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CompletedNCT00638703PHOENIXUpdated May 15, 2013

Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of OxabactTM on Reduction of Urinary Oxalate in Primary Hyperoxaluria Patients

A Phase 2/3 interventional study of Oxalobacter formigenes and Placebo in Primary Hyperoxaluria, sponsored by OxThera. Completed at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 5 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2013-05-15.

Sponsored by OxThera · Phase 2/3, Interventional, and Treatment

Phase
Phase 2/3
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
43
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
5 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

The main purpose of this study is to determine if Oxalobacter formigenes is effective at lowering urinary oxalate levels in patients with primary hyperoxaluria.

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Conditions studied

  • Primary Hyperoxaluria

Keywords

  • hyperoxaluria
  • PH
  • oxalate
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In context

Hyperoxaluria, Primary

42 studies on the registry are indexed under Hyperoxaluria, Primary; 11 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 43 is above the median of 24 across 26 interventional studies indexed under Hyperoxaluria, Primary.

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Lead sponsor

OxThera is the lead sponsor of 6 studies on the registry; none are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
5 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  1. The subject (or legally acceptable representative) must give written (and assent for subjects ≥ 12 years or country specific age as appropriate). For subjects less than 18 years of age, parent or guardian will provide informed consent and the subject will provide witnessed verbal assent
  2. Male or female subjects ≥ 5 years of age
  3. Urinary oxalate excretion of > 1.0 mmol/1.73m2/day at Baseline
  4. Documentation of diagnosis of PH I or PH II by any one of the following:

    1. Liver confirmation of deficient liver specific peroxisomal alanine-glyoxylate aminotransferase, (AGT) or mislocalization of AGT from peroxisomes to mitochondria (PH I) or deficient glyoxylate reductase/hydroxypyruvate reductase (GR/HPR) activity (PH II)
    2. Homozygosity or compound heterozygosity for a known mutation in the causative genes for PH I and PH II
    3. Increased glycolate excretion for PH I or increased L-glycerate excretion for PH II
  5. Subjects receiving pyridoxine must be receiving a stable dose for at least 3 months prior to entry in to the study and must remain on the stable dose during the study. Other (non-pyridoxine naïve) subjects (e.g. Pyridoxine non-responder: \<30% reduction of the urine oxalate levels) not receiving pyridoxine at study entry must be willing to refrain from initiating pyridoxine during study participation. Note: There will be no pyridoxine-naïve subjects enrolled in the study.
  6. Renal function defined as an estimated ≥ 50 ml/min normalized to 1.73m2 body surface area

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Pregnant, lactating, or actively menstruating women and women of who are not using adequate precautions. Sexually active females, unless surgically sterile or at least 2 years , must be using a highly effective contraception (including oral, transdermal, injectable, or implanted contraceptives, IUD, abstinence, use of a condom by the sexual partner, or sterile sexual partner) for 30 days prior to the first dose of OxabactTM and must agree to continue using such precautions during the clinical study.

    Note: A highly effective method of birth control is defined as one that results in a low failure rate (i.e. less than 1% per year) when used consistently and correctly, such as implants, injectables, combined oral contraceptives, some intrauterine contraceptive devices (IUDs), sexual abstinence, or a vasectomised partner.

  2. Positive serum pregnancy test.
  3. Participation in any study of an product, biologic, device, or other agent within 30 days prior to randomization or not willing to forego other forms of investigational treatment during this study.
  4. Subjects on hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis.
  5. Subjects who have undergone transplantation (solid organ or bone marrow).
  6. Chronic gastrointestinal disease associated with enteric hyperoxaluria, e.g. history of inflammatory bowel disease, colostomy. Note: For clarity, existence of Secondary Hyperoxaluria (e.g. with cystic fibrosis, chronic inflammatory bowel diseases, short bowel syndrome and/or deficiency of intestinal oxalate-degrading bacteria is included (as an exclusion criteria).
  7. Current systemic (oral, IM, IV) antibiotic use or received systemic antibiotics within 14 days of study enrolment.
  8. History of chronic, recurrent infections requiring >2 courses of antibiotics in the past 6 months.
  9. History of except for basal or squamous cell skin cancer that has been excised.
  10. Unable to collect 24-hour urine samples or follow other study procedures.
  11. Subjects who cannot swallow a size 2 capsule.
  12. Presence of a medical condition that the Principal Investigator considers likely to make the subject susceptible to adverse effect of study treatment or unable to follow study procedures.
  13. Subjects who require immune suppressive therapy (including prednisone of > 10mg daily for more than 2 weeks).
  14. Subjects from correctional facilities or asylums.
  15. Subjects who are mentally handicapped.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(8)

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Informed consent

Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.

