PERITONEAL THERAPEUTIC FLUID

Abstract

Peritoneal therapeutic fluid comprising one or more of a biocompatibility enhancing agent (BCA) that is selected from the group consisting of a polyphenolic compound, a metabolite of a polyphenolic compound which is obtained by metabolization in the human or animal body, a salt or a glycoside of a polyphenolic compound.

Claims

1. A peritoneal therapeutic fluid comprising one or more of a biocompatibility enhancing agent (BCA) that is selected from the group consisting of a polyphenolic compound, a metabolite of a polyphenolic compound which is obtained by metabolization in the human or animal body, a salt of a polyphenolic compound, a glycoside of a polyphenolic compound, a derivative of a polyphenolic compound, polyethylene glycol (PEG), or a derivative of a polyethylene glycol, for use as a peritoneal dialysis fluid, or as a peritoneal therapeutic fluid with decreased cytotoxicity on human peritoneal mesothelial cells.

2. A peritoneal therapeutic fluid according to claim 1, wherein the biocompatibility enhancing agent is selected from the group of stilbenoids, derivatives of stilbenoids, phenolic acids, and flavonoids.

3. A peritoneal therapeutic fluid according to claim 1, wherein the biocompatibility enhancing agent is resveratrol, a resveratrol derivative, dihydro-resveratrol, piceid, piceatannol, pterostilbene, piceid glucoside, caffeic acid, luteolin, or delphinidin.

4. A peritoneal therapeutic fluid according to claim 1, wherein the resveratrol derivative is selected from following compounds 1-12, 15, 16, 17, 18: ##STR00021## ##STR00022## ##STR00023## wherein in compound 2 and compound 3 R1=R2=R4=OH, R3=R5=R6=H; or R1=R2=R4=OCH3, R3=R5=R6=H; or R1=R2=R4=OCH3, R3=R5=H; R6=OH; or R1=R2=R3=R5=OCH3, R4=R6=H; or R1=R2=R3=R5=OCH3, R4=H, R6=OH; or R1=R2=R3=R4=OCH3, R5=R6=H; or R1=R2=R3=R4=OCH3, R5=H, R6=OH; wherein in compound 4 R is one of the following moieties: ##STR00024## ##STR00025## wherein in compound 5 R1 is hydrogen or a group of formula ##STR00026## R2 is hydrogen or forms together with the oxygen to which it is bound an acyl group (OCOR3), wherein R3 is a C1-C22 alkyl group or a C2-C22 alkenyl group, wherein, if R2 is hydrogen R1 forms a group of above-shown formula, wherein in compound 6, R is one of the following moieties: ##STR00027## ##STR00028## ##STR00029## ##STR00030## wherein X.sup.? is a free soluble anion, wherein in compound 8 R1=OCH3, R2=OH, R3=O-Glucose; or R1=OCH3, R2=H, R3=O-Glucose; or R1=OCH3, R2=OH, R3=OH; or R1=OCH3, R2=H, R3=OH; or R1=OH, R2=OH, R3=O-Glucose; or R1=OH, R2=OH, R3=OH; wherein in compound 12 R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, and R10 are independently chosen from hydrogen, hydroxyl, hydrocarbyl, substituted hydrocarbyl, hydrocarbyloxy, substituted hydrocarbyloxy, and sulfoxy; provided that at least one of the R groups is a hydroxyl or substituted hydroxyl group; and provided that if compound 12 is monomeric, then compound 12 is other than resveratrol, wherein in compound 15 R1, R2 and R3, independently from one another, represent H or (C1-C3)alkyl; R4 and R5 are identical or different and represent hydrogen, linear or branched (C1-C5)alkyl, a prenyl group CH2-CH?C(CH3)2, a geranyl group CH2-CH?C(CH3)(CH2)2CH?C(CH3)2 or R4 and R1, and independently R5 and R2, together with the atoms they are linked to, form one of the following groups: ##STR00031## with the provisos that R4 and R5 are not both hydrogen and that when R1=R2=R3=H, R4 and R5 are not a prenyl group and hydrogen, respectively, wherein in compound 18 X, Y, and Z are either hydrogen or a protective group, provided that at least one of X, Y, and Z is the protective group.

