Patent Application: US-59211105-A

Abstract:
modulation of the of glucocorticoid inducible kinases to restore connective tissue growth factor activity . also disclosed are methods and compounds useful for the detection and treatment of fibroproliferative disorders .

Description:
to explore whether sgk1 may be involved in the signalling of cardiac fibrosis a pellet continuously releasing doca ( 2 . 4 mg / day ) was implanted into both sgk1 +/+ and sgk1 −/− mice along with 1 % nacl in the drinking water . prior to treatment , blood pressure was similar in sgk1 −/− and sgk1 +/+ mice as were plasma na +, cl —, ca2 + and phosphate concentrations , glomerular filtration rate , urinary flow rate and renal electrolyte elimination . in both sgk1 −/− and sgk1 +/+ mice doca / high salt treatment for 18 days led to statistically significant increases in blood pressure and urinary output of nacl and water . the effect was paralleled by significant increases in urinary output of ca2 + and phosphate , typical sequalae of extracellular volume expansion 12 , 13 . doca induced a significant hypokalemia in sgk1 +/+ but not in sgk1 −/− mice , implicating a role for sgk1 in mineralocorticoid - regulated renal k + excretion the increase in blood pressure in sgk1 −/− mice is consistent with significant upregulation of renal na + reabsorption and as shown here , this sgk1 - independent upregulation of renal salt reabsorption by doca - mediated activation of mineralocorticoid receptors is , apparently , sufficient to induce net renal nacl retention and thus to increase blood pressure . the doca / high salt - induced increases in plasma na + concentration , urinary flow rate , absolute and fractional nacl excretion were , however , significantly blunted in sgk1 −/− compared to sgk1 +/+ mice . in view of the defective stimulation of renal na + reabsorption in the sgk1 −/− mice the opposite , i . e . enhanced rather than decreased urinary nacl output in those mice was expected . thus a new finding was that sgk1 may contribute to mineralocorticoid - induced salt appetite . to verify this possibility , mice were placed in metabolic cages with access to two drinking bottles where bottle 1 always contained tap water . switching bottle 2 from tap water to 1 % nacl did not significantly alter water intake from bottle 1 in sgk1 +/+ mice and induced a pronounced increase in salt intake from bottle 2 only after implanting the doca pellet , consistent with doca - induced salt appetite ( fig1 ). this response , however , was significantly attenuated in sgk1 −/− mice . a significant difference in fluid intake from bottle 2 persisted between sgk1 +/+ and sgk1 −/− mice even after offering tap water in bottle 2 , indicating that sgk1 +/+ mice maintained a greater search for salt than sgk1 −/− mice . these data provide the first evidence that sgk1 plays a dual role in mineralocorticoid - regulated na + homeostasis involving not only inhibition of output by stimulation of renal na + reabsorption but also stimulation of uptake by mineralocorticoid induced salt appetite ( 6 , 7 ). sgk1 may similarly participate in the regulation of salt appetite by glucocorticoids ( 2 ) and a sgk1 - dependent increase of salt intake may contribute to the enhanced extracellular fluid volume and blood pressure during stress conditions ( 15 ). moreover , enhanced salt appetite and subsequent increased salt uptake and extracellular fluid expansion may contribute to the higher blood pressure values of individuals carrying a common polymorphism within the sgk1 gene , affecting as many as 5 % of unselected caucasians ( 