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Trial reportClinical and translational science2021

Safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacodynamics of a TLR7 agonist prodrug RO6870868 in healthy volunteers.

Joseph F Grippo, Ilia Folitar, Sharon Passe, Qiudi Jiang, Ignacio Rodriguez, Scott H Fettner, Elizabeth Calleja

Open access · goldAbstract readClinical Trial, Phase IRandomized Controlled Trial
In one paragraph

Trial report in Clinical and translational science, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 29% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Liver Macrophages in the Pathogenesis of Viral Hepatitis.Current issues in molecular biology · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Joseph F GrippoRoche Innovation Center, New York, New York, USA.
Ilia FolitarRoche Innovation Center, Basel, Switzerland.
Sharon PasseRoche Innovation Center, New York, New York, USA.
Qiudi JiangRoche Innovation Center Shanghai, Shanghai, China.
Ignacio RodriguezRoche Innovation Center, New York, New York, USA.
Scott H FettnerRoche Innovation Center, New York, New York, USA.
Elizabeth CallejaRoche Innovation Center, New York, New York, USA.
Roche (United States) · USRoche (China) · CNRoche (Switzerland) · CH

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

RO6870868 is an oral prodrug of the toll-like receptor 7 (TLR7) specific agonist, RO6871765. TLR7 agonists augment host immune activity and are in development to treat hepatitis B infection. We evaluated the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics (PKs), and pharmacodynamics (PDs) of RO6870868 in a first-in-human, phase I, randomized, single ascending oral dose study in 60 healthy volunteers at 6 dose levels (200-2000 mg). Single oral doses were generally well-tolerated with a predictable safety profile associated with dose-dependent increases in systemic interferon. No serious adverse events (AEs) were reported and no subject withdrew from the study due to an AE. No clinically significant changes were observed in vital signs, electrocardiograms, or laboratory parameters. Following oral RO6870868 doses, plasma RO6871765 concentrations increased rapidly, exhibiting mean terminal half-life ranging 2-6 h across all cohorts, with area under the plasma concentration versus time curve extrapolated to infinity (AUC

Indexed as

Administration, OralAdolescentAdultAgedArea Under CurveDose-Response Relationship, DrugDouble-Blind MethodDrug Administration ScheduleFemaleHalf-LifeHealthy VolunteersHepatitis B, ChronicHumansImmunity, InnateImmunologic FactorsInterferonsImmunologic FactorsInterferonsProdrugsTLR7 protein, humanToll-Like Receptor 7

Identifiers

PMID33742764
PMCPMC8301559
OpenAlexW3138771239

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