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NCT number NCT03125174
Other study ID # 16-3142
Secondary ID
Status Completed
Phase N/A
First received April 14, 2017
Last updated July 20, 2017
Start date March 10, 2017
Est. completion date June 27, 2017

Study information

Verified date July 2017
Source University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Contact n/a
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority
Study type Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Analysis of mucus, mucin and DNA concentration, MUC5B/5AC ratio, rheology, osmotic pressure, cohesion and nucleotides in sputum on 30 individual samples of good quality in healthy individuals and those with bronchiectasis. (60 total)


Description:

In this study the investigators will investigate the mucus properties in individuals with idiopathic bronchiectasis and healthy individuals without a history of lung disease. In order to understand how mucus is abnormal in disease conditions, the investigators need to understand the mucus biochemical and biophysical properties in healthy individuals. In this study the investigators will prospectively recruit patients with bronchiectasis and healthy individuals from the community to provide airway sputum samples. In these samples the investigators will measure an array of mucus properties. This will help our understanding of the mucus-obstructive lung diseases and facilitate the development of appropriate and effective disease prevention strategies.

A key question is whether mucus is hyper-concentrated and has abnormal biophysical properties in individuals with mucus-obstructive lung disease. To answer this question, the investigators need to understand the properties of the mucus in individuals with idiopathic bronchiectasis and no history of lung disease. This study will allow us to collect airway mucus (sputum) from individuals with bronchiectasis and healthy individuals with no history of lung disease.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Completed
Enrollment 30
Est. completion date June 27, 2017
Est. primary completion date June 27, 2017
Accepts healthy volunteers Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Gender All
Age group 18 Years to 99 Years
Eligibility Participants who meet all the following criteria are eligible for the study:

- Written informed consent

- Bronchiectasis patients: Available CT of the chest that shows evidence of dilated airways fulfilling radiographic criteria for bronchiectasis in more than one lobe and chronic cough.

Participants who meet any of the following criteria will not be eligible for the study:

- Healthy individuals: A history of lung disease, current asthma symptoms or medication use, premature birth (<37 week gestation), a history of lung disease of infancy, or neurological or cardiovascular illness, current smoker or a history of smoking tobacco products.

- Bronchiectasis patients: Premature birth (<37 week gestation), a history of lung disease of infancy, or neurological or cardiovascular illness.

- Younger than 18 years of age

Study Design


Related Conditions & MeSH terms


Locations

Country Name City State
United States Center for Environmental Medicine Asthma and Lung Biology Chapel Hill North Carolina
United States Marsico Research Institure at Meadowmont Chapel Hill North Carolina

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary Mucus concentration (% solids) The percentage of solid content of sputum (an index of hydration) will be calculated my measuring the wet to dry weight ratio using a microbalance (mean percent solids ± standard deviation). 6 months
Secondary Biophysical properties of mucus by rheology The rheological properties of the sputum will be assayed by macro-rheology (cone and plate) and microbead rheology. Macro-rheology provides measures of the viscosity (median log viscosity in Pascal (range)) and elasticity (median log elasticity in Pascal (range) of the sputum. Microbead rheology is performed by analyzing the diffusive motion of embedded 1µm tracer particles (6). The primary outcome measure from microbead rheology will be the mean square displacement MSD(Mean squared displacement) (median MSD cm2 s-1 (range)). 6 months
Secondary Mucin composition by mass spectroscopy We will use mass spectroscopy to determine the relative abundance of the two major polymeric mucin proteins, MUC5B(Mucin type 5B)and MUC5AC(Mucin type 5AC), which are responsible for the viscoelastic properties of mucus. 6 months
Secondary Sputum extracellular nucleotide analysis Sputum adenosine and adenine nucleotides will be ethenoderivatized and measured by HPLC(High performance liquid chromatography) analysis (7) (median nucleotide concentration in µg/ml (range)). 6 months
Secondary Osmotic Pressure The osmotic pressure of the mucus will be assessed by placing an aliquot of mucus onto an osmometer with a 10kDa (10 kilodaltons) molecular weight polyethersulfone membrane (Millipore) separating the test chamber and reference chamber filled with PBS (phosphate-buffered saline) (mean osmotic pressure in Pascal ± standard deviation). 6 months
Secondary Total mucin concentration Mucins will be quantitated using sepharose CL2B(Cross-linked derivative of Sepharose 2B) UPLC(Ultra performance liquid chromatography) coupled to an Optilab interference refractometer with a filter at 680 nm and parallel flow chambers for solvent and the solution (mean mucin concentration (µg/ml) ± standard deviation) (4). With this approach, we will ensure that the solute is at full Donnan equilibrium with the solution within the context of gel chromatography, which creates an accurate equilibration of solute and solvent. This procedure also separates the mucins from contaminating proteins, allowing the mucins to be isolated for biochemical studies. DNAse can be added if significant DNA is present. 6 months
Secondary polymeric DNA concentration The quantification of free DNA will be performed using the DNA Quant-iT PicoGreen assay (Molecular Probes, Inc., Eugene, OR, USA), which utilizes an ultra-sensitive fluorescent nucleic acid stain for quantitating double-stranded DNA (median log DNA concentration (µg/ml) (range)). 6 months
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