New Therapeutic Strategy in ALS Based on Metabolic Status and Associated Metabolic Pathways.
Last updated on July 2021Recruitment
- Recruitment Status
- Recruiting
- Estimated Enrollment
- Same as current
Summary
- Conditions
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
- Type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Design
- Allocation: Non-RandomizedIntervention Model: Parallel AssignmentMasking: None (Open Label)Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
Participation Requirements
- Age
- Between 18 years and 75 years
- Gender
- Both males and females
Description
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease that affects central and peripheral motor neurons. None of the clinical trials conducted have been clearly successful and the disease remains incurable, putting patients' vital prognosis at risk in the medium term. An alteration of t...
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease that affects central and peripheral motor neurons. None of the clinical trials conducted have been clearly successful and the disease remains incurable, putting patients' vital prognosis at risk in the medium term. An alteration of the basal metabolism leading to hypermetabolism has been described in several articles in the literature. The causes of this hypermetabolism and the precise exploration of the metabolic pathways involved are still poorly understood. The fibroblasts of ALS patients may be the site of some metabolic disturbances in this disease with a hypothetical specific basal metabolic profile. These cells are adapted to different metabolic explorations such as omnic approaches. Superficial skin biopsy followed by fibroblast culture can provide a considerable biobank. This cellular richness will allow us, in ALS patients and their controls, to perform experiments for the quantification of metabolites by metabolic and lipidomic approaches, as well as the quantification of mRNAs and the rate of gene transcription by a transcriptomic approach.
Tracking Information
- NCT #
- NCT03984708
- Collaborators
- Not Provided
- Investigators
- Study Director: Hélène BLASCO, MD-PhD University Hospital, Tours