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Evaluation of a novel CFTR potentiator in COPD ferrets with acquired CFTR dysfunction.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale

The majority of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients have chronic bronchitis, for which specific therapies are unavailable. Acquired cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) dysfunction is observed in chronic bronchitis, but has not been proven in a controlled animal model with airway disease. Furthermore, the potential of CFTR as a therapeutic target has not been tested in vivo, given limitations to rodent models of COPD. Ferrets exhibit cystic fibrosis-related lung pathology when CFTR is absent and COPD with bronchitis following cigarette smoke exposure.

Objectives

To evaluate CFTR dysfunction induced by smoking and test its pharmacological reversal by a novel CFTR potentiator, GLPG2196, in a ferret model of COPD with chronic bronchitis.

Methods

Ferrets were exposed for 6 months to cigarette smoke to induce COPD and chronic bronchitis and then treated with enteral GLPG2196 once daily for 1 month. Electrophysiological measurements of ion transport and CFTR function, assessment of mucociliary function by one-micron optical coherence tomography imaging and particle-tracking microrheology, microcomputed tomography imaging, histopathological analysis and quantification of CFTR protein and mRNA expression were used to evaluate mechanistic and pathophysiological changes.

Measurements and main results

Following cigarette smoke exposure, ferrets exhibited CFTR dysfunction, increased mucus viscosity, delayed mucociliary clearance, airway wall thickening and airway epithelial hypertrophy. In COPD ferrets, GLPG2196 treatment reversed CFTR dysfunction, increased mucus transport by decreasing mucus viscosity, and reduced bronchial wall thickening and airway epithelial hypertrophy.

Conclusions

The pharmacologic reversal of acquired CFTR dysfunction is beneficial against pathological features of chronic bronchitis in a COPD ferret model.

SUBMITTER: Kaza N

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10079430 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Evaluation of a novel CFTR potentiator in COPD ferrets with acquired CFTR dysfunction.

Kaza Niroop N Lin Vivian Y VY Stanford Denise D Hussain Shah S SS Falk Libby Emily E Kim Harrison H Borgonovi Monica M Conrath Katja K Mutyam Venkateshwar V Byzek Stephen A SA Tang Li Ping LP Trombley John E JE Rasmussen Lawrence L Schoeb Trenton T Leung Hui Min HM Tearney Guillermo J GJ Raju S Vamsee SV Rowe Steven M SM

The European respiratory journal 20220713 1

<h4>Rationale</h4>The majority of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients have chronic bronchitis, for which specific therapies are unavailable. Acquired cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) dysfunction is observed in chronic bronchitis, but has not been proven in a controlled animal model with airway disease. Furthermore, the potential of CFTR as a therapeutic target has not been tested <i>in vivo,</i> given limitations to rodent models of COPD. Ferrets exhib ...[more]

PMID: 34916262

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Evaluation of a novel CFTR potentiator in COPD ferrets with acquired CFTR dysfunction.

Rationale

Objectives

Methods

Measurements and main results

Conclusions

Publications

Evaluation of a novel CFTR potentiator in COPD ferrets with acquired CFTR dysfunction.

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