Opicapone

BeschreibungOpicapone is a selective and reversible catechol O-methyltransferase (COMT) inhibitor that was developed by the Portuguese pharmaceutical firm Bial and sold to Neurocrine Biosciences. The drug was approved by the USFDA as adjunctive treatment to levodopa (L-Dopa)/ dopa-decarboxylase inhibitor (DDCI) therapy in adults with Parkinson’s disease (PD) and end-of-dose motor fluctuations that cannot be stabilized on those combinations. In 14- to 15- week double-blind multinational trials and in one-year openlabel extension studies in this patient population, opicapone was an effective and generally well-tolerated adjunctive therapy to L-Dopa plus a DDCI and other PD therapies. During the double-blind phase, adjunctive opicapone (50 mg once daily) provided significantly greater improvements in motor fluctuations than placebo, and no new unexpected safety concerns were identified after treatment with opicapone over a 1.4 year period. Furthermore, no serious cases of hepatotoxicity were reported in clinical trials, which represents a significant safety profile improvement over existing standard-of-care COMT inhibitors enticapone, tolcapone, and nebicapone.

VerwendenOpicapone, is used for the synthesis of novel nitrocatechol-substituted heterocycles, having the ability to inhibit catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT), used for the treatment of Parkinson`s diseases.