16 ). despite an identical increase in blood pressure , the effects of doca / high salt on kidney growth and proteinuria were significantly blunted in the sgk1 −/− mouse . moreover , heart morphology was dramatically different in sgk1 −/− and sgk1 +/+ mice . a 18 day doca / high salt treatment led to marked fibrosis of the heart in sgk1 +/+ mice but remained without any appreciable effect on the heart in sgk1 −/− mice ( fig2 a ). quantitative analysis of the severity of fibrosis , which was assessed by measuring the area of fibrosis and then expressing it as a percentage of total area , revealed a statistically significant difference between the degree of fibrosis between doca / high salt treated sgk1 +/+ and sgk1 −/− mice ( fig2 b ). no significant fibrosis was observed in sgk1 +/+ or sgk1 −/− mice prior to doca / high salt treatment ( fig2 b ). the enhanced cardiac fibrosis observed in the doca / high salt treated sgk1 +/+ mice was paralleled by altered transcriptional regulation of several genes as determined by microarray analysis . in sgk1 +/+ mice a 48 h doca / high salt treatment induced several genes involved in the pathogenesis of fibrosis , such as procollagens , integrin α5 , proteoglycan 4 and connective tissue growth factor ctgf ( fig2 c ), paralleling the increase of sgk1 transcription ( 2 . 10 ± 0 . 14 fold increase in sgk1 / gapdh copy number in doca / high salt treated sgk1 +/+ mice compared to untreated sgk1 +/+ mice as analysed by real - time pcr ). in contrast none of these genes were induced by doca / high salt in sgk1 −/− mice . as the doca / high salt treated sgk1 +/+ mice exhibited a greater uptake of salt compared to the sgk1 −/− mice ( fig1 ) and prolonged enhanced salt intake has been previously reported to stimulate cardiac fibrosis in the absence of mineralocorticoids ( 17 ) we performed a further series of experiments where sgk1 +/+ mice were offered doca plus 1 % saline and sgk1 −/− mice doca plus 2 % saline in order to determine whether the differences in the degree of cardiac fibrosis between the sgk1 +/+ and sgk1 −/− mice were secondary to greater salt uptake by the sgk1 +/+ mice . even though under those conditions , the fluid uptake in sgk1 −/− mice ( n = 5 ) was 2 . 2 ± 0 . 4 fold higher and na + intake was thus more than 4 - fold higher in sgk1 −/− mice than in sgk1 +/+ mice ( n = 5 ), cardiac ctgf expression ( used in this instance as a marker of cardiac fibrosis ), as analysed by western blotting , was significantly increased only in cardiac tissue from sgk1 +/+ mice ( untreated : 0 . 9 ± 0 . 2 vs doca / 1 % salt : 4 . 7 ± 1 . 0 , arbitrary units of ctgf / β - tubulin densitometric analysis , ( p & lt ; 0 . 01 )) and not sgk1 −/− mice ( untreated : 1 . 5 ± 1 . 0 vs doca / 2 % salt : 1 . 7 ± 0 . 7 , arbitrary units of ctgf / β - tubulin densitometric analysis ). hypokalemia as described above may be cardiotoxic and thus lead to reparative fibrosis ( 18 ). thus , the excessive hypokalemia in the sgk1 +/+ doca / high salt treated mice could have contributed to the observed cardiac fibrosis . however , supplementation of rats undergoing mineralocorticoid / high salt treatment with kcl has been previously reported to have no effect on the degree of fibrosis and collagen content of the heart ( 19 ). ctgf , a member of the ccn ( ctgf / cyr61 / nov ) gene family ( 20 ), is known to be a key mediator of matrix protein formation ( 21 , 22 ), and upregulation of collagen and integrin a5 transcription can be secondary to ctgf expression ( 23 , 24 ). we therefore further explored the role of doca in the regulation of ctgf protein