NEW INDICATION OF AZELNIDIPINE PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION FOR TREATING CANCER

Information

  • Patent Application
  • 20170312260
  • Publication Number
    20170312260
  • Date Filed
    October 23, 2015
    9 years ago
  • Date Published
    November 02, 2017
    7 years ago
Abstract
A method for treating a cancer includes administering to a subject in need thereof a pharmaceutical composition containing a therapeutically effective amount of Azelnidipine or a pharmaceutical acceptable salt thereof. The cancer is selected from the group consisting of a pleural-related cancer, an abdominal-related cancer, an endocrine-related cancer, a gastrointestinal tract-related cancer, osteosarcoma, and skin cancer.
Description
FIELD OF THE INVENTION

The present invention related to a new indication of Azelnidipine pharmaceutical composition, especially related to inhibition effect of Azelnidipine pharmaceutical composition on a variety of cancer cells.


BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

Azelnidipine is a drug for treating hypertension and can be used alone or in combination with other antihypertensive drugs. Azelnidipine is approved by FDA and accumulated a huge data of drug use and drug mechanism research.


Due to the differences of the clinical use, there is no research present that the Azelnidipine has any potential to inhibit cancer cell.


On the other side, cancer is the most popular disease cause of death in the world. The cancer patients are gradually increase yearly, therefore the treatment method of the cancer has become an important issue. The medical treatments of cancer can be classified as surgical treatment, radiation therapy, chemotherapy and target therapy. Generally, the cancer drug, whether chemotherapy drug or target therapy drug, is to inhibit cancer cells duplication and split to prevent the tumor growth and metastasis. Averagely, only about five of 10,000 new drugs can successfully enter the phase I of clinical trials. Furthermore, if the cancer patients happen the drug resistance, that would reduce the effectiveness of the drugs and result in the medical treatment failure. Therefore, the new drug development is very difficult.


Therefore, it is a very urgent and important issue that how to develop anti-cancer drugs quickly and reduce the probability of clinical failure for treating various cancers.


SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provide the development of new cancer clinical indications of Azelnidipine.


Accordingly, the present invention provides a new indication of Azelnidipine. The experimental results showed that the Azelnidipine had no toxicity or had little toxicity to normal cells in the present invention. However, the selective effect of Azelnidipine between normal cells and cancer cells need to be identified.


The present invention provides a pharmaceutical composition of Azelnidipine for treating cancer. The pharmaceutical composition is composed of effective dose of Azelnidipine and a pharmaceutical acceptable salt.


In one embodiment of the present invention, the cancer is selected from pleural-related cancer, abdominal-related cancer, endocrine-related cancer, gastrointestinal tract-related cancer.


In one embodiment of the present invention, the cancer is selected from osteosarcoma, skin cancer and blood cancer.


In one embodiment of the present invention, the pleural-related cancer is lung cancer.


In one embodiment of the present invention, the abdominal-related cancer is selected from bladder cancer, cervical cancer, and kidney cancer.


In one embodiment of the present invention, the endocrine-related cancer is selected from prostate cancer, breast cancer, and ovarian cancer.


In one embodiment of the present invention, the gastrointestinal tract-related cancer is selected from gastric cancer, hepatic cancer, colorectal cancer, pancreatic cancer, and tongue cancer.


In one embodiment of the present invention, the effective dose of Azelnidipine is from 2.0 mg/kg/day to 500 mg/kg/day.





BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS


FIG. 1 shows the results of the inhibitory effect of the different cancer cells by Azelnidipine.



FIG. 2 shows the results of the inhibitory effect of tumor volume by Azelnidipine.



FIG. 3 shows the inhibitory effect of tumor growth via administered high-dose and low-dose of Azelnidipine.





DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

Cell Culture


Subculture the different types of cancer cell lines. The cancer cells includes lung cancer, gastric cancer, hepatic cancer, colon cancer, skin cancer, cervical cancer, prostate cancer, bladder cancer, breast cancer, leukemia, pancreatic cancer, ovarian cancer, tongue cancer, osteosarcoma, and renal cancer. The normal cells used in the control group included kidney cell (HEK293) and human bronchial epithelial cell line BEAS-2B (as shown in Table 1).


Cancer cell lines were cultured in different culture medium according to different characteristics (as shown in Table 1). The cell numbers were counted and reseed as 2×106 in cell culture plate/flask. Then, the culture medium were added to a volume of 10 ml, and the cells were cultured for 2-3 days. Then, the cells were suspended for loading into 96-well plates. The number of cells was 3000 and the volume of the culture medium was 100 μl each well.









