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Trial reportExperimental dermatology2025

Orismilast, a Potent and Selective PDE4B/D Inhibitor, Reduces Protein Levels of Key Disease Driving Cytokines in the Skin of Patients With Plaque Psoriasis.

Richard B Warren, Anne Weiss, Jakob Felding, Morten O A Sommer, Sandra Garcet, James G Krueger

Abstract readClinical Trial, Phase IIMulticenter StudyRandomized Controlled Trial
In one paragraph

Trial report in Experimental dermatology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Cxcl9 as a Marker of Adipose Tissue Changes Caused by Bariatric Surgery and Psoriasis.Clinical, cosmetic and investigational dermatology · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Richard B WarrenDermatology Centre, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
Anne WeissUNION Therapeutics A/S, Hellerup, Denmark.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1738-0519
Jakob FeldingUNION Therapeutics A/S, Hellerup, Denmark.
Morten O A SommerUNION Therapeutics A/S, Hellerup, Denmark.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4005-5674
Sandra GarcetLaboratory of Investigative Dermatology, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4465-8547
James G KruegerLaboratory of Investigative Dermatology, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3775-1778

Funding

UNION therapeutics A/S
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Minimally invasive sampling of the skin using tape strips for conducting biomarker research is a growing research area in medical dermatology. The goal of this study was to utilise tape strip sampling to investigate changes in protein skin levels of psoriasis patients after oral treatment with orismilast (a PDE4B/D inhibitor). The proteins were measured in extracts of tape-strip samples taken from the skin of patients with moderate-severe psoriasis participating in a 16-week Ph2b study (IASOS). The proteins were measured using the Olink technology or an ELISA assay. Our results show that protein levels of multiple proteins (32/71) were upregulated at baseline in the lesional skin compared to non-lesional skin, including three key biomarkers of the psoriasis disease pathology (IL-17A, CCL20 and TNFα). The protein levels of these three biomarkers were significantly reduced at Week 16, reaching a percent reduction of 52% and 51% for IL-17A, 66% and 60% for TNFα, and 41% and 54% for CCL20 for the two doses analysed (20 and 30 mg bid, respectively). In addition, we observed that the clinical response of a 75% reduction in PASI (PASI75) was associated with a 98% reduction in IL-17A protein levels in lesional skin, irrespective of the orismilast dose. In summary, a significant reduction of key proteins related to the T

Indexed as

CytokinesPhosphodiesterase 4 InhibitorsPsoriasisSkinAdultBiomarkersChemokine CCL20FemaleHumansInterleukin-17MaleMiddle AgedTumor Necrosis Factor-alphaBiomarkersCCL20 protein, humanChemokine CCL20CytokinesIL17A protein, humanInterleukin-17Phosphodiesterase 4 InhibitorsTumor Necrosis Factor-alphabiomarkerIASOSorismilastPDE4PDE4 B/D selectivepsoriasis

Identifiers

PMID40970551
PMCPMC12447663

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