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Mild to Moderate TBIPhase 1/2NCT04262895

TTI-0102 for Veterans With TBI

A Phase 1/2 study testing TTI-0102 in people with Mild to Moderate TBI and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, run by VA Office of Research and Development at 1 site in United States.

Withdrawn

Withdrawn. The study stopped before anyone enrolled.

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Trial summary

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a signature wound of the recent wars. How chronic TBI symptoms develop after a mild brain injury is not fully understood, but it is now thought that injury results in damage that reduces brain energy production, increases inflammation, and results in a leaky blood-brain barrier. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 to 65 years
What is being tested?
TTI-0102
Could I receive a placebo?
Yes, some participants may receive a placebo
How many people
0 participants
Where
1 siteUnited States
Study dates
1 Oct 2021to 15 Oct 2021
Phase
Phase 1/2
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 18 to 65 years
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • Veteran receiving care at the VA San Diego Healthcare system
  • age 18-65
  • history of mild to moderate TBI (loss of consciousness <24 hours; posttraumatic amnesia <7 days)
  • documented impairment (>1 standard deviation below the mean) in at least one neuropsychological domain as determined by valid clinical neuropsychological testing using at least one performance validity test, i.e.:
  • attention
  • processing speed
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  • working memory
  • learning, memory
  • executive functioning
  • DSM-5 diagnosis of PTSD based on the Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale

Who cannot join

  • current alcohol and/or substance abuse or dependence
  • high risk for homicide or suicide
  • evidence of a significant uncontrolled/unstable medical illness or clinically significant surgery
  • laboratory values that are significantly outside normal limits
  • history of intolerance or hypersensitivity to cysteamine or penicillamine
  • current participation in other intervention studies
  • pregnant or intending to become pregnant in the next 3 months

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

United States1 site
  • VA San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA

    San Diego, California, 92161

Other trials in United States

About this study

Official title: TTI-0102, a Cysteamine Precursor for Mild to Moderate TBI: Dosing and Feasibility Study

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a signature wound of the recent wars. How chronic TBI symptoms develop after a mild brain injury is not fully understood, but it is now thought that injury results in damage that reduces brain energy production, increases inflammation, and results in a leaky blood-brain barrier. Difficulties in daily function may persist in areas such as thinking (e.g., attention, learning, memory, planning, and problem-solving), pain (e.g., headache) and behavior (e.g., sleep, posttraumatic stress disorder, depression). No medications for TBI have been developed, so evidence-based cognitive rehabilitation interventions such as Compensatory Cognitive Training (CCT) are the mainstay of treatment. The investigators are proposing to study a medication, TTI-0102, that shows anti-inflammatory activity, as a potential adjunct treatment with CCT for Veterans with TBI-related symptoms. The investigators plan to first determine the best dose of TTI-0102 to use, and then to conduct a pilot study to test the feasibility and acceptability of combining TTI-0102 with CCT in Veterans with mild to moderate TBI and PTSD.

Read the detailed description

Approximately 12-23% of returning service members report a history of traumatic brain injury, mostly mild (mTBI). Post-concussive symptoms such as memory problems, irritability, and difficulty concentrating are common after TBI and may become chronic, interfering with successful return to duty or civilian reintegration, reducing quality of life, and increasing health care utilization for Veterans. In those whose TBI-related symptoms persist, there is accumulating evidence for increased morbidity (e.g., worse PTSD symptoms, chronic hypopituitarism, dementia), spurring efforts to improve diagnosis and intervention. Following a primary TBI injury, secondary injury and persistent symptoms may evolve through a complex cascade of events that culminate in inflammation, alterations in mitochondrial bioenergetics, and diminished blood brain barrier integrity, ultimately yielding a chronic disease state. To date, Veterans receiving strategy-based cognitive rehabilitation for TBI (CCT/CogSMART) have shown improvement in cognition and subjective neuropsychiatric symptoms. CCT is an evidence-based cognitive rehabilitation intervention emphasizing training in cognitive strategies to improve post-concussive symptoms, attention, learning/memory, and executive functioning. However, no pharmaceuticals have been developed for direct or adjunct-to CCT use to maximize treatment outcomes.