5. A peritoneal therapeutic fluid according to claim 1, wherein the biocompatibility enhancing agent is a compound of formula 19: ##STR00032## wherein in compound 19 R4 is selected from one of the following groups ##STR00033## wherein R1, R2, R3, R5, R11, R12, R13, R14, R15, R21, R22 and R31 are independently from each other selected from H, OH, OR.sub.Alk, CHO, COR.sub.Alk, COOH, COOR.sub.Alk, CONHC.sub.nH.sub.2nCOOH, CONHC.sub.nH.sub.2nCOO.sup.?, CN, Cl, Br, I, NO.sub.2, C.sub.nH.sub.2nCN, C.sub.nH.sub.2nCl, C.sub.nH.sub.2nBr, C.sub.nH.sub.2nI, C.sub.nH.sub.2nNO.sub.2, OPO.sub.3.sup.2?, OPO.sub.3H.sup.?, OPO.sub.3H.sub.2, NH2, NHR.sub.Alk, NR.sub.Alk1R.sub.Alk2, N.sup.+H.sub.3, N.sup.+H.sub.2R.sub.Alk, N.sup.+H R.sub.Alk1R.sub.Alk2, N.sup.+R.sub.Alk1R.sub.Alk2R.sub.Alk3, CN, B(OH).sub.2, OCHO, OCOR.sub.Alk, OCF.sub.3, OCN, OCH.sub.2CN, wherein R.sub.Alk, R.sub.Alk1, R.sub.Alk2, and R.sub.Alk3 are alkyl residues which are independently selected from each other, preferably CH.sub.3, C.sub.2H.sub.5, C.sub.3H.sub.7 or C.sub.4H.sub.9, wherein in C.sub.nH.sub.2n n is an integer, and C.sub.nH.sub.2n preferably is CH.sub.2, C.sub.2H.sub.4, C.sub.3H.sub.6, C.sub.4H.sub.8; or wherein R1, R2, R3, R5, R11, R12, R13, R14, R15, R21, R22 and R31 are, independently from each other, one of the following moieties: ##STR00034## ##STR00035## ##STR00036## ##STR00037## ##STR00038## wherein X.sup.? is a free soluble anion, or wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.12, R.sub.13, R.sub.14 or R.sub.15 are a mono or oligo saccharide-residue, with the proviso that at least two of R1, R2, R3, R11, R12, R13, R14 and R15 are independently selected from OH, OR.sub.Alk, OCOR.sub.Alk, OCF.sub.3, OCN, and OCHO.

6. A peritoneal therapeutic fluid according to claim 1, wherein the biocompatibility enhancing agent is selected from the group comprising: epsilon-viniferin, pallidol, trans-diptoindonesin B, hopeaphenol, oxyresveratrol, or 4-methoxy-(E)-resveratrol 3-O-rutinoside, phenolic acids such as gallic acid, ellagic acid, vanillic acid; propyl gallate, protocatechuic acid, p-coumaric acid, danielone, syringic acid, salicylic acid, gentisic acid, p-hydroxy benzoic acid, rosmarinic acid, rosmanol, quinic acid, sinapic acid, epi-isorosmanol, E-anethol, 3,4-dimethoxycinnamic acid, ferulic acid; phenolic diterpenes such as carnosol and carnosic acid; coumarines such as coumarin, ombelliferon, herniarine, esculedol, scopoletol, scopanone, fraxetol and their glucosides such as 7-O-glucosyl-ombelliferone, 6-O-glucosyl-esculetol, 7-O-glucosyl-esculetol, 7-O-Glucosyl-6-methoxycoumarine, dihydroxyisocoumarins such as 6-methoxymellein, as well as prenyloxycoumarines such as 7-geranyloxy coumarine, 7-methoxy-6-(3-methyl-2-butenyl)-coumarine, 7-methoxy-8-(3-methyl-2-butenyl)-coumarine; naphtoquinones such as 1,2-naphtoquinone, 1,4-Naphtoquinone, 2,6-Naphtoquinone, alkannin, hexahydroxy-1,4-naphthalenedione, juglone, lapachol, lawsone, menatetrenone, 2-methoxy-1,4-naphthoquinone, nigrosprin B, 2,3,5,7-tetrahydroxy-1,4-naphtalenedione, menadione, 5,8-Dihydroxy-1,4-naphtoquinone and other dihydroxynophtoquinones, atovaquone; flavonoids: anthoxanthins including flavonols such as quercetin, kaempferol, myricetin, fisetin, galangin, isorhamnetin, pachypodol, rhamnazin pyranoflavonols and furanoflavonols, flavones such as apigenin, and tangeritin, flavonoides including flavanones such as hesperetin and naringenin, eriodictoyl, homoeriodictoyl and sakuranetin, flavanonols such as taxifolin, dihydrolquercitin and dihydrokaempferol, flavans such as flavan-3ol (including Catechin, Gallocatechin, catechin 3-gallate, gallocatechin 3-gallate, epicatechin, epigallocatechin, epicatechin 3-gallate, Epigallocatechin 3-gallate, theaflavin, theaflavin-3-gallate, theaflavin-3,3-digallate, thearubigin, proaanthocyanidins, flavan-4-ol and flavan-3,4-diol; anthocyanins such as cyanidin, malvidin, pelargonidin, peonidin, petunidin, cyanin-3-rutinoside and delphinidin-3-rutinoside; isoflavonoides including isoflavones such as genistein, glycitein and daidzein, further including isoflavanes, isoflavenes, coumestans and pterocarpans stilbenoides including stilbene and aglycones such as piceatannol, pinosylvin, pterostilbene, or a mixture of two or more thereof.

