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NCT05741151
Superior Cervical Ganglion in Parkinson's Disease
NA trial testing PET-Neck Parkinsonian patients in Parkinson Disease in 18 participants. Currently enrolling.
31 December 2025
Quick facts
| Lead sponsor | Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS |
|---|---|
| Phase | NA |
| Status | Recruiting now |
| Study type | INTERVENTIONAL |
| Allocation | na |
| Design | single group |
| Masking | none |
| Primary purpose | diagnostic |
| Enrollment | 18 |
| Start date | 1 January 2023 |
| Primary completion | 31 December 2025 |
| Estimated completion | 31 December 2026 |
| Sites | 1 location across Italy |
Drugs / interventions tested
- PET-Neck Parkinsonian patients
Conditions studied
- Parkinson Disease — all drugs for Parkinson Disease →
Sponsor
Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS
Who can join
Adults 30 to 80, any sex, with Parkinson Disease. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.
Sponsor's own description
In several neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson's disease, the progressive loss of neurons of monoaminergic systems leads to the development of characteristic clinical manifestations. Therefore, since the discovery that neurodegenerative phenomena are the basis of these Central Nervous System (CNS) diseases, re-innervation strategies have been studied that would allow to stop or at least slow down neurodegenerative phenomena, restoring lost catecholaminergic transmission. Cell therapy in Parkinson's disease aims to treat motor disorders, but should not affect cognitive disorders that result from pathological alterations external to CNS and affecting other transmission systems, such as noradrenergic and cholinergic. These limitations lead to the search for new approaches based on the use of different cell types, but currently these scenarios still seem far away. The theme of cerebral re-innervation in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases is at the center of numerous translational and clinical research studies, developed according to various approaches and models, which testify to all the complexity and charm of the subject. Among the possible sources for a catecholamine reinnervation in Parkinson's disease, Superior Cervical Ganglion (SCG) could represent a valid autologous source: however, there is no functional evaluation in the literature that expresses the involvement or not of the ganglion in the neurodegenerative process. This clinical study project is the first and essential phase of a larger project aimed at verifying the possibility of autologous catecholamine reinnervation in degenerative diseases of the CNS using the peripheral catecholamine system and in particular the superior cervical ganglion (GCS). The aim of this project is to evaluate whether the peripheral catecholaminergic system, and in particular the SCG, is involved in the process of neurodegeneration. For this purpose, for an "in vivo" functional study, the suitability of the PET-CT 68Ga-PSMA examination will be studied in particular.
Publications & conference data
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Verify against primary sources
- ClinicalTrials.gov — authoritative US registry record
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- Trial protocol + status: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT05741151 (US National Library of Medicine, public domain)
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- Sponsor: as reported to ClinicalTrials.gov by Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS
- Last refreshed: 1 March 2023
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