Muscular Biomarkers in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Clinical Trial

— METABOMU  

Official title:

Metabolomics and Transcriptomics Approaches to Identify Muscular Biomarkers in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02670226
• Other study ID #: PHAO15-HB-METABOMU
• Secondary ID: 2015-A01629-4015
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: March 29, 2016
• Est. completion date: December 9, 2019

Study information

• Verified date: April 2021
• Source: University Hospital, Tours
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The first objective is to find some biomarkers, or a profile of biomarkers of ALS to help to diagnosis. The second objective is to better understand the pathogenesis of this disease by the exploration of muscle, blood and satellite cells metabolomes and transcriptomes.

Description:

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), the most common MND, is a fatal adult-onset neuromuscular disease. Due to clinical heterogeneity and absence of biological tools to diagnose ALS, the delay between the first symptoms and diagnosis averages 9-13 months. A group of pathophysiological processes, including oxidative stress and glutamate-mediated excitotoxicity contribute to cell death, but the triggering factor, the timing and the interaction of different cellular events await elucidation [2]. Unknown pathogenesis for most patients means few available treatments. The search for biomarkers that can aid diagnosis, characterize phenotype, define pathophysiology, identify endpoints in trials and measure disease progression is of utmost importance for the field. Some studies have advocated that muscle per se may be impaired by pathogenesis of the diseases. Muscle has been poorly studied and its central role in energetic metabolism suggests that this tissue, quite easily available, should be more analyzed to find biomarkers and to compare muscular metabolism with those of brain and overall body. Specific aims of our subjects are:

Specific aims are focused on:

1. the acquisition of metabolites profiles of the muscle, blood and satellite cells using an analytical platform enable a deep exploration. For that, the use of three analytical modalities (NMR, mass spectrometry coupled to GC or UPLC) ensures the best coverage of the metabolite population with a high range of concentration variability and molecular diversity.

2. the building of metabolites profiles models that discriminate pathological and control situations.

3. the identification of metabolites implicated in the discriminant model.

4. the generation of metabolism pathways hypothesis related to the discriminant model.

5. the acquisition of transcriptomics data to confirm and add complementary results to metabolomics data

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 37
• Est. completion date: December 9, 2019
• Est. primary completion date: October 15, 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 75 Years

Eligibility

Case group selection criteria:

Inclusion Criteria:

• Age = 18 years and = 75 years

• ALS according to the El Escorial criteria

• Patients affiliated to social security scheme

• Informed consent signed by the patient

Exclusion Criteria:

• Pregnant or breastfeeding women

• Contraindication to biopsy

• Contraindication to local anesthesia

• Treatment with oral or injectable anticoagulants, antiplatelet (except aspirin)

• Unbalanced Diabetes

• Systemic corticosteroid treatment

• Treatment against cramps or twitching may affect muscle metabolism

Control group selection criteria:

Inclusion Criteria:

• Age = 18 years and = 75 years

• No neuronal disease

• Patients affiliated to social security scheme

• Informed consent signed by the patient

Exclusion Criteria:

• Pregnant or breastfeeding women

• Contraindication to biopsy

• Treatment with oral or injectable anticoagulants, antiplatelet (except aspirin)

• Unbalanced Diabetes

• Systemic corticosteroid treatment

• Treatment against cramps or twitching may affect muscle metabolism

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
• Motor Neuron Disease
• Sclerosis

Intervention

Other:
• Samples
Blood samples, muscle biopsy

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
France	Service de chirurgie orthopédique et traumatologique, CHRU de TOURS	Tours
France	Service de Neurologie, CHRU de TOURS	Tours

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University Hospital, Tours

Country where clinical trial is conducted

France, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Metabolic signature of muscle	Metabolomics profile using NMR and LC-HRMS	At baseline
Primary	Metabolic signature of blood	Metabolomics profile using NMR and LC-HRMS	At baseline
Primary	Metabolic signature of satellites cells	Metabolomics profile using NMR and LC-HRMS	At baseline
Secondary	Expression levels of targeted genes using transcriptomics	Choice of genes based on results obtained by metabolomics approaches	At baseline