Sunday, 6 November 2016

DURECT Corporation Announces Update on DUR-928 Development Program

CUPERTINO, Calif., Oct. 31, 2016/PRNewswire/ - DURECT Corporation (Nasdaq: DRRX) today gave a report on the DUR-928 improvement program including a depiction of information from the main partner of a Phase 1b think about with DUR-928 in patients with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH).

"We are satisfied to report information from companion one of the main patient study with DUR-928, and that a solitary dosage gave signs of DUR-928 movement in cirrhotic and non-cirrhotic NASH patients," expressed James E. Chestnut, D.V.M., President and CEO of DURECT. "These late DUR-928 information in patients are steady with DUR-928 exercises already showed in creature models and in cell societies. Also, we are giving an account of two new creature concentrates on that are suggestive of DUR-928's potential helpful exercises in fibrotic and cholestatic liver sicknesses, and are planning two IND's to empower future clinical trials in the U.S."

"I as of late audited information from the Phase 1b trial and am inspired to see this sort of flag with only a solitary dosage," expressed Arun Sanyal, M.D., Professor of Medicine Physiology and Molecular Pathology at Virginia Commonwealth University, and a past President of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD).

Overhaul on the Epigenetic Regulator Program

DUR-928, our Epigenetic Regulator Program's lead item competitor, is an endogenous, little particle, new concoction substance (NCE), which may have expansive pertinence in a few metabolic infections, for example, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), and in intense organ wounds, for example, intense kidney harm.

Stage 1b trial in patients with NASH

Our first patient trial using DUR-928 is an open-mark, single-rising measurement wellbeing and pharmacokinetic (PK) Phase 1b trial in liver capacity impeded (NASH) patients and coordinated control subjects (coordinated by age, body mass record and sex with typical liver capacity). This study is being directed in progressive partners assessing single-measurement levels of orally controlled DUR-928. The main, low measurements, associate comprised of 10 subjects with NASH (of which 4 were cirrhotic and 6 were not cirrhotic) and 6 coordinated control subjects. After a PK/wellbeing survey of this associate, the study has continued to the higher measurement companion using a dosage four times bigger than the low dosage partner. Information from the principal associate demonstrated the PK parameters between the NASH patients and the coordinated control subjects were equivalent.

While this study was not intended to survey the adequacy of DUR-928 as a treatment for NASH, certain clinical science biomarkers for liver capacity and liver damage were diminished 12 hours subsequent to dosing with DUR-928 when contrasted with before dosing. Besides, high affectability C-Reactive Protein (hsCRP), a marker of irritation, was decreased in the wake of dosing with DUR-928. IL-18, an incendiary middle person involved in both liver and kidney maladies, diminished in the NASH patients when a couple of hours in the wake of dosing, with the impact more professed in cirrhotic subjects at 12 hours subsequent to dosing; there was almost no change of IL-18 levels in coordinated control subjects. Moreover, both full length CK18 (a summed up cell passing marker) and divided CK18 (a cell apoptosis marker) were diminished after DUR-928 treatment in the NASH patients, with the impact more proclaimed in cirrhotic subjects, and practically no change in coordinated control subjects. On the whole, the diminishment of these biomarkers in addition to comes about because of our creature and cell culture examines propose potential restorative action of DUR-928 for patients with liver sickness. In any case, extra studies are required to assess the security and viability of DUR-928, and there is no confirmation that these biomarker impacts will be seen in a measurably critical way, or that DUR-928 will exhibit wellbeing or adequacy in treating NASH or other liver infections, in bigger controlled trials.

We are as of now selecting and dosing patients in the higher measurement companion, which we hope to finish in 2016, and we expect that this single-climbing dosage Phase 1b trial will empower and advise future studies in patients with liver infections. We have likewise as of late asked for a pre-IND meeting with the U.S. Nourishment and Drug Administration (FDA) as forerunner to presenting an IND, which is required to empower a future liver infection clinical trial in the United States.

Stage 1b trial in patients with weakened kidney work

Our second Phase 1b think about with DUR-928, likewise being directed in Australia, is an open-name, single-climbing measurement wellbeing and pharmacokinetic examine in patients with hindered kidney work (organize 3 and 4 constant kidney sickness) and coordinated control subjects with ordinary kidney work. After a PK/security survey of the low dosage, the study may continue to a higher measurement. Accepting both associates are dosed, the study will include around 16-18 subjects, of which roughly 10-12 will have gotten DUR-928. We foresee that we will acquire comes about because of this trial in 2016, and that this trial will empower and illuminate resulting persistent studies in intense kidney harm and additionally other kidney infections. We as of late held a pre-IND meeting with the Cardiovascular and Renal Products Division of the FDA; we envision using criticism from that meeting and additionally from our clinical counsels to document an IND which is required to empower a future kidney illness clinical trial in the United States.

