Method for the preventing and/or treating IL-1 beta lung pathology in mammals by administering a uric acid reducing compound
First Claim
1. A method for the prevention and/or the treatment of IL-1β
- driven lung pathology in a mammal in need thereof, comprising the step of administering an effective amount of a compound capable of reducing the uric acid level in said mammal, wherein said compound is selected from the group consisting of;
an uricase, a recombinant uricase, and a functional fragment thereof, andan uricosuric compound, an inhibitor of the tubular organic anion transporter resulting in the augmentation of renal elimination of uric acid, and a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
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Abstract
The present invention is directed to the use of a compound capable of reducing the uric acid level in a mammal for the prevention and/or the treatment of IL-Iβ driven lung pathology, particularly to treat lung inflammation such as chronic fibrosis, COPD and interstitial fibrosis and other IL-1β driven lung pathologies including those of autoimmune origin. Preferred compounds capable of reducing the uric acid level are selected from the group consisting of xanthine oxidase inhibitors, such as allopurinol, recombinant enzyme uricase and uricosuric compound capable of enhancing uric acid excretion, such as probenecid. The invention further relates to a method for identifying in vitro whether a patient presents an IL-1β driven lung pathology or is at risk to develop an IL-1β driven lung pathology, or for the screening of a compound for treating an IL-1β driven lung pathology.
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1. A method for the prevention and/or the treatment of IL-1β
- driven lung pathology in a mammal in need thereof, comprising the step of administering an effective amount of a compound capable of reducing the uric acid level in said mammal, wherein said compound is selected from the group consisting of;
an uricase, a recombinant uricase, and a functional fragment thereof, and an uricosuric compound, an inhibitor of the tubular organic anion transporter resulting in the augmentation of renal elimination of uric acid, and a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
- driven lung pathology in a mammal in need thereof, comprising the step of administering an effective amount of a compound capable of reducing the uric acid level in said mammal, wherein said compound is selected from the group consisting of;
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