TABLE 1







Cancer cell lines and the culture medium













Culture


No
Cancer type
Cancer cell type
medium













1
lung
H1650 (lung adenocarcinoma)
RPMI-1640



cancer
A549 (lung adenocarcinoma)
DMEM


2
gastric
AGS (Gastric Adenocarcinoma)
RPMI-1640



cancer
MKN-45 (Gastric Adenocarcinoma)
RPMI-1640


3
hepatic
HepG2 (hepatocellular carcinoma)
DMEM



cancer
Hep3B (hepatocellular carcinoma)
DMEM


4
colon
HCT116(p53+) (colorectal carcinoma)
DMEM



cancer
LoVo(Colorectal Adenocarcinoma)
DMEM


5
skin
A375 (amelanotic melanoma)
DMEM



cancer
BCC (basal cell carcinoma)
DMEM


6
cervical
HeLa (Cervix Adenocarcinoma)
DMEM



cancer
C-33A (Cervical carcinoma)
MEM




BCRC60554


7
prostate
PC3 (p53−)(Prostate adenocarcinoma)
DMEM



cancer
LNCaP clone FGC (LNCap.FGC)
RPMI-1640


8
bladder
8301 (urinary bladder carcinoma)
RPMI-1640



cancer
T24
RPMI-1640


9
breast
MCF7 (Mammary Gland,
DMEM



cancer
Adenocarcinoma)
DMEM




MDA-MB-231 (Mammary Gland,




Adenocarcinoma)


10
pancreatic
BxPC-3
RPMI-1640



cancer
AsPC-1
RPMI-1640


11
ovarian
NIH: OVCAR-3
RPMI-1640



cancer
TOV-21G
RPMI-1640


12
tongue
SAS (Tongue squamous cell carcinoma)
DMEM



cancer


13
osteo-
U-2OS
DMEM



sarcoma


14
renal
786-O (Renal adenocarcinoma)
RPMI-1640



cancer
BCRC 60243


15
normal cell
HEK293 (Kidney)
DMEM



kidney
BEAS-2B (Lung Epithelial)
RPMI-1640



pulmonary



epithelial



cell line









Cell Viability Analysis


Removing the original culture medium from 96-well plate. Then add 100 μl of commercially drug at a concentration of 10 μM per well. After 72 hours, add the diluted WST-1 reagent to the well with 100 μl/well, and the diluted WST-1 reagent was acquired from the dilution of 9:1 medium and WST-1 stock reagent. Finally, the total volume of each well was 200 μl/well. Culture the 96-well plate at 37° C. for 30 to 90 minutes. Detecting and calculate the survival rate of each cancer cells with an ELISA reader at OD450 nm. The lower viability of cancer cells represents better inhibition effect via the Azelnidipine drug. Otherwise, the higher viability of cancer cells represents worse inhibition effect via the Azelnidipine drug.


The Effect of Azelnidipine on Different Cancer Cell Lines


The Inhibition Effect of Azelnidipine on Pleural-Related Cancer Cells


This inhibition test of Azelnidipine on pleural-related cancer cells were using two lung cancer cell lines A549 and H1650. The inhibitory tests of Azelnidipine were performed 4 times for each cell lines and then the average value of the inhibitory tests was calculated. The results were shown in Table 2.









TABLE 2





The inhibition effect of Azelnidipine on pleural-related cancer cells























0524-10
0526-10
0529-10
0531-10





min
min
min
min
Average







A549
81.4
118.6
69.7
80.2
87.5



















1-10
2-20
3-20
4-20





min
min
min
min
Average







H1650
28.8
26.5
40.5
62.7
39.7










The Inhibition Effect of Azelnidipine on Abdominal-Related Cancer Cell Lines


This inhibition test of Azelnidipine on abdominal-related cancer cells were using bladder cancer cell line TSGH and T24 (Table 3), cervical cancer cell lines HeLa and C-33A (Table 4), renal cancer cell line 786-O (Table 5). The inhibitory tests of Azelnidipine were performed 4 times for each cell lines and then the average value of the inhibitory tests was calculated. The results were shown in Table 3, Table 4, and Table 5.









