Gene Therapy Development and Validation for Huntington's Disease Fibro TG-HD

Status: Recruiting
Location: See location...
Intervention Type: Procedure
Study Type: Interventional
Study Phase: Not Applicable
SUMMARY

Huntington's disease is a rare and fatal monogenic neurodegenerative disorder whose molecular origin is an expansion of CAG triplets within the first exon of the Huntingtin gene. Although a growing number of emerging therapies are in clinical trials, there are no proven neuroprotective or curative treatments approved by the health authorities, as they have not yet demonstrated any real therapeutic benefit or absence of toxicity. Trans-splicing gene therapy is defined as the correction of a mutated endogenous pre-messenger RNA by a therapeutic exogenous pre-messenger RNA. Trans-splicing is a suitable alternative approach, since it is capable of allelic selectivity and replacement of mutated sequences by the wild-type one, criteria that no therapy tested to date meets. This project involves the therapeutic validation of trans-splicing of Huntingtin gene transcripts, and will evaluate its therapeutic effects in vitro, into primary fibroblast cell lines derived from skin biopsies of Huntington's disease patients.

Eligibility
Participation Requirements
Sex: All
Minimum Age: 18
Maximum Age: 70
Healthy Volunteers: f
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• 18 ≤ age ≤ 70 years.

• Signed written, free and informed consent to participate in the study.

• Patients with a CAG≥36 allele (with reduced or full penetrance). penetrance)

• People affiliated to or benefiting from a social security scheme.

Locations
Other Locations
France
ABRIAL
RECRUITING
Angers
Contact Information
Primary
Charlotte ABRIAL, PhD
Charlotte.abrial@chu-angers.fr
02.41.35.56.15
Backup
Anne-Catherine AUBE-NATHIER, PhD
acaube-nathier@chu-angers.fr
02 41 34 54 96
Time Frame
Start Date: 2024-09-23
Estimated Completion Date: 2028-07-23
Participants
Target number of participants: 20
Treatments
Experimental: Huntington's patient
skin biopsy
Sponsors
Leads: University Hospital, Angers

This content was sourced from clinicaltrials.gov