Treatment Development for Glucose Transporter Type I Deficiency Syndrome (G1D)

NCT ID: NCT02018315

Last Updated: 2019-10-31

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

PHASE1

Total Enrollment

14 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2012-01-31

Study Completion Date

2014-03-31

Brief Summary

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The purpose of this trial is to determine if an alternative energy source will impact brain metabolism in a disorder characterized by glucose metabolism failure in the brain.

The central hypothesis tested in this investigation is whether circumventing impaired glucose metabolism is feasible, safe and potentially promising by supplying anaplerotic precursors through metabolism of odd-carbon fatty acids that can enter the citric acid cycle (CAC) through alternative metabolic pathways.

Detailed Description

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Triheptanoin, a nutritional supplement long used in other metabolic disorders and also added to foods and cosmetics, will be used to complement any diet that G1D patients may be receiving at enrollment with the exception of the ketogenic diet.

Conditions

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Glucose Transporter Type 1 Deficiency Syndrome GLUT1 Deficiency Syndrome

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NA

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Study Purpose

BASIC_SCIENCE

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Triheptanoin

Triheptanoin (C7 oil, liquid) dosed at 1 g/kg body weight divided and administered 4 times per day via mouth or g-tube for 3 months.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Triheptanoin

Intervention Type DRUG

Triheptanoin is a 7-carbon medium chain triglyceride

Interventions

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Triheptanoin

Triheptanoin is a 7-carbon medium chain triglyceride

Intervention Type DRUG

Other Intervention Names

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C7 Heptanoate

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Male or Female
* Ages 1 month to \<21 years of age
* Diagnosed with glucose transporter type I deficiency.
* Age matched (within 1 year) controls not diagnosed with G1D.

Exclusion Criteria

* All subjects carrying body metal implants incompatible with the exposure to a magnetic field
* Subjects unable to tolerate the MRI and MRS procedures due to anxiety
* Subjects receiving oxygen supplementation or those confined to a bed or stretcher
* Subjects currently receiving a ketogenic diet, due to a high risk of seizure recurrence while transitioning off ketosis.
* Patients behaviorally unable to hold still for imaging procedures (rather than limited by seizure activity) will be excluded.
Minimum Eligible Age

1 Month

Maximum Eligible Age

20 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Juan Pascual

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Juan Pascual

Associate Professor, Director of the Rare Brain Disorders Program

Responsibility Role SPONSOR_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Juan M. Pascual, MD, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

UT Southwestern Medical Center

Locations

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UT Southwestern Medical Center

Dallas, Texas, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

References

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Marin-Valencia I, Good LB, Ma Q, Malloy CR, Pascual JM. Heptanoate as a neural fuel: energetic and neurotransmitter precursors in normal and glucose transporter I-deficient (G1D) brain. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab. 2013 Feb;33(2):175-82. doi: 10.1038/jcbfm.2012.151. Epub 2012 Oct 17.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 23072752 (View on PubMed)

Marin-Valencia I, Good LB, Ma Q, Duarte J, Bottiglieri T, Sinton CM, Heilig CW, Pascual JM. Glut1 deficiency (G1D): epilepsy and metabolic dysfunction in a mouse model of the most common human phenotype. Neurobiol Dis. 2012 Oct;48(1):92-101. doi: 10.1016/j.nbd.2012.04.011. Epub 2012 Apr 23.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 22683290 (View on PubMed)

Marin-Valencia I, Roe CR, Pascual JM. Pyruvate carboxylase deficiency: mechanisms, mimics and anaplerosis. Mol Genet Metab. 2010 Sep;101(1):9-17. doi: 10.1016/j.ymgme.2010.05.004. Epub 2010 Jun 9.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 20598931 (View on PubMed)

Wang D, Sands T, Tang M, Monani U, De Vivo D. Glucose Transporter Type 1 Deficiency Syndrome. 2002 Jul 30 [updated 2025 Mar 6]. In: Adam MP, Feldman J, Mirzaa GM, Pagon RA, Wallace SE, Amemiya A, editors. GeneReviews(R) [Internet]. Seattle (WA): University of Washington, Seattle; 1993-2025. Available from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK1430/

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 20301603 (View on PubMed)

Perez-Duenas B, Prior C, Ma Q, Fernandez-Alvarez E, Setoain X, Artuch R, Pascual JM. Childhood chorea with cerebral hypotrophy: a treatable GLUT1 energy failure syndrome. Arch Neurol. 2009 Nov;66(11):1410-4. doi: 10.1001/archneurol.2009.236.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 19901175 (View on PubMed)