TABLE 3





The inhibition effect of Azelnidipine on bladder cancer cell lines





















0510-10
0512-10
0515-10
0517-10




min
min
min
min
average





TSGH
151.0
117.3
72.0
120.1
115.1


















1-30
2-20
3-20
4-20





min
min
min
min
average viability







T24
109.7
75.3
30.4
102.5
79.5

















TABLE 4







The inhibition effect of Azelnidipine on cervical cancer cell lines













0524-10
0526-10
0529-10
0531-10




min
min
min
min
Average
















HeLa
70.4
93.7
81.4
102.7
87.0


C-33A
141.8
110.6
123.4
117.4
123.3
















TABLE 5







The inhibition effect of Azelnidipine on renal cancer cell line













0524-10
0526-10
0529-10
0531-10




min
min
min
min
average
















786-O
88.6
79.7
66.5
112.5
86.8









The Inhibition Effect of Azelnidipine on Endocrine-Related Cancer Cell Lines


This inhibition test of Azelnidipine on endocrine-related cancer cells were using prostate cancer cell line PC-3 (Table 6), breast cancer cell lines MCF7 and MDA-MB-231 (Table 7), and ovarian cancer cell lines NIH-OVCAR-3 and TOV-21G (Table 8). The inhibitory tests of Azelnidipine were performed 4 times for each cell lines and then the average value of the inhibitory tests was calculated. The results were shown in Table 6, Table 7, and Table 8.









TABLE 6







The inhibition effect of Azelnidipine on prostate cancer cell line













PC-3-0524-
PC-3-0526-
PC-3-0529-
PC-3-0531-
Aver-



10 min
10 min
10 min
10 min
age
















PC-3
122.1
149.4
110.2
102.0
120.9
















TABLE 7





The inhibition effect of Azelnidipine on breast cancer cell lines





















0612-10
0614-10
0616-10
0619-10




min
min
min
min
average





MCF7
48.6
46.6
68.2
79.9
60.8

















0612-10
0614-10
0616-10





min
min
min
average







MDA-MB-231
70.3
89.7
100.8
86.9

















TABLE 8





The inhibition effect of Azelnidipine on ovarian cancer cell lines





















7-3-30
7-4-30
7-7-30
7-4-30




min
min
min
min
average





NIH-OVCAR-3
106.3
99.1
100.9
103.5
102.4
















7-3-30
7-4-30
7-7-30
4-30




min
min
min
min
average





TOV-21G
15.6
13.3
19.6
60.1
27.2









The Inhibition Effect of Azelnidipine on Gastrointestinal Tract-Related Cancer Cell Lines


This inhibition test of Azelnidipine on gastrointestinal tract-related cancer cells were using gastric cancer cell lines AGS and MKN-45 (Table 9), hepatic cancer cell lines HepG2 and Hep3B (Table 10), colorectal cancer cell lines HCT116-wt and LoVo (Table 11), pancreatic cancer cell lines AsPC-1 and BxPC-3 (Table 12), tongue cancer cell line SAS (Table 13). The inhibitory tests of Azelnidipine were performed 4 times for each cell lines and then the average value of the inhibitory tests was calculated. The results were shown in Table 9, Table 10, Table 11, Table 12 and Table 13.









TABLE 9





The inhibition effect of Azelnidipine on gastric cancer cell lines.























