Premanifest Huntington's Disease: Creatine Safety & Tolerability Extension Study

Huntington's Disease Clinical Trial

— Pre-CREST-X  

Official title:

Premanifest Huntington's Disease: Creatine Safety & Tolerability Extension Study

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01411150
• Other study ID #: 2009P000642
• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2
• First received: August 4, 2011
• Last updated: January 10, 2014
• Start date: May 2009
• Est. completion date: September 2012

Study information

• Verified date: January 2014
• Source: Massachusetts General Hospital
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Food and Drug AdministrationUnited States: Institutional Review BoardUnited States: Federal Government
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this clinical trial is to extend the Pre-Crest study (Protocol # (NCT00592995) to further assess the long-term safety and tolerability of up to 30 grams daily creatine in individuals at-risk for Huntington's Disease (HD) and to assess whether biomarkers responsive to creatine in symptomatic individuals are informative in premanifest individuals over a longer duration.

Description:

Extensive evidence exists that neurodegeneration begins many years before HD can be diagnosed clinically. Therefore, it is most desirable to begin a neuroprotective therapy before or during this premanifest period with the aim of delaying onset, as well as slowing functional decline. Cellular energy depletion is present early in HD and can be ameliorated by creatine, which helps regenerate cellular ATP. Preclinical evidence for creatine's potential neuroprotective effects in animal models of HD has been well-documented. Before the clinical efficacy of creatine can be tested in premanifest HD, its long-term safety and tolerability must be assessed in these individuals and its ability to favorably modify biomarkers of HD should also be confirmed. This extension trial will continue to follow eligible individuals who completed the PreCREST study on open-label creatine (up to 30 grams daily) for long term safety and tolerability. Additional biological and imaging biomarkers of disease progression and potential response to treatment will also be assessed.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 38
• Est. completion date: September 2012
• Est. primary completion date: September 2012
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 26 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Individuals who have completed the Pre-CREST Study.

• Individuals capable of providing independent informed consent and complying with trial procedures.

Exclusion Criteria:

-Clinical evidence of unstable medical or psychiatric illness in the investigator's judgment.

Additional eligibility criteria apply.

Study Design

Endpoint Classification: Safety Study, Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Huntington Disease
• Huntington's Disease

Intervention

Drug:
• Creatine Monohydrate
Up to 30 grams daily creatine monohydrate

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Massachusetts General Hospital	Charlestown	Massachusetts

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Massachusetts General Hospital	National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

References & Publications (14)

Borovecki F, Lovrecic L, Zhou J, Jeong H, Then F, Rosas HD, Hersch SM, Hogarth P, Bouzou B, Jensen RV, Krainc D. Genome-wide expression profiling of human blood reveals biomarkers for Huntington's disease. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 Aug 2;102(31):11023-8. Epub 2005 Jul 25. — View Citation

Dedeoglu A, Kubilus JK, Yang L, Ferrante KL, Hersch SM, Beal MF, Ferrante RJ. Creatine therapy provides neuroprotection after onset of clinical symptoms in Huntington's disease transgenic mice. J Neurochem. 2003 Jun;85(6):1359-67. — View Citation

Hersch SM, Gevorkian S, Marder K, Moskowitz C, Feigin A, Cox M, Como P, Zimmerman C, Lin M, Zhang L, Ulug AM, Beal MF, Matson W, Bogdanov M, Ebbel E, Zaleta A, Kaneko Y, Jenkins B, Hevelone N, Zhang H, Yu H, Schoenfeld D, Ferrante R, Rosas HD. Creatine in Huntington disease is safe, tolerable, bioavailable in brain and reduces serum 8OH2'dG. Neurology. 2006 Jan 24;66(2):250-2. — View Citation

Hersch SM, Rosas HD. Neuroprotection for Huntington's disease: ready, set, slow. Neurotherapeutics. 2008 Apr;5(2):226-36. doi: 10.1016/j.nurt.2008.01.003. Review. — View Citation

