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Study NCT ID: NCT06859658
Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Last Update Posted: 2025-03-05
First Post: 2025-02-28
Is NOT Gene Therapy: False
Has Adverse Events: False

Brief Title: Development and Validation of a Functional MRI Biomarker of Cerebral Small Vessel Dysfunction in CADASIL
Sponsor: Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
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Study Overview

Official Title: Développement et Validation d'un Biomarqueur en IRM Fonctionnelle de la Dysfonction Des Petits Vaisseaux cérébraux Dans la Maladie de CADASIL
Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Status Verified Date: 2025-02
Last Known Status: None
Delayed Posting: No
If Stopped, Why?: Not Stopped
Has Expanded Access: False
If Expanded Access, NCT#: N/A
Has Expanded Access, NCT# Status: N/A
Acronym: fMRI BioSVD
Brief Summary: Cerebral small vessel diseases (cSVD) are diseases of brain tissue involving vessels (arterioles or capillaries) with a diameter of less than 400 microns. Within this group, CADASIL (Cerebral Autosomal Dominant Arteriopathy with Subcortical Infarcts and Leukoencephalopathy) is the most common familial form. CADASIL is due to mutations in the NOTCH3 gene located on chromosome 19. It is considered a unique model for the study of cSVD. CADASIL begins between the ages of 20 and 40, with the appearance of cerebral white matter hyper-signals visible on MRI. Before the age of 30, patients are usually asymptomatic. To date, there are no available treatments. To test new therapeutic approaches, we need biomarkers that are robust and sensitive enough to assess the effects of these treatments at an early stage of cSVD and over a relatively short period of time.

An ideal monitoring biomarker should be repeatedly and safely usable, easily accessible, accurate, reproducible and sensitive to disease progression or pharmacological intervention.

Alterations in neurovascular coupling (NVC) have been recognized as one of the earliest functional alterations occurring during cSVD. Cerebral functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a brain imaging technique that measures the activity of brain areas in vivo by detecting local changes in blood flow. An important advantage of blood oxygen level-dependent functional MRI is that it enables the NVC to be probed in vivo, safely and repeatedly in humans.

Our central hypothesis is that functional MRI can provide such a biomarker for monitoring CNV disease progression in vivo using a dedicated fMRI protocol that can be used on a clinical MRI scanner, is reproducible and varies according to the severity of brain MRI lesions and/or clinical manifestations in CADASIL. A functional imaging study coupled with electroencephalogram has already revealed changes in the hemodynamic response to visual or motor stimuli in patients at the early stage of the disease. This study is exploring new imaging protocols to focus on the purest vascular response.
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Study Oversight

Has Oversight DMC: False
Is a FDA Regulated Drug?: False
Is a FDA Regulated Device?: False
Is an Unapproved Device?: None
Is a PPSD?: None
Is a US Export?: None
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