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NCT06180213

Study of Cerebral Glucose Metabolism in Neurodegenerative Diseases and Head Trauma

Completed Last updated 22 December 2023
What this trial tests

trial testing FDG PET in Neurodegenerative Diseases in 1,570 participants. Completed in 31 December 2019.

Timeline
1 October 2015
Primary endpoint
31 December 2019
31 December 2019

Quick facts

Lead sponsorIRCCS San Raffaele
StatusCompleted
Study typeOBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment1,570
Start date1 October 2015
Primary completion31 December 2019
Estimated completion31 December 2019

Drugs / interventions tested

Conditions studied

Sponsor

IRCCS San Raffaele — full company profile →

Who can join

18 and older, any sex, with Neurodegenerative Diseases. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

The reason why each specific degenerative disease is characterized by a different FDG PET pattern is still unclear today. There are four main hypotheses proposed to explain this selective vulnerability: 1) Nodal stress, theory according to which the main nodes of specific brain networks undergo wear and tear, 2) trans-neuronal diffusion, theory according to which some toxic agents/proteins or altered propagate along network connections through "Prion-like" mechanisms, 3) trophic failure, in which the interruption of inter-modal connectivity causes the loss of collateral trophic factors, and finally 4) shared vulnerability in which regions also distant from each other are part of a common network which gives a susceptibility uniformly distributed throughout the network. FDG PET provides in-vivo information on the distribution of brain synaptic dysfunction prior to complete neural death, and represents the main in vivo biomarker of neural dysfunction associated with different clinical conditions characterized by neurodegeneration phenomena. For this reason, FDG PET is considered a fundamental approach to shed light on the causes of selective brain vulnerability in various pathological conditions.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.

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