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Administrative data

NCT number NCT06325137
Other study ID # RC 24/2022
Secondary ID
Status Recruiting
Phase
First received
Last updated
Start date March 16, 2023
Est. completion date March 2025

Study information

Verified date March 2024
Source IRCCS Burlo Garofolo
Contact Marco Pennesi, MD
Phone +39. 040-3785263
Email marco.pennesi@burlo.trieste.it
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority
Study type Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Idiopathic nephrotic syndrome (INS) affects the glomerular barrier by damaging the podocytes with foot process effacement, leading to a pathological increase of permeability and protein loss. INS classification is based on the clinical response to glucocorticoid (GC) therapy. When GCs treatment fails to induce remission in a four-six weeks course, patients are defined as affected with steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome (SRNS). The whole transcriptome sequencing could consent the INS classification at onset, prior to glucocorticoids (GCs) treatment, allowing to reduction of unuseful GCs treatment. RNA sequencing technologies allow an extensive characterization of the transcriptomic profile and permit global changes in gene expression levels between different conditions such as active and remission of the disease. Of great interest is the research of a molecular biomarker to predict steroid resistance, a predictor that is not yet available. Among the candidate biomarkers, pharmacogenomic determinants are promising, even if available studies are still limited. Among these, some epigenetic factors have been previously suggested. Data obtained in animal models suggests that nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain-like receptors (NOD-like receptor) pyrin domain containing 3 (NLRP3) inflammasome can be deregulated in a wide variety of glomerular diseases, including those causing INS. Another potential marker involved in steroid response is the long noncoding RNA GAS5. Data reported in the literature indicate that abnormal levels of GAS5 in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) may alter steroid effectiveness in autoimmune diseases, such as inflammatory bowel disease. Preliminary findings show that the study of NLRP3 promoter methylation could be reduced in the blood of SRNS compared with steroid-sensitive nephrotic syndrome (SSNS) patients. Moreover, unpublished encouraging results on the association between Growth Arrest Specific 5 (GAS5) expression and steroid response in INS in PBMCs were obtained in a preliminary study conducted on 8 patients with the first episode of INS. PBMCs were obtained and GAS5 gene expression was evaluated using TaqMan technology. Patients affected with SRNS presented significantly higher levels of GAS5 in comparison with the SSNS group. In PBMCs from SRNS patients, the GAS5 expression could reduce the availability for binding to GCs target genes of the activated GCs receptor and suppresses GC transcriptional activity.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Recruiting
Enrollment 60
Est. completion date March 2025
Est. primary completion date March 2025
Accepts healthy volunteers No
Gender All
Age group 1 Year to 12 Years
Eligibility Inclusion Criteria: - clinical diagnosis of INS - age 1 - 12 years - signed informed consent by parents or legal guardians - For controls: aged-matched individuals with Congenital Anomalies of the Kidney and Urinary Tract (CAKUT) Exclusion Criteria: - Patients aged <1 year or > 12 years - Patients diagnosed with a secondary or genetic form of NS - For controls: the presence of coexisting chronic kidney failure, autoimmune or autoinflammatory disease, or endocrinologic disorders.

Study Design


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Intervention

Diagnostic Test:
Transcriptome analyses
A sample of peripheral whole blood cells will be collected at the onset before the initiation of steroid treatment (time 0, t0) and after 6 weeks at the definition of steroid sensitivity/unresponsiveness (time 1, t1).

Locations

Country Name City State
Italy Institute for Maternal and Child Health - IRCCS "Burlo Garofolo" Trieste

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
IRCCS Burlo Garofolo

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Italy, 

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary Between groups differences in molecular signature by whole transcriptome analysis A sample of peripheral whole blood cells will be collected at the onset before the initiation of steroid treatment (time 0, t0) At enrolment (T0)
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