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  • ||||||||||  golexanolone (GR3027) / Karolinska Development
    Review, Journal:  Allopregnanolone And Its Antagonist Modulate Neuroinflammation And Neurological Impairment. (Pubmed Central) -  May 9, 2024   
    What is surprising is the finding that both allopregnanolone, a steroid-PAM, and golexanolone, a novel GABA-A receptor modulating steroid antagonist (GAMSA), can inhibit microglia and astrocyte activation and normalize their function. This review focuses on the role of steroid-PAMs in neuroinflammation and their importance in new therapeutic approaches to CNS and liver disease.
  • ||||||||||  golexanolone (GR3027) / Karolinska Development
    Preclinical, Journal:  Golexanolone improves fatigue, motor incoordination and gait and memory in rats with bile duct ligation. (Pubmed Central) -  Nov 28, 2023   
    This review focuses on the role of steroid-PAMs in neuroinflammation and their importance in new therapeutic approaches to CNS and liver disease. Golexanolone may have beneficial effects to treat fatigue, and motor and cognitive impairment in patients with the chronic cholestatic liver disease PBC.
  • ||||||||||  Preclinical, Review, Journal:  Hepatic encephalopathy: investigational drugs in preclinical and early phase development. (Pubmed Central) -  Nov 27, 2023   
    Current treatments are lactulose or rifaximin, acting on gut microbiota...HE may be reversed using drugs acting at any step: modulating microbiota with probiotics or fecal transplantation; reducing peripheral inflammation with anti-TNF?, autotaxin inhibitors or silymarin; reducing neuroinflammation with sulforaphane, p38 MAP kinase or phosphodiesteras 5 inhibitors, antagonists of sphingosine-1-phosphate receptor 2, enhancing meningeal lymphatic drainage or with extracellular vesicles from mesenchymal stem cells; reducing GABAergic neurotransmission with indomethacin or golexanolone...Only drugs acting on microbiota or ammonia reduction have been tested in patients. t is urgent to change the mentality on how to approach HE treatment to develop clinical trials to assess drugs acting on the immune system/peripheral inflammation, neuroinflammation or neurotransmission to improve HE.
  • ||||||||||  golexanolone (GR3027) / Karolinska Development, sepranolone (UC1010) / Asarina Pharma
    Clinical, Review, Journal:  Positive GABA receptor modulating steroids and their antagonists: Implications for clinical treatments. (Pubmed Central) -  Apr 20, 2022   
    The progesterone metabolite allopregnanolone (Allo) is a positive GABA receptor modulating steroid with potent effects...We have demonstrated that isoallopregnanolone (Isoallo), the 3β-OH sibling of Allo, functions as a GABA receptor modulating steroid antagonist (GAMSA) but without any effects of its own on GABA receptors...In humans, vigilance, cognition and pathological electroencephalogram were improved in patients with hepatic encephalopathy on treatment with GR3027. In conclusion GAMSAs are a new possible treatment for disorders and symptoms caused by hyperactivity in the GABA system.