Back to results"Using Epigallocatechin Gallate (EGCG) and Cognitive Training to Modulate Cognitive Performance in Patients With Fragile X Syndrome" (TESFX)
Primary Purpose
Fragile X Syndrome
Status
Completed
Phase
Phase 2
Locations
Spain
Study Type
Interventional
Intervention
EGCG
Placebo
Cognitive training
Sponsored by
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Fragile X Syndrome
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Molecular diagnosis of Fragile X syndrome (FXS)
- Males and females aged 12 to 60 years.
- Study participants must understand and accept experimental procedures and assent to participate in the study signing an informed consent.
- Parents or caregivers have to understand and accept experimental procedures and sign informed consent form.
- Use of effective contraceptive methods in female participants
- Regular menstrual cycle (26-32 days duration) in female subjects
- Moderate mental disability (IQ>40)
- Body mass index (BMI) comprised between 18.5 and 29.9 kg/m2, and body weight between 50 and 100 kg.
- Non-smokers
- Electroencephalogram record and general blood and urine analysis performed at screening visit should be within normal values. Minor or occasional variations in normal values are allowed if, in the opinion of Principal Investigator, taking into account the state of the science, they are not clinically significant, they do not pose risk for the subjects and they do not interfere in the evaluation of the investigational product. These variations and their non-relevance should be justified by writing.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Not fulfil inclusion criteria.
- Subjects with neurological disease other than FXS, relevant medical disease, co-morbid mental disorder or currently taking any treatment that could interfere with cognitive function or alter any key biomarkers and biochemical parameters analyzed.
- Having suffered from any major illness or undergoing major surgery in the last 12 months preceding the study.
- Regular ingestion of psychotropic drugs in the three months preceding the study. Exceptions were made for single doses of symptomatic medication administered up to the week preceding the trial.
- Current ingestion of vitamin supplements or catechins or non steroidal antiinflammatory drug (NSAID) in the two weeks preceding the study.
- History or clinical proof of gastrointestinal, hepatic or renal problems or any other cause that may alter processes of absorption, distribution, metabolism, or excretion of the drug, or that might suggest gastrointestinal irritation to drug.
- Subjects following a cognitive training.
Sites / Locations
- Parc de Salut MAR, Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute-IMIM
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Arm Type
Active Comparator
Placebo Comparator
Arm Label
Fragile X syndrome experimental group
Fragile X syndrome control group
Arm Description
Administration of 400 mg/day of epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG). Life Extension, Mega Green Tea Extract Decaffeinated, a dietary supplement containing EGCG extract (45% EGCGC). Dosage form: capsules of 200mg Route of administration: orally Dosage: 2 capsules per day (400 mg EGCG/day) Frequency: one capsule in the morning (fasting state) and a second capsule in the afternoon (before dinner). Treatment period: 3 months (from month 1 to month 4) Cognitive training: non-pharmacological cognitive training 3 sessions per week (1 hour per session) by using the Feskits program.
Placebo administration. Placebo consists in capsules containing rice flour. Dosage form: capsules Route of administration: orally Dosage: 2 capsules per day Frequency: one capsule in the morning (fasting state) and a second capsule in the afternoon (before dinner). Cognitive training: non-pharmacological cognitive training 3 sessions per week (1 hour per session) by using the Feskits program.
Outcomes
Primary Outcome Measures
Change in Prepulse inhibition of acoustic startle response (PPI)
Neurophysiology exploration (electroencephalogram)
The Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test (K-BIT)
Evaluates the intellectual status and significantly correlates with the WISC-III.The intellectual quotient (IQ) will correspond to the K-BIT standardized total score, which can range from 40 (very low) to 160 (very high).
Changes in psicomotor speed (Motor Screening test (MOT, CANTAB))
To assess psychomotor speed and accuracy. Participants were instructed to touch a series of crosses that appeared randomly on the screen. Response latency (in milliseconds) (MOT: Mean latency [ms]) will be considered in the present study.
