SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company (Nasdaq: LJPC) (the “Company” or “La Jolla”), a leader in the development of therapeutics targeting significant unmet life-threatening diseases, today announced positive pre-clinical data for LJPC-1010 in non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). LJPC-1010 is a derivative of GCS-100, a carbohydrate inhibitor of galectin-3, which has shown activity in chronic kidney disease in a Phase 2 trial.
In a pre-clinical study of liver fibrosis in the STAM model of NASH, LJPC-1010 showed a significant reduction (p<0.001) vs control vehicle in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) activity score, a system of scoring the features of NAFLD. Importantly, LJPC-1010 had a significant impact on all three measures used to derive the NAFLD score, namely steatosis, lobular inflammation and hepatocyte ballooning indicating broad effects.
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