COMBINATION OF AN APELIN ANTAGONIST AND AN ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITOR FOR THE TREATMENT OF CANCER
申请人:IMBA-Institut für Molekulare Biotechnologie GmbH
公开号:EP3228630A1
公开(公告)日:2017-10-11
The field of the present invention is the field of anti-angiogenic cancer therapy. Efforts are needed to reduce or overcome resistance of cancer to anti-angiogenic therapies, such as therapies based on the receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) inhibitor sunitinib. It is hence an object of the present invention to provide an agent that can be combined with an anti-angiogenic therapy in order to reduce or overcome resistance to the anti-angiogenic therapy. The present invention thus relates to a pharmaceutical composition or set comprising an apelin antagonist and/or apelin receptor antagonist, and an angiogenesis inhibitor. The angiogenesis inhibitor is an RTK inhibitor, preferably sunitinib. The apelin antagonist can be an anti-apelin antibody. The apelin receptor antagonist can be an apelin peptide analogue or an anti-apelin-receptor antibody. Furthermore, methods of cancer treatment, especially breast or lung cancer treatment, based on an apelin antagonist and/or apelin receptor antagonist, and an angiogenesis inhibitor are disclosed.
本发明的领域是抗血管生成癌症疗法领域。需要努力减少或克服癌症对抗血管生成疗法的耐药性,如基于受体酪氨酸激酶(RTK)抑制剂舒尼替尼的疗法。因此,本发明的目的是提供一种可与抗血管生成疗法联合使用的制剂,以减少或克服抗血管生成疗法的耐药性。因此,本发明涉及一种药物组合物或成套制剂,该组合物或成套制剂包含一种凋亡素拮抗剂和/或凋亡素受体拮抗剂,以及一种血管生成抑制剂。血管生成抑制剂是一种 RTK 抑制剂,最好是舒尼替尼。凋亡素拮抗剂可以是抗凋亡素抗体。凋亡素受体拮抗剂可以是凋亡素肽类似物或抗凋亡素受体抗体。此外,还公开了基于阿佩林拮抗剂和/或阿佩林受体拮抗剂和血管生成抑制剂的癌症治疗方法,特别是乳腺癌或肺癌治疗方法。