WO 2017/066590 Al 20 April 2017 (20.04.2017) P O P CT

WO 2017/066590 Al 20 April 2017 (20.04.2017) P O P CT

(12) INTERNATIONAL APPLICATION PUBLISHED UNDER THE PATENT COOPERATION TREATY (PCT) (19) World Intellectual Property Organization International Bureau (10) International Publication Number (43) International Publication Date WO 2017/066590 Al 20 April 2017 (20.04.2017) P O P CT (51) International Patent Classification: (81) Designated States (unless otherwise indicated, for every A61K 38/06 (2006.01) A61K 31/519 (2006.01) kind of national protection available): AE, AG, AL, AM, A61 38/07 (2006.0V) A61K 31/551 (2006.01) AO, AT, AU, AZ, BA, BB, BG, BH, BN, BR, BW, BY, A61K 31/13 (2006.01) A61K 31/5513 (2006.01) BZ, CA, CH, CL, CN, CO, CR, CU, CZ, DE, DJ, DK, DM, A61K 31/135 (2006.01) A61P 25/24 (2006.01) DO, DZ, EC, EE, EG, ES, FI, GB, GD, GE, GH, GM, GT, A61K 31/496 (2006.01) A61P 25/18 (2006.01) HN, HR, HU, ID, IL, IN, IR, IS, JP, KE, KG, KN, KP, KR, KW, KZ, LA, LC, LK, LR, LS, LU, LY, MA, MD, ME, (21) International Application Number: MG, MK, MN, MW, MX, MY, MZ, NA, NG, NI, NO, NZ, PCT/US20 16/057071 OM, PA, PE, PG, PH, PL, PT, QA, RO, RS, RU, RW, SA, (22) International Filing Date: SC, SD, SE, SG, SK, SL, SM, ST, SV, SY, TH, TJ, TM, 14 October 2016 (14.10.201 6) TN, TR, TT, TZ, UA, UG, US, UZ, VC, VN, ZA, ZM, zw. (25) Filing Language: English (84) Designated States (unless otherwise indicated, for every (26) Publication Language: English kind of regional protection available): ARIPO (BW, GH, (30) Priority Data: GM, KE, LR, LS, MW, MZ, NA, RW, SD, SL, ST, SZ, 62/242,633 16 October 2015 (16. 10.2015) US TZ, UG, ZM, ZW), Eurasian (AM, AZ, BY, KG, KZ, RU, TJ, TM), European (AL, AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, (71) Applicant: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LT, LU, [US/US]; 633 Clark Street, Evanston, Illinois 60208 (US). LV, MC, MK, MT, NL, NO, PL, PT, RO, RS, SE, SI, SK, SM, TR), OAPI (BF, BJ, CF, CG, CI, CM, GA, GN, GQ, (72) Inventors: MOSKAL, Joseph R.; 2775 Sheridan Road, GW, KM, ML, MR, NE, SN, TD, TG). Evanston, Illinois 60201 (US). MELTZER, Hebert; 1801 Maple Avenue, Suite 4300, Evanston, Illinois 60201 (US). Published: (74) Agents: CHIEN, Andrew et al; 2525 Dupont Drive, — with international search report (Art. 21(3)) Irvine, California 92612 (US). © o (54) Title: PHARMACEUTICAL COMBINATION OF AN ATYPICAL ANTIPSYCHOTIC AND AN NMDA MODULATOR - FOR THE TREATMENT OF SCHIZOPHRENIA,BIPOLAR DISORDER, COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT AND MAJOR DEPRESS - © rVE DISORDER (57) Abstract: This disclosure features combinations of NMDA modulators and atypical antipsychotics. The disclosure provides for example, methods of treating schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and/or cognitive impairment disorder in a patient in need thereof, com- prising administering e.g., rapastinel and an atypical antipsychotic. PHARMACEUTICAL COMBINATION OF AN ATYPICAL ANTIPSYCHOTIC AND AN NMDA MODULATOR FOR THE TREATMENT OF SCHIZOPHRENIA.BIPOLAR DISORDER, COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT AND MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER CROSS REFERENCE [0001] This application claims priority to U.S. Patent Application No. 62/242,633, filed on October 16, 2015, the entire content of which is incorporated herein by reference. BACKGROUND [0002] N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptors (NMDAR) are postsynaptic, ionotropic receptors that are responsive to, inter alia, the excitatory amino acids glutamate and glycine and the synthetic compound NMDA. The NMDA receptor controls the flow of both divalent and monovalent ions into the postsynaptic neural cell through a receptor associated channel. The NMDA receptor has been implicated during development in specifying neuronal architecture and synaptic connectivity, and may be involved in experience-dependent synaptic modifications. In addition, NMDA receptors are also thought to be involved in long term potentiation and central nervous system disorders. [0003] The NMDA receptor is believed to consist of several protein chains embedded in the postsynaptic membrane. The first two types of subunits discovered so far form a large extracellular region, which probably contains most of the allosteric binding sites, several transmembrane regions looped and folded so as to form a pore or channel, which is permeable to Ca++, and a carboxyl terminal region. The opening and closing of the channel is regulated by the binding of various ligands to domains (allosteric sites) of the protein residing on the extracellular surface. The binding of the ligands is thought to affect a conformational change in the overall structure of the protein which is ultimately reflected in the channel opening, partially opening, partially closing, or closing. [0004] Recently, improved partial agonist of NMDAR such as rapastinel has been reported to enhance hippocampal-dependent spatial learning tasks in rodents, indicating it may have cognitive enhancing, as well as antidepressant properties. Rapastinel is exemplified by the following structure: with a molecular weight: 413.47, and a chemical formula: C 1 H 1N5O . Rapastinel exhibits nootropic, neuroprotective and antinociceptive activity, and enhances learning, memory