Lexicon Files Investigational New Drug Application for LX1032 as a Potential Treatment for Carcinoi...(was developed at Lexicon as a potentinhi...)

Date:12/21/2007

was developed at Lexicon as a potent inhibitor of tryptophan hydroxylase (TPH), a rate-limiting enzyme in the synthesis of serotonin. In preclinical studies, LX1032 was able to reduce peripheral serotonin in several different species without affecting serotonin levels in the brain. LX1032 is Lexicon's second compound to target TPH and, unlike LX1031, which acts locally within the gastrointestinal tract, was designed to act systemically.

LX1032 is being developed in a product development collaboration with Symphony Capital Partners, L.P. and its co-investors.

About Lexicon

Lexicon is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of breakthrough treatments for human disease. Lexicon currently has development programs underway for such areas of major unmet medical need as irritable bowel syndrome, cognitive disorders, and autoimmune diseases. The company has used its proprietary gene knockout technology to discover more than 100 promising drug targets and create an extensive pipeline of clinical and preclinical programs in the therapeutic areas of diabetes and obesity, cardiovascular disease, psychiatric and neurological disorders, cancer, immune system disorders and ophthalmic disease. To advance the development and commercialization of its programs, Lexicon is working both independently and through collaborators including Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Genentech, Inc. and N.V. Organon. For additional information about Lexicon and its programs, please visit http://www.lexpharma.com.

Safe Harbor Statement

This press release contains "forward-looking statements," including statements relating to Lexicon's clinical development of LX1032 and the potential therapeutic and commercial potential of LX1032. This press release also contains forward-looking statements relating to Lexicon's growth and future operating results, discovery and development of products, strate
'/>"/>

SOURCE Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Copyright©2007 PR Newswire. All rights reserved

0 GOOD

Page: 1 2 3
Related biology technology :

1. Lexicon Presents Class of Compounds Modulating TPH1, the Target for its LX1031 Investigational Drug for Irritable Bowel Syndrome
2. Lexicon Pharmaceuticals to Present at the UBS Global Life Sciences Conference
3. Lexicon Appoints Judith Swain, M.D. to Board of Directors
4. Lexicon Pharmaceuticals to Present at ThinkEquity ThinkClinic
5. Lexicon Pharmaceuticals to Present at Bio InvestorForum
6. Lexicon to Report Third Quarter 2007 Financial Results on October 30, 2007
7. Lexicon Pharmaceuticals Reports 2007 Third Quarter Financial Results
8. Lexicon Pharmaceuticals to Present at the Piper Jaffray 19th Annual Health Care Conference
9. Lexicon Pharmaceuticals to Present at RBC Capital Markets Healthcare Conference
10. China Kangtai Cactus Biotech Files 2nd Quarter 2007 10QSB and Announces Unaudited Quarterly Results
11. ImmuneRegen BioSciences Files 8-K that Highlights Enclosed Shareholder Letter Discussing Recent Achievements and Outlook