An interventional study of Abdominal subcutaneous biopsies and Blood test in Type2 Diabetes, sponsored by University Hospital, Toulouse. Completed at 1 site in France. Open to male participants aged 37 Years to 63 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2019-04-02.
Sponsored by University Hospital, Toulouse · Not applicable, Interventional, and Basic science
Based on solid preclinical results in mice and preliminary data in humans, this study aims to provide the proof of concept of the crucial role of the hematopoietic process occurring in human adipose tissue in the initiation of the inflammatory process at the origin of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes (T2D). The main objective is to compare the number of pro-inflammatory macrophages derived from human adipose tissue hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) according to their origin, type 2 diabetes subjects or healthy volunteers.
In mice, increasing data demonstrate a causal relationship between the inflammatory process in adipose tissue and the development of insulin resistance, resulting in type 2 diabetes occurrence. However, the mechanisms mediating inflammation and its metabolic consequences are still unclear. In humans, recent publications have suggested an important interaction between the metabolic status and medullar hematopoietic activity. A preliminary study performed by the STROMAlab's research team has identified functional hematopoietic stem cells in human adipose tissue samples, indicating that adipose tissue-hematopoiesis is an active mechanism.
To determine whether an alteration in adipose tissue-hematopoiesis could be a hallmark of type 2 diabetes in human, biopsies of subcutaneous adipose tissue will be performed in 2 groups of 10 volunteers: overweight/obese type 2 diabetes subjects versus healthy volunteers, matched on age.
Then, hematopoietic stem cells extracted from human biopsies will be grafted into immunodeficient mice and after 12 weeks, flow cytometry using antibodies specific for human cell surface markers will be performed to quantify proinflammatory macrophages derived from human adipose tissue-hematopoietic stem cells.
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Type 2 diabetic subjects:
Healthy Volunteers:
Exclusion Criteria:
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Judged by the study doctor to matter for your health or for the study. It is a doctor’s decision, so ask the study team if you are unsure whether something counts.
Weight in kilograms divided by height in metres squared. Example: 70 kg and 1.75 m gives 70 ÷ (1.75 × 1.75) ≈ 22.9.
What counts as overweight or obesity differs between countries (some use lower cut-offs), so go by the range the study states.
A blood test of average blood sugar over the past two to three months, given as a percentage or in mmol/mol. 6.5% (48 mmol/mol) or more is the usual threshold for diabetes, normally confirmed by a second test.
Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.
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A weakened immune system. It can come from an illness, such as HIV or some blood cancers, or from medicines that turn the immune system down, for example after an organ transplant or for an autoimmune disease; steroids at higher doses count.
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The human immunodeficiency virus, which weakens the immune system.
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Hepatitis B is a virus that infects the liver. These are separate tests: HBsAg positive usually means a current infection (a recent vaccination can briefly cause it too); total anti-HBc (HBcAb) positive means an infection now or in the past; HBV DNA measures how much virus is in the blood.
Some studies accept a past infection if HBV DNA is undetectable, sometimes with antiviral medicine during the study. Check what this study allows.
Hepatitis C is a virus that infects the liver. An HCV antibody test can stay positive after an infection has cleared (and is occasionally positive without one); an HCV RNA test shows whether the virus is there now.
After treatment, hepatitis C counts as cured when HCV RNA is still undetectable 12 weeks or more after the treatment ended. Studies often accept people cured this way.
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.
Two enzymes measured in a routine blood test of the liver. Higher levels can mean the liver is under strain or damaged. SGPT and SGOT are older names for ALT and AST.
Criteria usually give a limit as a multiple of the upper limit of normal (ULN), often higher when cancer has spread to the liver.
Clinically significant
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BMI (body mass index)
Weight in kilograms divided by height in metres squared. Example: 70 kg and 1.75 m gives 70 ÷ (1.75 × 1.75) ≈ 22.9.
What counts as overweight or obesity differs between countries (some use lower cut-offs), so go by the range the study states.
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HbA1c
A blood test of average blood sugar over the past two to three months, given as a percentage or in mmol/mol. 6.5% (48 mmol/mol) or more is the usual threshold for diabetes, normally confirmed by a second test.
