Non-steroidal mineralocorticoid receptor antagonism by finerenone is sufficient to improve function in preclinical muscular dystrophy
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Project description:The objective of this study was to test the novel non-steroidal mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist (MRA) finerenone as a monotherapy in a preclinical Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) model. Microarray was used to detail gene expression differences in ventricular heart tissue from finerenone-treated dystrophin-deficient, utrophin-haploinsufficient Het (utrn+/−; mdx) mice versus untreated Het mice.
2020-08-10 | GSE150302 | GEO
Project description:AimsDuchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is an X-linked inherited disease due to dystrophin deficiency causing skeletal and cardiac muscle dysfunction. Affected patients lose ambulation by age 12 and usually die in the second to third decades of life from cardiac and respiratory failure. Symptomatic treatment includes the use of anti-inflammatory corticosteroids, which are associated with side effects including weight gain, osteoporosis, and increased risk of cardiovascular disease. Novel treatment options include blockade of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system, because angiotensin as well as aldosterone contribute to persistent inflammation and fibrosis, and aldosterone blockade represents an efficacious anti-fibrotic approach in cardiac failure. Recent preclinical findings enabled successful clinical testing of a combination of steroidal mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists (MRAs) and angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors in DMD boys. The efficacy of MRAs alone on dystrophic skeletal muscle and heart has not been investigated. Here, we tested efficacy of the novel non-steroidal MRA finerenone as a monotherapy in a preclinical DMD model.Methods and resultsThe dystrophin-deficient, utrophin haploinsufficient mouse model of DMD was treated with finerenone and compared with untreated dystrophic and wild-type controls. Grip strength, electrocardiography, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, muscle force measurements, histological quantification, and gene expression studies were performed. Finerenone treatment alone resulted in significant improvements in clinically relevant functional parameters in both skeletal muscle and heart. Normalized grip strength in rested dystrophic mice treated with finerenone (40.3 ± 1.0 mN/g) was significantly higher (P = 0.0182) compared with untreated dystrophic mice (35.2 ± 1.5 mN/g). Fatigued finerenone-treated dystrophic mice showed an even greater relative improvement (P = 0.0003) in normalized grip strength (37.5 ± 1.1 mN/g) compared with untreated mice (29.7 ± 1.1 mN/g). Finerenone treatment also led to significantly lower (P = 0.0075) susceptibility to limb muscle damage characteristic of DMD measured during a contraction-induced injury protocol. Normalized limb muscle force after five lengthening contractions resulted in retention of 71 ± 7% of baseline force in finerenone-treated compared with only 51 ± 4% in untreated dystrophic mice. Finerenone treatment also prevented significant reductions in myocardial strain rate (P = 0.0409), the earliest sign of DMD cardiomyopathy. Moreover, treatment with finerenone led to very specific cardiac gene expression changes in clock genes that might modify cardiac pathophysiology in this DMD model.ConclusionsFinerenone administered as a monotherapy is disease modifying for both skeletal muscle and heart in a preclinical DMD model. These findings support further evaluation of finerenone in DMD clinical trials.
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Project description:Mineralocorticoids play a critical role in maintaining sodium and potassium homeostasis and pathophysiological processes including hypertrophy, inflammation and fibrosis. Mineralocorticoid antagonists (MRAs) have shown to protect from kidney and heart disease, however, their molecular mechanism of action is poorly understood. Here we performed single nuclei and bulk transcriptomics and chromatin accessibility analysis to characterize the mode of kidney protection by steroidal and non-steroidal MRA treatment in a rat model of mineralocorticoid-induced cardiorenal end-organ damage. We define mineralocorticoid sensitive cell types and gene network in the kidney. We show that in diseased kidneys specific proximal tubule cells develop an injured profibrotic phenotype expressing Spp1 and Il34. Nonsteroidal finerenone protects from profibrotic differentiation of proximal tubule cells. Profibrotic gene signature can classify human kidney tissue samples and predict prognosis. Our multi-omics approach elucidates target cell types and potential mechanisms of renal protection by finerenone.
