- ICH GCP
- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT01034345
Effect of Rapamycin on Tolerance-related Biomarkers on Stable Liver Transplant Recipients
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
Objective:To test in liver transplant recipients identified as non-tolerant whether discontinuation of calcineurin inhibitors followed by 6-month treatment with sirolimus modifies the pattern of expression of the set of genes associated with tolerance
Background: Sirolimus is an immunosuppressive drug used to counter autoimmunity and to prevent acute graft rejection in human and has remarkable tolerance-promoting properties in animal transplant models.
Hypothesis/Specific Aims:We hypothesize that sirolimus promotes tolerogenic pathways in human liver transplantation.
- To test in liver transplant recipients identified as non-tolerant whether discontinuation of calcineurin inhibitors followed by 6-month treatment with sirolimus modifies the pattern of expression of the set of genes associated with tolerance
- To test in liver transplant recipients identified as non-tolerant whether conversion from calcineurin inhibitors to sirolimus modifies memory type immune responses.
- To test in liver transplant recipients identified as non-tolerant whether conversion from calcineurin inhibitor monotherapy to sirolimus affects the frequency, phenotype and function of potentially immunoregulatory peripheral blood lymphocyte subsets
- To test in liver transplant recipients identified as non-tolerant whether conversion from calcineurin inhibitors to sirolimus promotes epigenetic changes related to immunoregulation and cancer development/progression
Proposed Methods:Gene expression experiments: we will quantify the expression in peripheral blood of a set of genes previously identified as predictive of successful immunosuppression withdrawal in stable liver transplant recipients. Blood samples will be obtained before and 6 months after conversion to sirolimus treatment. Measurement of gene expression levels will be conducted employing real-time TaqMan PCR. Classification of patients in the tolerant/non-tolerant categories will be conducted utilizing thresholds and predictive algorithms developed in our laboratory.
Immunophenotyping studies: we will quantify in peripheral blood various mononuclear cell subsets implicated in immunoregulatory pathways before and 6 months after conversion to sirolimus treatment. Measurements will be conducted employing flow cytometry.
Functional assays: we will isolate CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells (Treg) from peripheral blood by Sorter before and 6 months after conversion to sirolimus treatment. Serial dilution experiments will be conduct in an antigen non-specific assay to assess the relative suppressive properties of Tregs. IFNg ELISpot assays will be conducted in parallel employing peripheral blood mononuclear cells as responder cells to measure donor-specific alloimmune responses.
Measurement of DNA-methylation: recipient DNA will be extracted from peripheral blood samples before and after 6-month sirolimus treatment and used to conduct whole-genome methylation studies employing the ILLUMINA array platform.
Expected results: We expect to precisely define the effects of sirolimus on previously identified tolerogenic pathways in humans and, to assess the capacity of this drug to enhance the proportion of liver recipients undergoing successful immunosuppression weaning.
Study Type
Enrollment (Anticipated)
Phase
- Phase 2
Contacts and Locations
Study Contact
- Name: Alberto Sanchez-Fueyo, M.D
- Phone Number: 2844 34-932275400
- Email: afueyo@clinic.ub.es
Study Locations
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Barcelona, Spain, 08036
- Recruiting
- Hospital Clinic Barcelona, University of Barcelona
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Contact:
- Alberto Sanchez-Fueyo, MD
- Phone Number: 2844 34-93-2275400
- Email: afueyo@clinic.ub.es
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age ≥ 18 years and weight ≥ 40 kg
- Women of childbearing potential must have a negative serum pregnancy test result before random assignment and must agree to use a medically acceptable method of contraception throughout the treatment period and for 3 months after discontinuation of randomly assigned treatment. Any woman becoming pregnant during the treatment period must withdraw from the study
- Subjects receiving immunosuppressive therapy with a stable regimen of calcineurin inhibitor or a combination of calcineurin inhibitor with corticosteroids and/or antimetabolite therapy for a minimum of 4 weeks prior to randomization
- Recipient of a liver transplantation with >3 years follow-up Cockcroft-Gault GFR values ≥ 40 mL/min
- Total white blood cell count >3.0 x 109/L (>3,000/mm3), platelet count >75 x109/L (>75,000/mm3), fasting triglycerides <3.95 mmol/L (<350 mg/dL), fasting cholesterol <7.8 mmol/L (<300 mg/dL). If subjects are currently untreated for elevated cholesterol and/or triglycerides and are excluded from the study based on the above criteria, subjects will be offered antihyperlipidemic therapy.
- Stable liver function defined as: a) normal liver function tests (AST, ALT, ALP, GGT) during the previous 6 months; or alternatively b) minor alterations in liver function tests that have not changed over the previous 6 months (AST/ALT < 2 fold normal levels; ALP < 1.5 fold normal levels; GGT < 3 fold normal levels; bilirubin < 3 mg/dL).
- Absence of treatment with interferon for hepatitis C virus infection
- Absence of autoimmune diseases requiring immunosuppressive therapy
- Absence of autoimmune liver disease as indication for transplantation
- Absence of any rejection episodes in the 12 previous months
- Peripheral blood gene expression profile characteristic of non-tolerant recipients (likelihood of successful weaning <5%)
- Written, signed, and dated IRB- or IEC-approved informed consent
Exclusion Criteria:
- Requirement for treatment with immunosuppressive drugs for any indications other than prevention of rejection
- Proteinuria levels > 0.8 g/day
- Evidence of systemic infection (e,g., sepsis, bacteremia, pneumonia, etc.) at time of random assignment.
- History of documented human immunodeficiency virus infection.
- Hypercoagulable states or any history of deep vein thrombosis, HAT, or portal vein thrombosis. (Exception: incidental vascular thrombosis at the time of liver explant, which in the opinion of the investigator, does not place the subject at increased risk of thrombotic events.)
- Transplant of other graft in addition to the liver
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Treatment
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: None (Open Label)
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: Sirolimus
Patients randomized to this arm will discontinue maintenance immunosuppression based on calcineurin inhibitors and start treatment with sirolimus.
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Switch from calcineurin inhibitor maintenance immunosuppression to sirolimus treatment at the doses needed to reach trough blood levels 8-15 ng/mL.
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Active Comparator: Calcineurin inhibitor
Patients randomized to this arm will keep the same maintenance immunosuppression based on calcineurin inhibitors.
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Patients will maintain the same immunosuppressive regimen based on calcineurin inhibitors.
No modifications in the treatment will be conducted.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Time Frame |
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Effects of conversion from calcineurin inhibitors to sirolimus on tolerance-related biomarkers of tolerance in human liver transplant recipients.
Time Frame: 12 months
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12 months
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Collaborators and Investigators
Sponsor
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Alberto Sanchez Fueyo, MD, Hospital Clinic Barcelona/IDIBAPS, University of Barcelona
Study record dates
Study Major Dates
Study Start
Primary Completion (Anticipated)
Study Completion (Anticipated)
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
First Posted (Estimate)
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Estimate)
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
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More Information
Terms related to this study
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
Other Study ID Numbers
- Sirolimus_Liver_Tolerance
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