Changes in Simple Reaction Time (SRT; CANTAB)
explores general alertness and motor speed. Subjects had to press the button on a press pad every time a square appeared in the middle of the screen. Intervals between the examinee's response and the next stimulus were variable during the task.
Changes in Digit Span: forward and backward recall (WAIS-III)
Forward recall score provides a good measure of verbal attention and working memory span. Backward recall score is predominantly a measure of verbal working memory span. Subjects were required to listen to a series of numbers with randomized presentation, and then repeat them back. The length of the series increased upon the subject's success.
Changes in Spatial Span (SSP): forward and backward recall (CANTAB)
Forward recall is predominantly a measure of visual attention and memory span. Participants were shown a sequence of squares that turned into a different color, one at each time, in a specific temporal order and spatial location. The examinee had to reproduce the sequence by touching on the screen the squares in the same order as they were presented. The length of the sequence increases in accordance to the subject's correct answers. Participants were shown a sequence of squares that turned into a different color, one at each time, in a specific temporal order and spatial location. The examinee had to reproduce the sequence by touching on the screen the squares in the same order as they were presented. The length of the sequence increases in accordance to the subject's correct answers.
Changes in executive function (Word fluency test)
Subjects were asked to generate as many words as possible in 1 minute belonging to the specified category of "animals" (open ranged: 0 to n1). High scores (number of words) (Semantic Word Fluency) indicate greater verbal fluency ability.
Changes in in executive function (Tower of London-Drexel University (ToLDx))
This test requires moving three different colored balls across three different sized pegs in order to replicate a goal configuration. Movements follow strict rules. Two training tasks were followed by 10 problems of increasing complexity. The task finalized after the examinee failed to solve two consecutive problems.
Changes in in executive function (Weigl Color-Form Sort Test)
This is a set-shifting task that assesses the ability to categorize across two dimensions: color and shape. Instructions for administration and scoring were taken from Strauss & Lewin. Test material consisted of 12 tokens: four circles, four triangles, and four squares, and shapes were colored blue, red, yellow or green. The 12 tokens were displayed unsorted in front of the examinee. In the first trial the examinee is required to sort the tokens in a way that they go together (color or shape).
Changes in executive function (Cats & Dogs Test)
This is a Stroop-like task assessing response inhibition, based on the original Day-Night task. In this test, a sequence of 16 pictures, 8 cats and 8 dogs arranged in a prefixed order, are presented to the examinee on a single strip of card. The task consists of two trials with two different conditions: a control trial and an experimental-inhibition trial.
Changes in memory and learning (Paired Associates Learning (PAL, CANTAB))
In this task the participants are required to learn associations between an abstract visual pattern and its location. Each participant is presented with a number of white boxes, arranged in a circle around an empty central space in the screen. Each box "opens" to reveal what is underneath (empty, or with a unique abstract pattern) in a randomized order until the participant has revealed all the contents. Next, a single pattern is presented in the center of the screen and the subject is instructed to touch the box where that pattern has been shown during the presentation phase of the trial. The task increases in difficulty from 1 to 8 patterns.
Changes in memory and learning (Pattern Recognition Memory (PRM, CANTAB))
Participants are presented with a series of two blocks of 12 abstract visual patterns that appear sequentially in the center of the computer screen. Patterns are designed so that they cannot easily be given verbal labels. Each pattern is shown for 3 seconds. In each of the 12 recognition trials, two patterns are presented: one familiar (from the series that the participants have already seen) and one novel pattern. The participant have to recognize the previously seen pattern. The same procedure is repeated with a second block of 12 new patterns but this time the recognition trial started 20 minutes after the presentation of this second block to provide a measure of delayed recall.
Changes in memory and learning (Cued Recall Test)
The test consisted of a list of 12 items, which have to be verbally recalled by the examinee during 3 trials of free and cued recall. The test start with a learning phase where the examinee is required to learn the list of 12 items using 12 images. Four pictures are presented at a time, one in each quadrant of a card. First, the examinee have to name each of the four pictures in the card, and secondly assign each picture according to a verbal category-cue given by the examiner.