0510-10
0512-10
0515-10
0517-10





min
min
min
min
average







AGS
120.2
124.3
42.1
74.3
90.2

















0510-10
0512-10
0515-10
0517-10




min
min
min
min
Average





MKN-45
173.5
183.7
68.5
130.3
139.0
















TABLE 10





The inhibition effect of Azelnidipine on hepatic cancer cell lines





















0524-20
0526-20
0529-20
0531-20




min
min
min
min
Average





HepG2
110.3
87.2
112.1
93.7
100.8






0612-20
0614-20
0616-20
0619-20



min
min
min
min
Average





Hep3B
114.2
91.5
97.9
90.7
98.6
















TABLE 9





The inhibition effect of Azelnidipine on colorectal cancer cell lines





















0602-30
0605-10
0607-10
0609-10




min
min
min
min
Average





HCT116-wt
70.7
146.2
158.9
69.3
111.3


















0616-10
0619-10
0621-10
0623-10





min
min
min
min
Average







LoVo
49.6
67.2
62.3
60.3
59.9

















TABLE 12





The inhibition effect of Azelnidipine on pancreatic cancer cell lines





















1-7-3-30
1-7-4-30
1-7-7-30
1-4-30




min
min
min
min
Average





AsPC-1
103.9
46.1
13.7
58.6
55.6






3-7-3-30
3-7-4-30
3-7-7-30
3-4-30



min
min
min
min
Average





BxPC-3
79.9
51.0
50.0
77.5
64.6
















TABLE 13







The inhibition effect of Azelnidipine on tongue cancer cell line













6-26-10
6-28-10
6-30-10
7-3-10




min
min
min
min
Average


















SAS
69.9
66.0
66.7
104.7
76.8










The Inhibition Effect of Azelnidipine on Other Cancer Cell Lines


This inhibition test of Azelnidipine on other cancer cells were using osteosarcoma cell line U2OS (Table 14), skin cancer cell lines A375 and BCC (Table 15). The inhibitory tests of Azelnidipine were performed 3 to 4 times for each cell lines and then the average value of the inhibitory tests was calculated. The results were shown in Table 14 and Table 15.









TABLE 14







The inhibition effect of Azelnidipine


on osteosarcoma cancer cell line













6-26-10
6-28-10
6-30-10
7-3-10




min
min
min
min
Average
















U2OS
53.3
78.3
84.8
61.2
69.4
















TABLE 15





The inhibition effect of Azelnidipine on skin cancer cell lines























0602-30
0605-10
0607-10
0609-10





min
min
min
min
Average







A375
123.6
100.2
76.0
104.9
101.2


















0602-30
0605-10
0607-10





min
min
min
Average







BCC
77.7
127.2
95.7
100.2










The Experiment Design on Control Group


The Inhibition Effect of Azelnidipine on Normal Cells


This inhibition test of Azelnidipine on normal cells were using normal kidney cell line HEK293 (Table 16) and normal pulmonary epithelial cell lines BEAS-2B (Table 17). The inhibitory tests of Azelnidipine were performed 4 times for each cell lines and then the average value of the inhibitory tests was calculated. The results were shown in Table 16 and Table 17.









TABLE 16







The inhibition effect of Azelnidipine on normal kidney cell line









Average














HEK293
94.2

















TABLE 17







The inhibition effect of Azelnidipine on


normal pulmonary epithelial cell line













0510-10
0512-10
0515-10
0517-10




min
min
min
min
average
















BEAS-2B
61.3
61.8
101.6
85.4
77.5









This inhibition test results of Azelnidipine on all kinds of cells were shown in Table 18. It is clear that Azelnidipine has a significant inhibitory effect on several cancers cell lines. As a result in the experiments of the present invention. Paroxetine has a significant inhibitory effect on various cancer cells (FIG. 1).









TABLE 18







Summary of the Effect on different


cancer cell lines by Azelnidipine









Inhibitory effect














cancer cells




lung cancer
63.60



bladder cancer
97.30



cervical cancer
87.00



Kidney cancer
86.80



prostate cancer
60.45



breast cancer
73.85



ovarian cancer
64.80



gastric cancer
114.60



hepatic cancer
99.70



colorectal cancer
85.60



pancreatic cancer
60.10



tongue cancer
76.80



osteosarcoma
69.40



skin cancer
100.70



Normal cell



Kidney cell
94.20



pulmonary epithelial cell line
77.50










Animal Model Test of Ovarian Cancer with Dose 100 mg/kg/Day and 200 mg/kg/day


In this invention, the female mice were (BALB/cAnN.Cg-Foxn1nu/CrlNarl) purchased from National Laboratory Animal Center (Taiwan)). The weight of the mice were 21±1 g. These mice were subcutaneously injected with gastric cancer cells (AGS) and then put these mice into different cages at random. The drug test experiment was divided into three groups, include “normal control group”, “low dose group (100 mg/kg/day)”, and “high dose group (200 mg/kg/day)”. These mice were then injected test drug intraperitoneally once daily until the tumor size reached 100 mm3. The tumor sizes and body weight were measured twice a week. The tumor sizes were measured and calculated by formula: (L×W2)/2. L represents the tumor longest length. W represents the tumor shortest diameter. The experiment results were shown in Table 19









TABLE 19







The inhibitory effect of tumor volume via administered Azelnidipine











control group
low dose (100 mg/kg/day)
high dose (200 mg/kg/day)



























tumor




tumor




tumor




longest

vol-
volume

longest


volume

longest


volume



weight
length
width
ume
growth
weight
length
width
volume
growth
weight
length
width
volume
growth



