Exploring the Interaction Between Metabolic Disorders and NLPR3 Inflammasome Activation in DR Inf… (NCT06272565) | Clinical Trial Compass
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Exploring the Interaction Between Metabolic Disorders and NLPR3 Inflammasome Activation in DR Inflammatory Damage
China240 participantsStarted 2024-07-03
Plain-language summary
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is one of the most serious microvascular complications of diabetes. Early diagnosis and treatment of diabetes is the key to prevent visual impairment in DR patients. This study aims to use a non-targeted metabolomics detection technique combined with ultra-high performance liquid chromatography time-of-flight mass spectrometry to analyze the metabolomics profile in aqueous humor sample of DR patents, and further explore the mechanism of the relationship between differential metabolites and their metabolic pathways with NLRP3 activation in DR inflammatory damage. DR patients with macular edema will receive anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (anti-VEGF) treatment; these patients will be divided into two groups: responders group and non-responders group.
Who can participate
Age range
40 Years – 90 Years
Sex
ALL
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Inclusion criteria
. Patients \> 40 years old.
. CON (non diabetes control group)：patients undergoing phacoemulsification surgery.
. NDR (non diabetes retinopathy diabetes patients): patients with diabetes history and undergoing phacoemulsification surgery.
. NPDR (non proliferative diabetes retinopathy): patients with history of diabetes, fundus microangiopathy shown by fundus fluorescein angiography, including microangioma, hard exudation, wadding exudation and other non proliferative diabetes retinopathy signs, and did not receive invasive ophthalmic treatment within 3 months.
. PDR (proliferative diabetes retinopathy): patients with a history of diabetes, fundus neovascular lesions shown by fundus fluorescein angiography, and did not receive invasive ophthalmic treatment within 3 months.
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What they're measuring
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Untargeted metabolomics for metabolic profile using UHPLC/MS
Timeframe: 24 weeks
Trial details
NCT IDNCT06272565
SponsorZhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-sen University