Given that inflammation has been observed in TBI, PTSD, and in co-occurring TBI/PTSD, it may be an important aspect of the TBI/PTSD disease state that could be manipulated to promote healing. The investigators are proposing to study TTI-0102, a cysteamine precursor that shows anti-inflammatory activity, as a potential adjunct to CCT for Veterans with TBI-related symptoms. TTI-0102 is a safe, easily administered, highly-water soluble compound that readily crosses the blood brain barrier. Compared with cysteamine, TTI-0102 degrades more slowly, dampening peak drug concentrations and sustaining drug plasma concentrations in a narrow therapeutic range. Developed to treat cystinosis, cysteamine is now believed to have potential for treatment of neurodegenerative disorders.

The goal of this proof of concept study is first, in Phase I (Year 1), to use symptom change (i.e., objective cognitive performance and subjective cognitive and neuropsychiatric symptoms) and biological profiles (i.e., metabolomics, inflammatory peptides [interleukin-6 and C-reactive protein], and brain-derived neurotrophic factor) to learn optimal dosing of TTI-0102 and to assess mechanism of action, and in Phase II (Year 2), to implement a feasibility trial in Veterans with a history of mild to moderate TBI and PTSD. In Phase I, 3 groups of 10 Veterans each will be randomly assigned to receive TTI-0102 2 grams/day, 4 grams/day, or placebo for 12 weeks. Baseline and post-treatment measures of objective cognition and subjective cognitive and neuropsychiatric symptoms will be administered, and plasma will be collected to measure the metabolomic, inflammatory, and protein biomarkers. In Phase II (Year 2), 12 different Veterans (6 per group) will be enrolled in a pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT) to assess the feasibility and acceptability of trial procedures. Participants in Phase II will be randomized to receive TTI-0102 (dose determined in Phase I) or placebo for 12 weeks as an adjunct to evidence-based CCT. The results of these double-blind, placebo-controlled trials will be used to plan a larger, fully-powered trial.

Being tested
TTI-0102, Placebo
Keywords
cognition, neurobehavioral symptoms, psychiatric symptoms
Medical subject headings
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • TTI-0102Drug

    TTI-0102 is a cysteamine precursor.

  • PlaceboDrug

    Placebo

Study groups in NCT04262895
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
TTI-0102 2 mg/dayExperimentalTTI-0102 2 mg/day
Receives: Drug: TTI-0102
TTI-0102 4 mg/dayExperimentalTTI-0102 4 mg/day
Receives: Drug: TTI-0102
PlaceboPlacebo comparatorPlacebo
Receives: Drug: Placebo

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Objective cognition

    Mean z-score of objective cognitive measures (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-4th Edition Digit Span, WAIS-IV Coding, Hopkins Verbal Learning Test-Revised, Brief Visuospatial Memory Test-Revised, Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System Trails, D-KEFS Color-Word Interference, D-KEFS Verbal Fluency)

    Measured: Change from 0 to 12 weeks

Secondary outcomes (10)
  1. Subjective cognition

    Mean z-score of subjective cognitive measures (Neuro-QOL Applied Cognition Executive Function, Neuro-QOL Applied Cognition General Concerns)

    Measured: Change from 0 to 12 weeks

  2. Neuropsychiatric symptoms

    Mean z-score of subjective neuropsychiatric symptom measures (Neurobehavioral Symptom Inventory Patient Health Questionnaire-9, General Anxiety Disorder-7, Insomnia Severity Index, PTSD Checklist for DSM-5, WHO Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0)

    Measured: Change from 0 to 12 weeks

  3. high-sensitive C-reactive protein

    high-sensitive C-reactive protein Plasma high sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP) will be measured using the Quantikine HS ELISA kit. The assay sensitivity is 10 pg/ml, the standard range is linear to 100 pg/ml, and intra- and inter-assay CVs are 4.1% and 6.5%, respectively.

    Measured: Change from 0 to 12 weeks

  4. interleukin-6

    interleukin-6 Plasma interleukin-6 (IL-6) will be measured using the Quantikine HS ELISA kit. The assay sensitivity is 0.70 pg/ml, the standard range is linear to 100 pg/ml, and intra- and inter-assay CVs are 2.6% and 4.5%, respectively.

