Synergistic Enteral Regimen for Treatment of the Gangliosidoses

NCT ID: NCT02030015

Last Updated: 2021-04-14

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

TERMINATED

Clinical Phase

PHASE4

Total Enrollment

16 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2015-12-22

Study Completion Date

2019-07-31

Brief Summary

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The investigators hypothesize that a combination therapy using miglustat and the ketogenic diet for infantile and juvenile patients with gangliosidoses will create a synergy that 1) improves overall survival for patients with infantile or juvenile gangliosidoses, and 2) improves neurodevelopmental clinical outcomes of therapy, compared to data reported in previous natural history studies. The ketogenic diet is indicated for management of seizures in patients with seizure disorders. In this study, the ketogenic diet will be used to minimize or prevent gastrointestinal side-effects of miglustat. A Sandhoff disease mouse study has shown that the ketogenic diet may also improve central nervous system response to miglustat therapy (see Denny in "Citations" list below). Patients with infantile and juvenile gangliosidoses commonly suffer from seizure disorders, and use of the ketogenic diet in these patients may therefore also improve seizure management.

Detailed Description

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The infantile and juvenile forms of GM1 and GM2 gangliosidoses are neurodegenerative conditions that are lethal during childhood. There are no known effective therapies available for treatment of infantile and juvenile gangliosidoses. Studies of monotherapy with miglustat for treatment of these conditions have demonstrated safety, but have not demonstrated notable clinical improvement. To date, combination therapy for the infantile and juvenile gangliosidoses has not been explored. This study will evaluate a multi-targeted combination therapy for treatment of the gangliosidoses, using FDA approved therapies that have demonstrated safety in children. It is the aim of this study to learn if combination therapy using the "Syner-G" regimen (that is, synergistic enteral regimen for treatment of the gangliosidoses) will show improvement in overall survival and clinical benefits in neurodevelopmental abilities in children with gangliosidosis diseases.

This study is planned as a 5-year longitudinal treatment study. Subjects will be started on the treatment regimen when they are enrolled in the study. Data will be collected during yearly evaluations and at completion of study. Investigators may choose to stop therapy at any time, as clinically indicated for individual patients.

The Ketogenic Diet is a special diet that contains higher amounts of fat and lower amounts of carbohydrate compared to an average diet. The purpose of this is to help reduce food-miglustat interactions. The ketogenic diet may also help in management of seizures in these patients. (The ketogenic diet has been used as an anti-seizure treatment in a variety of medical conditions for many decades.) A study in Sandhoff disease mice has shown that the ketogenic diet may also help miglustat be more effective in the central nervous system (see Denny in "Citations" list below).

Miglustat will be used to reduce the amount of ganglioside accumulation in the child's cells. Miglustat is not FDA approved for treatment of the gangliosidoses. It is FDA approved for a different inherited metabolic disease called Gaucher disease type I.

This study has been issued Investigational New Drug (IND) # 127636 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Conditions

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GM1 Gangliosidoses GM2 Gangliosidoses Tay-Sachs Disease Sandhoff Disease

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NA

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Syner-G Therapy Regimen

The Syner-G therapy regimen includes switching the research subject to a full-time ketogenic diet, and daily treatment with orally-administered miglustat, for the duration of the 60-month study.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

miglustat

Intervention Type DRUG

The Syner-G therapy regimen includes treating with orally-administered miglustat for the duration of the 60-month study.

Ketogenic Diet

Intervention Type OTHER

The Syner-G therapy regimen includes switching the research subject to a full-time ketogenic diet for the 60-month duration of this study.

Interventions

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miglustat

The Syner-G therapy regimen includes treating with orally-administered miglustat for the duration of the 60-month study.

Intervention Type DRUG

Ketogenic Diet

The Syner-G therapy regimen includes switching the research subject to a full-time ketogenic diet for the 60-month duration of this study.

Intervention Type OTHER

Other Intervention Names

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Zavesca®

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

1. Subjects must have a documented infantile or juvenile gangliosidosis disease.
2. Age: 17 years or less at time of enrollment
3. Subjects and their caregivers must be willing to work with a ketogenic diet team for management of the subject's ketogenic diet.

Exclusion Criteria

1. A desire to not participate
2. Patients who are older than 17 years will not be enrolled in this study.
3. Children with severe renal impairment will not be enrolled in this study.
4. Post-pubertal females who are pregnant, or who are unwilling to use highly-effective methods to prevent pregnancy, will be excluded from this study.
5. Breast-feeding females will be excluded from this study.
6. Subjects who have an allergy to miglustat or any of the components within the drug product will be excluded from this study.
Maximum Eligible Age

204 Months

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network

NETWORK

Sponsor Role collaborator

National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)

NIH

Sponsor Role collaborator

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)

NIH

Sponsor Role collaborator

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)

NIH

Sponsor Role collaborator

Lysosomal Disease Network

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of Minnesota

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Jeanine R. Jarnes, PharmD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Minnesota Fairview Hospital

Locations

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University of Minnesota

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

References

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Document Type: Study Protocol and Statistical Analysis Plan

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Related Links

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http://rarediseases.org/rare-diseases/tay-sachs-disease/

Educational information for the layperson about Tay-Sachs disease from the National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD)

https://www.genome.gov/10001220/

Educational information for the layperson about Tay-Sachs disease from the National Human Genome Research Institute at the NIH

https://www.genome.gov/glossary/

Talking Glossary of Genetic Terms from the National Human Genome Research Institute at the NIH. (Uses Adobe Flash plugin.) This Talking Glossary is also available as an app for mobile devices, from a link on this page.

https://www.rarediseasesnetwork.org/

Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network, an NIH-funded research network

https://www.rarediseasesnetwork.org/LDN/

The Lysosomal Disease Network's page on the Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network's web site

Other Identifiers

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U54NS065768

Identifier Type: NIH

Identifier Source: secondary_id

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1311M46101

Identifier Type: OTHER

Identifier Source: secondary_id

Syner_G_Regimen

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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