Immune Cells in Diabetic Chronic Foot Ulcers

Status Recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

The goal of this observational study is to learn about the role of immune cells in patients with diabetes and chronic foot ulcers. Researchers will compare blood and tissue samples of patients with diabetes and a foot ulcer that is healing or healed compared to those diabetic patients where the foot ulcers is not healing (chronic ulcer).

Clinical Trial Description

Diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) requires frequent hospital visits, anti-biotic therapies, and surgical procedures. Not only this approach has debilitating consequences for patients and enormous costs for the health care system, but it is often not sufficient to prevent lower limb amputation. The immunological response in wound healing is mainly orchestrated by recruited monocytes and skin macrophages. The current hypothesis is that hyperglycaemia sustains an activated macrophages' phenotype that inhibits wound healing. However, well controlled diabetes is not associated with better healing, and not all the diabetic patients develop chronic foot ulcers. In this project, the investigators aim to characterize the immunological response of patients with DFU to discover new therapeutic targets for the treatment of chronic wounds. The investigator suggest that an altered metabolic local environment can re-program monocytes/macrophages towards dysfunctional phenotypes unable to accomplish the healing process. Here, by using a longitudinal study cohort combined with clinical information, transcriptomic and proteomic analysis at single cell level, researchers will characterize the landscape of monocytes/macrophage populations involved in healing, and non-healing, foot ulcers. Functional validation will be performed in human skin organoids. My group's unique access to patient material combined with cutting-edge methodologies provides an exceptional platform to identify genes and pathways involved in chronic DFU. ;

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Clinical Trial Details

NCT number	NCT06154915
Study type	Observational
Source	Karolinska Institutet
Contact	Eva Steninger
Phone	70 00213 45
Email	eva.steninger@regionstockholm.se
Status	Recruiting
Phase
Start date	September 9, 2022
Completion date	December 31, 2029

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