Description Module
The Description Module contains narrative descriptions of the clinical trial, including a brief summary and detailed description. These descriptions provide important information about the study's purpose, methodology, and key details in language accessible to both researchers and the general public.
Description Module path is as follows:
Study -> Protocol Section -> Description Module
Description Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-25 @ 12:16 AM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-25 @ 12:16 AM
NCT ID:
NCT00406458
Brief Summary:
The purpose of the study is to study the clinical effects of the investigational drug, SB-509 versus placebo in patients with diabetic neuropathy.
Detailed Description:
SB-509 contains the gene (DNA-a kind of biological "blueprint") for a protein. When a researcher injects SB-509 into your legs, the drug enters the muscle and nerve cells around the injection site and causes these cells to make a protein. This protein causes your cells to increase production of another protein called vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), which may improve the structure and function of nerves. In addition, there are changes in the levels of 28 additional proteins in your cells. These proteins function to promote the growth of cells, are structures in cells, help synthesize products, and affect immune cells, and some have unknown functions. This increase in your own VEGF proteins may protect and repair the damaged nerves caused by diabetic neuropathy.
The study doctor will test SB-509 (60 mg) and placebo. Everyone in this study will receive intramuscular (IM-directly into the muscle) injections into both legs. This will happen 3 times over about 4 months. Two out of every 3 participants will receive SB-509 and 1 out of every 3 will receive placebo. You will not know, and the study doctor will not know, whether you will receive SB-509 or whether you will receive placebo.
Study:
NCT00406458
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT00406458