A Dose Escalation Study to Assess the Safety, Tolerability, and Pharmacokinetics of ASP2408 Following Single Intravenous Doses in Healthy Subjects

Exclusion Criteria

• •Subject has a history of any clinically significant cardiac, endocrinologic, hematologic, hepatic, immunologic, metabolic, urologic, pulmonary, neurologic, dermatologic, psychiatric, renal, and/or other major disease or malignancy excluding adequately treated non-melanoma skin cancer.
• •Subject has a history of severe allergic or anaphylactic reactions.
• •Subject is a female of child-bearing potential.
• •Subject has a history of consuming more than 14 units of alcoholic beverages per week or has a history of alcoholism or drug/chemical/ substance abuse within past 2 years (Note: one unit = 12 ounces of beer, 4 ounces of wine or 1 ounce of spirits).
• •Subject has a positive test for alcohol or drugs of abuse.
• •Subject has/had a symptomatic, viral, bacterial (including upper respiratory infection), or fungal (non-cutaneous) infection within 1 week prior to clinic check-in.
• •Subject has a past history of opportunistic infection.
• •Subject has a supine mean systolic blood pressure \< 90 or \> 160 mmHg and a mean diastolic blood pressure \< 50 or \> 90 mmHg, or mean pulse rate higher than 100 beats per min (bpm).
• •Subject is known positive for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibody.
• •Subject has a positive TB skin test or Quantiferon Gold test or T-SPOT® test at Screening.
• •Subject has a positive test for hepatitis C antibody, or positive test for hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg), or positive hepatitis B core antibody.
• •Subject's laboratory test results:
• •* alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and/or aspartate aminotransferase (AST), are greater than 1.5 times the upper limit of normal
• •* are outside the normal limits and considered by the investigator to be clinically significant with regard to the remaining per-protocol laboratory tests.
• •Subject received any vaccine within 60 days prior to study drug administration.
• •Subject received any systemic immunosuppressant agent within 2 months prior to study drug administration.
• •Subject has previously received any antibody or therapeutic biologic product prior to study drug administration.
• •Subject received any systemic steroid within 2 months or steroid inhaler within 1 month prior to study drug administration.
• •Subject has had treatment with prescription, non-prescription or complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) within 14 days prior to study drug administration.
• •Subject has received an experimental agent within 30 days or five half-lives, whichever is longer, prior to study drug administration.
• •Subject is participating in another clinical trial or has participated in another dose group of the current trial.
• •Subject has had any significant blood loss, donated one unit (450 mL) of blood or more, or received a transfusion of any blood or blood products within 60 days or donated plasma within 7 days prior to clinic admission on Day -1.
• •Subject has a history of heavy smoking or has used tobacco-containing products and nicotine or nicotine-containing products in the past six months.