Abstract
Background
Chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyposis (CRSwNP) is a type 2‐mediated inflammatory disease associated with significant clinical, social, and economic burdens and high unmet therapeutic need. Dupilumab, a fully human monoclonal antibody targeting the interleukin‐4 receptor α (IL‐4Rα) subunit, demonstrated efficacy and acceptable safety in CRSwNP and other type 2 diseases (e.g. atopic dermatitis and asthma). We now report the local effects of dupilumab on type 2 inflammatory biomarkers in nasal secretions and nasal polyp tissues of patients with CRSwNP in a randomized, placebo‐controlled, phase 2 trial (NCT01920893).
Methods
Cytokines, chemokines, and total immunoglobulin E (IgE) levels were measured using immunoassay techniques in nasal secretions and nasal polyp tissue homogenates of CRSwNP patients receiving dupilumab 300 mg or placebo weekly for 16 weeks.
Results
With dupilumab, type 2 biomarker concentrations decreased in nasal secretions (LS mean area under the curve from 0–16 weeks for the change from baseline) vs placebo for eotaxin‐3 (−30.06 vs −0.86 pg/mL; P=0.0008) and total IgE (−7.90 vs −1.86 IU/mL; P=0.022)). Dupilumab treatment also decreased type 2 biomarker levels in nasal polyp tissues at Week 16 versus baseline for ECP (P=0.008), eotaxin‐2 (P=0.008), eotaxin‐3 (P=0.031), pulmonary and activation‐regulated chemokine (P=0.016), IgE (P=0.023), and IL‐13 (P=0.031).
Conclusions
Dupilumab treatment reduced multiple biomarkers of type 2 inflammation in nasal secretions and polyp tissues of patients with CRSwNP, demonstrating that antagonism of IL‐4Rα signaling suppresses IL‐4‐/IL‐13‐dependent processes, such as mucosal IgE formation, as well as the expression of chemokines attracting inflammatory cells to the nasal mucosa.
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