levels . according to western blot analysis , treatment with doca / high salt ( for 18 days ) markedly upregulated ctgf expression in cardiac tissue from sgk1 +/+ mice but was unaltered in sgk1 −/− mice ( fig3 a , b ). similarly , stimulation of primary cultures of mouse lung fibroblasts isolated from sgk1 +/+ and sgk1 −/− mice showed elevated ctgf levels only in the sgk1 +/+ cells after stimulation with doca ( 10 μm , 24 h ) ( fig3 c , d ). the requirement of sgk1 for the in vitro stimulation of ctgf expression in cultured fibroblasts suggests that the differences in mineralocorticoid - induced ctgf formation do not require differences in blood pressure , electrolyte metabolism or plasma concentrations between sgk1 −/− and sgk1 +/+ mice , even though those and further functional parameters may well contribute to altered cardiac function and fibrosis during mineralocorticoid excess . the sgk1 - dependent upregulation of ctgf expression provides an explanation for the decisive role of this kinase in the signalling of enhanced matrix deposition . the observations do not , however , exclude additional signalling pathways involving sgk1 and leading to cardiac fibrosis . fig1 : sgk1 is required for stimulation of nacl uptake by doca . daily volume drunk from bottle 1 ( tap water , left panel ) or from bottle 2 ( tap water or saline , right panel ) by the sgk1 knockout mice ( sgk1 −/−, open symbols ) or their wild type littermates ( sgk1 +/+, closed symbols ) prior to and during doca treatment fig2 : sgk1 is required for doca - induced development of cardiac fibrosis and for alterations in gene expression . a : h & amp ; e and masson &# 39 ; s trichrome staining of cardiac tissue (× 150 magnification ) from wild type ( sgk1 +/+, left ) and sgk1 knockout ( sgk1 −/−, right ) mice following doca / high salt diet treatment for 18 days . b : graph illustrating the degree of fibrosis ( the fibrotic areas are presented as the percentage of total area ) observed in doca / high salt treated sgk1 +/+ and sgk1 −/− ( mean ± sem , n = 6 , * significant difference ( p & lt ; 0 . 05 )). c : microarray analysis showing arithmetic means ± sem ( 4 comparisons in 2 animals ) of the fold change in connective tissue growth factor ( ctgf ), procollagen type i , iv , and viii , proteoglycan 4 and integrin α5 transcript levels compared to untreated mice following a 2 day doca / high salt diet treatment of sgk1 knockout mice ( sgk1 −/−, open columns ) and wild type littermates ( sgk1 +/+, closed columns ). fig3 : doca enhances ctgf expression in hearts and primary mouse lung fibroblast from sgk1 +/+ but not sgk1 −/− mice . a : representative western blot of ctgf and β - tubulin levels in hearts from control and doca / high salt treated ( 18 days ) sgk1 knockout mice ( sgk1 −/−) and wild type littermates ( sgk1 +/+). b : densitometric analysis of the ctgf western blots expressed as a ratio of β - tubulin ( mean ± sem , n = 3 - 5 , * significant difference between sgk1 +/+ sham and sgk1 +/+ doca , # significant difference between sgk1 +/+ doca and sgk1 −/− doca ( p & lt ; 0 . 05 )) c : representative western blots of ctgf and β - tubulin expression in doca treated mouse lung fibroblasts and d : arithmetic means ± sem ( lower panel , n = 6 , * significant difference , p & lt ; 0 . 05 ) of ctgf protein abundance ( as a function of β - tubulin expression ) in fibroblasts derived from sgk1 knockout animals ( sgk1 −/−, open columns ) and wild type littermates ( sgk1 +/+, closed columns ). mice deficient in sgk1 ( sgk1 −/−) were generated as previously described 9 . wild type ( sgk1 +/+) and sgk1 knockout ( sgk1 −/−) mice were implanted with a 21 day release 50 mg doca pellet ( innovative research of america , sarasota , fla .) in the neck area ( 28 ) during anesthesia ( intraperitoneal medetomidin 0 . 