The present invention relates to the therapeutic application of the Kazal-type serine protease inhibitor Infestin or domains thereof or modified Kazal-type serine protease inhibitors based on Infestin homologs, which prevent the formation and/or stabilization of three-dimensional arterial or venous thrombi by interfering with proteins involved in activation of the so-called intrinsic coagulation pathway. The present invention also relates to the use of Kazal-type serine protease inhibitors or fragments thereof or modified Kazal-type serine protease inhibitors in the treatment or prophylaxis of a condition or disorder related to arterial thrombus formation, i.e. stroke or myocardial infarction, inflammation, complement activation, fibrinolysis, angiogenesis and/or diseases linked to pathological kinin formation such as hypotonic shock, edema including hereditary angioedema, bacterial infections, arthritis, pancreatitis, or articular gout, Disseminated Intravasal Coagulation (DIC) and sepsis.

CSL Behring GmbH

Therapeutic application of Kazal-type serine protease inhibitors

The invention provides derivatives of kallikrein-trypsin inhibitor (BPTI) in which one or both of the 10- or 21-tyrosine residues are linked, in the o-position relative to the phenolic hydroxyl group, to an aptionally substituted carbocyclic or heterocyclic aromatic radical via an azo group and the other if only one of the said residues is substituted is either unsubstituted or carries a nitro group or an amino group in the o-position relative to the phenolic hydroxyl group.The azo-BPTI derivatives of the invention can be used, as medicaments for the therapy of diseases which are caused either by over-production of proteases as a result of increased liberation from the zymogens or of release during cell decomposition or by a deficiency or lack of natural indogenous inhibitors of these enzymes in organs and tissue fluids. Diseases which have this type of etiology are the various forms of shock and post-traumatic or post-operative complications, disorders in blood clotting and acute and chronic inflammatory reactions and, in particular, also chronic inflammatory reactions with necrotic and degenerative damage to connective tissue, such as pancreatitis and also vasculitides, glomerulonephritides, rheumatoid arthritis and other collagenoses caused by immune complexes and also arthritides caused by deposits due to metabolic processes (gout), but also degenerative changes in the elastic elements of vascular walls (arterioscleroses) or in the lung (pulmonary emphysema).

Bayer Aktiengesellschaft

Derivatives, having an inhibitory action against protease and an antiphlogistic action, of the trypsin-kallikrein inhibitor obtained from cattle organs (BPTI), their preparation and their use as medicaments

gout/protease

Therapeutic application of Kazal-type serine protease inhibitors

Derivatives, having an inhibitory action against protease and an antiphlogistic action, of the trypsin-kallikrein inhibitor obtained from cattle organs (BPTI), their preparation and their use as medicaments

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