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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 13 June 2016
Main ID:  NCT02059759
Date of registration: 07/02/2014
Prospective Registration: Yes
Primary sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nimes
Public title: Immuno-modulation in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis- a Phase II Study of Safety and Activity of Low Dose Interleukin-2 IMODALS
Scientific title: Immuno-modulation in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis- a Phase II Study of Safety and Activity of Low Dose Interleukin-2
Date of first enrolment: September 2015
Target sample size: 36
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT02059759
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor), Primary Purpose: Treatment  
Phase:  Phase 2
Countries of recruitment
France
Contacts
Name:     Raul Juntas-Morales, MD
Address: 
Telephone:
Email:
Affiliation:  CHRU de Montpellier
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- The patient has been correctly informed

- The patient must have given his/her informed and signed consent.

- The patient must be insured or beneficiary of a health insurance plan.

- The patient is at least 18 years old and less than 75 years old

- Probable, or laboratory-supported probable or definite ALS as defined by El Escorial
Revised ALS diagnostic criteria (according to Airlie House Conference 1988)

- Stable on riluzole treatment for more than 3 months with liver function test results
< 2ULN

- Disease duration = 5 years

- Vital capacity = 70% of normal

- Ability to swallow without the requirement for nasogastric or PEG feeding

- Agreement for patient to use an adequate method of contraception throughout the study
and for 2 weeks after post study visit

- The patient is available and willing to participate in seven study visits occurring
at the CHU within the next six months

Exclusion Criteria:

- The patient is participating in another interventional study

- Within the past three months, the patient has participated in another interventional

- The patient is in an exclusion period determined by a previous study

- The patient is under judicial protection

- The patient is an adult under guardianship

- The patient refuses to sign the consent

- It is impossible to correctly inform the patient

- Other life threatening disease

- Presence of contra-indicated concomitant treatments or with potential neuroprotective
benefit (see section 11.2 of the protocol)

- Presence of tracheostomy or non-invasive ventilation

- Use of Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) or nasogastric tube

- Presence of clinical infection (treated or untreated)

- Positive serology for CMV, EBV (confirmed by viral load), or HIV

- Vaccination within 8 weeks prior to first experimental dosing

- Other disease precluding functional assessments

- Cancer within the past 5 years (except stable non-metastatic basal cell skin
carcinoma or in situ carcinoma of the cervix)

- Severe cardiac or pulmonary disease

- Documented auto-immune disorders except asymptomatic Hashimoto thyroiditis

- Women of child bearing age without contraception or pregnant or breast feeding

- Any clinically significant laboratory abnormality (excepting cholesterol,
triglyceride and glucose)