7. A peritoneal therapeutic fluid according to claim 1, wherein the biocompatibility enhancing agent is solubilized through pegylation with Polyethyleneglycol (PEG) or Methoxy-Polyethyleneglycol (mPEG), provided that the BCA is not polyethylene glycol (PEG) or a derivative of a polyethylene glycol.

8. A peritoneal therapeutic fluid according to claim 1, wherein the PEG, or the derivative of PEG has a molecular weight above 400 Da.

9. A peritoneal therapeutic fluid according to claim 1, wherein the PEG or the derivative of PEG is selected from the group comprising PEG 600, mPEG 600, PEG 1000, mPEG 1000, PEG 1450, mPEG 1450, PEG 3350 and mPEG 3350, or the like.

10. A peritoneal therapeutic fluid according to claim 1, wherein the one or more biocompatibility enhancing agent is/are present in a concentration of 0.001 mg/L to 5 g/L.

11. A peritoneal therapeutic fluid according to claim 1, comprising one or more of an ingredient which is selected from the following: alkali metal ions, alkaline earth metal ions, an osmotic agent, and/or a pH-buffer.

12. A peritoneal therapeutic fluid according to one or more of the preceding claims, comprising one or more of a saccharide, wherein the saccharide may be a monosaccharide, a disaccharide, an oligosaccharide, a polysaccharide, or any mixture thereof.

13. A peritoneal therapeutic fluid container or kit comprising at least one liquid containing compartment, wherein liquid of at least one compartment contains a biocompatibility enhancing agent as claimed in claim 1, wherein the biocompatibility enhancing agent is solubilized.

14. A peritoneal therapeutic fluid container or kit comprising at least two compartments, wherein at least one compartment contains a biocompatibility enhancing agent as claimed in claim 1, wherein the biocompatibility enhancing agent may be in solubilized form or may be solubilized by contacting with a liquid from one of the other compartments, preferably just before application.

15. A peritoneal therapeutic fluid container or kit according to 13 for use in peritoneal dialysis.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF FIGURES

[0162] FIG. 1 Comparative testing of PDFs after 48 hours results in decreased resazurin to reorufin conversion;

[0163] FIG. 2 Results of resazurin to reorufin conversion, Resveratrol, Polydatin, PEG, PD solution #1;

[0164] FIG. 3 Results of resazurin to reorufin conversion, Resveratrol, Polydatin, PEG, PD solution #2;

[0165] FIG. 4 Results of resazurin to reorufin conversion, Resveratrol, Polydatin, PEG, PD solution #3;

[0166] FIG. 5 Results with Medium control;