(g)
mm
mm
mm3
mm3
(g)
mm
mm
mm3
mm3
(g)
mm
mm
mm3
mm3











First measurement






















A
18.5
7
7
171.5
171.5
21
8
8
256
256
20
4
3
18
18


B
22
8
6
144
144
21
6
7
147
147
19.5
6
3
27
27


C
20.5
9
8
288
288
21
7
6
126
126
20
4
4
32
32


av-
20.4
7.6
7
189.3
189.3



176.3333
176.3333



25.66667
25.66667


er-


age







Second measurement






















A
22
7
6
126
−45.5
20
7
6
126
−130
19
7
5
87.5
69.5


B
20
8
7
196
52
20
6
6
108
−39
20
6
5
75
48


C
20
9
7
220.5
−67.5
19
5
5
62.5
−63.5
19
7
5
87.5
55.5


av-
20.6
8.4
6.8
198.5
9.2



98.83333
−77.5



83.33333
57.66667


er-


age







Third measurement






















A
23
9
6
162
36
19.5
7
6
126
0
20.5
7
5
87.5
0


B
20
10
8
320
124
19
6
6
108
0
19
5
5
62.5
−12.5


C
21
11
7
269.5
49
18.5
5
5
62.5
0
20
0
0
0
−87.5


av-
21.2
10
6.8
235.3
36.8



98.83333
0



50
−33.3333


er-


age







Fourth measurement






















A
23
11
7
269.5
107.5
20
4
3
18
−108
20
0
0
0
−87.5


B
22
10
6
180
−140
21
5
4
40
−68
20
0
0
0
−62.5


C
23
11
8
352
82.5
20
0
0
0
−88
21
0
0
0
0


av-
22.4


233.5
−1.8



19.33333
−88



0
−50


er-


age







Fifth measurement






















A
22
12
8
384
114.5
20
4
3
18
0
20
0
0
0
0


B
22
11
8
352
172
20
6
4
48
8
20
0
0
0
0


C
23
12
9
486
134
21
0
0
0
0
21
0
0
0
0


av-
22.4


295.7
62.2



22
2.666667



0
0


er-


age









According to the results in FIG. 2, low dose and high dose of Azelnidipine had significant inhibition effect on tumor cells. In the meantime, the weight of mice did not show a significant decrease during the experiment. These results indicated that both high and low doses of Azelnidipine could keep the tested mice in healthy status during the treatment without death.


According to the results in FIG. 3, low dose and high dose of Azelnidipine had effectively slow down the tumor volume growth, and can also reduce the tumor volume. Especially, high dose of Azelnidipine had better effect to inhibit tumor growth.


Although the present invention has been described in terms of specific exemplary embodiments and examples, it will be appreciated that the embodiments disclosed herein are for illustrative purposes only and various modifications and alterations might be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as set forth in the following claims.

Claims
  • 1. A method for treating a cancer comprising: administering to a subject in need thereof a pharmaceutical composition comprising a therapeutically effective amount of Azelnidipine or a pharmaceutical acceptable salt thereof.
  • 2. The method of claim 1, wherein the cancer is selected from the group consisting of a pleural-related cancer, an abdominal-related cancer, an endocrine-related cancer, and a gastrointestinal tract-related cancer.
  • 3. The method of claim 1, wherein the cancer is selected from is selected from the group consisting of osteosarcoma and skin cancer.
  • 4. The method of claim 2, wherein the cancer pleural-related cancer is lung cancer.
  • 5. The method of claim 2, wherein the abdominal-related cancer is selected from the group consisting of bladder cancer, cervical cancer, and kidney cancer.
  • 6. The method of claim 2, wherein the endocrine-related cancer is selected from the group consisting of prostate cancer, breast cancer, and ovarian cancer.
  • 7. The method of claim 2, wherein the gastrointestinal tract-related cancer is selected from the group consisting of gastric cancer, hepatic cancer, colorectal cancer, pancreatic cancer, and tongue cancer.
  • 8. The method of claim 1, wherein the effective amount of Azelnidipine is from 2.0 mg/kg/day to 500 mg/kg/day.
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This is a National Phase Application filed under 35 U.S.C. 371 as a national stage of PCT/CN2015/092714 filed Oct. 23, 2015, an application claiming the benefit under 35 USC 119(e) to the following U.S. Provisional Applications No. 62/068,298 filed Oct. 24, 2014, the content of each of which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.

PCT Information
Filing Document Filing Date Country Kind
PCT/CN2015/092714 10/23/2015 WO 00
Provisional Applications (1)
Number Date Country
62068298 Oct 2014 US