Modeling Macrophages Activation Pattern in X-linked Adrenoleukodystrophy, Metachromatic Leukodystrophy and Adult Onset Leukoencephalopathy With Axonal Spheroids and Pigmented Glia
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Blood sample collection.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Adrenoleukodystrophy, Adrenomyeloneuropathy, Metachromatic Leukodystrophy, Adult-Onset Leukoencephalopathy With Axonal Spheroids and Pigmented Glia. Basic parameters: 15 months — 60 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- France
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Official title
MATRIX - "Modeling Macrophages Activation Pattern in X-linked Adrenoleukodystrophy, Metachromatic Leukodystrophy and Adult Onset Leukoencephalopathy With Axonal Spheroids and Pigmented Glia"
Overview
This study is a national, non-randomized, open-label, multi-site with minimal risk study in adult with adrenomyeloneuropathy (AMN), childhood and adult subjects with cerebral ALD (cALD), juvenile/adult metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD) and adults with leukoencephalopathy and axonal spheroids and pigmented glia (ALSP). 49 subjects will be enrolled with one blood sample collection during one of their medical follow-up visit. This trial will evaluate the role of innate immunity to influence disease progression in X-ALD, MLD and ALSP, and if the mutations related to these leukodystrophies result in a specific immune response leading to the pathogenesis.
Detailed description
X-linked Adrenoleukodystrophy (X-ALD), Metachromatic Leukodystrophy (MLD) and Adult-onset leukoencephalopathy with axonal spheroids and pigmented glia (ALSP) are among the most frequent inherited leukodystrophies. X-ALD and MLD can affect both children and adults, while it is thought that ALSP onset exclusively during adulthood. These three diseases are characterized by phenotypic variability and poor genotype-phenotype correlation. In childhood forms of MLD and childhood cerebral ALD (C-CALD) a devastating cerebral demyelination and neuronal degeneration lead to a rapid neurologic degradation and premature death. Patients with the adult form of X-ALD (adrenomyeloneuropathy (AMN), 60% of males) display a progressive spastic paraplegia without brain involvement. However, 20% of AMN patients will also develop cerebral ALD. Patients diagnosed with the juvenile/adult (JA-) MLD form are affected by a progressive decline of their cognitive function, followed later by that of the motor abilities. ALSP patients present a rapidly progressive neurodegenerative disorder that impairs behavioural, cognitive and motor functions.
Several arguments support the contribution of the immune response and neuroinflammation in these three leukodystrophies. In X-ALD, activation of microglia (macrophages of the CNS) plays an essential role in the acute demyelination phase, where a severe inflammatory process occurs. In ALSP, the dysfunctional protein (CSF1R) is almost exclusively expressed in microglia. Even if MLD is not considered as a neuroinflammatory disease per se, microglia activation and increased inflammatory cytokines are observed in the brain of MLD patients and mice. Even if the most commonly accepted hypothesis is that neuroinflammation is caused by secondary activation of microglia following phagocytosis of myelin debris full of undegraded material, a primitive role of the inflammation due to macrophages (MAC) dysfunction has emerged in recent years.
MATRIX proposes to explore how disease-related mutations affect key components of MAC activation responses and how it reflects on their functionality.
Interventions
- Diagnostic test Blood sample collection
blood sample collection
Primary outcome measures
- Macrophages functionality - distribution of monocytes [Time frame: 2 years after blood collection]
- Macrophages functionality - myelin phagocytosis capacity [Time frame: 2 years after blood collection]
- Macrophages functionality - HLA levels [Time frame: 2 years after blood collection]
Secondary outcome measures (2)
- Macrophages metabolic profiling [Time frame: 2 years after blood collection]
- Macrophages transcriptomic profiling [Time frame: 2 years after blood collection]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
Boys aged between 3 and 18 years (inclusive) diagnosed with C-CALD (elevated levels of VLCFA and leukodystrophy at brain MRI)
- Boys or girls aged between 15 months and 18 years (inclusive) diagnosed with MLD (low ARSA activity and accumulation of sulfatides in urine)
- Presymptomatic boys carrying ABCD1 mutations aged between 3 and 18 years (inclusive) (PRE-ALD)
- Adult males or females aged between 18 and 60 diagnosed with MLD (low ARSA activity and accumulation of sulfatides in urine)
- Males aged between 18 and 60 years diagnosed with AMN (elevated VLCFA and clinical symptoms of AMN without leukodystrophy at brain MRI)
- Males aged between 18 and 60 years diagnosed with CALD (elevated VLCFA with leukodystrophy at brain MRI)
- Adult males or females aged between 18 and 60 years diagnosed with ALSP (CSF1R mutation and leukodystrophy at brain MRI)
- Presymptomatic patient adults (males or females) carrying CSF1R mutations (PRE-ALSP)
- Children (15 months-18 years) without neurologic disease (no obvious neurological symptoms, normal neurologic examination)
- Adults aged between 18 and 60 years without neurologic disease (no overt neurological symptoms)
- Informed consent obtained :
- from the parents or guardian for children patients and children controls;
- from subject himself for adult patients and adult controls.
Exclusion criteria
- Participation to a therapeutic clinical trial
- Treatment likely to modify the immune system
- Unable to have a blood collection (i.e. low hemoglobin level at the investigator's judgment)
- Any other reason, to the discretion of the investigator
- Children or adults without health insurance or social security
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: Yes
Study design
- Observational model
- Case-control
Study locations
France · 2 centers
- AP-HP Hôpital Bicêtre — Le Kremlin-Bicêtre
- AP-HP Hôpital La Pitié Salpêtrière — Paris
Publications
- Miron VE, Boyd A, Zhao JW, Yuen TJ, Ruckh JM, Shadrach JL, van Wijngaarden P, Wagers AJ, Williams A, Franklin RJM, Ffrench-Constant C. M2 microglia and macrophages drive oligodendrocyte differentiation during CNS remyelination. Nat Neurosci. 2013 Sep;16(9):1211-1218. doi: 10.1038/nn.3469. Epub 2013 Jul 21. PMID 23872599
- Weinhofer I, Zierfuss B, Hametner S, Wagner M, Popitsch N, Machacek C, Bartolini B, Zlabinger G, Ohradanova-Repic A, Stockinger H, Kohler W, Hoftberger R, Regelsberger G, Forss-Petter S, Lassmann H, Berger J. Impaired plasticity of macrophages in X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy. Brain. 2018 Aug 1;141(8):2329-2342. doi: 10.1093/brain/awy127. PMID 29860501
- Berger J, Forss-Petter S, Eichler FS. Pathophysiology of X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy. Biochimie. 2014 Mar;98(100):135-42. doi: 10.1016/j.biochi.2013.11.023. Epub 2013 Dec 4. PMID 24316281
- Gieselmann V, Krageloh-Mann I. Metachromatic leukodystrophy--an update. Neuropediatrics. 2010 Feb;41(1):1-6. doi: 10.1055/s-0030-1253412. Epub 2010 Jun 22. PMID 20571983
Identifiers
NCT: NCT04925349 · APHP190197 · IDRCB