Changes in language (Boston Naming Test )
The test consists of 60 black and white pictures graded in naming difficulty. Each picture is presented individually. The examinee is asked to name each item, and when unable to do so spontaneously, the examiner provides semantic and/or phonemic cues.
Changes in language (Token Test )
Test materials consists of 20 tokens in two shapes (circles and rectangles), two sizes (big and small), and five colors (red, black, yellow, white, and green). The tokens are laid out according to a fixed configuration in front of the examinee. The test requires the examinee to touch the tokens according to the oral commands provided by the examiner. Thirty-six commands are divided into six stages of increasing complexity.
Changes in Adaptive Behavior in daily living
ABAS-II is designed, according to AAMS guidelines, for evaluating adaptive skills in people with mental disabilities of a wide age range and across multiple environments. The ABAS-II tool for adults (ages 16 to 89) includes 5 subscales which assesses the individual's competence (in terms of behavior frequency) in 10 different skill Γ‘reas.
Changes in Quality of life (Kidscreen-27 (parents version))
This instrument assesses quality of life from the child and adolescent's perspective in terms of their physical, mental, and social well-being, higher scores corresponding to a greater quality of life. The questionnaire measures five dimensions.
change sin quality of sleep (the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI))
This questionnaire evaluates the quality and patterns of sleep in older adults. It assesses sleep performance over the previous month across seven different domains: subjective sleep quality, sleep latency, sleep duration, habitual sleep efficiency, sleep disturbances, use of sleep medication, and daytime dysfunction. Parents will self-report all answers to each of the seven areas.
Changes in disrupting behavior (the Aberrant Behavior Checklist (ABC-C))
The ABC-C is a 58-item questionnaire for caregivers designed to assess the presence and severity of psychiatric symptoms and behavioral disturbance commonly exhibited by individuals with IDD. The questionnaire explores problem behaviors across 5 domains.
Secondary Outcome Measures
Changes in Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase/mammalian target of rapamycin (PI3K/mTOR) concentration
Concentrations of PI3K/mTOR in human lymphocites.
Changes in Lipid Oxidation Biomarkers
Concentrations in plasma of oxidized- LDL.
Changes in body analysis composition
Bioimpedance body analysis composition (TANITA)
changes in clinical chemistry biomarkers
changes in hematology biomarkers
changes in coagulation biomarkers
changes in urine analysis
Changes in extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1 (ERK) biomarker
Concentrations of Kinase 1(ERK) activity in human lymphocytes.
Full Information
1. Study Identification
Unique Protocol Identification Number
NCT01855971
Brief Title
"Using Epigallocatechin Gallate (EGCG) and Cognitive Training to Modulate Cognitive Performance in Patients With Fragile X Syndrome" (TESFX)
Official Title
Estrogen Receptors Beta (ER-B) as Therapeutic Targets for the Improvement of Cognitive Performance in Fragile-X (TESXF)
Study Type
Interventional
2. Study Status
Record Verification Date
May 2019
Overall Recruitment Status
Completed
Study Start Date
June 11, 2013 (Actual)
Primary Completion Date
July 31, 2015 (Actual)
Study Completion Date
October 31, 2015 (Actual)
3. Sponsor/Collaborators
Responsible Party, by Official Title
Principal Investigator
Name of the Sponsor
Parc de Salut Mar
4. Oversight
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Drug Product
No
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Device Product
No
Data Monitoring Committee
No
5. Study Description
Brief Summary
Fragile X syndrome (FXS) presents alterations in synaptic plasticity that produce intellectual disability. can produce improvement. Estrogens (targeting Estrogen Receptors beta (ER-Ξ²) can act as neuroprotective agents, promoting synaptic plasticity and neurite outgrowth, and health benefits derived from flavonoids, as the flavonol epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), phytoestrogens of natural origin are partially explained by their interaction with membrane ER. Selective ER-Ξ² flavonoids are thus good candidates for their therapeutic evaluation in intellectual disabilities. EGCG also targets central intracellular transduction signals altered in FXS and improves memory recognition in a FXS animal model(adenosine triphosphate (ATP)-inhibitor of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)and mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) and extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK1/2). This study targets the synaptic plasticity alterations that underlie the learning and memory impairment but also the computational disability in FXS. The hypothesis is that EGCG can act by favoring the physiological processes involved in cognition.