[0167] FIG. 6 Results of resazurin to reorufin conversion, Resveratrol in different PD solutions;

[0168] FIG. 7 Results of resazurin to reorufin conversion, Piceatannol in different PD solutions;

[0169] FIG. 8 Results of resazurin to reorufin conversion, Pterostilbene in different PD solutions;

[0170] FIG. 9a,b Results of resazurin to reorufin conversion, Piceid in different PD solutions;

[0171] FIG. 10 Results of resazurin to reorufin conversion, Caffeic acid in different PD solutions;

[0172] FIG. 11 Results of resazurin to reorufin conversion, Luteolin in different PD solutions;

[0173] FIG. 12 Results of resazurin to reorufin conversion, Delphinidin in different PD solutions;

[0174] FIG. 13 Results of peritoneal VEGF expression in Sprague-Dawley rats after 2 to 4 weeks Peritoneal Dialysis with PD solution #4 in absence or presence of Resveratrol 40 ?M (average concentrations and standard deviations).

[0175] The following Examples illustrate embodiments of the present invention:

EXAMPLES

Molecular Weight Measurement:

[0176] The saccharides are dissolved in extra-pure water in a concentration of 0.5% (w/v). The solutions are heated at 95? C. for 30 minutes. The polymers are analyzed using the following devices: Alliance chromatography system (Waters corporation, Milford, Mass., USA), DAWN-EOS light scattering detector (Wyatt Technology, Santa Barbara, USA) with ?0=658 nm and 16 detectors in the range of angles from 14.4 to 163.3?, K5 flow cell. The polymers are fractionated on a precolumn and three columns having the separation ranges 300-10.sup.4, 5?10.sup.4-2?10.sup.6 and 10.sup.6-10.sup.8 (SUPREMA-Gel, PSS Polymer Standards Service GmbH, Mainz, Germany). 100 ?l of solution are injected. The fractionation takes place at a temperature of 30? C. and a flow rate of 0.8 ml/min with 0.05M NaNO3 as eluent. The Astra V 5.1.8.0 program (from Wyatt Technology, Santa Barbara, USA) is used to analyze the molecular weight distribution of the samples. Same procedure can be used when molecular weight of other compounds than saccharides are measured.

Dialysis Solutions:

[0177] In accordance with this invention, peritoneal dialysis fluids are provided, containing an osmolality sufficient to cause diffusion of water and waste products across the peritoneum after infusion of the peritoneal dialysis fluid into the peritoneal cavity of a patient. In addition to an osmotic agent or a combination of osmotic agents, the present peritoneal dialysis fluid contains amounts of various physiologically important electrolytes in concentrations comparable to those in plasma. A suitable peritoneal dialysis fluid has been described in the definitions part of this patent.

TABLE-US-00001 TABLE I PD Sol PD#1 PD#2 PD#3 PD#4 StaySafe? Physioneal? Extraneal? StaySafe? Osmolality (mOsm/kg) 346 485 284 486 Osmotic Agent Glu Glu Ico Glu (%) w/v 1.25 3.86 7.5 4.25 Sodium (mEq/L) 132 132 133 132 Calcium (mEq/L) 3.5 1.75 3.5 3.5 Magnesium 0.5 0.25 0.5 0.5 Chloride 96 101 96 96 Lactate 40 10 40 40 Bicarbonate 25 pH 5.5 pH 7 ph 5.5 pH 5.5 tested BCA /, R, P, PE /, R, P, PE /, R, P, PE /, P, Pa, Pt, CA, Lu, De Pa, Pt, CA, Lu, De

Legend to Table I:

[0178] Solutions tested for their application as peritoneal dialysis fluids.

[0179] Abbreviations: Glu, glucose; Ico, icodextrin; OsAg, osmotic agent; BCA, added biocompatibility enhancing agent. Concentrations in % (w/v) and mEq/L; osmolality in mOsm/kg. Tested BCAs are:

[0180] The stilbenoids Resveratrol (R), Piceid (Polydatin) (P), Piceatannol (Pa), Pterostilbene (Pt);

the phenolic acid Cafeic Acid (CA),
the flavonoides Luteolin (Lu), Quercetin (Qu), Delphinidin (De).

