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This is an exploratory study to examine the effect of iNOS inhibition in rheumatoid arthritis patients. The study involves 28 days repeat dosing with GW274150 (dose determined by the results from a previous study), prednisolone (7.5mg) or placebo.
To assess whether the anti-inflammatory effects of rosiglitazone result in improvements in Rheumatoid Arthritis symptoms in patients for whom their existing Disease Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drug (DMARD) treatment does not give adequate relief.
Musculoskeletal pains represent a major part of pain complaints in patients. Moreover, the treatment of musculoskeletal pain conditions by currently available drugs is not optimal (Curatolo and Bogduk 2001). Thus, deep pain is a diagnostic and therapeutic problem, and further insights into the peripheral and central neurophysiologic mechanisms are necessary to improve diagnosis and therapy and to implement a mechanism-based approach. Peripheral sensitization and central hyper excitability are, most likely the important factors for chronic musculoskeletal pain and in particular osteoarthritis (OA). The focus of this project is to study the involvement of peripheral and central sensitization underlying deep tissue hyperalgesia and referred pain in male and female OA patients. Adequate quantitative sensory testing assessment techniques for measuring hyper excitability are needed to investigate, in more detail the mechanisms involved in generating the sensitization in OA patients.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the utility of an electronic data capture system (EDCS) in a rheumatology clinical practice setting and to assess the impact of this system on patient satisfaction with patient-physician interaction.
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a disease with a large economic impact due to the long lasting disabling nature of the disease. Furthermore, diagnosis of the disease is difficult and only a scheme with different symptoms is used to diagnose rheumatoid arthritis, often only by probability. Due to the fact that effective disease modifying pharmacological treatment is available and should be started early in established cases of RA, in combination with the adverse effect potential of these substances (e.g. methotrexate), a fast reliable diagnostic tool to diagnose rheumatoid arthritis would be highly appreciated by the medical community and the patients. Furthermore, for invasive treatments (surgery, puncture), an imaging method to display the activity pattern in different joints would be a major advantage. For the evaluation of the effectiveness of pharmacological therapy in rheumatoid arthritis, up to now, radiological measurements of the destruction process of the joints are used. This method has the disadvantage that it is time consuming insofar as changes in the radiological images must occur. It allows only an evaluation if the joints are destructed (which should be excluded by the new therapy regimen). Again, a quantifiable method for the determination of the effects of new therapeutic approaches would be highly appreciated.
This is a study of GW274150, an iNOS (inducible nitric oxide synthase) inhibitor to investigate safety, tolerability and pharmacokinetics (PK) in the rheumatoid arthritis (RA) population (greater than 50 years). Safety, tolerability and PK of GW274150 in an adult and elderly population have not yet been determined. Therefore this study is designed to ensure that 90mg GW274150 will be safe and well-tolerated in this adult and elderly RA patient population on methotrexate. The assessments will include pharmacokinetics (PK), liver function tests and creatinine clearance. This study will provide confidence that a single 90mg dose of GW274150 results in exposure in RA subjects similar to that expected from healthy volunteers and asthmatics.
This will be a 12-week, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, parallel group, multicenter study to evaluate the safety, efficacy, and PK of oral administration of PG-760564 in adult patients with active RA receiving treatment with MTX. Two oral doses of PG-760564 will be evaluated: 25 mg BID and 100 mg BID. The study will consist of a screening visit followed by a washout period for all disease modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) and anti-cytokine therapies except MTX. After the washout period, patients determined to be eligible will be randomized to receive either 25 mg BID or 100 mg BID of oral PG-760564, or placebo for 12 weeks. There will be 6 treatment visits and a follow-up visit 4 weeks after the last treatment visit. The primary efficacy endpoint will be the proportion of patients meeting the ACR 20 response criteria after 12 weeks of treatment.
The purpose of this study is to assess long-term safety of SC AMG 108 in the treatment of RA
To demonstrate subjective sleep efficacy of eszopiclone 3 mg in subjects with insomnia related to rheumatoid arthritis (RA).