6. Conditions and Keywords
Primary Disease or Condition Being Studied in the Trial, or the Focus of the Study
Fragile X Syndrome
7. Study Design
Primary Purpose
Treatment
Study Phase
Phase 2
Interventional Study Model
Parallel Assignment
Model Description
The study lasts 7 months :
from day 0 to month 1, patients will receive placebo, in order to avoid the placebo effect of the treatment.
from month 1 to month 4 : patients will be divided in two cohorts, one group receiving ECGC (experimental group), and the other placebo (control group).
from mont 4 to month 7 : no treatment in given, only effects of cessation of treatment are observed.
Patients from both arms will receive Cognitive training.
Masking
ParticipantInvestigator
Masking Description
Placebo medication consists in rice flour tablets, given to patients of control group with the same posology than the ones of the experimental group (2*200mg / day).
Allocation
Randomized
Enrollment
44 (Actual)
8. Arms, Groups, and Interventions
Arm Title
Fragile X syndrome experimental group
Arm Type
Active Comparator
Arm Description
Administration of 400 mg/day of epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG). Life Extension, Mega Green Tea Extract Decaffeinated, a dietary supplement containing EGCG extract (45% EGCGC).
Dosage form: capsules of 200mg Route of administration: orally Dosage: 2 capsules per day (400 mg EGCG/day) Frequency: one capsule in the morning (fasting state) and a second capsule in the afternoon (before dinner).
Treatment period: 3 months (from month 1 to month 4)
Cognitive training: non-pharmacological cognitive training 3 sessions per week (1 hour per session) by using the Feskits program.
Arm Title
Fragile X syndrome control group
Arm Type
Placebo Comparator
Arm Description
Placebo administration. Placebo consists in capsules containing rice flour. Dosage form: capsules Route of administration: orally Dosage: 2 capsules per day Frequency: one capsule in the morning (fasting state) and a second capsule in the afternoon (before dinner).
Cognitive training: non-pharmacological cognitive training 3 sessions per week (1 hour per session) by using the Feskits program.
Intervention Type
Dietary Supplement
Intervention Name(s)
EGCG
Other Intervention Name(s)
Epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG)
Intervention Description
Life Extension, Mega Green Tea Extract Decaffeinated is a dietary supplement containing EGCG extract (45% EGCG). This extract contains 98% total polyphenols and 45% epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG). EGCG administration in Down syndrome patients will result in an improvement of their cognitive performance.
Intervention Type
Dietary Supplement
Intervention Name(s)
Placebo
Other Intervention Name(s)
Matched placebo
Intervention Description
Same capsules containing rice flour. No active treatment is given.
Intervention Type
Other
Intervention Name(s)
Cognitive training
Intervention Description
Feskits program 3 times per week (1 hour/session) Patients in this arm of the trial carried out computerized online training drawn from the Feskits program (www.feskits.com), chosen to have attention, memory and executive function components. Specifically the sessions included the following exercises: sustained attention, attention/perception, working memory, auditory and visual memory, executive function and language.
Primary Outcome Measure Information:
Title
Change in Prepulse inhibition of acoustic startle response (PPI)
Description
Neurophysiology exploration (electroencephalogram)
Time Frame
From presdose baseline to 3 and 6 months (after treatment)
Title
The Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test (K-BIT)
Description
Evaluates the intellectual status and significantly correlates with the WISC-III.The intellectual quotient (IQ) will correspond to the K-BIT standardized total score, which can range from 40 (very low) to 160 (very high).
