Of the 247 patients, 48 patients were in the placebo arm, 101 patients in the Aramchol 400mg arm and 98 in the Aramchol 600mg treatment arm. The majority of subjects completed 52 weeks of treatment and 13 weeks of follow up (89.1%, 89.8%, 85.4% in the 400 mg, 600 mg and placebo arms, respectively). The leading cause of discontinuation was consent withdrawal and early termination due to adverse events; the incidence of early termination due to AEs was very low and similar across study arms.

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Ottico, E. et al. Dynamics of membrane lipid domains in neuronal cells differentiated in culture. J Lipid Res 44, 2142–51 (2003).

The interaction among different ingredients in a compound medicine has long been recognized in traditional Chinese medicine. This interaction may lead to strengthening or weakening the efficiency relative to any single ingredient, even creating a novel effect. The art of formulating a compound Chinese medicine is to manipulate these interactions to yield a regime with highest efficiency and lowest side effect. The dose of QSYQ used in the present study was its equivalent clinic dose, while the doses of ASIV, DLA and R1 were those that contained in QSYQ used. The content of DO in QSYQ is very low (0.4%). More than 20 different components are so far isolated from DO, none of which is reported having potential to protect against cardiac hypertrophy. The only beneficial role observed for DO in QSYQ is to help absorb other components and potentiate their effects43. These facts led us to use DO but not it’s any individual ingredient in the present study. The result of the present study provides an example showing how the interactions among the different ingredients look like. To this end, ASIV+DLA intensified the effect of ASIV on ALDOA and SODM; ASIV+R1 intensified the effect of ASIV on SODM; ASIV+DLA+R1 intensified the effect of ASIV and R1 on ATP/ADP and ATP/AMP, the effect of ASIV on ALDOA, the effect of DLA on ENOβ, the effect of R1 on HIF1, the effect of DLA on MDA and the effect of ASIV and R1 on SODM (Table 1). On the contrary, we found that although ASIV mono-therapy could modulate ECH1, CPT1A and SODM, these effects lost when ASIV combined with other ingredient, for example, ASIV+DLA lost the effect on ECH1 and CPT1A; ASIV+R1 lost the effect on CPT1A; ASIV+DO lost the effect on SODM (Table 1). Interestingly, we found that two or more ingredients combined together exerted some effects that any single one alone did not have, such as DLA and R1 mono-therapy had no effect on CPT1A, while DLA+R1 could modulate CPT1A; ASIV, DLA and DO mono-therapy had no effect on HIF1 and HSP70, while ASIV+DLA and ASIV+DO could modulate these two proteins; ASIV and R1 mono-therapy had no effect on MDA, while ASIV+R1 could modulate MDA (Table 1). More importantly, QSYQ, a combination of all the ingredients, always revealed the highest efficiency regardless of evaluating by variables of CH or energy metabolism or oxidative stress, demonstrating the rationality of QSYQ formula.

Renal fibrosis is the final outcome for almost all patients with CKD, for which there are no effective and affordable therapeutic options in the clinical setting, thus creating a heavy socioeconomic burden. Based on the data in this study, we hypothesize that P311 regulates renal fibrogenesis because (1) P311 levels were significantly increased and P311 seem to be co-localized with TGF-β1- and α-SMA-positive regions in renal fibrosis; (2) interstitial collagen deposition, vimentin and α-SMA expression and macrophage infiltration decreased in P311-deficient mice in a mouse model of UUO-induced fibrosis; and (3) P311 deficiency down-regulated tubular TGF-β1 expression, TGF-β1 receptor expression and TGF-β1/Smad signaling activation. This study demonstrate that P311 expression modulates renal fibrogenesis.

Anyway the point is, small efforts will add up, and decades more of healthy life are probably not all that far away.

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As far as C60 as a potent antioxidant, Mark has tried it, I have not, but I did do a self experiment 2 years ago. You are familiar of course with viagra which is a phosphodiesterase inhibitor and thus raises nitric oxide endothelial levels. This increase can also boost exercise endurance. So I took a pretty hefty dose and exercised with it, but then it always gave nasal congestion, headache, and flushing which I tried to eliminate with various high dose antioxidants. None of them worked at any dose except for one. Sangre de Drago is the highest rated antioxidant of any, with a sky high ORAC rating, and is literally blood red. In two minutes all of the nitric oxide effects completely vanished. It never failed.

        In January 2018, we initiated a Phase 1b pharmacokinetic, or PK, clinical trial evaluating zilucoplan in patients with renal impairment. During the second quarter of 2018, we completed dosing of all subjects and in September 2018 announced positive results from our Phase 1b PK clinical trial, which support the expansion of zilucoplan into complement-mediated renal disorders without the need for dose adjustment.

Wynn, T. A. Common and unique mechanisms regulate fibrosis in various fibroproliferative diseases. The Journal of clinical investigation. 117, 524–529 (2007).

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