NeuroVive Pharmaceutical announces positive preclinical results demonstrating anti-fibrotic effects with NV556, the company’s preclinical compound for non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), in an additional well-validated experimental NASH model.
NV556 has previously shown similar anti-fibrotic effects in the experimental STAM™ NASH model. NeuroVive’s scientists present novel data demonstrating anti-fibrotic effects of NV5556 also in the experimental MCD NASH model, strengthening and confirming the previous findings. In addition, in the STAM model where NASH is followed by liver cancer development, long term treatment with NV556 was well tolerated and significantly reduced liver weight increase, indicating a reduced tumor burden. Furthermore, there was a trend that NV556 reduced both the number and the size of tumors on the liver surface.
“We are encouraged by the confirmation of an anti-fibrotic effect of NV556 in a second well validated experimental model. Also, the preventive effect on liver cancer development is a highly appealing observation that adds to the attractiveness of NV556 as a possible treatment candidate for patients with progressing NASH for which there is a high unmet medical need”, says Magnus Hansson, M.D., Ph.D., Chief Medical Officer at NeuroVive.