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Corticosteroids (steroids)
Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.
Studies differ in what they allow: check which steroid medicines, routes (tablets, injections, creams, inhalers, eye drops) and doses this study accepts.
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Immunosuppression
A weakened immune system. It can come from an illness, such as HIV or some blood cancers, or from medicines that turn the immune system down, for example after an organ transplant or for an autoimmune disease; steroids at higher doses count.
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HIV
The human immunodeficiency virus, which weakens the immune system.
Many studies now accept people whose HIV is controlled on treatment, judged by the viral load and the CD4 count. Check the limits this study sets.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Hepatitis B tests
Hepatitis B is a virus that infects the liver. These are separate tests: HBsAg positive usually means a current infection (a recent vaccination can briefly cause it too); total anti-HBc (HBcAb) positive means an infection now or in the past; HBV DNA measures how much virus is in the blood.
Some studies accept a past infection if HBV DNA is undetectable, sometimes with antiviral medicine during the study. Check what this study allows.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Hepatitis C tests
Hepatitis C is a virus that infects the liver. An HCV antibody test can stay positive after an infection has cleared (and is occasionally positive without one); an HCV RNA test shows whether the virus is there now.
After treatment, hepatitis C counts as cured when HCV RNA is still undetectable 12 weeks or more after the treatment ended. Studies often accept people cured this way.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
ALT and AST (liver enzymes)
Two enzymes measured in a routine blood test of the liver. Higher levels can mean the liver is under strain or damaged. SGPT and SGOT are older names for ALT and AST.
Criteria usually give a limit as a multiple of the upper limit of normal (ULN), often higher when cancer has spread to the liver.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
'Abdominal subcutaneous biopsies and Blood test'
Procedure: Abdominal subcutaneous biopsies and Blood test
Abdominal subcutaneous biopsies and blood test for each volunteer.
Number of pro-inflammatory macrophages derived from human adipose tissue in mice transplanted with adipose tissue-hematopoietic stem cells .
The investigators expect that the number of pro-inflammatory macrophages derived from human adipose tissue will be significantly higher in mice transplanted with adipose tissue-hematopoietic stem cells isolated from diabetic subjects compared to those from healthy volunteers.
Time frame: Day 3 - Day 45
Comparison of hematopoietic activity in vitro between both groups of subjects.
Evaluated by flow cytometry.
Time frame: Day 3 - Day 45
Comparison of the number of the other cell types derived from the human adipose tissue-hematopoietic stem cells between both groups of grafted mice.
Evaluated by flow cytometry.
Time frame: Day 3 - Day 45
Comparison of the phenotype of the other cell types derived from the human adipose tissue-hematopoietic stem cells between both groups of grafted mice.
Evaluated by flow cytometry.
Time frame: Day 3 - Day 45
Comparison of the expression of genes coding for human inflammatory molecules in the adipose tissue of transplanted mice.
Evaluated by Real-Time Quantitative Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction. Main parameters analysed : Interleukin-6, Interleukin-1béta, Plasminogen activator inhibitor-1, Monocyte Chemoattractant Protein-1.
Time frame: Day 3 - Day 45
Comparison of the metabolic profile of the transplanted mice evaluated by the grafted mice's glycemia.
According to the origin of the grafted hematopoietic stem cells (diabetic or healthy voluntary subjects).
Time frame: Day 3 - Day 45
Comparison of the metabolic profile of the transplanted mice evaluated by the grafted mice's insulinemia.
According to the origin of the grafted hematopoietic stem cells (diabetic or healthy voluntary subjects).
Time frame: Day 3 - Day 45
Comparison of the metabolic profile of the transplanted mice evaluated by the grafted mice's oral glucose tolerance test.
According to the origin of the grafted hematopoietic stem cells (diabetic or healthy voluntary subjects).
Time frame: Day 3 - Day 45
Plan to share: No
Ran from Jun 2018 to primary completion in Jan 2019, 6 months.
Of 2,066 non-industry interventional studies with no phase under Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, half reached primary completion within 21 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 10 and three quarters within 40. This study's 6 months is below that.
Counting every sponsor, half of 2,243 studies reached it within 21 months; a quarter within 10 and three quarters within 39.
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