5 mg / kg + midazolam 5 mg / kg + fentanyl 0 . 05 mg / kg which was reversed by subcutaneous atipamezol 2 . 5 mg / kg + flumazenil 0 . 5 mg / kg + naloxon 1 . 2 mg / kg ). one day before implantation of doca pellets , sgk1 −/− and sgk1 +/+ mice were weighed and placed individually in metabolic cages ( tecniplast hohenpeissenberg , germany ) for basal 24 hour urine collection . mice had free access to a standard mouse diet ( altromin , heidenau , germany ) and tap water and / or 1 % or 2 % nacl . the inner wall of the metabolic cages was siliconized and urine was collected under water - saturated oil . systolic arterial blood pressure was determined by the tail - cuff method before and on days 1 , 2 , 4 , 6 , 10 and 14 of doca / 1 % nacl treatment 29 . on day 18 of doca / high salt treatment , 24 hour urine and body weight were again determined , animals anesthetized ( intraperitoneal ketamine and xylazine ) and 200 μl of blood withdrawn into heparinized capillaries by puncturing the retro - orbital plexus . plasma and urinary concentrations of na + and k + were measured by flame photometer ( elex 6361 , eppendorf , germany ), cl — concentrations by electrometric titration ( chloridometer 6610 , eppendorf , germany ), ca2 +, phosphorus and creatinine were assessed by commercial diagnostic kits ( sigma , munich , germany ). hearts from untreated or doca / high salt treated ( 18 days ) sgk1 +/+ and sgk1 −/− mice were quickly removed under anesthesia , the weight determined and fixed in 4 % paraformaldehyde / 0 . 1 m sodium phosphate buffer ( ph 7 . 2 ) overnight and embedded in paraffin . dewaxed 5 μm thick heart muscle sections were stained with h & amp ; e and masson &# 39 ; s trichrome ( 30 ). stained paraffin sections were analysed on a zeiss axioplan microscope ( zeiss , jena , germany ). areas were measured on digitized images using an axiocam video camera ( zeiss , jena , germany ) using the manufacture &# 39 ; s software ( axiovision , zeiss , jena , germany ). total tissue areas were measured with a 4 × objective ; fibrotic areas were identified and quantified using a 20 × objective . the degree of fibrosis was then calculated as a percentage of total tissue area . total rna was isolated from hearts obtained from untreated or doca / high salt ( 48 h ) treated sgk1 +/+ and sgk1 −/− mice using the qiagen rneasy fibrous tissue midi kit according to the manufacture &# 39 ; s instructions ( qiagen , hilden , germany ). using total rna from hearts of doca / high salt or sham - treated sgk1 −/− and sgk1 +/+ mice , second - strand syntheses were generated using a commercially available kit ( invitrogen life technologies , rockville , md .) and an oligo d ( t ) 24 t7 primer . crna was generated using biotin - labelled ctp and utp by in vitro transcription using a t7 promoter - coupled double stranded cdna as template and the t7 rna transcript labelling kit ( enzo diagnostics , farmingdale , n . y .). the crna was fragmented and hybridised to the mouse genome moe430a oligonucleotide array chip ( affymetrix , santa clara , calif .). the array chips were then stained using phycoerythrin conjugated streptavidin ( molecular probes , invitrogen life technologies , rockville , md .) and the fluorescence intensities were determined using a laser confocal scanner ( agilent , affymetrix , santa clara , calif .). the intensity of the scanned images was analysed using microarray suite version 5 ( affymetrix , santa clara , calif .). global scaling was applied to all arrays such that the mean intensity of each array was equivalent . in global scaling , the raw signal value of each probe cell was multiplied by a scaling factor . genes whose expression significantly varied with a signal log ratio of 0 . 