Abstract
Continuous dopaminergic stimulation (CDS) has become an important strategy for the development of drugs to treat Parkinson's disease (PD). Rotigotine behenate extended-release microspheres (RBEM) for injection represents a new treatment regime for CDS and is being applied for clinical trial. Our study in cynomolgus monkeys was a 20-week repeat dose toxicity investigation with RBEM at dosages of 90, 180, 360, with a 12-week recovery period. The results observed some irritations in the application site and surrounding tissues in Placebo microspheres and each dose of RBEM, was accompanied with increased white blood count and fibrinogen. RBEM-treated monkeys were additionally noted with a pharmacological action-related decrease in prolactin. These findings showed certain reversibility after the 12-week recovery phase. No clear sex difference was noted in the plasma exposure to rotigotine. The exposure generally increased in a dose-proportional manner. In summary, major toxicological effects are associated with the dopamine agonist-related properties of rotigotine, and the removal of foreign bodies caused by p oly (lactide-co-glycolide) (PLGA)and sodium carboxymethyl cellulose (SCMC), and the no-observed-adverse-effect-level (NOAEL) was 360 mg/kg.
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