Acesion Pharma ApS has announced promising data from preclinical studies with AP-31969, its second-generation oral SK channel inhibitor developed for chronic oral maintenance treatment to prevent atrial fibrillation (AF) recurrence. Acesion aims to develop a novel drug for AF that solves the risk of proarrhythmia associated with existing drugs.
Nicoya Therapeutics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. has reported the identification of compounds acting as dual endothelin ETA receptor and angiotensin AT1 receptor antagonists.
Rocket Pharmaceuticals Inc. has received IND clearance from the FDA for RP-A601, an AAV.rh74-based gene therapy candidate for the treatment of arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy due to plakophilin 2 pathogenic variants (PKP2-ACM). RP-A601 offers the potential for a one-time, curative alternative to medical therapy, implantable cardioverter defibrillators and ablations.
By analyzing a cohort of adolescents that developed myocarditis or pericarditis after vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 vaccination, researchers from Yale University School of Medicine were able to pinpoint the underlying mechanism as an overly active innate immune response to the vaccine that led to broad activation of T cells and natural killer (NK) cells. Myocarditis “has been seen in other vaccine contexts, though is most common after viral infection,” Carrie Lucas told reporters at a press conference announcing the findings.
Jiangsu Chia Tai Tianqing Pharmaceutical Group Co. Ltd. and Medshine Discovery Inc. have jointly patented pyrimidine tricyclic derivative soluble guanylate cyclase (sGC) activators. They are reported to be useful for the treatment of heart failure and hypertension.
Research at Vasa Therapeutics Sp zoo has led to the identification of diazabicyclooctane derivatives acting as matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) inhibitors and thus reported to be useful for the treatment of heart failure.
China Pharmaceutical University has synthesized receptor-interacting serine/threonine-protein kinase 1 (RIPK1; RIP-1) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of ischemic stroke, among others.
Studies in animal models and humans have identified an important role for peripheral chemoreceptors in the pathogenesis of heart failure. Thus, inhibiting their hyperactivity has been proposed as a potential therapeutic strategy for this major public health problem.
Researchers at Tuojie Biotech (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. have developed substituted 1,4-dihydro-1,6-naphthyridine amides characterized as mineralocorticoid receptor (MR) antagonists and reported to be useful for the treatment of hypertension, aldosteronism and heart failure.
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