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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 17 October 2012
Main ID:  NCT00050648
Date of registration: 17/12/2002
Primary sponsor: Rockefeller University
Public title: To Study the Effects of CD25 and Low Dose Cyclosporin in the Treatment of Active Psoriasis Vulgaris
Scientific title: Use of Humanized CD25 (Anti-TAC) Monoclonal Antibody and Cyclosporine for the Treatment of Active Psoriasis.
Date of first enrolment: October 1997
Target sample size: 20
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00050648
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment  
Countries of recruitment
United States
Contacts
Name:   James Krueger, MD, PHD
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Affiliation:  Rockefeller University
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria

1. Male or female patients with chronic psoriasis vulgaris (disease stable or worsening
for > 6 months). Patients age 16 - 21 will be considered on a case by case basis.
Patients below 18 will need parental consent.

2. Extensive skin involvement.

3. Scale, thickness, and erythema in individual psoriasis lesions of at least intensity.

4. Psoriasis treated with emollients only for 2 weeks prior to treatment

5. Patients with active psoriatic arthritis, if accompanied by psoriasis vulgaris
involving more than 5% of the body surface.

6. History of psoriasis that cannot be treated with topical agents or with previous
systemic/ photo(chemo)therapy agents.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. . Positive serology for HIV, Hepatitis B, or Hepatitis C.

2. . Positive ß-HCG titer. For women of childbearing potential, unwillingness or
inability to use a contraceptive device during this study if negative for ß-HCG.

3. Guttate psoriasis, pustular psoriasis, or whole body erythroderma.

4. Active infection or persistent fever of unknown origin. 5.) Major concurrent illness,
which could worsen following treatment with DaclizumabTM.

6) Any history of an un-treated neoplasm



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Psoriasis
Intervention(s)
Drug: Cyclosporine
Drug: cyclosporine and Daclizumab
Drug: Daclizumab
Primary Outcome(s)
clinical tolerability of DaclizumabTM and the DaclizumabTM/cyclosporine combination [Time Frame: day 1, week 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,7,8,9,11, 12, 13, 14]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Secondary ID(s)
JKR-0336
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Facet Biotech
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