You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.

Biopsy and archival tissue

A biopsy takes a small piece of tissue to examine. “Archival tissue” is a sample already taken, for example at diagnosis, and kept by the hospital.

Whether a stored sample will do depends on when it was taken, how much there is and what the study needs. Ask whether the study accepts your stored sample or needs a new biopsy.

GFR and eGFR (kidney filtering)

GFR (glomerular filtration rate) is how much blood the kidneys filter each minute. It is usually estimated from a blood test — eGFR, by formulas such as CKD-EPI or MDRD — and some studies ask for it to be measured directly instead. Usually given in mL/min/1.73 m².

Check the method, the units and the minimum the study states. A value of 90 or above is in the normal-or-high range, but kidney damage can show in other tests too.

Childbearing potential

Able to become pregnant: from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery (removal of the womb, or of both ovaries or both fallopian tubes).

Criteria for people of childbearing potential usually ask for a negative pregnancy test and for contraception during the study and for a time after it.

Contraception

Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.

Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.

Postmenopausal

Periods have stopped for good: usually no period for 12 months in a row without another medical reason, sometimes confirmed by a blood test (FSH).

Investigational drug or device

A drug or device being studied in a clinical trial.

It may be new, or already approved and being studied for another use, dose or form. Criteria often leave out people who took part in another study of one within a recent period, commonly 30 days or five half-lives.

Cancer (malignancy)

Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.

Some are commonly allowed, such as treated skin cancers other than melanoma and early cancers removed completely — check the exceptions this study lists.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 2 / Phase 3
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Quadruple (Participant, Care provider, Investigator, Outcomes assessor)
Enrollment
43 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    I

    Size 2 enteric coated capsule containg lyophilized Oxalobacter formigenes

    Biological: Oxalobacter formigenes

  • Placebo comparator
    II

    Size 2 enteric coated capsule containg placebo

    Drug: Placebo

Interventions

  • NLT (not less than) 10\^7 CFU Oxalobacter formigenes twice daily for 24 weeks

    Also known as: - Oxabact(tm), - OC3

  • DrugPlacebo

    placebo

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Reduction in urinary oxalate Percentage change in urinary oxalate (expressed as mmole/1.73m2 /day) from Baseline to Week 24

    Time frame: 24 weeks

Secondary outcomes

  1. Percentage of subjects who are responders at Week 24 where response is defined as a 20% or greater reduction from Baseline urinary oxalate to Week 24

    Time frame: 24 weeks

  2. Percentage change in urinary oxalate (expressed as molar oxalate to creatinine ratio) from Baseline to Week 24

    Time frame: 24 weeks

  3. Percentage change in urinary oxalate (expressed as mmole/1.73m2/day and as molar oxalate to creatinine ratio) from Baseline to Week 12

    Time frame: 12 weeks

  4. Percentage change in urinary oxalate (expressed as mmole/1.73m2/day and as molar oxalate to creatinine ratio) from Baseline to average of Weeks 12 and 24

    Time frame: 12 and 24 weeks

  5. Frequency of AEs and SAEs

    Time frame: over 24 weeks

  6. Laborator safety data

    Time frame: 12 and 24 weeks

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Study locations

1 site
  • Mayo Clinic (Department of Pediatric Nephrology)
    Rochester, Minnesota 55905, United States
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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on May 15, 2013, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT00638703
Lead sponsor
OxThera
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Mar 19, 2008
Start date
Oct 2007
Primary completion
Sep 2008
Completion
Oct 2008
Last update
May 15, 2013

Study contacts

Dawn Milliner, M.D
principal investigator · Mayo Clinic

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
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