An Active Treatment Study to Induce Clinical Response and/or Remission With GSK1605786A in Subjects With Crohn's Disease

Exclusion Criteria

• •Known coeliac disease, those who follow a gluten-free diet to manage symptoms of suspected coeliac disease and subjects with a positive screening test for coeliac disease (elevated anti-tissue transglutaminase antibodies)
• •Diagnosis of ulcerative or indeterminate colitis
• •Enterocutaneous, abdominal or pelvic fistulae with abscesses, or fistulae likely to require surgery during the course of the study period
• •Bowel surgery, other than appendectomy, within 12 weeks prior to screening and/or has planned surgery or deemed likely to need surgery for Crohn's disease during the study period
• •Extensive colonic resection, subtotal or total colectomy
• •Presence of ileostomies, colostomies or rectal pouches
• •Fixed symptomatic stenoses of small bowel or colon
• •History of more than 3 small bowel resections or diagnosis of short bowel syndrome
• •Chronic use of narcotics for chronic pain defined as daily use of one or more doses of narcotic containing medicaitons
• •Use of prohibited medications, including enteral feeding or elemental diet, within their specified timeframes and throughout the study. Prohibited medications include the following:
• •1. Biologic use: Use of any TNF inhibitor (such as infliximab, adalimumab or certolizumab) or natalizumab within 10 weeks prior to Randomisation
• •2. Corticosteroid use: Use of parenteral glucocorticoids within 4 weeks prior to Screening
• •3. Immunospressant use: Use of cyclosporine, tacrolimus, sirolimus or mycophenolate mofetil within 4 weeks prior to Screening
• •4. Intravenous antibiotic use: Use of intravenous antibiotics for Crohn's disease within 4 weeks prior to Screening
• •5. Enteral feeding: Use of tube or enteral feeding, elemental diet within 2 weeks prior to Screening
• •6. Rectal Treatment: Use of 5-aminosalicylates or corticosteroid enemas or suppositories within 2 weeks prior to Screening
• •7. Leukocytapheresis or granulocytapheresis within 2 weeks prior to Screening
• •8. Paracetamol or acetaminophen greater than 2 grams per day
• •9. Opioid analgesics for worsening Crohn's disease pain are prohibited when used on a regular daily basis for more than 3 days
• •10. Digoxin or related cardiac glycosides: Use within 7 days prior to Screening
• •11. Any previous participation in a clinical study of GSK1605786A (formerly ChemoCentryx compound CCX282-B)
• •Positive immunoassay for Clostridium difficile
• •Known HIV infection
• •Known varicella, herpes zoster, or other severe viral infection within 6 weeks of screening
• •Immunization with a live vaccine within 4 weeks of Screening and throughout the study with the exception of the influenza vaccine
• •Positive hepatitis B surface antigen or hepatitis B core antibody test or positive Hepatitis C test result at Screening
• •Active or latent tuberculosis infection determined by results of QuantiFERON TB Gold test
• •Current sepsis or infections requiring intravenous antibiotic therapy for more than 2 weeks
• •Previous infections characterised by opportunistic pathogens, and/or dissemination suggestive of clinically significant immunocompromise
• •Evidence of hepatic dysfunction, viral hepatitis, or abnormalities in liver function test results
• •Corrected QT interval of ECG (electrocardiogram) greater than or equal to 450 milliseconds
• •Congenital or acquired immunodeficiency or has evidence of immunocompromise manifested by current opportunistic infection
• •Current evidence of, or has been treated for a malignancy within the past five years (other than localised basal cell, squamous cell skin cancer, cervical dysplasia, or any cancer in situ that has been resected)
• •History of evidence of adenomatous colonic polyps that have not been removed.
• •History of evidence of colonic mucosal dysplasia
• •If female, is pregnant, has a positive pregnancy test or is breast-feeding
• •Concurrent illness or disability that may affect the interpretation of clinical data, or otherwise contraindicates participation in this clinical study (such as an unstable cardiovascular, autoimmune, renal, hepatic, pulmonary, endocrine, metabolic, gastrointestinal, haematologic, or neurological condition or mental impairment)
• •Medical history of sensitivity to any of the components of GSK1605786A (microcrystalline cellulose, crospovidone, sodium stearyl fumarate).
• •Use of any investigational product within 30 days prior to screening