5 were identified using data mining tool ( affymetrix , santa clara , calif .). 4 . 1 . compounds of the general formula i and pharmaceutical useful derivates , salts , solutions and stereoisomeres thereof including mixtures . r 1 , r 5 is either h , oh , oa , oac or methyl , r 2 , r , r 4 , r 6 , r 7 , r 8 , r 9 , r 10 is either h , oh , oa , oac , ocf 3 , hal , no 2 , cf 3 , a , cn , oso 2 ch 3 , so 2 ch 3 , nh 2 or cooh , compound according to formula i selected from the following group of compounds : ( 3 - hydroxy - phenyl )- acidic acid -( 4 - hydroxy - 2 - methoxy - benzyliden )- hydrazid , ( 3 - hydroxy - phenyl )- acidic acid -[ 1 -( 4 - hydroxy - 2 - methoxy - phenyl )- ethyliden ]- hydrazid , ( 3 - methoxy - phenyl )- acidic acid -( 4 - hydroxy - 2 - methoxy - benzyliden )- hydrazid . phenylacidic acid -( 3 - fluor - 4 - hydroxy - benzyliden )- hydrazid , ( 4 - hydroxy - phenyl )- acidic acid -( 4 - hydroxy - 2 - methoxy - benzyliden )- hydrazid , ( 3 , 4 - dichlor - phenyl )- acidic acid -( 4 - hydroxy - 2 - methoxy - benzyliden )- hydrazid , m - tolyl - acidic acid -( 4 - hydroxy - 2 - methoxy - benzyliden )- hydrazid , o - tolyl - acidic acid -( 4 - hydroxy - 2 - methoxy - benzyliden )- hydrazid , ( 2 - chlor - phenyl )- acidic acid -( 4 - hydroxy - 2 - methoxy - benzyliden )- hydrazid , ( 3 - chlor - phenyl )- acidic acid -( 4 - hydroxy - 2 - methoxy - benzyliden )- hydrazid , ( 4 - fluor - phenyl )- acidic acid -( 4 - hydroxy - 2 - methoxy - benzyliden )- hydrazid , ( 2 - chlor - 4 - fluor - phenyl )- acidic acid -( 4 - hydroxy - 2 - methoxy - benzyliden )- hydrazid , ( 3 - fluor - phenyl )- acidic acid -( 4 - hydroxy - 2 - methoxy - benzyliden )- hydrazid , ( 3 - methoxy - phenyl )- acidic acid -( 4 - hydroxy - benzyliden )- hydrazid , ( 3 - methoxy - phenyl )- acidic acid -( 4 - hydroxy - 2 , 6 - dimethyl - benzyliden )- hydrazid , ( 3 - methoxy - phenyl )- acidic acid -( 3 - fluor - 4 - hydroxy - benzyliden )- hydrazid , ( 3 - methoxy - phenyl )- acidic acid -[ 1 -( 4 - hydroxy - 2 - methoxy - phenyl )- ethyliden ]- hydrazid , ( 3 - methylsulfonyloxy - phenyl )- acidic acid -( 4 - hydroxy - 2 - methoxy - benzyliden )- hydrazid , ( 3 , 5 - dihydroxy - phenyl )- acidic acid -( 4 - hydroxy - 2 - methoxy - benzyliden )- hydrazid , ( 3 - fluor - phenyl )- acidic acid -( 3 - fluor - 4 - hydroxy - benzyliden )- hydrazid , ( 3 - methoxy - phenyl )- acidic acid -( 4 - acetoxy - 2 - methoxy - benzyliden )- hydrazid , ( 3 - trifluormethyl - phenyl )- acidic acid -( 4 - hydroxy - 2 - methoxy - benzyliden )- hydrazid , 3 -( 3 - methoxy - phenyl )- propionsäure -( 4 - hydroxy - 2 - methoxy - benzyliden )- hydrazid , ( 3 - methoxy - phenyl )- acidic a cid -( 2 , 4 - dihydroxy - benzyliden )- hydrazid , ( 3 - methoxy - phenoxy )- acidic acid -( 4 - hydroxy - 2 - methoxy - benzyliden )- hydrazid , ( 3 - nitro - phenyl )- acidic acid -( 4 - hydroxy - 2 - methoxy - benzyliden )- hydrazid , ( 3 - methoxy - phenyl )- acidic acid -( 5 - chlor - 2 - hydroxy - benzyliden )- hydrazid , ( 3 - methoxy - phenyl )- acidic a cid -( 2 - hydroxy - 5 - nitro - benzyliden )- hydrazid , 2 - hydroxy - 2 - phenyl - acidic acid -( 4 - hydroxy - 2 - methoxy - benzyliden )- hydrazid , ( 3 - methoxy - phenyl )- acidic acid -( 2 - ethoxy - 4 - hydroxy - benzyliden )- hydrazid , ( 3 - brom - phenyl )- acidic acid -( 4 - hydroxy - 2 - methoxy - benzyliden )- hydrazid , ( 3 - methoxy - phenyl )- acidic acid -[ 1 -( 4 - hydroxy - phenyl )- ethyliden ]- hydrazid , ( 3 , 5 - difluor - phenyl )- acidic acid -( 4 - hydroxy - 2 - methoxy - benzyliden )- hydrazid , ( 3 - hydroxy - phenyl )- acidic acid -( 4 - hydroxy - 2 - methyl - benzyliden )- hydrazid , ( 3 - hydroxy - phenyl )- acidic acid -( 2 - ethoxy - 4 - hydroxy - benzyliden )- hydrazid , ( 3 - hydroxy - phenyl )- acidic acid -( 2 - methoxy - 4 - hydroxy - 6 - methyl - benzyliden )- hydrazid , ( 2 - fluor - phenyl )- acidic acid -( 2 - methoxy - 4 - hydroxy - benzyliden )- hydrazid 4 . 2 . compounds of the general formula ii and pharmaceutical useful derivates , salts , solutions and stereoisomeres thereof including mixtures . r 4 , r 5 is either h , a , oh , oa , alkenyl , alkinyl , no 2 , nh 2 , nha , na 2 , hal , cn , cooh , cooa , two groups selected from r 1 , r 2 , r 3 , r 4 , r 5 or as well — o — ch 2 — ch 2 —, — o — ch 2 — o — or — o — ch 2 — ch 2 — o —, r 6 , r 7 is either h , a , hal , oh , oa or cn , is a saturated or unsaturated heterocycle with 1 to 4 n -, o - and / or s - atoms , substituted by one or several hal , a , oa , cooa , cn or carbonyloxigen (═ o ) a alkyl with 1 to 10 c - atoms , wherein 1 - 7h - atoms may be replaced by f and / or chlorine , compound according to formula ii selected from the following group of compounds : 1 -[ 4 -( 4 - amino - 5 - oxo - 5h - pyrido [ 2 , 3 - d ] pyrimidin - 8 - yl )- phenyl ]- 3 -( 2 - fluor - 5 - trifluormethyl - phenyl )- urea , 1 -[ 4 -( 4 - amino - 5 - oxo - 5h - pyrido [ 2 , 3 - d ] pyrimidin - 8 - yl )- phenyl ]- 3 -( 4 - chlor - 5 - trifluormethyl - phenyl )- urea , 1 -[ 4 -( 4 - amino - 5 - oxo - 5h - pyrido [ 2 , 3 - d ] pyrimidin - 8 - yl )- phenyl ]- 3 -( 2 , 4 - difluorphenyl )- urea , 1 -[ 4 -( 4 - amino - 5 - oxo - 5h - pyrido [ 2 , 3 - d ] pyrimidin - 8 - yl )- phenyl ]- 3 -( 2 , 6 - difluor - phenyl )- urea , 1 -[ 4 -( 4 - amino - 5 - oxo - 5h - pyrido [ 2 , 3 - d ] pyrimidin - 8 - yl )- phenyl ]- 3 -( 3 - fluor - 5 - trifluormethyl - phenyl )- urea , 1 -[ 4 -( 4 - amino - 5 - oxo - 5h - pyrido [ 2 , 3 - d ] pyrimidin - 8 - yl )- phenyl ]- 3 -( 4 - fluor - 5 - trifluormethyl - phenyl )- urea , 1 -[ 4 -( 4 - amino - 5 - oxo - 5h - pyrido [ 2 , 3 - d ] pyrimidin - 8 - yl )- phenyl ]- 3 -( 4 - methyl - 5 - trifluormethyl - phenyl )- urea , 1 -[ 4 -( 4 - amino - 5 - oxo - 5h - pyrido [ 2 , 3 - d ] pyrimidin - 8 - yl )- phenyl ]- 3 -( 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 - pentafluor - phenyl )- urea , 1 -[ 4 -( 4 - amino - 5 - oxo - 5h - pyrido [ 2 , 3 - d ] pyrimidin - 8 - yl )- phenyl ]- 3 -( 2 , 4 - dibrom - 6 - fluor - phenyl )- urea , 1 -[ 4 -( 4 - amino - 5 - oxo - 5h - pyrido [ 2 , 3 - d ] pyrimidin - 8 - yl )- phenyl ]- 3 -( 2 - fluor - 6 - trifluormethyl - phenyl )- urea , 1 -[ 4 -( 4 - amino - 5 - oxo - 5h - pyrido [ 2 , 3 - d ] pyrimidin - 8 - yl )- phenyl ]- 3 -( 2 - fluor - 5 - methyl - phenyl )- urea , 1 -[ 4 -( 4 - amino - 5 - oxo - 5h - pyrido [ 2 , 3 - d ] pyrimidin - 8 - yl )- phenyl ]- 3 -( 2 , 3 , 4 - trifluor - phenyl )- urea , 1 -[ 4 -( 4 - amino - 5 - oxo - 5h - pyrido [ 2 , 3 - d ] pyrimidin - 8 - yl )- phenyl ]- 3 -( 4 - brom - 2 , 6 - difluor - phenyl )- urea , 1 -[ 4 -( 4 - amino - 5 - oxo - 5h - pyrido [ 2 , 3 - d ] pyrimidin - 8 - yl )- phenyl ]- 3 -( 2 - fluor - 3 - trifluormethyl - phenyl )- urea , 1 -[ 4 -( 4 - amino - 5 - oxo - 5h - pyrido [ 2 , 3 - d ] pyrimidin - 8 - yl )- phenyl ]- 3 -[ 2 -( 1 - tert .