PEG 1450 Carbowax (PE).

Legend to Table I:

[0181] Solutions tested for their application as peritoneal dialysis fluids.

[0182] Abbreviations: Glu, glucose; Ico, icodextrin; OsAg, osmotic agent; BCA, added biocompatibility enhancing agent. Concentrations in % (w/v) and mEq/L; osmolality in mOsm/kg. Tested BCAs are: R Resveratrol, P Piceidand PE PEG 1450 Carbowax.

[0183] Table 1 shows peritoneal dialysis fluids, compared for testing the effect of reduction of cytotoxicity by addition of tested BCAs. The study involves evaluation of additions of BCAs at different concentrations to PD solutions.

[0184] StaySafe 1.25 solution was chosen to show impact of acidic pH at low Glucose concentration in an environment of high lactate buffer.

[0185] Physioneal 3.86 was chosen to show the impact of high glucose concentration at physiological pH in an environment of low lactate buffer. StaySafe 4.25 was chosen to show combined challenge of acidic pH and high glucose concentration. Extraneal was chosen to compare the difference of glucose and maltodextrin at acidic pH and at high lactate concentration.

[0186] The examples show that addition of specifically selected BCAs increase biocompatibility of currently marketed PDFs. Those skilled in the art readily understand that addition of such biocompatibility enhancing agents will increase long term biocompatibility of any peritoneal therapeutic and/or dialysis solution, more specifically of such solutions containing sugar and/or sugar polymer-derived osmotic agents or such, and this even in cases and models where certain dialysis solutions do not show immediate cytotoxicity and/or very low AGE formation.

[0187] Solutions are applied to different toxicity experiments in absence or presence of specifically selected BCAs, to show that BCAs, exemplifying the present invention, decrease cytotoxic side-effects, and thereby increasing biocompatibility, as compared to reference solutions without such BCAs.

Toxicity:

[0188] The following experiments compare the cytotoxicity of reference solutions in absence or presence of BCAs of this invention, to show increased biocompatibility of dialysis solutions in presence of BCAs of this invention.

Examples 1, 2, 3, and 4

[0189] Experimental comparison of different dialysis solution with respect to their effect on human peritoneal mesothelial cells, applying the following protocol.

Cell Culture

Experimental Procedure:

[0190] Human peritoneal mesothelial cells (HPMC) were purchased from Zen Bio Inc. and cultured in cell culture flasks using suppliers media. Near confluent HPMC were harvested by trypsinization, seeded into collagen-coated 96-well tissue culture plates (Corning) and allowed to adhere overnight. The medium was changed to twice diluted with dialysis solution for 48 up to 72 hours.

[0191] Cell viability was established applying the promega resazurin assay, following the suppliers protocol. Living cells are metabolically active and are able to reduce the non-fluorescent dye resazurin to the strongly-fluorescent dye resorufin. The fluorescence output is proportional to the number of viable cells over a wide concentration range. This also allows the calculation of the proliferation rate for cells capable of consecutive cell division. Resazurin is effectively reduced in mitochondria making it also useful to assess mitochondrial metabolic activity. For the dose-response relationship, relative viability was plotted against the test item concentrations.

[0192] In the case of Piceid, the intra-cellular ATP level was determined with the CTG assay. For this, media was completely removed from all wells by aspiration, 60 ?l of CTG reagent was added to each well, and incubated for 5 min at RT while softly shaking (50 rpm). Using a Victor3 1420 Multilabel Counter, the emitted luminescence produced in the CTG assay was measured. For the dose-response relationship, absolute luminescence (background subtracted) was related to the negative (medium) control and relative viability values were plotted against the test item concentrations. For the dose-response relationship, absolute luminescence (background subtracted) was related to the negative (medium) control and relative viability values in presence of BCA were plotted against the BCA concentrations.

[0193] All assays were conducted in a duplex format using the same cell culture.

Results:

Example 1

[0194] Comparative testing of PDFs after 48 hours results in decreased resazurin to reorufin conversion, which translates to decreased cell-viability. See FIG. 1.