    Measured: change from 0 to 12 weeks

  5. brain-derived neurotrophic factor

    brain-derived neurotrophic factor We will use the Quantikine direct ELISA that selectively detects plasma levels of free brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BNDF) without measuring BDNF bound to blood protein that occurs with ELISAs that detect total BDNF. Specificity of this BDNF immunoassay has been further confirmed by using Western blots to detect BDNF levels in plasma that were also measured with the Quantikine BDNF ELISA. We will use our previously established protocol to increase ELISA sensitivity to <4 pg/ml and maximize performance by blocking nonspecific binding on the 96-well plate and optimizing incubation times and other variables for the Quantikine free BDNF ELISA. The intra- and inter-assay CVs for the BDNF ELISA are 4.4% and 7.8%, respectively.

    Measured: change from 0 to 12 weeks

  6. kynurenine metabolism

    kynurenine metabolism Kynurenine metabolism will be assessed by broad-spectrum, targeted metabolomics using high performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC/MS/MS). Paired samples from each participant will be analyzed comparing baseline and TTI-0102-associated changes.

    Measured: change from 0 to 12 weeks

  7. sphingolipid metabolism

    sphingolipid metabolism Sphingolipid metabolism will be assessed by broad-spectrum, targeted metabolomics using high performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC/MS/MS). Paired samples from each participant will be analyzed comparing baseline and TTI-0102-associated changes.

    Measured: change from 0 to 12 weeks

  8. purine metabolism

    purine metabolism Purine metabolism will be assessed by broad-spectrum, targeted metabolomics using high performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC/MS/MS). Paired samples from each participant will be analyzed comparing baseline and TTI-0102-associated changes.

    Measured: change from 0 to 12 weeks

  9. eicosanoid metabolism

    eicosanoid metabolism Eicosanoid metabolism will be assessed by broad-spectrum, targeted metabolomics using high performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC/MS/MS). Paired samples from each participant will be analyzed comparing baseline and TTI-0102-associated changes.

    Measured: change from 0 to 12 weeks

  10. sulfur amino acid metabolism

    sulfur amino acid metabolism Sulfur amino acid metabolism will be assessed by broad-spectrum, targeted metabolomics using high performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC/MS/MS). Paired samples from each participant will be analyzed comparing baseline and TTI-0102-associated changes.

    Measured: change from 0 to 12 weeks

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted10 Feb 2020
  2. Study start1 Oct 2021
  3. Primary completion15 Oct 2021
  4. Study completion15 Oct 2021

Why it stopped: Funding withdrawn due to delay in FDA IND submission

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase 1/2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomised
Intervention model
Parallel groups
Model description
In Phase 1, the investigators will determine whether TTI-0102 2 mg/day or 4 mg/day is more tolerated and/or more effective compared with placebo in Veterans with mild to moderate TBI and PTSD. In Phase 2, the investigators will determine the feasibility and acceptability of trial procedures involving TTI-0102 (dose determined in Phase 1) vs placebo in Veteran participants receiving Compensatory Cognitive Training.
Masking
Triple blind
Who is masked
Participant, Investigator, Outcomes assessor
Enrolment
0 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT04262895
Sponsor's protocol ID
N3323-P
Other IDs
I21RX003323-01
Status last verified
Oct 2021
First submitted
5 Feb 2020
Last updated
26 Oct 2021
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
Yes
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
Yes: A de-identified, anonymized dataset will be created and shared upon request.

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Phase 1/2 study testing TTI-0102 in people with Mild to Moderate TBI and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, run by VA Office of Research and Development at 1 site in United States.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 10 inclusion and 7 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: withdrawn, as of the sponsor's last update on 26 Oct 2021. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. Some participants in this study may receive a placebo. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

What does this combined phase mean?

Phase 1 studies test a treatment in a small group of people for the first time or in a new way, mainly to check safety and find the right dose.

Phase 2 studies give the treatment to a larger group to see whether it has the intended effect and to keep checking safety.

Not every study follows the same path, and some studies (observational studies, device studies) have no phase.

Are results available for this study?

The study was withdrawn before enrolling participants, so there are no results.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Objective cognition (time frame: Change from 0 to 12 weeks). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 26 Oct 2021.

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