Time Frame
at screening
Title
Changes in psicomotor speed (Motor Screening test (MOT, CANTAB))
Description
To assess psychomotor speed and accuracy. Participants were instructed to touch a series of crosses that appeared randomly on the screen. Response latency (in milliseconds) (MOT: Mean latency [ms]) will be considered in the present study.
Time Frame
From presdose baseline to 3 and 6 months (after treatment)
Title
Changes in Simple Reaction Time (SRT; CANTAB)
Description
explores general alertness and motor speed. Subjects had to press the button on a press pad every time a square appeared in the middle of the screen. Intervals between the examinee's response and the next stimulus were variable during the task.
Time Frame
From presdose baseline to 3 and 6 months (after treatment)
Title
Changes in Digit Span: forward and backward recall (WAIS-III)
Description
Forward recall score provides a good measure of verbal attention and working memory span. Backward recall score is predominantly a measure of verbal working memory span. Subjects were required to listen to a series of numbers with randomized presentation, and then repeat them back. The length of the series increased upon the subject's success.
Time Frame
From presdose baseline to 3 and 6 months (after treatment)
Title
Changes in Spatial Span (SSP): forward and backward recall (CANTAB)
Description
Forward recall is predominantly a measure of visual attention and memory span. Participants were shown a sequence of squares that turned into a different color, one at each time, in a specific temporal order and spatial location. The examinee had to reproduce the sequence by touching on the screen the squares in the same order as they were presented. The length of the sequence increases in accordance to the subject's correct answers. Participants were shown a sequence of squares that turned into a different color, one at each time, in a specific temporal order and spatial location. The examinee had to reproduce the sequence by touching on the screen the squares in the same order as they were presented. The length of the sequence increases in accordance to the subject's correct answers.
Time Frame
From presdose baseline to 3 and 6 months (after treatment)
Title
Changes in executive function (Word fluency test)
Description
Subjects were asked to generate as many words as possible in 1 minute belonging to the specified category of "animals" (open ranged: 0 to n1). High scores (number of words) (Semantic Word Fluency) indicate greater verbal fluency ability.
Time Frame
From presdose baseline to 3 and 6 months (after treatment)
Title
Changes in in executive function (Tower of London-Drexel University (ToLDx))
Description
This test requires moving three different colored balls across three different sized pegs in order to replicate a goal configuration. Movements follow strict rules. Two training tasks were followed by 10 problems of increasing complexity. The task finalized after the examinee failed to solve two consecutive problems.
Time Frame
From presdose baseline to 3 and 6 months (after treatment)
Title
Changes in in executive function (Weigl Color-Form Sort Test)
Description
This is a set-shifting task that assesses the ability to categorize across two dimensions: color and shape. Instructions for administration and scoring were taken from Strauss & Lewin. Test material consisted of 12 tokens: four circles, four triangles, and four squares, and shapes were colored blue, red, yellow or green. The 12 tokens were displayed unsorted in front of the examinee. In the first trial the examinee is required to sort the tokens in a way that they go together (color or shape).
Time Frame
From presdose baseline to 3 and 6 months (after treatment)
Title
Changes in executive function (Cats & Dogs Test)
Description
This is a Stroop-like task assessing response inhibition, based on the original Day-Night task. In this test, a sequence of 16 pictures, 8 cats and 8 dogs arranged in a prefixed order, are presented to the examinee on a single strip of card. The task consists of two trials with two different conditions: a control trial and an experimental-inhibition trial.
Time Frame
From presdose baseline to 3 and 6 months (after treatment)
Title
Changes in memory and learning (Paired Associates Learning (PAL, CANTAB))
Description
In this task the participants are required to learn associations between an abstract visual pattern and its location. Each participant is presented with a number of white boxes, arranged in a circle around an empty central space in the screen. Each box "opens" to reveal what is underneath (empty, or with a unique abstract pattern) in a randomized order until the participant has revealed all the contents. Next, a single pattern is presented in the center of the screen and the subject is instructed to touch the box where that pattern has been shown during the presentation phase of the trial. The task increases in difficulty from 1 to 8 patterns.
