The Role of the Gut Microbiota in the Systemic Immune Response During Human Endotoxemia

Endotoxemia Clinical Trial

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Official title:

The Role of the Gut Microbiota in the Systemic Immune Response During Human Endotoxemia

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02127749
• Other study ID #: NL45198.018.13
• Secondary ID: NL45198.018.13
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: April 28, 2014
• Last updated: December 29, 2015
• Start date: June 2014
• Est. completion date: December 2015

Study information

• Verified date: December 2015
• Source: Academisch Medisch Centrum - Universiteit van Amsterdam (AMC-UvA)
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: The Netherlands: CCMO (Centrale Commissie Mensgebonden Onderzoek)
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether treatment with antibiotics, which harm the gut flora, causes the immune system to be less effective.

Description:

Rationale: Sepsis ranks among the top ten leading causes of death worldwide. Most nonsurvivors die in a state of immunosuppression. The gut microbiota exerts numerous beneficial functions in the host response against infections. Gut flora components express microorganism-associated molecular patterns (MAMPs) such as lipopolysaccharide (LPS), which are recognized by pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) expressed by neutrophils and macrophages. MAMPs from the intestinal microbiota constitutively translocate to the circulation and prime bone marrow derived neutrophils via PRRs. Antibiotic treatment, which is standard of care for all patients with sepsis, depletes the gut microbiota and leads to a diminished release of MAMPs and other bacteria derived products. This causes diminished priming of systemic immunity, which may attribute to sepsis associated immunosuppression and an increased susceptibility to invading bacteria.

Objective: To investigate the role of the gut microbiota in the systemic priming of immune effector cells during human endotoxemia

Study design: Randomized, between- and within-subject-controlled intervention study in human volunteers

Intervention: All subjects will receive lipopolysaccharide (endotoxin; 2 ng/kg bodyweight) intravenously to induce experimental endotoxemia. Eight subjects will be pretreated with broad spectrum antibiotics (ciprofloxacin, vancomycin, metronidazole) for seven days (washout period of 36 hours before endotoxemia), in order to deplete the gut microbiota. Blood and faeces will be sampled before, during and after endotoxemia.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 16
• Est. completion date: December 2015
• Est. primary completion date: December 2015
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Male
• Age group: 18 Years to 35 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Healthy

• Male between 18 and 35 years of age

• Capable of giving written informed consent

• Chemistry panel without any clinically relevant abnormality

• Normal defecation pattern

Exclusion Criteria:

• Major illness in the past 3 months or any chronic medical illness

• History of any type of malignancy

• Past or current gastrointestinal disease

• Known positive test for hepatitis C antibody, hepatitis B surface antigen or HIV antibody 1 or 2

• Current or chronic history of liver disease

• Subject uses tobacco products

• History, within 3 years, of drug abuse

• History of alcoholism

• Any clinically relevant abnormality on the 12-lead ECG

• The subject has received an investigational product within three months

• Use of prescription or non-prescription drugs

• Use of antibiotics within 12 months

• Known allergy to antibiotics

• Subject has difficultly in donating blood or accessibility of a vein in left or right arm.

• Subject has donated more than 350 mL of blood in last 3 months

• Difficulty swallowing pills

• Body mass index more than 28

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Basic Science

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Endotoxemia

Intervention

Drug:
• Endotoxin
Both groups will receive 2 ng/kg LPS (endotoxin) intravenously
• Vancomycin, Metronidazole, Ciprofloxacin
ciprofloxacin 500mg 2 times per day, vancomycin 500mg 3 times per day metronidazole 500mg 3 times per day All together during 7 days

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Netherlands	Academic Medical Centre	Amsterdam

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Academisch Medisch Centrum - Universiteit van Amsterdam (AMC-UvA)

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Netherlands, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Cytokine production in blood		within 8 hours after LPS administration	No