A Phase 3 interventional study of TAS-205 [Ambulatory Cohort] [Non-ambulatory Cohort] and Placebo [Ambulatory Cohort] only in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, sponsored by Taiho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.. Completed at 5 sites in Japan. Open to male participants aged 5 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-08-17.
Sponsored by Taiho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (part of Otsuka Holdings Co., Ltd.) · Phase 3, Interventional, and Treatment
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of TAS-205 in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy
[Ambulatory Cohort] The main purpose of this cohort is to assess the efficacy of TAS-205 in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) compared with placebo as measured by the mean change from baseline to 52 weeks in the time to rise from the floor. Following completion of the treatment period, patients may elect to continue in open-label extension study.
[Non-ambulatory Cohort] The main purpose of this cohort is to assess the safety of TAS-205 in patients with DMD by collecting the incidence of adverse events for 52 weeks.
481 studies on the registry are indexed under Muscular Dystrophy, Duchenne; 108 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 104 is above the median of 26 across 332 interventional studies indexed under Muscular Dystrophy, Duchenne.
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Key Inclusion Criteria [Ambulatory Cohort]
[Non-ambulatory Cohort]
Key exclusion Criteria [Ambulatory Cohort]
[Non-ambulatory Cohort]
Underlined terms in the criteria open these too. Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.
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An allergy, or another reaction of the immune system, to a substance. “Hypersensitivity to the study drug” means a known allergic reaction to it — not every side effect a medicine can have.
The share of blood the heart’s main pumping chamber (the left ventricle) pushes out with each beat, measured by an echocardiogram (heart ultrasound) or a MUGA scan. About 50–70% is normal.
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: long-term lung disease that makes it hard to breathe out, including emphysema and chronic bronchitis.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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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Hypersensitivity
An allergy, or another reaction of the immune system, to a substance. “Hypersensitivity to the study drug” means a known allergic reaction to it — not every side effect a medicine can have.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
LVEF (left ventricular ejection fraction)
The share of blood the heart’s main pumping chamber (the left ventricle) pushes out with each beat, measured by an echocardiogram (heart ultrasound) or a MUGA scan. About 50–70% is normal.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
COPD
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: long-term lung disease that makes it hard to breathe out, including emphysema and chronic bronchitis.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Drug: TAS-205 [Ambulatory Cohort] [Non-ambulatory Cohort]
Drug: Placebo [Ambulatory Cohort] only
・Treatment period:oral administration for 52 weeks, BID after meal
* Observation period:oral administration for 2 weeks, BID after meal * Treatment period:oral administration for 52 weeks, BID after meal
Mean change from baseline to Week 52 in the time to rise from the floor
Ambulatory Cohort
Time frame: Baseline to Week 52 of treatment
Incidence of Adverse Events and Adverse Reactions
Non-ambulatory Cohort
Time frame: Week 52
Time measured in the time to rise from the floor test, as well as the change from baseline in each measured value
Ambulatory Cohort
Time frame: Baseline to 52 weeks of treatment
Change from baseline in the Timed Up and Go Test (TUG)
Ambulatory Cohort Timed Up and Go Test (TUG) The time required for the subject to stand up from a sitting position on a table (chair), walk to a cone placed 3 m ahead as quickly as possible, and then return to the table will be evaluated. The time required for the subject to stand up from a sitting position on a table (chair), walk to a cone placed 3 m ahead as quickly as possible, and then return to the table will be evaluated.
Time frame: Baseline to 52 weeks of treatment
Change from baseline in North Star Ambulatory Assessment (NSAA)
Ambulatory Cohort
Time frame: Baseline to 52 weeks of treatment
Change from baseline in Six-minutes Walk Test (6MWT)
Ambulatory Cohort
Time frame: Baseline to 52 weeks of treatment
Measured values of Muscle volume index (MVI), Percent Muscle volume index (%MVI) and skeletal muscle mass in skeletal muscle computed tomography (CT), as well as the change from baseline in each measured value
Ambulatory Cohort
Time frame: Baseline to 52 weeks of treatment
Assessment of upper limb function: The Brooke upper extremity scale, measured values of performance of the upper limb (PUL) and change from baseline in measured values
Non-ambulatory Cohort
Time frame: week 52
Change from baseline in grip strength
Non-ambulatory Cohort
Time frame: week 52
Pulmonary function tests: measured effort lung capacity (FVC, %FVC), volume in 1 second (Forced Expiratory Volume :FEV1.0), fraction in 1 second (FEV1.0%), and change from baseline (at enrollment) of measured values.
Non-ambulatory Cohort
Time frame: week 52
Echocardiography: Measured EF and FS and change from baseline in measured values
Non-ambulatory Cohort
Time frame: week 52
Plan to share: No — Data will not be shared according to the Sponsor policy on data sharing. Taiho policy on data sharing may be found at https://www.taiho.co.jp/en/science/policy/clinical_trial_information_disclosure_policy/index.html.
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