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Find Clinical Drug Pipeline Developments & Deals for Prednisolone
Abiraterone and the combination product Abiraterone/Prednisolone are used to treat men with prostate cancer. The 500 mg (mono product) and 500 mg + 5 mg (combination product) tablets will be marketed in Europe by our partners.
SPI-62 is Sparrow’s potent and selective investigational HSD-1 inhibitor, which is investigated in combination with prednisolone for the treatment of polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) to include a third cohort.
SPI-47 combines HSD-1 inhibitor, SPI-62, with an effective glucocorticoid medicine, prednisolone. While prednisolone serves to relieve pain and inflammation, SPI-62 lowers active steroid levels within vital organs, and thereby mitigate the side effects of prednisolone.
SPI-47 combines SPI-62 with an efficacious glucocorticoid medicine to potentially relieve debilitating inflammation with fewer side effects,aims to achieve the same efficacy of glucocorticoids while mitigating their associated toxicities.
SPI-47 (SPI-62) prevented several CORT adverse effects, demonstrating that by blocking local intracellular glucocorticoid activation with a HSD-1 inhibitor in target tissues, it can mitigate glucocorticoid toxicity.
Positive results from Phase 3 PROpel trial showed LYNPARZA in combination with abiraterone plus prednisone demonstrated a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in rPFS, versus abiraterone plus prednisone for treatment of patients with mCRPC.