Time Frame
From presdose baseline to 3 and 6 months (after treatment)
Title
Changes in memory and learning (Pattern Recognition Memory (PRM, CANTAB))
Description
Participants are presented with a series of two blocks of 12 abstract visual patterns that appear sequentially in the center of the computer screen. Patterns are designed so that they cannot easily be given verbal labels. Each pattern is shown for 3 seconds. In each of the 12 recognition trials, two patterns are presented: one familiar (from the series that the participants have already seen) and one novel pattern. The participant have to recognize the previously seen pattern. The same procedure is repeated with a second block of 12 new patterns but this time the recognition trial started 20 minutes after the presentation of this second block to provide a measure of delayed recall.
Time Frame
From presdose baseline to 3 and 6 months (after treatment)
Title
Changes in memory and learning (Cued Recall Test)
Description
The test consisted of a list of 12 items, which have to be verbally recalled by the examinee during 3 trials of free and cued recall. The test start with a learning phase where the examinee is required to learn the list of 12 items using 12 images. Four pictures are presented at a time, one in each quadrant of a card. First, the examinee have to name each of the four pictures in the card, and secondly assign each picture according to a verbal category-cue given by the examiner.
Time Frame
From presdose baseline to 3 and 6 months (after treatment)
Title
Changes in language (Boston Naming Test )
Description
The test consists of 60 black and white pictures graded in naming difficulty. Each picture is presented individually. The examinee is asked to name each item, and when unable to do so spontaneously, the examiner provides semantic and/or phonemic cues.
Time Frame
From presdose baseline to 3 and 6 months (after treatment)
Title
Changes in language (Token Test )
Description
Test materials consists of 20 tokens in two shapes (circles and rectangles), two sizes (big and small), and five colors (red, black, yellow, white, and green). The tokens are laid out according to a fixed configuration in front of the examinee. The test requires the examinee to touch the tokens according to the oral commands provided by the examiner. Thirty-six commands are divided into six stages of increasing complexity.
Time Frame
From presdose baseline to 3 and 6 months (after treatment)
Title
Changes in Adaptive Behavior in daily living
Description
ABAS-II is designed, according to AAMS guidelines, for evaluating adaptive skills in people with mental disabilities of a wide age range and across multiple environments. The ABAS-II tool for adults (ages 16 to 89) includes 5 subscales which assesses the individual's competence (in terms of behavior frequency) in 10 different skill Γ‘reas.
Time Frame
From presdose baseline to 3 and 6 months (after treatment)
Title
Changes in Quality of life (Kidscreen-27 (parents version))
Description
This instrument assesses quality of life from the child and adolescent's perspective in terms of their physical, mental, and social well-being, higher scores corresponding to a greater quality of life. The questionnaire measures five dimensions.
Time Frame
From presdose baseline to 3 and 6 months (after treatment)
Title
change sin quality of sleep (the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI))
Description
This questionnaire evaluates the quality and patterns of sleep in older adults. It assesses sleep performance over the previous month across seven different domains: subjective sleep quality, sleep latency, sleep duration, habitual sleep efficiency, sleep disturbances, use of sleep medication, and daytime dysfunction. Parents will self-report all answers to each of the seven areas.
Time Frame
From presdose baseline to 3 and 6 months (after treatment)
Title
Changes in disrupting behavior (the Aberrant Behavior Checklist (ABC-C))
Description
The ABC-C is a 58-item questionnaire for caregivers designed to assess the presence and severity of psychiatric symptoms and behavioral disturbance commonly exhibited by individuals with IDD. The questionnaire explores problem behaviors across 5 domains.
Time Frame
From presdose baseline to 3 and 6 months (after treatment)
Secondary Outcome Measure Information:
Title
Changes in Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase/mammalian target of rapamycin (PI3K/mTOR) concentration
Description
Concentrations of PI3K/mTOR in human lymphocites.
