Iron­wood, Ab­b­Vie kick de­layed-re­lease Linzess for­mu­la­tion to the curb af­ter tri­al fail­ure

The de­layed-re­lease for­mu­la­tion of Iron­wood and Al­ler­gan’s bow­el drug Linzess will not see the light of day.

The ex­per­i­men­tal drug, MD-7246, failed to help pa­tients with ab­dom­i­nal pain as­so­ci­at­ed with ir­ri­ta­ble bow­el syn­drome with di­ar­rhea (IBS-D) in a mid-stage study, prompt­ing the part­ners to aban­don the ther­a­py.

First ap­proved in 2012, Linzess (known chem­i­cal­ly as lina­clotide) en­hances the ac­tiv­i­ty of the in­testi­nal en­zyme guany­late cy­clase-C to in­crease the se­cre­tion of in­testi­nal flu­id and then tran­sit through the in­testi­nal tract, as well as re­duce vis­cer­al pain, to re­lieve pain and con­sti­pa­tion as­so­ci­at­ed with IBS.

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