- butyloxycarbonyl - piperidin - 4 - yl )- phenyl ]- urea , n -[ 4 -( 4 - amino - 5 - oxo - 5h - pyrido [ 2 , 3 - d ] pyrimidin - 8 - yl )- phenyl ]- 2 , 4 - dichlor - benzamid , n -[ 4 -( 4 - amino - 5 - oxo - 5h - pyrido [ 2 , 3 - d ] pyrimidin - 8 - yl )- phenyl ]- 4 - chlor - 5 - trifluormethyl - benzamid , n -[ 4 -( 4 - amino - 5 - oxo - 5h - pyrido [ 2 , 3 - d ] pyrimidin - 8 - yl )- phenyl ]- 2 - fluor - 5 - trifluormethyl - benzamid , 1 -[ 4 -( 4 - amino - 5 - oxo - 5h - pyrido [ 2 , 3 - d ] pyrimidin - 8 - yl )- phenyl ]- 3 -[ 3 - chlor - 5 - trifluormethyl - 2 -( piperidin - 4 - yloxy )- phenyl ]- urea , 1 -[ 4 -( 4 - amino - 5 - oxo - 5h - pyrido [ 2 , 3 - d ] pyrimidin - 8 - yl )- phenyl ]- 3 -[( 2 - fluor - 5 -( 2 - dimethylamino - ethoxy )- phenyl ]- urea , 1 -[ 4 -( 4 - amino - 5 - oxo - 5h - pyrido [ 2 , 3 - d ] pyrimidin - 8 - yl )- phenyl ]- 3 -[ 5 - fluor - 2 -( piperidin - 4 - yloxy )- phenyl ]- urea , 1 -[ 4 -( 4 - amino - 5 - oxo - 5h - pyrido [ 2 , 3 - d ] pyrimidin - 8 - yl )- phenyl ]- 3 -[ 4 - chlor - 5 - trifluormethyl - 2 -( piperidin - 4 - yloxy )- phenyl ]- urea , 1 -[ 4 -( 4 - amino - 5 - oxo - 5h - pyrido [ 2 , 3 - d ] pyrimidin - 8 - yl )- phenyl ]- 3 -[ 2 -( piperidin - 4 - yloxy )- phenyl ]- urea , 1 -[ 4 -( 4 - amino - 5 - oxo - 5h - pyrido [ 2 , 3 - d ] pyrimidin - 8 - yl )- phenyl ]- 3 -[ 2 - fluor - 5 -( 2 - diethylamino - ethoxy )- phenyl ]- urea , 1 -[ 4 -( 4 - amino - 5 - oxo - 5h - pyrido [ 2 , 3 - d ] pyrimidin - 8 - yl )- phenyl ]- 3 -[ 2 - fluor - 5 -[ 2 -( piperidin - 1 - yl )- ethoxy ]- phenyl ]- urea , 1 -[ 4 -( 4 - amino - 5 - oxo - 5h - pyrido [ 2 , 3 - d ] pyrimidin - 8 - yl )- phenyl ]- 3 -[ 4 - fluor - 2 -( 2 - dimethylamino - ethoxy )- phenyl ]- urea , 1 -[ 4 -( 4 - amino - 5 - oxo - 5h - pyrido [ 2 , 3 - c ] pyrimidin - 8 - yl )- phenyl ]- 3 -[ 4 - fluor - 2 -( 2 - diethylamino - ethoxy )- phenyl ]- urea , 1 -[ 4 -( 4 - amino - 5 - oxo - 5h - pyrido [ 2 , 3 - d ] pyrimidin - 8 - yl )- phenyl ]- 3 -[ 3 - chlor - 4 -[ 2 -( morpholin - 4 - yl )- ethoxy ]- phenyl ]- urea , 1 -[ 4 -( 4 - amino - 5 - oxo - 5h - pyrido [ 2 , 3 - d ] pyrimidin - 8 - yl )- phenyl ]- 3 -[ 4 - fluor - 2 -[ 2 -( morpholin - 4 - yl )- ethoxy ]- phenyl ]- urea , 1 -[ 4 -( 4 - amino - 5 - oxo - 5h - pyrido [ 2 , 3 - d ] pyrimidin - 8 - yl )- phenyl ]- 3 -[ 3 - chlor - 4 -( 2 - dimethylamino - ethoxy )- phenyl ]- urea , 1 -[ 4 -( 4 - amino - 5 - oxo - 5h - pyrido [ 2 , 3 - d ] pyrimidin - 8 - yl )- phenyl ]- 3 -[ 3 - chlor - 4 -( 2 - diethylamino - ethoxy )- phenyl ]- urea , 1 -[ 4 -( 4 - amino - 5 - oxo - 5h - pyrido [ 2 , 3 - d ] pyrimidin - 8 - yl )- phenyl ]- 3 -[ 4 - chlor - 2 -( 2 - dimethylamino - ethoxy )- phenyl ]- urea , 1 -[ 4 -( 4 - amino - 5 - oxo - 5h - pyrido [ 2 , 3 - d ] pyrimidin - 8 - yl )- phenyl ]- 3 -[ 2 - chlor - 5 -( 2 - diethylamino - ethoxy )- phenyl ]- urea , the nucleotide sequence defining intron 6 of facultative hypertensive patients is . . . aattacatt c gcaacccag . . . , whereas the nucleotide sequence representing a healthy population is . . . aattacatt t gcaacccag . . . . the sequences are available through accession number gi 2463200 position 2071 . the exon 8 sequences of facultative hypertensive patients are either homozygotic . . . tactga c ttcggact . . . or . . . tactga t ttcggact . . . or heterozygotic . . . tactga c ttcggact . . . and . . . tactga t ttcggact . . . the sequences are available through accession number nm — 005627 . 