Example 2

[0195] Addition of selected BCAs of this invention partially reestablished reszurin to reorufin conversion, which is interpreted as a result of a decreased cytotoxicity, due to the application of the tested BCAs.

[0196] Compounds were added at 9 dilutions (Cmax=500 ?M) together with tested PD solutions or Medium control. Incubation was 48 hours.

[0197] Results with PD-Solution #1 are presented in FIG. 2 Resveratrol improves cell viability of HPMC cells up to 20%. Piceid (polydatin) shows minor improvements.

[0198] Results with PD-Solution #2 are presented in FIG. 3.

[0199] Resveratrol improves cell viability of HPMC cells up to 40%. Piceid (polydatin) shows minor improvements.

[0200] Results with PD-Solution #3 are presented in FIG. 4.

[0201] Resveratrol improves cell viability of HPMC cells up to 40%. PEG shows minor improvements.

[0202] Medium Control is presented in FIG. 5:

[0203] In control medium, without cytotoxic stress, resveratrol, piceid (polydatin) and PEG have no significant effect on cell viability until Cmax.

[0204] In conclusion, we obtained a strong effect of Resveratrol reducing cyto-toxicity of all three tested peritoneal dialysis solutions and a minor effect of piceid. A possible explanation for a relatively weaker effect of piceid is, that piceid has first to be converted to resveratrol or another biological active compound by enzymes that are pesent in the peritoneum. We therefore shall show a stronger effect of piceid in an animal model.

[0205] For PD-solution #3 we observed a cytotoxicity decreasing effect of PEG. We had used PEG simply as a control in our experiments and have no explanation for this observation.

Example 3

[0206] Addition of selected BCA resveratrol partially reestablished resazurin to reorufin conversion, in a triplicate assay, which is interpreted as a result of a decreased cytotoxicity, due to the application of the tested BCA. In this series, Resveratrol was added 5 minutes in advance to application of test-solutions, at 9 dilutions (Cmax=500 ?M). Incubation was 72 hours. Results are presented in FIG. 6.

[0207] Resveratrol improves viability of HPMC cells exposed to PD-Solution #1 by up to 84%. Resveratrol improves viability of HPMC sells exposed to PD-Solution #2 by up to 28%. Resveratrol improves viability of HPMC cells exposed to PD-Solution #3 by up to 105%.

Example 4

[0208] Addition of selected BCAs, namely of

the stilbenoids Piceatannol (Pa), Pterostilbene (Pt), Piceid (Polydatin) (P);
the phenolic acid Cafeic Acid (CA);
the flavonoides Luteolin (Lu), Delphinidin (De);
partially reestablished resazurin to reorufin conversion, or partly re-established intracellular ATP-level, which is interpreted as a result of a decreased cytotoxicity, due to the application of the tested BCA. Test items were tested at 3 replicates per concentration. All assays were conducted in a duplex format using the same cell culture. Incubation was 72 hours.

[0209] Results with Piceatannol are presented in FIG. 7

[0210] Piceatanol improves cell viability of HPMC cells, when exposed to PD-Solution #3 by up to 44%, and when exposed to PD-Solution #4 by up to 40%.

[0211] Results with Pterostilbene are presented in FIG. 8

[0212] Pterostilbene improves cell viability of HPMC cells, when exposed to PD-Solution #3 by 183%, and when exposed to PD-Solution #4 by 118%.

[0213] Results with Piceid (Polydatin) are presented in FIGS. 9a. and b. In this experimental series, Piceid improved viability of HPMC cells measured by resazurin to resorufin transformation, when exposed to Solution #3 by up to 32%, when exposed to PD-Solution #4 by up to 17% (FIG. 9a). Measured by ATP-level re-establishment, Piceid improves viability of HPMC cells exposed to PD-Solution #4 by 51%.

[0214] Results with Cafeic Acid are presented in FIG. 10.

[0215] Cafeic Acid improves cell viability of HPMC cells, when exposed to PD-Solution #3, up to 32%. Cell viability improvement is minor when HPMC cells are exposed to PD-Solution #4.

[0216] Results with Luteolin are presented in FIG. 11.

