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RecruitingNCT06026917Updated Oct 19, 2023

Assessing Dopamine Transporter Occupancy in the Patients With Depression Brain With Toludesvenlafaxine Hydrochloride Extended-Release Tablets Using 11C-CFT Positron Emission Tomography (PET)

A Phase 4 interventional study of Toludesvenlafaxine hydrochloride sustained-release tablets in Major Depressive Disorder, sponsored by Shanghai Mental Health Center. Recruiting at 1 site in China. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2023-10-19.

Sponsored by Shanghai Mental Health Center · Phase 4, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was expected by Jan 2024, 2 years 8 months ago, but the record still lists the study as recruiting.
  • Started Sep 2023; still recruiting 3 years later.
Phase
Phase 4
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
15
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

This study was a single-arm, open-label clinical study to assess dopamine transporter occupancy in the brain of patients with depression using 11C-CFT positron emission tomography (PET).

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Conditions studied

  • Major Depressive Disorder
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In context

Depressive Disorder

4,845 studies on the registry are indexed under Depressive Disorder; 514 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 15 is below the median of 80 across 3,999 interventional studies indexed under Depressive Disorder.

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Lead sponsor

Shanghai Mental Health Center is the lead sponsor of 267 studies on the registry; 93 are open to participants now.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

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

Inclusion criteria

  • Male and female outpatients aged 18 years and older;
  • Meet DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition) diagnostic criteria for depression (296.2/296.3), and not accompanied by psychotic features;
  • A Montgomery - Asberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS) total score ≥ 26 at screening;
  • Anhedonia scale score \< 28.5 at screening;
  • Subjects and their partners take effective non-drug contraceptive measures (such as abstinence and condom with intravaginal spermicide) throughout the study and within 6 months after the end of the study, and have no sperm donation plan;
  • The subject is willing to participate in the trial and sign the informed consent form and is able to comply with the scheduled visits, treatment plan, laboratory tests and other study procedures.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Known to have a history of allergy to any component of the investigational drug or similar drugs, or allergic constitution (defined as allergy to two or more drugs or food) and the investigator determines that it is not appropriate to participate in the trial;
  • Significant suicide attempt or behavior, MADRS scale item 10 (suicidal ideation) score ≥ 4 points;
  • Pregnant or lactating women, recently planned pregnancy;
  • Those who meet DSM-5 diagnosis of schizophrenia spectrum or other psychoses, bipolar or related disorders, obsessive-compulsive and related disorders, traumatic and stress-related disorders, dissociative disorders, anorexia nervosa or bulimia, personality disorders, substance-related or alcohol use disorders (except nicotine or caffeine);
  • Patients with depression secondary to other mental or physical diseases or with a past medical history or family history of movement disorders (such as Parkinson's disease);
  • Receipt of any contrast agent or radiopharmaceutical within 48 hours before the application of the trial drug, or planned application of contrast agent within 24 hours after the administration of the trial drug;
  • Contraindications to PET or MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) (including claustrophobia, alcohol allergy, cardiac pacemaker and neurostimulator in the body, metal foreign body or tracer component allergy, etc.); in the past 10 years,Major occupational exposure to ionizing radiation (e.g., more than 50 nanovolts/year) or exposure to radioactive substances or ionizing radiation for therapeutic or research purposes;
  • Patients who stopped antidepressant drugs for less than 7 half-lives (at least 2 weeks for monoamine oxidase inhibitors and at least 1 month for fluoxetine) before entering the group;
  • History of gastrointestinal disease known to interfere with drug absorption or excretion or history of surgery known to interfere with drug absorption or excretion;
  • History of increased intraocular pressure or narrow glaucoma;
  • Total bilirubin (TBIL) value 1.5 times higher than the upper limit of normal, alanine aminotransferase (ALT) or aspartate aminotransferase (AST) 3 times higher than the upper limit of normal, thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) higher than the normal range or glomerular filtration rate (GFR) ≤ 70 mL/min at screening or baseline;
  • Patients with serious unstable cardiovascular disease, liver disease, kidney disease, blood disease, endocrine disease, central nervous system and other physical diseases or medical history, or the subjects are not suitable for the study judged by the investigator.
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Study design

Phase
Phase 4
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
15 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Toludesvenlafaxine hydrochloride sustained-release tablets

    40 mg/tablet, 80mg/tablet, 40 mg\~160mg each time, once a day, for 42 days

    Drug: Toludesvenlafaxine hydrochloride sustained-release tablets

Interventions

  • DrugToludesvenlafaxine hydrochloride sustained-release tablets

    D1\~D6, 40mg/ tablet, 1 tablet per time, once a day, D7\~D10, 80mg/ tablet, 1 tablet per time, once a day, D11\~D42, 80mg/ tablet, 2 tablets per time, once a day. For subjects who cannot tolerate 160mg, the dose may be reduced to 80mg/ dose once daily. After the number of subjects receiving 160mg/ dose reached 6, the remaining subjects received D11\~D42, 80mg/ tablet, one tablet each time, once a day.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Percentage of Dopamine Transporters Occupancy in the Basal Ganglia(Positron emission tomography with 11C-CFT) was determine by SUVr of the Basal Ganglia DAT.

    Time frame: from baseline to day 14 and 42

Secondary outcomes

  1. Changes in the total score of 10 items on the Montgomery-Asperger's Depression Scale (MADRS) from baseline

    Time frame: from baseline to day 42

  2. Changes in the Scores anhedonia

    Time frame: from baseline to day 42

  3. Incidence Rate of Adverse event

    Time frame: from baseline to day 42

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
  • Shanghai Mental Health Center
    Shanghai, Shanghai 200030, China
    Recruiting
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Oct 19, 2023, 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
NCT06026917
Lead sponsor
Shanghai Mental Health Center
Collaborators
Yantai University
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Sep 7, 2023
Start date
Sep 25, 2023
Primary completion
Jan 31, 2024 (estimated)
Completion
Mar 31, 2024 (estimated)
Last update
Oct 19, 2023

Study contacts

YIFENG SHEN, MD
Contact
shenyifeng@yahoo.com
+8618017311040
YIFENG SHEN, MD
principal investigator · Shanghai Mental Health Center

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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