Influenza Clinical Trial
Official title:
A Pilot Study of Dietary Taxifolin/Dihydroquercetin and Ergothioneine and Immune Biomarkers in Healthy Volunteers
The complexities of the immune system make measuring the impact of dietary interventions upon its function challenging. The immune system is highly responsive to environmental influences, including the diet. An individual's diet provides the energy required to mount a strong and protective immune response, the building blocks required for synthesis of immune mediators such as antibodies and cytokines, and can also indirectly affect immune function via changes in the gut microbiome. Immune function varies across the lifecourse, with a well understood decline in immune function with age, resulting in impaired vaccination responses and an increased risk of infections and of severe complications and mortality arising from common communicable diseases such as influenza. This impaired immunity with ageing is known as immunosenescence and this affects both innate and acquired arms of the immune system.
Expert guidance is available to inform the design of human nutrition trials to ensure they include the most relevant immunological outcomes (Albers, 2013). In this study, ex vivo phagocytosis and oxidative burst of immune cells will be the primary outcome, supported by other ex vivo immune measures of high clinical relevance including functional assessment of cytokine production and expression of activation markers. Human nutritional trials frequently omit to monitor the degree of immunosenescence in participants, even amongst studies conducted amongst older adults. For example, a recent review of pre- and probiotic trials which assessed immune responses in older adults identified that only two of thirty-six studies assessed any marker of immunosenescence (Childs & Calder, 2017). Taxifolin/DHQ is a naturally occurring polyphenol found in apples, onions and other fruits and bark extracts. Ergothioneine is an amino acid found in mushrooms, oats and some bean varieties. We hypothesise that Taxifolin/DHQ and/or Ergothioneine will alter immune function via their established antioxidant effects, and that the effects observed will vary between older adults relative to their degree of immunosenescence. Though current dietary guidelines advise consumption of 5 portions of fruits and vegetables per day, recent surveys reveal that fewer than 30% of adults achieve this. Antioxidants found within fruits and vegetables are understood to be one of the important aspects by which our diet can influence health. It is important to investigate the effects of such antioxidants through well designed and conducted human trials. ;
| Status | Clinical Trial | Phase | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Completed |
NCT05523089 -
The Effectiveness of CD388 to Prevent Flu in an Influenza Challenge Model in Healthy Adults
|
Phase 2 | |
| Completed |
NCT05009251 -
Using Explainable AI Risk Predictions to Nudge Influenza Vaccine Uptake
|
N/A | |
| Completed |
NCT03282240 -
Safety and Immunogenicity of High-Dose Quadrivalent Influenza Vaccine in Participants ≥65 Years in the US
|
Phase 3 | |
| Completed |
NCT00968539 -
Study to Evaluate the Immunogenicity & Safety of an Investigational Influenza Vaccine (H1N1) in Adults
|
Phase 3 | |
| Completed |
NCT00968526 -
Study to Evaluate Immunogenicity and Safety of an Investigational Influenza Vaccine (H1N1) in Adults
|
Phase 3 | |
| Completed |
NCT00971425 -
Evaluation of the Immune Response and the Safety of a Pandemic Influenza Candidate Vaccine (H1N1)
|
Phase 3 | |
| Completed |
NCT05525494 -
Patient Portal Flu Vaccine Reminders (5)
|
N/A | |
| Completed |
NCT04074928 -
Safety and Immunogenicity Study of QIVc in Healthy Pediatric Subjects
|
Phase 3 | |
| Completed |
NCT04695717 -
This Study Was Conducted to Evaluate the Safety and Immunogenicity of IVACFLU-S Produced in Children From 6 Months to Under 18 Years Old and the Elderly Over 60 Years Old in Vietnam
|
Phase 3 | |
| Completed |
NCT05012163 -
Lottery Incentive Nudges to Increase Influenza Vaccinations
|
N/A | |
| Completed |
NCT04109222 -
Collection of Serum Samples From Children and Older Adults Receiving the 2019-2020 Formulations of Fluzone® Quadrivalent and Fluzone® High-Dose Influenza Vaccines, Respectively
|
Phase 4 | |
| Completed |
NCT03888989 -
Response to Influenza Vaccine During Pregnancy
|
Phase 1 | |
| Completed |
NCT02587221 -
Clinical Study to Evaluate the Efficacy, Safety and Immunogenicity of an MF59-Adjuvanted Quadrivalent Influenza Vaccine Compared to Non-influenza Vaccine Comparator in Adults ≥ 65 Years of Age
|
Phase 3 | |
| Completed |
NCT03453801 -
The Role of CD4+ Memory Phenotype, Memory, and Effector T Cells in Vaccination and Infection
|
Phase 1 | |
| Completed |
NCT01440387 -
A Study of Immunogenicity and Safety of GSK Biologicals' Influenza Vaccine FLU-Q-QIV in Adults Aged 18 Years and Older
|
Phase 3 | |
| Terminated |
NCT01195779 -
Trial to Evaluate Safety and Immunogenicity of GSK Biologicals' Influenza Vaccine GSK2584786A in Healthy Children
|
Phase 2 | |
| Completed |
NCT03321968 -
Lot-to-lot Consistency of a Plant-Derived Quadrivalent Virus-Like Particles Influenza Vaccine in Healthy Adults
|
Phase 3 | |
| Completed |
NCT00972517 -
Study to Evaluate the Immunogenicity and Safety of an Investigational Influenza Vaccine (H1N1) in Children
|
Phase 3 | |
| Completed |
NCT04570904 -
Broadening Our Understanding of Early Versus Late Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness
|
||
| Recruiting |
NCT03331991 -
Prevention of Influenza and Other Wintertime Respiratory Viruses Among Healthcare Professionals in Israel
|
N/A |