2 , position 777 . a homozygotic individual with a tt nucleotide combination is protected even if simultaneously a cc single nucleotide polymorphism is presented in intron 6 . to harvest lung fibroblasts from sgk1 +/+ and sgk1 −/− mice ( 8 - 14 weeks old ), whole lungs were removed and transferred to 90 mm cell culture dishes containing 2 ml of dmem supplemented with 10 % fetal calf serum , 100 u / ml penicillin , 100 mg / ml streptomycin and 2 mm l - glutamine ( gibco - invitrogen , karlsruhe , germany ). the tissue was cut into small pieces and cultured under standard cell culture conditions ( 37 ° c ., 5 % co2 ). cell growth was observed 2 - 4 days after initial plating . fibroblasts were identified by positive staining for fibronectin and used in experiments between passages 2 - 6 . increase of sgk1 mrna by doca treatment and absence of sgk1 in sgk1 −/− mice lung fibroblasts was confirmed by realtime pcr ( data not shown ). whole hearts from untreated and doca / high salt treated ( 18 days ) sgk1 +/+ and sgk1 −/− mice were removed and immediately frozen in liquid nitrogen , the tissue was then homogenised using a glass homogeniser in lysis buffer containing 50 mm tris - hcl , ph 7 . 4 , 100 mm nacl , 1 mm edta , 1 mm egta , 50 mm sodium fluoride , 5 mm sodium pyrophosphate , 1 mm sodium orthovanadate , 1 % triton x - 100 , 1 % sodium deoxycholate , 1 % sodium doecyl sulphate and protease cocktail inhibitor ( roche , basel , switzerland ), the homogenates were centrifuged at 10 , 000 rpm , 4 ° c . for 15 min , the supernatant was removed and used for western blotting . sgk1 +/+ and sgk1 −/− mouse lung fibroblasts in 60 mm culture dishes were serum deprived for 18 h prior to the addition of doca ( 10 μm ), 24 h later the cells were lysed . whole cell lysates ( 50 μg ) and heart homogenates ( 70 μg ) were separated by sds - page ( 10 % tris - glycine ), transferred to nitrocellulose membranes , blocked for 1 h in blocking buffer ( 5 % fat - free milk in pbs containing 0 . 1 % tween ) and incubated overnight at 4 ° c . with a goat polyclonal ctgf primary antibody ( diluted 1 : 400 in blocking buffer , santa cruz , heidelberg , germany ). after incubation with a hrp - conjugated anti - goat secondary antibody ( santa cruz , heidelberg , germany ) visualization with ecl was performed according to manufacture &# 39 ; s instructions ( amersham , freiburg , germany ). membranes were also probed with a primary β - tubulin ( santa cruz , heidelberg , germany ) antibody as a loading control . densitometric analysis of ctgf was performed using scion image ( scion , md ., usa ) and normalized using β - tubulin . 1 . radiotherapy / irradiation [ flanders et al ., 2003 ; gervaz et al ., 2003 ; quan et al ., 2002 ; vozenin - brotons et al ., 2003 ] 2 . tumors [ hishikawa et al ., 1999 ; kasaragod et al ., 2001 ; koliopanos et al ., 2002 ; li and sarkar 2002 ; moritani et al ., 2003 ; shimo et al ., 2001 ] vascularization 3 . granulomatous diseases [ babic et al ., 1999 ; shimo et al ., 1999 ] [ inkinen et al ., 2003 ] 6 . arteriosclerosis and hypoxia [ harlow and hillier 2002 ; ruperez et al ., 2003 ; schober et al ., 2002 ; schober et al ., 2003 ] [ honda et al ., 2001 ; kondo et al ., 2002 ; shimo et al ., 2001 ] 8 . myocardial infarction and ischemia [ ohnishi et al ., 1998 ; simkhovich et al ., 2003 ; way et al ., 2002 ] 9 . cardiac hypertrophy and fibrosis [ buchhorn et al ., 2003 ; chen et al ., 2000 ; finckenberg et al ., 2001 ] 10 . glomerulonephritis and glomerulosclerosis [ ito et al ., 2001 ; kanemoto et al ., 2003 ], [ chen et al ., 2003 ; gupta et al ., 2000 ] 12 . diabetes mellitus [ gilbert et al ., 2003 ; tikellis et al ., 2004 ; wada et al ., 2002 ] 13 . 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