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Papers: 27 Jul 2019 - 2 Aug 2019


Animal Studies, Pharmacology/Drug Development


2020 Jan


Arthritis Rheumatol


72


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Sepiapterin reductase inhibition selectively reduces inflammatory joint pain and increases urinary sepiapterin.

Authors

Fujita M, da Luz Scheffer D, Lenfers Turnes B, Cronin SJF, Latrémolière A, Costigan M, Woolf CJ, Latini A, Andrews NA
Arthritis Rheumatol. 2020 Jan; 72(1):57-66.
PMID: 31350812.

Abstract

To evaluate the anti-inflammatory and analgesic effect of sepiapterin reductase (SPR) inhibition in a mouse model of inflammatory joint disease and to evaluate sepiapterin as a non-invasive, translational biomarker of SPR inhibition/target engagement in mice and healthy human volunteers.