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Current Pharmaceutical Design

Editor-in-Chief

ISSN (Print): 1381-6128
ISSN (Online): 1873-4286

Matrix Metalloproteinases as Valid Clinical Target

Author(s): Barbara Fingleton

Volume 13, Issue 3, 2007

Page: [333 - 346] Pages: 14

DOI: 10.2174/138161207779313551

Price: $65

Abstract

The matrix metalloproteinase family of enzymes has been a pharmaceutical target for over 20 years. In that time, many drugs have been developed but none have successfully passed clinical trials. A significant problem has been development of dose-limiting side-effects that were revealed during long-term clinical trials in diseases such as arthritis and various cancers. There are, however, other clinical settings where evidence for MMP function contributing to the pathophysiology of disease is strong. A number of these settings will be discussed here together with evidence from animal models that MMP inhibition is a valid strategy to be considered. A major advantage with many of these settings is that drug exposure may not have to be long-term and/or systemic thus reducing the possibility that side-effects will stymie MMPI-based therapy.

Keywords: Inflammation, remodeling, acute therapy, topical, cardiovascular disease

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