Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University, Durham, NC.
Institute of Health System Science, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Northwell Health, NY.
NEJM Evid. 2023 Dec;2(12):EVIDe2300282. doi: 10.1056/EVIDe2300282. Epub 2023 Nov 28.
In this issue of , Gaudet et al. present the safety profile and pharmacodynamics of ARO-APOC3, a small interfering RNA therapeutic that inhibits apolipoprotein C-III (APOC3) mRNA expression in a phase I trial. Assignment to treatment was based on fasting levels of triglycerides. The trial included two double-blinded cohorts with 52 randomly assigned healthy participants and 40 patients with hypertriglyceridemia assigned to escalating doses of ARO-APOC3 at 10, 25, 50, or 100 mg or placebo in a single- and/or repeat-dose (days 1 and 29) regimen. An open-label cohort of patients with chylomicronemia was treated with ARO-APOC3 at 50 mg.
本期《新英格兰医学杂志》刊登了 Gaudet 等人的研究报告,介绍了靶向载脂蛋白 C-III(APOC3)的小干扰 RNA 药物 ARO-APOC3 的安全性特征和药效学。该药物可抑制 APOC3mRNA 的表达,Ⅰ期临床试验采用了基于空腹甘油三酯水平的分组方法。试验共纳入了两个双盲队列,分别有 52 名健康志愿者和 40 名高甘油三酯血症患者入组,按照 10、25、50 或 100mg 递增剂量或安慰剂(单次和/或重复剂量,第 1 天和第 29 天)方案,接受 ARO-APOC3 治疗。另有一个开放标签队列纳入了伴有乳糜微粒血症的患者,给予 50mg 的 ARO-APOC3 治疗。