Time Frame
From presdose baseline to 3 and 6 months (after treatment)
Title
Changes in Lipid Oxidation Biomarkers
Description
Concentrations in plasma of oxidized- LDL.
Time Frame
From presdose baseline to 3 and 6 months (after treatment)
Title
Changes in body analysis composition
Description
Bioimpedance body analysis composition (TANITA)
Time Frame
From presdose baseline to 3 and 6 months (after treatment)
Title
changes in clinical chemistry biomarkers
Time Frame
From presdose baseline to 3 and 6 months (after treatment)
Title
changes in hematology biomarkers
Time Frame
From presdose baseline to 3 and 6 months (after treatment)
Title
changes in coagulation biomarkers
Time Frame
From presdose baseline to 3 and 6 months (after treatment)
Title
changes in urine analysis
Time Frame
From presdose baseline to 3 and 6 months (after treatment)
Title
Changes in extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1 (ERK) biomarker
Description
Concentrations of Kinase 1(ERK) activity in human lymphocytes.
Time Frame
From baseline to 7 months
10. Eligibility
Sex
All
Minimum Age & Unit of Time
18 Years
Maximum Age & Unit of Time
60 Years
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
No
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
Molecular diagnosis of Fragile X syndrome (FXS)
Males and females aged 12 to 60 years.
Study participants must understand and accept experimental procedures and assent to participate in the study signing an informed consent.
Parents or caregivers have to understand and accept experimental procedures and sign informed consent form.
Use of effective contraceptive methods in female participants
Regular menstrual cycle (26-32 days duration) in female subjects
Moderate mental disability (IQ>40)
Body mass index (BMI) comprised between 18.5 and 29.9 kg/m2, and body weight between 50 and 100 kg.
Non-smokers
Electroencephalogram record and general blood and urine analysis performed at screening visit should be within normal values. Minor or occasional variations in normal values are allowed if, in the opinion of Principal Investigator, taking into account the state of the science, they are not clinically significant, they do not pose risk for the subjects and they do not interfere in the evaluation of the investigational product. These variations and their non-relevance should be justified by writing.
Exclusion Criteria:
Not fulfil inclusion criteria.
Subjects with neurological disease other than FXS, relevant medical disease, co-morbid mental disorder or currently taking any treatment that could interfere with cognitive function or alter any key biomarkers and biochemical parameters analyzed.
Having suffered from any major illness or undergoing major surgery in the last 12 months preceding the study.
Regular ingestion of psychotropic drugs in the three months preceding the study. Exceptions were made for single doses of symptomatic medication administered up to the week preceding the trial.
Current ingestion of vitamin supplements or catechins or non steroidal antiinflammatory drug (NSAID) in the two weeks preceding the study.
History or clinical proof of gastrointestinal, hepatic or renal problems or any other cause that may alter processes of absorption, distribution, metabolism, or excretion of the drug, or that might suggest gastrointestinal irritation to drug.
Subjects following a cognitive training.
Overall Study Officials:
First Name & Middle Initial & Last Name & Degree
Rafael de la Torre, PhamD
Organizational Affiliation
Parc de Salut Mar
Official's Role
Principal Investigator
Facility Information:
Facility Name
Parc de Salut MAR, Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute-IMIM
City
Barcelona
ZIP/Postal Code
08003
Country
Spain
12. IPD Sharing Statement
Plan to Share IPD
No
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Yang J, Han Y, Sun H, Chen C, He D, Guo J, Yu C, Jiang B, Zhou L, Zeng C. (-)-Epigallocatechin gallate suppresses proliferation of vascular smooth muscle cells induced by high glucose by inhibition of PKC and ERK1/2 signalings. J Agric Food Chem. 2011 Nov 9;59(21):11483-90. doi: 10.1021/jf2024819. Epub 2011 Oct 14.
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"Using Epigallocatechin Gallate (EGCG) and Cognitive Training to Modulate Cognitive Performance in Patients With Fragile X Syndrome" (TESFX)
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