Concentration-Dependent Activity of Hydromethylthionine on Clinical Decline and Brain Atrophy in a Randomized Controlled Trial in Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia

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Background: Hydromethylthionine is a potent inhibitor of pathological aggregation of tau and TDP-43 proteins. Objective: To compare hydromethylthionine treatment effects at two doses and to determine how drug exposure is related to treatment response in bvFTD. Methods: We undertook a 52-week Phase III study in 220 bvFTD patients randomized to compare hydromethylthionine at 200mg/day and 8mg/day (intended as a control). The principal outcomes were change on the Addenbrookes Cognitive Examination-Revised (ACE-R), the Functional Activities Questionnaire (FAQ), and whole brain volume. Secondary outcomes included Modified Clinical Global Impression of Change (Modified-CGIC). A population pharmacokinetic exposure-response analysis was undertaken in 175 of the patients with available blood samples and outcome data using a discriminatory plasma assay for the parent drug. Results: There were no significant differences between the two doses as randomized. There were steep concentration-response relationships for plasma levels in the range 0.3-0.6ng/ml at the 8mg/day dose on clinical and MRI outcomes. There were significant exposure-dependent differences at 8mg/day for FAQ, Modified-CGIC, and whole brain atrophy comparing patients with plasma levels greater than 0.346ng/ml with having minimal drug exposure. The exposure-response is biphasic with worse outcomes at the high concentrations produced by 200mg/day. Conclusions: Hydromethylthionine has a similar concentration-response profile for effects on clinical decline and brain atrophy at the 8mg/day dose in bvFTD as recently reported in AD. Treatment responses in bvFTD are predicted to be maximal at doses in the range 20-60mg/day. A confirmatory placebo-controlled trial is now planned.

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Shiells, H., Schelter, B. O., Bentham, P., Baddeley, T. C., Rubino, C. M., Ganesan, H., … Wischik, C. M. (2020). Concentration-Dependent Activity of Hydromethylthionine on Clinical Decline and Brain Atrophy in a Randomized Controlled Trial in Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, 75(2), 501–519. https://doi.org/10.3233/JAD-191173

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