Pascual JM, Campistol J, Gil-Nagel A. Epilepsy in inherited metabolic disorders. Neurologist. 2008 Nov;14(6 Suppl 1):S2-S14. doi: 10.1097/01.nrl.0000340787.30542.41.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 19225367 (View on PubMed)

Pascual JM, Wang D, Hinton V, Engelstad K, Saxena CM, Van Heertum RL, De Vivo DC. Brain glucose supply and the syndrome of infantile neuroglycopenia. Arch Neurol. 2007 Apr;64(4):507-13. doi: 10.1001/archneur.64.4.noc60165. Epub 2007 Feb 12.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 17296829 (View on PubMed)

Pascual JM, Wang D, Lecumberri B, Yang H, Mao X, Yang R, De Vivo DC. GLUT1 deficiency and other glucose transporter diseases. Eur J Endocrinol. 2004 May;150(5):627-33. doi: 10.1530/eje.0.1500627.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 15132717 (View on PubMed)

Pascual JM, Wang D, Yang R, Shi L, Yang H, De Vivo DC. Structural signatures and membrane helix 4 in GLUT1: inferences from human blood-brain glucose transport mutants. J Biol Chem. 2008 Jun 13;283(24):16732-42. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M801403200. Epub 2008 Apr 3.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 18387950 (View on PubMed)

Pascual JM. [Glucose transport hereditary diseases]. Med Clin (Barc). 2006 Nov 11;127(18):709-14. doi: 10.1157/13095099. Spanish.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 17169300 (View on PubMed)

Wang D, Pascual JM, Yang H, Engelstad K, Mao X, Cheng J, Yoo J, Noebels JL, De Vivo DC. A mouse model for Glut-1 haploinsufficiency. Hum Mol Genet. 2006 Apr 1;15(7):1169-79. doi: 10.1093/hmg/ddl032. Epub 2006 Feb 23.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 16497725 (View on PubMed)

Wang D, Pascual JM, Yang H, Engelstad K, Jhung S, Sun RP, De Vivo DC. Glut-1 deficiency syndrome: clinical, genetic, and therapeutic aspects. Ann Neurol. 2005 Jan;57(1):111-8. doi: 10.1002/ana.20331.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 15622525 (View on PubMed)

Pascual JM, Lecumberri B, Wang D, Yang R, Engelstad K, De Vivo DC. [Type 1 glucose transporter (Glut1) deficiency: manifestations of a hereditary neurological syndrome]. Rev Neurol. 2004 May 1-15;38(9):860-4. Spanish.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 15152356 (View on PubMed)

Wang D, Pascual JM, Iserovich P, Yang H, Ma L, Kuang K, Zuniga FA, Sun RP, Swaroop KM, Fischbarg J, De Vivo DC. Functional studies of threonine 310 mutations in Glut1: T310I is pathogenic, causing Glut1 deficiency. J Biol Chem. 2003 Dec 5;278(49):49015-21. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M308765200. Epub 2003 Sep 16.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 13129919 (View on PubMed)

Pascual JM, Van Heertum RL, Wang D, Engelstad K, De Vivo DC. Imaging the metabolic footprint of Glut1 deficiency on the brain. Ann Neurol. 2002 Oct;52(4):458-64. doi: 10.1002/ana.10311.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 12325075 (View on PubMed)

Iserovich P, Wang D, Ma L, Yang H, Zuniga FA, Pascual JM, Kuang K, De Vivo DC, Fischbarg J. Changes in glucose transport and water permeability resulting from the T310I pathogenic mutation in Glut1 are consistent with two transport channels per monomer. J Biol Chem. 2002 Aug 23;277(34):30991-7. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M202763200. Epub 2002 May 24.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 12032147 (View on PubMed)

De Vivo DC, Wang D, Pascual JM, Ho YY. Glucose transporter protein syndromes. Int Rev Neurobiol. 2002;51:259-88. doi: 10.1016/s0074-7742(02)51008-4. No abstract available.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 12420362 (View on PubMed)

Brockmann K, Wang D, Korenke CG, von Moers A, Ho YY, Pascual JM, Kuang K, Yang H, Ma L, Kranz-Eble P, Fischbarg J, Hanefeld F, De Vivo DC. Autosomal dominant glut-1 deficiency syndrome and familial epilepsy. Ann Neurol. 2001 Oct;50(4):476-85. doi: 10.1002/ana.1222.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 11603379 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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UTSW 122010-186

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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