2023-11-17 | GSE183840 | GEO
Project description:Mineralocorticoids play a critical role in maintaining sodium and potassium homeostasis and pathophysiological processes including hypertrophy, inflammation and fibrosis. Mineralocorticoid antagonists (MRAs) have shown to protect from kidney and heart disease, however, their molecular mechanism of action is poorly understood. Here we performed single nuclei and bulk transcriptomics and chromatin accessibility analysis to characterize the mode of kidney protection by steroidal and non-steroidal MRA treatment in a rat model of mineralocorticoid-induced cardiorenal end-organ damage. We define mineralocorticoid sensitive cell types and gene network in the kidney. We show that in diseased kidneys specific proximal tubule cells develop an injured profibrotic phenotype expressing Spp1 and Il34. Nonsteroidal finerenone protects from profibrotic differentiation of proximal tubule cells. Profibrotic gene signature can classify human kidney tissue samples and predict prognosis. Our multi-omics approach elucidates target cell types and potential mechanisms of renal protection by finerenone.
2023-11-17 | GSE183839 | GEO
Project description:Mineralocorticoids play a critical role in maintaining sodium and potassium homeostasis and pathophysiological processes including hypertrophy, inflammation and fibrosis. Mineralocorticoid antagonists (MRAs) have shown to protect from kidney and heart disease, however, their molecular mechanism of action is poorly understood. Here we performed single nuclei and bulk transcriptomics and chromatin accessibility analysis to characterize the mode of kidney protection by steroidal and non-steroidal MRA treatment in a rat model of mineralocorticoid-induced cardiorenal end-organ damage. We define mineralocorticoid sensitive cell types and gene network in the kidney. We show that in diseased kidneys specific proximal tubule cells develop an injured profibrotic phenotype expressing Spp1 and Il34. Nonsteroidal finerenone protects from profibrotic differentiation of proximal tubule cells. Profibrotic gene signature can classify human kidney tissue samples and predict prognosis. Our multi-omics approach elucidates target cell types and potential mechanisms of renal protection by finerenone.
2023-11-17 | GSE183841 | GEO
Project description:Mineralocorticoid receptor (MR) drugs have been used clinically for decades to treat cardiovascular diseases. MR antagonists not only show preclinical efficacy for heart in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) models but also improve skeletal muscle force and muscle membrane integrity. The mechanisms of action of MR antagonists in skeletal muscles are entirely unknown. Since MR are present in many cell types in the muscle microenvironment, it is critical to define cell-intrinsic functions in each cell type to ultimately optimize antagonist efficacy for use in the widest variety of diseases. We generated a new conditional knockout of MR in myofibers and quantified cell-intrinsic mechanistic effects on functional and histological parameters in a DMD mouse model. Skeletal muscle MR deficiency led to improved respiratory muscle force generation and less deleterious fibrosis but did not reproduce MR antagonist efficacy on membrane susceptibility to induced damage. Surprisingly, acute application of MR antagonist to muscles led to improvements in membrane integrity after injury independent of myofiber MR. These data demonstrate that MR antagonists are efficacious to dystrophic skeletal muscles through both myofiber intrinsic effects on muscle force and downstream fibrosis and extrinsic functions on membrane stability. MR antagonists may therefore be applicable for treating more general muscle weakness and possibly other conditions that result from cell injuries.
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2021-09-28 | GSE120625 | GEO
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2010-06-18 | GSE20525 | GEO
Project description:Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a neuromuscular disease that predominantly affects boys as a result of mutation(s) in the dystrophin gene. DMD is characterized by musculoskeletal and cardiopulmonary complications, resulting in shorter life-span. Boys afflicted by DMD typically exhibit symptoms within 3-5?years of age and declining physical functions before attaining puberty. We hypothesized that rapidly deteriorating health of pre-pubertal boys with DMD could be due to diminished anabolic actions of androgens in muscle, and that intervention with an androgen receptor (AR) agonist will reverse musculoskeletal complications and extend survival. While castration of dystrophin and utrophin double mutant (mdx-dm) mice to mimic pre-pubertal nadir androgen condition resulted in premature death, maintenance of androgen levels extended the survival. Non-steroidal selective-AR modulator, GTx-026, which selectively builds muscle and bone was tested in X-linked muscular dystrophy mice (mdx). GTx-026 significantly increased body weight, lean mass and grip strength by 60-80% over vehicle-treated mdx mice. While vehicle-treated castrated mdx mice exhibited cardiopulmonary impairment and fibrosis of heart and lungs, GTx-026 returned cardiopulmonary function and intensity of fibrosis to healthy control levels. GTx-026 elicits its musculoskeletal effects through pathways that are distinct from dystrophin-regulated pathways, making AR agonists ideal candidates for combination approaches. While castration of mdx-dm mice resulted in weaker muscle and shorter survival, GTx-026 treatment increased the muscle mass, function and survival, indicating that androgens are important for extended survival. These preclinical results support the importance of androgens and the need for intervention with AR agonists to treat DMD-affected boys.
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