and cognition in vivo. [0005] Ketamine, an NMDAR non-competitive antagonist, has also been reported to produce rapidly acting antidepressant properties; however, it also causes dissociative and psychotic-like effects, as well as cognitive impairment, in healthy humans, and exacerbates psychosis, but not cognitive impairment, in patients with schizophrenia. Ketamine also causes deficits in cognition in rodents, including novel object recognition (NOR), an analog of human declarative memory. NOR is dependent on the integrated action of the hippocampus, entorhinal, perirhinal and temporal association cortices, and prefrontal cortex. Glutamate, via its actions at NMDAR and a-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4- isoxazolepropionic acid (AMP A) receptors, has a profound effect on synaptic plasticity and, thus, plays a major role in learning and memory. [0006] There continues to be a serious need for therapies, e.g., medications that can be administered alone or in conjunction with other active agents to treat depression, such as patients with bipolar depression, and/or to treat patients having schizophrenia. SUMMARY This disclosure features in part combinations that include one or more atypical antipsychotics and an NMDA modulator, such rapastinel and other NMDA modulators disclosed herein (each of which is sometimes referred to herein as a "component"). The beneficial effects of such a combination are based, in part, on the finding that administration of rapastinel and an atypical antipsychotic (e.g. lurasidone) (e.g., a sub acute dose) can reverse and/or prevent NMDAR antagonist-induced cognitive impairment (e.g., NMDAR antagonist- induced impairment in novel obj ect recognition; e.g., induced through repeated dosing of the NMDAR antagonist). Disclosed combinations can further include one or more other biologically active ingredients (e.g., one or more other anti-depressant compounds) and/or one or more pharmaceutically acceptable excipients and/or carriers. The components of the combination (sometimes also referred to herein as chemical entities or chemical compounds) can be administered to a patient in a sequential manner (each component is administered at a different time) or in a substantially simultaneous manner. It will be appreciated that the components may be present in the same pharmaceutically acceptable carrier and, therefore, administered simultaneously. Alternatively, each of the components can be present in separate pharmaceutical carriers, such as, conventional oral dosage forms, or parenteral forms, (or one component may be oral and the other parenteral) that can be administered either simultaneously or sequentially. Accordingly, in one aspect, methods of substantially reversing or preventing cognitive impairment in a patient acutely administered a NMDAR antagonist are provided, which include administering a disclosed NMDA modulator such as rapastine and an atypical antipsychotic (e.g. lurasidone) . For example, provided herein is a method of treating schizophrenia or bipolar disorder in a patient in need thereof, comprising administering to the patient: an atypical antipsychotic; and an NMDA modulator selected from the group consisting of rapastinel, (S)-N-((2S,3R)-\- amino-3-hydroxy- 1-oxobutan-2-yl)- 1-((S)- 1-((5)-2-amino-3-hydroxypropanoyl)pyrrolidine- 2-carbonyl)pyrrolidine-2-carboxamide, (5 -N-((5)-l-amino-3-hydroxy-l-oxopropan-2-yl)-l- ((5)-l-((25',3i?)-2-amino-3-hydroxybutanoyl) pyrrolidine-2-carbonyl) pyrrolidine-2- carboxamide, (S)-N-((S)-1-amino-3-hydroxy-1-oxopropan-2-y1)- 1-((S)-1-((5)-2-amino-3- hydroxy-propanoyl)-pyrrolidine-2-carbonyl)-pyrrolidine-2-carboxamide, and N-((2S,3R)- 1- amino-3-hydroxy- 1-oxobutan-2-yl)- 1-((S)- 1-((25',3i?)-2-amino-3-hydroxybutanoyl)- pyrrolidine-2-carbonyl)-2-benzylpyrrolidine-2-carboxamide. In certain contemplated methods, the NMDA modulator and the atypical antipsychotic are each administered at a dose that is sub-effective if administered alone. [0007] In another embodiment, provided here is a pharmaceutically acceptable composition comprising an NMDA modulator e.g., rapastinel and an atypical antipsychotic (e.g., lurasidone). For example, such a composition may include sub-acute or sub-effective doses (based on administration of the drug alone) of rapastinel and/or lurasidone. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS [0008] FIG. 1 shows acute ketamine (ket; 30 mg/kg) but not rapastinel (rap; 1.0 mg/kg) induced a significant NOR deficit in male C57BL/6J mice. Rap (1.0 mg/kg) significantly prevented the ket-induced NOR deficit ($$$P<0.001). [0009] FIG. 2 shows rap ( 1.0 mg/kg) significantly reversed subchronic (sc) PCP & let (10 and 30 mg/kg; i.p. ; b.i.d.; 7 days; followed by 7 days washout)-induced NOR deficit (###P<0.001). [0010] FIG. 3 shows sub-effective dose (SED) acute rapastinel plus SED lurasidone (lur) significantly reversed scket-induced NOR deficit (##P<0.001) but neither drug above at these doses was effective. DETAILED DESCRIPTION [0011] This disclosure features combinations that include one or more comprising administering an NMDA modulator such as described herein, e.g., rapastinel, and an atypical antipsychotic (each of which is sometimes referred to herein as a "component").

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