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ArticleChemico-biological interactions2017

Post-exposure treatment with the oxime RS194B rapidly reverses early and advanced symptoms in macaques exposed to sarin vapor.

Yvonne J Rosenberg, Lingjun Mao, Xiaoming Jiang, Jonathan Lees, Limin Zhang, Zoran Radic, Palmer Taylor

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Article in Chemico-biological interactions, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yvonne J RosenbergPlantVax Inc, Rockville, MD 20850, USA. Electronic address: yjr@plantvax.com.
Lingjun MaoPlantVax Inc, Rockville, MD 20850, USA. Electronic address: ljm@plantvax.com.
Xiaoming JiangPlantVax Inc, Rockville, MD 20850, USA. Electronic address: xmj@plantvax.com.
Jonathan LeesPlantVax Inc, Rockville, MD 20850, USA. Electronic address: jpl@plantvax.com.
Limin ZhangDepartment of Pharmacology, Skaggs School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093-0650, USA. Electronic address: lzhang@ucsd.edu.
Zoran RadicDepartment of Pharmacology, Skaggs School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093-0650, USA. Electronic address: zradic@mail.ucsd.edu.
Palmer TaylorDepartment of Pharmacology, Skaggs School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093-0650, USA. Electronic address: pwtaylor@ucsd.edu.
University of Montana · US

Funding

Oxime-Assisted Catalysis of Organophosphates and Reactivation of AChEU01NS058046 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI TAYLOR, PALMER WILLIAM · 2006 to 2011
$4.0M
Efficacy and Safety of an Aerosolized Recombinant Butyrylcholinesterase PretreatmR44NS064608 · NINDS · PLANTVAX, INC. · PI ROSENBERG, YVONNE J · 2013 to 2015
$1.6M
NINDS NIH HHS R44 NS064608NINDS NIH HHS U01 NS058046
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Organophosphate (OP) nerve agents and pesticides trigger a common mechanism of neurotoxicity resulting from critical targeting and inhibition of acetylcholinesterases (AChE) in central and peripheral synapses in the cholinergic nervous system. Therapeutic countermeasures have thus focused on either administering an oxime post-exposure, that can rapidly reactivate OP-inhibited AChE, or by preventing OP poisoning through administering pre-exposure treatments that scavenge OPs before they inhibit their physiological AChE targets. While several pyridinium aldoxime antidotes are currently approved, their utility is impaired due to their inability to cross the blood-brain barrier (BBB) efficiently. The present study utilized a macaque (Ma) model to demonstrate the efficacy of a novel zwitterionic and centrally acting oxime RS194B to reactivate sarin- and paraoxon-inhibited macaque AChE and butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) in vitro and to further assess the capacity of RS194B to effect a reversal of clinical symptoms following sarin inhalation in vivo. In vitro, oxime reactivation of MaAChE and MaBChE was shown to be comparable to their human orthologs, while the macaque studies indicated that IM administration of 62.5 mg/kg of RS194B and 0.28 mg/kg atropine after continuous exposure to 49.6 μg/kg sarin vapor, rapidly reactivated the inhibited AChE and BChE in blood and reversed both early and advanced clinical symptoms of sarin-induced toxicity following pulmonary exposure within 1 h. The rapid cessation of autonomic and central symptoms, including convulsions, observed in macaques bodes well for the use of RS194B as an intra- or post-exposure human treatment and validates the macaque model in generating efficacy and toxicology data required for approval under the FDA Animal rule.

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AcetamidesAcetylcholinesteraseAnimalsButyrylcholinesteraseChemical Warfare AgentsCholinesterase ReactivatorsGasesInhalationMacacaModels, AnimalOximesParaoxonRecombinant ProteinsSarinAcetamidesAcetylcholinesteraseButyrylcholinesteraseChemical Warfare AgentsCholinesterase ReactivatorsGasesOximesParaoxonRecombinant ProteinsRS194BSarin

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PMID28693885
PMCPMC5586507
OpenAlexW2729257973

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