[0217] Luteolin improves cell viability of HPMC cells, when exposed to PD-Solution #3 by up to 56%, and when exposed to PD-Solution #4 by up to 21%.

[0218] Results with Delphinidin are represented in FIG. 12.

[0219] Delphinidin improves cell viability of HPMC cells, when exposed to PD-Solution #3 by up to 57%. No cell viability improvement du to Delphinidin was observed under the applied experimental conditions, when testing HPMC cells expose to PD-Solution #4.

[0220] Taken together, results from examples 1 to 4 indicate a general effect of tested BCAs by increasing cell-viability of HPMC cells, when exposed to PD-Solutions. For most BCAs the concentration of maximal activity varies between 0.08 ?M and 18.5 ?M, but in some cases concentrations of 167 or even 500 ?M were highly efficacious. For those skilled in the art such variability of concentration with highest efficacy is not surprising, reflecting different bioavailbilities and target affinities. Nevertheless, such a general impact of so many representatives of given classes of naturally occurring compounds within the same model is a striking discovery.

[0221] All tested compounds (Polyphenols) showed some improvement of HPMCs when exposed to at least one of the 4 tested PD-Solutions. All tested Stilbenoids (Resveratrol, Piceid, Piceatanol and Pterostlben) increased cell viability as well on Glucose based as ond Icodextrin based PD-Solutions.

[0222] The phenolic acid Cafeic Acid, and flavanoides Luteolin and Delphinidin mainly improved Icodextrin based dialysis solutions.

[0223] Those, skilled in the art understand that a toxicity cell model is a relatively fragile model, and that measurable cell-culture toxicity decrease is already dependent on measurable cell-toxicity in the first place. Nevertheless we observed overall higher stress due to Icodextrin based PTFs as compared to Glucose Based PTFs, under the applied experimental conditions. Such stronger toxicity challenge enabled us to show BCA activity of tested compounds over a larger range of concentrations. The results of Piceid show highest variation of all tested compounds. We believe that the need of metabolization of piceid, dependent on metabolic capacity of cultured cells, might be a reason for such variability. In example 4 we succeeded to show reproducible BCA activity of Piceid in 3 different experimental set-ups

Example 5

[0224] Animal Studies have been carried out as described in Lee et al. 2012:

Experimental Procedure:

[0225] Peritoneal access ports were inserted in male Sprague-Dawley rats. After one week, rats started to received peritoneal treatment: 10 rats receive once daily 20 ml of Sol #4, 10 rats received 20 ml of Sol #4 with addition of selected BCA (resveratrol), during 2 hour infusions. After 2 to 4 weeks, the abdomen was opened, the peritoneum was recovered and submitted to protein extraction. Tissue VEGF concentration was established by ELISA (Abcam Rat VEGF ELISA Kit, ab100787) on obtained protein preparations (pg/ml).

Results:

[0226] Increased VEGF expression after chronic peritoneal dialysis has been reported in humans and rat-models, and is related to fibrosis and angiogenesis as side effects of long term peritoneal dialysis treatment (Zweers, 2001; Park, 2004). Results of example 5 (table II and FIG. 13) show that addition of selected BCA (resveratrol) decreases expression of VEGF in the peritoneum of standard PDF treated rats, indicating improved biocompatibility of BCA supplemented PDFs in the animal model.

TABLE-US-00002 TABLE II VEGF expression in peritoneal tissue after 2 or 4 weeks of peritoneal dialysis wit Solution #4 in absence or presence of Resveratrol 40 ?M. Values between 2 and 4 weeks were highly reproducible and therefore combined for the statistical analysis. VEGF concentration Treatment (pg/mL) in Statistical PD Solution (weeks) Animal prot. prep. results Sol #4 2 1 81.64 Average 2 80.21 95.18 3 93.52 Stand. Dev. 4 92.56 20.08 5 84.42 4 6 84.42 7 136.91 8 95.72 9 77.05 10 125.32 Sol #4 + 2 11 50.21 Average 40 ?M 12 39.99 60.94 Resveratrol 13 70.88 Stand. Dev. 14 77.84 10.65 15 60.12 4 16 62.02 17 63.71 18 57.91 19 68.45 20 58.23 t-test pval 0.00065

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