Ex Vivo Stimulation of Whole Blood as a Means to Determine Glucocorticoid Sensitivity to Mild-to-Moderate and Refractory Asthmatics
This study has been terminated.
(data not as expected)
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Jeanette Marketon, MD, The Ohio State University
First received: October 1, 2012
Last updated: October 30, 2012
Last verified: October 2012
Gluococorticoids are commonly prescribed to treat a number of diseases including the majority of inflammatory diseases. Despite considerable inter-personal variability in responses to glucocorticoids between asthmatics, an insensitivity rate of about 30% and the risk of adverse side effects of glucocorticoid therapy, no assay is currently performed to determine sensitivity in severe and non-severe asthmatics prior to treatment. The purpose of this study is to perform a whole blood ex vivo stimulation assay to interrogate known glucocorticoid receptor (GR) up- and down-regulated genes to indicate glucocorticoid sensitivity and compare the results between severe and non-severe asthmatics.
||Observational Model: Cohort
Time Perspective: Prospective
||Ex Vivo Stimulation of Whole Blood as a Means to Determine Glucocorticoid Sensitivity to Mild-to-Moderate and Refractory Asthmatics
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
||18 Years and older
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
To be eligible for the study, subjects must meet all of the following criteria:
- Age ≥ 18 years old
- Physician diagnosis of asthma confirmed through medical record documentation.
- Documented history of 12% FEV1 reversibility post-bronchodilator and/or Methacholine PC 20 score of 16mg/ml or less.
- Non-smoker for > 6 months before enrollment into the trial
- Less than 5 pack year smoking history defined as the average packs smoked per day multiplied by the years of active smoking.
- Willing and able to adhere to the study visit schedule and other protocol-specified procedures.
Subjects meeting any of the following criteria may not be enrolled in the study:
- Existence of lung disease (other than asthma)
- Recent asthma exacerbation requiring hospital admissions, unexpected healthcare visits, or prednisone courses in the previous 4 weeks.
- Non-English speaking.
- Participation in another interventional research trial
- Self-reported pregnancy
- Inability or unwillingness to provide consent
- Febrile illness (>38.0˚ C or 100.4˚ F) within 24 hours of visit.
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01698983
|Martha Morehouse Medical Pavillion
|Columbus, Ohio, United States, 432211 |
|Martha Morehouse Medical Pavillion
|Columbus, Ohio, United States, 43221 |
Jeanette Marketon, MD
||Jeanette Marketon, Ph.D.
||Recruit and Consent Patients
No publications provided
||Jeanette Marketon, MD, Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University
History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
||October 1, 2012
||October 30, 2012
||United States: Food and Drug Administration
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