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 75 Years
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Intervention(s)
Drug: 2.0 MIU IL-2 per day
Drug: Placebo
Drug: 1.0 MIU IL-2 per day
Primary Outcome(s)
CD4+ CD25+ CD127- FoxP3+(Treg) cells: change in percentage of total lymphocytes [Time Frame: Day 8]
Secondary Outcome(s)
CD56+(NK), CD19+(B), CD3+, CD4+, CD8+ cell populations: numbers and percentages of total lymphocytes [Time Frame: Week 13]
CD56+(NK), CD19+(B), CD3+, CD4+, CD8+ cell populations: numbers and percentages of total lymphocytes [Time Frame: Day 57]
effector T cells: number and % of CD4 cells [Time Frame: Day 1]
effector T cells: number and % of CD4 cells [Time Frame: Day 8]
MedDRA classification of all adverse events throughout the study [Time Frame: Week 25]
Presence/absence of abnormal vital signs [Time Frame: Day 1]
Presence/absence of a clinically significant abnormality among routine laboratory tests [Time Frame: Day 29]
Presence/absence of abnormal vital signs [Time Frame: Day 29]
Presence/absence of abnormal vital signs [Time Frame: Day 8]
Presence/absence of abnormal vital signs [Time Frame: Week 25]
Presence/absence of clinically significant abnormality on an electrocardiogram [Time Frame: Baseline (day 0 to day -15)]
Presence/absence of clinically significant abnormality on a lung x-ray [Time Frame: Week 13]
Presence/absence of clinically significant abnormality on an electrocardiogram [Time Frame: Week 13]
Presence/absence of specific, pre-defined adverse events. [Time Frame: Day 33]
Presence/absence of specific, pre-defined adverse events. [Time Frame: Day 6]
Presence/absence of specific, pre-defined adverse events. [Time Frame: Day 30]
Presence/absence of specific, pre-defined adverse events. [Time Frame: Day 35]
CD56+(NK), CD19+(B), CD3+, CD4+, CD8+ cell populations: numbers and percentages of total lymphocytes [Time Frame: Day 8]
effector T cells: number and % of CD4 cells [Time Frame: Week 25]
Presence/absence of a clinically significant abnormality among routine laboratory tests [Time Frame: Day 57]
Presence/absence of a clinically significant abnormality among routine laboratory tests [Time Frame: Day 64]
Presence/absence of abnormal vital signs [Time Frame: Week 13]
Presence/absence of specific, pre-defined adverse events. [Time Frame: Day 31]
Presence/absence of specific, pre-defined adverse events. [Time Frame: Day 36]
CD56+(NK), CD19+(B), CD3+, CD4+, CD8+ cell populations: numbers and percentages of total lymphocytes [Time Frame: Day 1]
CD56+(NK), CD19+(B), CD3+, CD4+, CD8+ cell populations: numbers and percentages of total lymphocytes [Time Frame: week 25]
The ALSFRS Questionnaire [Time Frame: Day 57]
Total lymphocyte number [Time Frame: Day 57]
The ALSFRS Questionnaire [Time Frame: Week 13]
Total lymphocyte number [Time Frame: Day 64]
CD56+(NK), CD19+(B), CD3+, CD4+, CD8+ cell populations: numbers and percentages of total lymphocytes [Time Frame: Day 64]
effector T cells: number and % of CD4 cells [Time Frame: Week 13]
Presence/absence of a clinically significant abnormality among routine laboratory tests [Time Frame: Week 25]
Presence/absence of specific, pre-defined adverse events. [Time Frame: Day 57]
Presence/absence of specific, pre-defined adverse events. [Time Frame: Day 63]
Phosphorylated neurofilament heavy protein (pNfH) levels in serum [Time Frame: day 1]
Presence/absence of a clinically significant abnormality among routine laboratory tests [Time Frame: Week 13]
Total lymphocyte number [Time Frame: Week 13]
Tregs (absolute number and % CF4+ cells) [Time Frame: Day 57]
Presence/absence of abnormal vital signs [Time Frame: Day 57]
Presence/absence of specific, pre-defined adverse events. [Time Frame: Day 29]
Tregs (absolute number and % CF4+ cells) [Time Frame: Week 13]
Presence/absence of abnormal vital signs [Time Frame: Day 64]
Presence/absence of clinically significant abnormality on a lung x-ray [Time Frame: Baseline (day 0 to day -15)]
effector T cells: number and % of CD4 cells [Time Frame: Day 57]
effector T cells: number and % of CD4 cells [Time Frame: Day 64]
Presence/absence of specific, pre-defined adverse events. [Time Frame: Day 61]
Presence/absence of specific, pre-defined adverse events. [Time Frame: Day 62]
Presence/absence of specific, pre-defined adverse events. [Time Frame: Day 1]
Presence/absence of specific, pre-defined adverse events. [Time Frame: Day 2]
Presence/absence of specific, pre-defined adverse events. [Time Frame: Day 34]
Presence/absence of specific, pre-defined adverse events. [Time Frame: Day 58]
Light chain neurofilament levels in serum [Time Frame: Day 1]
Presence/absence of a clinically significant abnormality among routine laboratory tests [Time Frame: Day 1]
Presence/absence of specific, pre-defined adverse events. [Time Frame: Day 59]
Presence/absence of specific, pre-defined adverse events. [Time Frame: Day 60]
Presence/absence of a clinically significant abnormality among routine laboratory tests [Time Frame: Day 8]
Total lymphocyte number [Time Frame: Week 25]
Thyroid function: blood TSH [Time Frame: Week 13]
Vital capacity (% of normal) [Time Frame: Baseline (day 0 to day -15)]
Presence/absence of specific, pre-defined adverse events. [Time Frame: Day 64]
The ALSFRS Questionnaire [Time Frame: Week 25]
Thyroid function: blood TSH [Time Frame: Baseline (day 0 to day -15)]
Tregs (absolute number and % CF4+ cells) [Time Frame: Day 1]
Presence/absence of specific, pre-defined adverse events. [Time Frame: Day 32]
Presence/absence of specific, pre-defined adverse events. [Time Frame: Day 4]
Presence/absence of specific, pre-defined adverse events. [Time Frame: Day 5]
The ALSFRS Questionnaire [Time Frame: Day 29]
Thyroid function: blood T4 [Time Frame: Baseline (day 0 to day -15)]
Tregs (absolute number and % CF4+ cells) [Time Frame: Day 64]
Total lymphocyte number [Time Frame: Day 1]
Total lymphocyte number [Time Frame: Day 8]
Vital capacity (% of normal) [Time Frame: Week 25]
Light chain neurofilament levels in serum [Time Frame: Week 13]
Presence/absence of specific, pre-defined adverse events. [Time Frame: Day 3]
Presence/absence of specific, pre-defined adverse events. [Time Frame: Day 7]
Presence/absence of specific, pre-defined adverse events. [Time Frame: Day 8]
The ALSFRS Questionnaire [Time Frame: Day 1]
Thyroid function: blood T4 [Time Frame: Week 13]
Tregs (absolute number and % CF4+ cells) [Time Frame: Day 8]
Tregs (absolute number and % CF4+ cells) [Time Frame: Week 25]
Vital capacity (% of normal) [Time Frame: Day 1]
Vital capacity (% of normal) [Time Frame: Week 13]
Secondary ID(s)
2014-001327-71
LOCAL/2014/WC-01
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
Results available:
Date Posted:
Date Completed:
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