Pharmacologic inhibition of host phosphodiesterase-4 improves isoniazid mediated clearance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Mus musculus

In this study, we evaluated the PK/PD and explored the efficacy of a PDE4 inhibitor, CC-11050 in a murine model of Mtb infection. Infected mouse lungs with or without CC-11050 treatment was also used to interrogate genome-wide transcriptional changes. Standard aerosol infection of mice with MtbCDC1551, followed by enumeration of lung bacterial load, pathology and transcriptional changes were monitored upto 112 days post infection. Overall design: Mice were infected with Mtb and treatment with CC11050 was started at 14 days post-infection. Uninfected mice were included as control. At 28 days post-infection, mice from all 3 groups (uninfected, Mtb-infected untreated or CC11050 treated) were euthanized and lung tissue was collected to isolate total RNA and used in microarray experiments. (N=4 per group)