Poster Presentation Annual Meetings of the Endocrine Society of Australia and Society for Reproductive Biology and Australia and New Zealand Bone and Mineral Society 2016

Anabolism versus antiresorption (AVA Study): a comparison of the mechanism of action (MOA) of teriparatide (TPTD) and denosumab (DMAb) in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis using quadruple fluorochrome labeled bone histomorphometry (#268)

Karim Burkhardt 1 , David W. Dempster 2 , Hua Zhou 2 , Robert R. Recker 3 , Jacques P. Brown 4 , Christopher P. Recknor 5 , E. Michael Lewiecki 6 , Paul D. Miller 7 , Sudhaker D. Rao 8 , David L. Kendler 9 , John H. Krege 1 , Jahangir Alam 1 , Kathleen A. Taylor 10 , Boris Janos 11 , Valerie A. Ruff 10
  1. Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN, United States
  2. Regional Bone Center, Helen Hayes Hospital, West Haverstraw, NY, United States
  3. School of Medicine, Creighton University, Omaha, NE, United States
  4. Groupe de Recherche en Maladies Osseuses, Laval University, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
  5. United Osteoporosis Centers, Gainesville, GA, United States
  6. New Mexico Clinical Research & Osteoporosis Center, Albuquerque, NM, United States
  7. Colorado Center for Bone Research, Lakewood, CO, United States
  8. Bone & Mineral Research Laboratory, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI, United States
  9. Prohealth Clinical Research, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
  10. Lilly USA, LLC, Indianapolis, IN, United States
  11. Eli Lilly Canada Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Purpose: Increased endogenous intact parathyroid hormone (iPTH) levels 1 to 3 months after DMAb administration led to speculation that iPTH elevation results in early bone formation stimulation. Quadruple fluorochrome labeling was used to compare changes from baseline (BL) in bone histomorphometric indices with iPTH changes over the same period.

Methods: TPTD (20 μg/day) was compared with DMAb (60 mg once) for 6 months in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis. Fasting bone turnover markers (BTMs) and iPTH were collected at BL and 1, 3, and 6 months. Patients underwent fluorochrome labeling at BL and during treatment before a transiliac bone biopsy at 3 months. The primary objective was change from BL in mineralizing surface/bone surface in the cancellous envelope. Dynamic and static histomorphometric indices were assessed in cancellous, endocortical, intracortical, and periosteal envelopes.

Results: In the DMAb group, iPTH increased from BL and peaked at Month 1, remaining above BL at Months 3 and 6. Histomorphometric indices of bone formation in the cancellous envelope were higher in the TPTD group than the DMAb group at Month 3. Except for mineral apposition rate, indices increased with TPTD and decreased with DMAb from BL to Month 3. Similar findings were observed in other envelopes. TPTD increased BTMs from BL: procollagen type I N-terminal propeptide (P1NP) starting at Month 1 and carboxyterminal cross-linking telopeptide of type I collagen (CTx) starting at Month 3. In the DMAb group, P1NP and CTx decreased from BL at all times.

Conclusion: Data confirm and support the opposing drugs’ MOAs on bone remodeling. The iPTH increase after DMAb administration was associated with decreases in bone formation indices in all envelopes, inconsistent with DMAb causing early indirect anabolic action. TPTD increased histomorphometric indices and BTMs of bone formation in all envelopes, consistent with an anabolic MOA in trabecular and cortical bone.

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