通过施用新发现的具有 TLR4 抑制活性的各种化合物来治疗感染性、炎症性和创伤后疾病的方法。除了治疗方法外,本发明还进一步提供了包含上述化合物的药物组合物以及合适的药物载体。由于 TLR4 是促炎性 LPS 信号转导级联中最上游的受体,本发明的治疗方法可抑制或拮抗 TLR4 的作用,从而避免与其他细胞因子抑制剂相关的陷阱,这些细胞因子抑制剂作用于更下游的通路,因此发挥的作用不那么特异(也许不那么关键)。