Hersch SM, Rosas HD. Neuroprotective therapy for Huntington's disease: new prospects and challenges. Expert Rev Neurother. 2001 Sep;1(1):111-8. doi: 10.1586/14737175.1.1.111. — View Citation

Kim J, Amante DJ, Moody JP, Edgerly CK, Bordiuk OL, Smith K, Matson SA, Matson WR, Scherzer CR, Rosas HD, Hersch SM, Ferrante RJ. Reduced creatine kinase as a central and peripheral biomarker in Huntington's disease. Biochim Biophys Acta. 2010 Jul-Aug;1802(7-8):673-81. doi: 10.1016/j.bbadis.2010.05.001. Epub 2010 May 9. — View Citation

Rosas HD, Lee SY, Bender AC, Zaleta AK, Vangel M, Yu P, Fischl B, Pappu V, Onorato C, Cha JH, Salat DH, Hersch SM. Altered white matter microstructure in the corpus callosum in Huntington's disease: implications for cortical "disconnection". Neuroimage. 2010 Feb 15;49(4):2995-3004. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.10.015. Epub 2009 Oct 19. — View Citation

Rosas HD, Liu AK, Hersch S, Glessner M, Ferrante RJ, Salat DH, van der Kouwe A, Jenkins BG, Dale AM, Fischl B. Regional and progressive thinning of the cortical ribbon in Huntington's disease. Neurology. 2002 Mar 12;58(5):695-701. — View Citation

Rosas HD, Reuter M, Doros G, Lee SY, Triggs T, Malarick K, Fischl B, Salat DH, Hersch SM. A tale of two factors: what determines the rate of progression in Huntington's disease? A longitudinal MRI study. Mov Disord. 2011 Aug 1;26(9):1691-7. doi: 10.1002/mds.23762. Epub 2011 May 24. — View Citation

Rosas HD, Salat DH, Lee SY, Zaleta AK, Hevelone N, Hersch SM. Complexity and heterogeneity: what drives the ever-changing brain in Huntington's disease? Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2008 Dec;1147:196-205. doi: 10.1196/annals.1427.034. Review. — View Citation

Rosas HD, Salat DH, Lee SY, Zaleta AK, Pappu V, Fischl B, Greve D, Hevelone N, Hersch SM. Cerebral cortex and the clinical expression of Huntington's disease: complexity and heterogeneity. Brain. 2008 Apr;131(Pt 4):1057-68. doi: 10.1093/brain/awn025. Epub 2008 Mar 12. — View Citation

Rosas HD, Tuch DS, Hevelone ND, Zaleta AK, Vangel M, Hersch SM, Salat DH. Diffusion tensor imaging in presymptomatic and early Huntington's disease: Selective white matter pathology and its relationship to clinical measures. Mov Disord. 2006 Sep;21(9):1317-25. — View Citation

Ryu H, Rosas HD, Hersch SM, Ferrante RJ. The therapeutic role of creatine in Huntington's disease. Pharmacol Ther. 2005 Nov;108(2):193-207. Epub 2005 Aug 1. Review. — View Citation

Stack EC, Dedeoglu A, Smith KM, Cormier K, Kubilus JK, Bogdanov M, Matson WR, Yang L, Jenkins BG, Luthi-Carter R, Kowall NW, Hersch SM, Beal MF, Ferrante RJ. Neuroprotective effects of synaptic modulation in Huntington's disease R6/2 mice. J Neurosci. 2007 Nov 21;27(47):12908-15. — View Citation

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Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Safety	Frequency of adverse events	12 months	Yes
Primary	Tolerability	Proportion of subjects completing the extension study at given dose level	12 months	Yes
Secondary	Clinical measures	Components of the UHDRS (United Huntington's Disease Rating Scale)	12 months	No
Secondary	Biological Markers of Disease Progression	Biological indicators that creatine treatment might affect the progression of HD: plasma levels of creatine, serum levels of 8OH2'dG and 8OHG, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), morphometric neuroimaging (biomarker of neurodegeneration), metabolomic profiling, and gene expression analysis to assess transcriptional effects of HD and creatine therapy.	12 Months	No