Comes about because of extra creature concentrates on

Already we conveyed that the natural movement of DUR-928 has been shown in 8 distinctive creature malady models including three creature species. These models speak to intense organ wounds and endless issue including kidney, liver, mind and multi-organ wounds. Today we are writing about two extra creature illness models:

A second study in a mouse model of cutting edge NASH (STAM demonstrate). In this model, directed by a Contract Research Organization (CRO) in Japan, NASH is instigated in diabetic mice nourished a high fat eating routine. In a formerly reported study with this model, the treatment with DUR-928 was started when greasy liver had framed and halted after fibrosis created. Day by day oral organization of DUR-928 for 4 weeks brought about restraint of the movement of liver aggravation, hepatocyte expanding and fibrosis. In this more up to date concentrate on, the treatment was started after fibrosis had shaped and ceased after knobs had created. Day by day oral organization of DUR-928 for 4 weeks brought about factually noteworthy lessening of fibrosis and hepatocyte expanding when contrasted with fake treatment control. The fibrosis seen toward the end of the study in DUR-928 treated creatures was not as much as that seen toward the start of the treatment. The hepatocyte expanding seen toward the end of the study in the DUR-928 gathering was fundamentally lower than toward the start of the treatment.

Bile pipe ligation rodent show (a model for cholestatic liver illnesses, for example, Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis or PSC). In two studies, directed by a CRO in Canada, the bile pipe was surgically ligated, bringing about cholestatic incendiary liver damage. Day by day oral organization for nine days of DUR-928 indicated critical change in body temperature and body weight, and also a measurably noteworthy diminishment of aggregate bilirubin (counting both immediate and backhanded bilirubin).

Telephone call

These outcomes will be examined amid a live sound webcast of a telephone call to talk about second from last quarter 2016 results that will be communicate live over the web at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time on October 31 and is accessible by getting to DURECT's landing page at www.durect.com and clicking "Financial specialist Relations." If you can't take an interest amid the live webcast, the call will be filed on DURECT's site under Audio Archive in the "Speculator Relations" segment.

About DURECT Corporation

DURECT is a biopharmaceutical organization effectively growing new therapeutics in light of its Epigenetic Regulator Program and restrictive medication conveyance stages. DUR‑928, another concoction element in Phase 1 improvement, is the lead hopeful in DURECT's Epigenetic Regulator Program. An endogenous, orally bioavailable little particle, DUR-928 has been appeared in preclinical studies to assume an essential administrative part in lipid homeostasis, irritation, and cell survival. Human applications may incorporate intense organ harm and incessant metabolic illnesses, for example, nonalcoholic greasy liver infection (NAFLD) and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). DURECT's propelled oral, injectable, and transdermal conveyance innovations are intended to empower new signs and upgraded traits for little particle and biologic medications. One late-organize improvement program in this classification is POSIMIR® (SABER®-Bupivacaine), an investigational pain relieving item planned to address enter neglected needs in postoperative agony administration. Another is REMOXY® ER (oxycodone), an investigational new medication in light of DURECT's ORADUR® innovation. For more data, please visit www.durect.com.

NOTE: POSIMIR®, SABER®, and ORADUR® are trademarks of DURECT Corporation. Other referenced trademarks have a place with their particular proprietors. REMOXY ER, POSIMIR, DUR-928 and ORADUR-Methylphenidate are medication competitors being worked on and have not been affirmed for commercialization by the U.S. Nourishment and Drug Administration or other wellbeing powers.

DURECT Forward-Looking Statement

The announcements in this official statement with respect to the potential regale and employments of our medication hopefuls, including the potential utilization of DUR-928 to treat NASH, other liver sickness or kidney illness, the potential utilization of POSIMIR to treat torment, clinical trial gets ready for DUR-928 and potential markets for DUR-928 and POSIMIR, are forward-looking proclamations including dangers and vulnerabilities that can bring about real results to vary substantially from those in such forward-looking explanations. Potential dangers and instabilities inc

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