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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 12 December 2020
Main ID:  NCT03707795
Date of registration: 14/09/2017
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Edward Kasaraskis
Public title: Treatment of FUS-Related ALS With Betamethasone - The TRANSLATE Study TRANSLATE
Scientific title: Treatment of FUS-Related ALS With Betamethasone - The TRANSLATE Study
Date of first enrolment: August 21, 2017
Target sample size: 6
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT03707795
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Non-Randomized. Intervention model: Parallel Assignment. Primary purpose: Treatment. Masking: Single (Participant).  
Phase:  Early Phase 1
Countries of recruitment
United States
Contacts
Name:     Edward Kasarskis, MD
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Affiliation:  University of Kentucky
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Diagnosis of familial ALS (fALS)

- Relative of a fALS person and carry the FUS gene

Exclusion Criteria:

- Under 20 years or over 80 years of age

- Cannot tolerate steroids, including betamethasone

- Are unwilling or unable to attend all scheduled research visits

- Currently participating in another clinical drug trial

- Major neurological disease, other than ALS

- Pregnant



Age minimum: 20 Years
Age maximum: 80 Years
Gender: All
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Familial Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Intervention(s)
Drug: Betamethasone sodium phosphate/betamethasone acetate (Celestone® Soluspan®), 30 mg IM once a day for four days
Primary Outcome(s)
Betamethasone plasma levels [Time Frame: 14 days]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Superoxide dismutase plasma levels [Time Frame: 14 days]
Glutathione plasma levels [Time Frame: 14 days]
Peroxide plasma levels [Time Frame: 14 days]
Protein carbonyl plasma levels [Time Frame: 14 days]
Glutathione disulfide plasma levels [Time Frame: 14 days]
Secondary ID(s)
17-0159-F6A
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
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