Neuraltus ALS drug wins fast track, orphan status - San Francisco Business Times
**** "An experimental treatment for Lou Gehrig’s disease won fast track and orphan drug designations from the Food and Drug Administration, potentially speeding ..."
Chlorite formulations and methods of preparation and use thereof - Google Patents
"chlorite formulations having a pH between about 7 and about 8.5, wherein the chlorite formulations are substantially free of deleterious non-chlorite components. ... including pharmaceutical formulations, which are formulated for systemic, parenteral, or intravenous administration." "WF10, .. The approximately 12.3 pH of this formulation may be problematic for some forms of administration to physiological systems." "Effective dosages may be estimated initially from in vitro assays. For example, an initial dosage for use in animals may be formulated to achieve a circulating blood or serum concentration of active compound that is at or above an IC50 of the particular compound as measured in an in vitro assay." "WF10 treatment resulted in nonspecific toxicity at concentrations of 50 μM and higher, whereas TJ001 did not result in nonspecific toxicity until concentrations of 200 μM and higher."
Fabrication method, structure, mechanical, and biological properties of decellularized extracellular matrix for replacement of wide bone tissue defects - PubMed
"chemical decellularization treatment in 4% aqueous sodium chlorite" "These results open new avenues for the use of DECM samples as the replacement of wide bone tissue defects."
Comparative study on the effects of chlorite oxygen reaction product TCDO (tetrachlorodecaoxygen) and sodium chlorite solution (NaClO2) with equimolar chlorite content on bone marrow and peripheral blood of BDIX rats - PubMed
{Additional info at https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Comparative-study-on-the-effects-of-chlorite-oxygen/626aa09e2804f400264ed3879e7170095af242c8 }
Anticarcinogenic Effect of Tetrachlorodecaoxide after Total-Body Gamma Irradiation in Rats on JSTOR
Tetrachlorodecaoxygen (TCDO) therapy of acute radiation syndrome was tested for a possible influence on the development of X-ray-induced malignancies. BD IX rat...
[Effects of tetrachlorodecaoxide (TCDO) in chronic radiation lesions of the rat colon] - PubMed
The influence of tetrachlorodecaoxide (TCDO) on the chronic radiation damage after local irradiation of the rat colon was examined when given at different times and at different doses. A tetrachlorodecaoxide treatment before the acute period resulted in an extension of the latency period. When tetra …
Effect Of Chlorine Dioxide Chlorite And Nitrite On Mice With Low And High Levels Of Glucose-6-phosphate Dehydro- Genase (g6pd) In Their Erythrocytes | NEPIS | US EPA
The pro-oxidative drug WF-10 inhibits serial killing by primary human cytotoxic T-cells
"WF-10 did not influence early steps of target-cell killing, but impaired the ability of CTLs to detach from the initial target cell and to move to a second target cell. This reduced serial killing was accompanied by stronger enrichment of the adhesion molecule LFA-1 in the cytolytic immune synapse. LFA-1 clustering requires activation of the actin-bundling protein L-plastin and was accordingly diminished in L-plastin knockdown cells. Interestingly, WF-10 likely acts through regulating L-plastin: (I) It induced L-plastin activation through phosphorylation leading to enhanced LFA-1-mediated cell adhesion, and, importantly, (II) WF-10 lost its influence on target-cell killing in L-plastin knockdown cells. Finally, we demonstrate that WF-10 can improve immunosuppression by conventional drugs. Thus, while cyclosporine A alone had no significant effect on cytotoxicity of CTLs, a combination of cyclosporine A and WF-10 blocked target-cell killing synergistically. Together, our findings suggest that WF-10 – either alone or in combination with conventional immunosuppressive drugs – may be efficient to control progression of diseases, in which CTLs are crucially involved."
Chlorite-hemoprotein interaction as key role for the pharmacological activity of the chlorite-based drug WF10 - PubMed
"WF10 is a chlorite-based drug that modulates macrophages functional states and can be safely administered to humans. WF10 potentially modulates disease-related up-regulation of immune responses both in vitro and in vivo. Thus immune response is influenced in a way that inappropriate inflammatory rea …"
Balanced Macrophage Activation Hypothesis: A Biological Model for Development of Drugs Targeted at Macrophage Functional States
2000 "This model has been utilized in the drug development of WF10, a novel macrophage-targeted drug, currently in advanced clinical testing for the treatment of HIV disease."
Kickstarter film project, ALS patients face life-and-death deadlines - San Francisco Business Times
"Neuraltus won't release data from the Phase II trial of NP-001 until later this year, possibly next month. The drug last summer won Food and Drug Administration fast-track and orphan drug designations, which potentially could accelerate the clinical trial process by waiving FDA fees and providing tax breaks for the company's clinical trial costs."
Chicago—ALS Clinical Trials: New Hope After Phase 3 Setbacks | ALZFORUM
******!!!!**** "NP001 has been reported to reorient toxic inflammatory macrophages that invade the central nervous system into normal, protective ones"
NP001 regulation of macrophage activation markers in ALS: A phase I clinical and biomarker study
"This is a phase I, placebo-controlled, single ascending dose safety and tolerability study of NP001 in patients with ALS. NP001 is a novel regulator of inflammatory macrophages and monocytes. As ALS progression is thought to be related to neuroinflammation, ..."
Orphan designation of sodium chlorite, EU/3/13/1139 - European Medicines Agency
"On 19 June 2013, orphan designation (EU/3/13/1139) was granted by the European Commission to Shore Limited, United Kingdom, for sodium chlorite (also known as NP001) for the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis." {Other listed sponsor: FGK Representative Services GmbH, Germany}