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NCT number NCT02866461
Other study ID # R01 3589819
Secondary ID
Status Withdrawn
Phase
First received
Last updated
Start date November 2021
Est. completion date August 2023

Study information

Verified date April 2023
Source University of Utah
Contact n/a
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority
Study type Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

This study is designed to study brain mechanisms associated with symptoms and severity of Fibromyalgia. This will be accomplished by relating results from PET scans to self-reported and objective measures of disease severity.


Description:

The purpose of this study is to examine µ-opioid receptor (µOR)-mediated neurotransmission in patients diagnosed with persistent pain, fibromyalgia (FM), and its relationship with pain and affect measures. µOR activation is expected to take place in the following brain regions: rostral and dorsal anterior cingulate (rACC, dACC), orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), thalamus (THA), nucleus accumbens (NAC), amygdala (AMY), periaqueductal gray (PAG). Greater regional activation is expected to be associated with improvements in clinical pain ratings and affective state. The endogenous opioid system and µ-opioid receptors (µORs) play a central role in the regulation of pain, the pathophysiology of chronic pain syndromes, mood and emotion; this system is dysregulated in persistent pain syndromes. A substantial body of literature addressing these mechanisms has been developed in our laboratory, including recent data on the cognitive and molecular mechanisms associated with reductions in pain, as well as trait personality and genetic predictors of emotional effects in the context of pain. Eighty individuals who have been diagnosed with FM and who fit the inclusion and exclusion criteria will be enrolled in this 14-week protocol. An initial visit for informed consent procedures and baseline characterization will then be scheduled, as well as the visits for positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) procedures. Subjects will return for testing after 6 and 14 weeks. Volunteers will undergo imaging with structural and functional MRI and PET with [11C]carfentanil to determine baseline µOR non-displaceable binding potential (BPND) and changes in those BPND measures coinciding with symptom severity at the time of scanning.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Withdrawn
Enrollment 0
Est. completion date August 2023
Est. primary completion date August 2023
Accepts healthy volunteers No
Gender All
Age group 18 Years to 55 Years
Eligibility Inclusion Criteria: - Have met American College of Rheumatology (ACR) criteria for fibromyalgia for at least 1 year; - Willing to limit introduction of new treatments during the study; - Use of sleep aids no more than twice per week - 18-55 years of age - right handed - capable of providing written informed consent Exclusion Criteria: - concurrent untreated medical illnesses, autoimmune, or inflammatory disease; - Routine daily use of narcotic analgesics or history of substance abuse; - Concurrent participation in other therapeutic trials; - Pregnancy/ nursing; - Ongoing psychiatric illness; - Contraindications to PET or MRI methods; - Impairments that would prevent completion of the study protocol; - Use of sleep aids at frequency of more that twice per week; - Allergy to fentanyl

Study Design


Related Conditions & MeSH terms


Intervention

Other:
No treatment
Observation

Locations

Country Name City State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
University of Utah

References & Publications (6)

Harris RE, Clauw DJ, Scott DJ, McLean SA, Gracely RH, Zubieta JK. Decreased central mu-opioid receptor availability in fibromyalgia. J Neurosci. 2007 Sep 12;27(37):10000-6. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2849-07.2007. — View Citation

Harris RE, Zubieta JK, Scott DJ, Napadow V, Gracely RH, Clauw DJ. Traditional Chinese acupuncture and placebo (sham) acupuncture are differentiated by their effects on mu-opioid receptors (MORs). Neuroimage. 2009 Sep;47(3):1077-85. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.05.083. Epub 2009 Jun 6. — View Citation

Martikainen IK, Nuechterlein EB, Pecina M, Love TM, Cummiford CM, Green CR, Stohler CS, Zubieta JK. Chronic Back Pain Is Associated with Alterations in Dopamine Neurotransmission in the Ventral Striatum. J Neurosci. 2015 Jul 8;35(27):9957-65. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4605-14.2015. — View Citation

Martikainen IK, Pecina M, Love TM, Nuechterlein EB, Cummiford CM, Green CR, Harris RE, Stohler CS, Zubieta JK. Alterations in endogenous opioid functional measures in chronic back pain. J Neurosci. 2013 Sep 11;33(37):14729-37. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1400-13.2013. — View Citation

Pecina M, Martinez-Jauand M, Love T, Heffernan J, Montoya P, Hodgkinson C, Stohler CS, Goldman D, Zubieta JK. Valence-specific effects of BDNF Val66Met polymorphism on dopaminergic stress and reward processing in humans. J Neurosci. 2014 Apr 23;34(17):5874-81. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2152-13.2014. — View Citation

Scott DJ, Heitzeg MM, Koeppe RA, Stohler CS, Zubieta JK. Variations in the human pain stress experience mediated by ventral and dorsal basal ganglia dopamine activity. J Neurosci. 2006 Oct 18;26(42):10789-95. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2577-06.2006. — View Citation

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary change in mu opioid-mediated neurotransmission assessed via PET scanning Change from baseline at 6 weeks
Secondary change in Biomarkers of pain response serum cortisol Change from baseline at 6 weeks
Secondary change in Biomarkers of pain response serum cortisol Change from 8 weeks at 14 weeks
Secondary change in Pain assessed via questionnaire Change from baseline at 6 weeks
Secondary change in Pain assessed via questionnaire Change from 8 weeks at 14 weeks
Secondary change in mu opioid-mediated neurotransmission assessed via PET scanning Change from 8 weeks at 14 weeks
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