Discovery of the Potent, Selective, Orally Available CXCR7 Antagonist ACT-1004-1239.

The chemokine receptor CXCR7, also known as ACKR3, is a seven-transmembrane G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) involved in various pathologies such as neurological diseases, autoimmune diseases, and cancers. By binding and scavenging the chemokines CXCL11 and CXCL12, CXCR7 regulates their extracellular levels. From an original high-throughput screening campaign emerged hit among others.

Influence of Glass Forming Ability on the Physical Stability of Supersaturated Amorphous Solid Dispersions.

In this study, the influence of the glass-forming ability (GFA) of a drug on its physical stability in a supersaturated solid dispersion was investigated. Nine drugs were classified according to their GFA using their respective critical cooling rate. Their respective solubility in poly(vinylpyrrolidone-co-vinyl acetate) 6:4 (PVPVA64) was predicted using the melting point depression method based on the Flory-Huggins lattice theory.

The Influence of Polymers on the Supersaturation Potential of Poor and Good Glass Formers.

The increasing number of poorly water-soluble drug candidates in pharmaceutical development is a major challenge. Enabling techniques such as amorphization of the crystalline drug can result in supersaturation with respect to the thermodynamically most stable form of the drug, thereby possibly increasing its bioavailability after oral administration. The ease with which such crystalline drugs can be amorphized is known as their glass forming ability (GFA) and is commonly described by the critical cooling rate.

Is there a correlation between the glass forming ability of a drug and its supersaturation propensity?

The use of an enabling formulation technique, such as amorphization of a poorly water-soluble crystalline drug, can result in supersaturation with respect to the crystalline form of the drug and thus potentially in a higher degree of absorption after oral administration. The ease with which such drugs can be amorphized is known as their glass forming ability (GFA). In this study, a potential correlation between GFA and supersaturation propensity is investigated.

Influence of preparation pathway on the glass forming ability.

The glass forming ability (GFA), i.e. the ease of amorphization of drugs, is mostly investigated using the critical cooling rate upon melt quenching to generate an amorphous product via the thermodynamic pathway.

Glass Forming Ability of Amorphous Drugs Investigated by Continuous Cooling and Isothermal Transformation.

The aim of this study was to investigate the glass forming ability of 12 different drugs by the determination of continuous cooling and isothermal transformation diagrams in order to elucidate if an inherent differentiation between the drugs with respect to their the glass forming ability can be made. Continuous-cooling-transformation (CCT) and time-temperature-transformation (TTT) diagrams of the drugs were developed in order to predict the critical cooling rate necessary to convert the drug from the melt into an amorphous form. While TTT diagrams overestimated the actual critical cooling rate, they allowed an inherent differentiation of glass forming ability for the investigated drugs into drugs that are extremely difficult to amorphize (>750 °C/min), drugs that require modest cooling rates (>10 °C/min), and drugs that can be made amorphous even at very slow cooling rates (>2 °C/min).