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The authors examined the pharmacokinetics of the CD19 receptor-directed tyrosine kinase inhibitor B43-Genistein in 17 patients (4 children, 13 adults) with B-lineage lymphoid malignancies, including 12 patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and 5 patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL). The immunoconjugate was administered intravenously as a 1-hour continuous infusion at a dose level of either 0.1 mg/kg (N = 12) or 0.18 mg/kg (N = 5), and the plasma concentration-time data were modeled by using the WinNonlin program to estimate the pharmacokinetic parameters. Pharmacokinetic analyses revealed a plasma half-life of 19 +/- 4 hours, mean residence time of 22 +/- 4 hours, and a systemic clearance of 18 +/- 2 mL/h/kg. The average (mean +/- SEM) values for the maximum plasma concentration Cmax, volume of distribution at steady state (Vss), and area under curve (AUC) were 1092 +/- 225 ng/ml, 291 +/- 37 mL/kg, and 9987 +/- 2021 micrograms x h/L, respectively. The AUC values were higher at the 0.18 mg/kg dose level than at the 0.1 mg/kg dose level (16,848 +/- 5118 micrograms x h/L vs. 7128 +/- 1156 micrograms x h/L, p = 0.009). Patients with ALL had a significantly larger volume of distribution at steady state (332 +/- 47 mL/kg vs. 191 +/- 12 mL/kg, p = 0.04), faster clearance (21 +/- 3 mL/h/kg vs. 11 +/- 2 mL/h/kg, p = 0.03), and lower dose-corrected AUC than patients with NHL (6010 +/- 836 micrograms x h/L vs. 12,044 +/- 2707 micrograms x h/L, p = 0.006). There was a trend toward faster clearance rates (23 +/- 4 mL/h/kg vs. 16 +/- 3 mL/h/kg, p = 0.1), shorter elimination half-lives (5.7 +/- 3.6 hours vs. 13 +/- 8.8 hours, p = 0.1), and shorter mean residence times (11 +/- 3 hours vs. 25 +/- 5 hours, p = 0.08) for non-Caucasian patients as compared to Caucasian patients. When compared to adult patients, pediatric patients showed a significantly larger volume of distribution at steady state (418 +/- 82 mL/kg vs. 252 +/- 34 mL/kg, p = 0.02) and a longer elimination half-lives (18.4 +/- 13.6 hours vs. 8.7 +/- 6.7 hours, p = 0.04). The pharmacokinetics of B43-Genistein was not affected by the gender of the patients or by bone marrow transplantation in past medical history. Overall, B43-Genistein showed favorable pharmacokinetics in this heavily pretreated leukemia/lymphoma patient population, which is reminiscent of its recently reported favorable pharmacokinetics in cynomolgus monkeys. To our knowledge, this is the first clinical pharmacokinetics study of a tyrosine kinase inhibitor containing immunoconjugate.
Objectives-In Antiretroviral therapy (ART)-treated subjects, to determine if AIDS-related NonHodgkin Lymphoma (AIDS-NHL) is preceded by: i) elevated frequency of potentially malignant abnormal activated/ Germinal center (GC)-like B cells, ii) elevated serum prevalence of B-cell stimulatory TLR-ligands resulting from HIV-infection associated microbial translocation, iii) dysregulated B-cell TLR expression/signaling and iv) perturbations in the frequency of immunoregulatory cells.Design-A case-control study nested with a cohort study of HIV-infected women.Methods-Pre-diagnostic AIDS-NHL cases (n=14, collected 1-12 months pre diagnosis) and controls (n=42) from the Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS) cohort, were matched for HIV and ART status, age, race, and CD4 lymphocyte count. Serum levels of TLR ligands, the prevalence of malignancy-associated abnormal activated/GC-like (CD19 + CD10 + CD71 + CD86 + AID + ) B cells, TLR2 expression on B cells, expression of TLR2-modulating micro-RNA, and the frequency of regulatory T and B cells were assessed. Conclusions-Our findings suggest that increased microbial translocation and dysregulated TLR expression/signaling, coupled with an elevated frequency of Bregs precede the diagnosis of AIDS-NHL in HIV-infected ART-treated subjects. Results-Diagnosis HHS Public Access
Objective Evaluate the risk of female breast cancer associated with HIV-CXCR4 (X4) tropism as determined by various genotypic measures. Methods A breast cancer case-control study, with pairwise comparisons of tropism determination methods, was conducted. From the Women's Interagency HIV Study repository, one stored plasma specimen was selected from 25 HIV-infected cases near the breast cancer diagnosis date and 75 HIV-infected control women matched for age and calendar date. HIVgp120-V3 sequences were derived by Sanger population sequencing (PS) and 454-pyro deep sequencing (DS). Sequencing-based HIV-X4 tropism was defined using the geno2pheno algorithm, with both high-stringency DS [False-Positive-Rate (FPR 3.5) and 2% X4 cutoff], and lower stringency DS (FPR 5.75, 15% X4 cut-off). Concordance of tropism results by PS, DS, and previously performed phenotyping was assessed with kappa (κ) statistics. Case-control comparisons used exact P-values and conditional logistic regression. Results In 74 women (19 cases, 55 controls) with complete results, prevalence of HIV-X4 by PS was 5% in cases vs 29% in controls (P=0.06, odds ratio 0.14, confidence interval 0.003-1.03). Smaller case-control prevalence differences were found with high-stringency DS (21% vs 36%, P=0.32), lower-stringency DS (16% vs 35%, P=0.18), and phenotyping (11% vs 31%, P=0.10). HIV-X4-tropism concordance was best between PS and lower-stringency DS (93%, κ=0.83). Other pairwise concordances were 82%-92% (κ=0.56-0.81). Concordance was similar among cases and controls. Conclusions HIV-X4 defined by population sequencing (PS) had good agreement with lower stringency deep sequencing and was significantly associated with lower odds of breast cancer.
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