A Pilot Study in Participants With Relapsing Remitting Multiple Sclerosis (RR-MS) (INCREASE)
Multiple Sclerosis, Relapsing-Remitting
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Multiple Sclerosis, Relapsing-Remitting focused on measuring Relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis, D-Aspartate, interferon beta-1a
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Participants with RR-MS, according to the revised McDonald Criteria (2010)
- Participants with an expanded disability status scale (EDSS) score between 0 and 3 before screening visit and before relapse
- Participants receiving treatment with IFN beta 1a 44 mcg three times a week for at least 6 months but for no more than 10 years before the screening visit
- Female participants must be neither pregnant nor breastfeeding and must lack childbearing potential
- Participants willing and able to comply with the protocol for the total duration of the study
- Participants able to understand the purposes and the risks of the study
- Participants have signed the appropriate written informed consent form, approved by the Independent Ethics Committee (IEC), prior to the performance of any study activities
- For MS participants with relapse:
- Deterioration of at least one step in a relevant Functional Systems Scale (FSS) or an increase in EDSS of 1 point or more compatible, according to physician's judgment, with the therapy prosecution
- Relapse started within maximum 5 days before the inclusion in the study
- MS participants without relapse with clinically stable RR-MS
Exclusion Criteria:
- Participants with diagnosis of primary progressive MS (PP-MS)
- Participants have any disease other than MS that could better explain his/her signs and symptoms
- Participants with any comorbidity with diseases that might alter synaptic plasticity (example Parkinson Disease, Alzheimer Disease, Stroke)
- Participants receiving concomitant treatment with drugs that may alter synaptic plasticity (example, cannabinoids)
- Participants with history or presence of any unstable medical condition (tumor or chronic infection or severe life threatening infection within the last 6 months)
- Participants who have received any corticosteroids therapy within 3 months prior to the screening
- Participants with any concomitant disease that may require chronic treatment with systemic corticosteroids or immunosuppressive agents during the course of the study
- Participants who have received any immunosuppressive agents other to corticosteroids, as monotherapy or combination therapy within 3 months prior to the screening visit
- Participants with history or currently active primary or secondary immunodeficiency
- Participants with inadequate liver function, defined by alanine aminotransferase (ALT) > 3 * upper limit of normal (ULN), or alkaline phosphatase (AP) > 2 * ULN, or total bilirubin > 2 * ULN if associated with any elevation of ALT or AP
- Participants with inadequate bone marrow reserve, defined as a white blood cell count less than 0.5 * lower limit of normal (LLN)
- Participants with moderate to severe renal impairment
- Participants unable to complete an magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) (contraindications for MRI include but are not restricted to weight >=140 kilogram (kg), pacemaker, cochlear implants, presence of foreign substances in the eye, intracranial vascular clips, surgery within 6 weeks of entry into the study, coronary stent implanted within 8 weeks prior to the time of the intended MRI, etc)
- Participants with contraindication to gadolinium (Gd) can be enrolled into the study but cannot receive Gd contrast dyes during their MRI scans
- Participants receiving supplements that, in the Investigator's opinion, may affect the evaluation of fatigue
- Participants with any known contraindications or hypersensitivity to D-aspartate or any excipient
- Participants with any other significant disease that in the Investigator's opinion would impede study assessments or endanger the participant
- Female participants with positive pregnancy test at baseline or participants with active project of pregnancy during the study
- Participants with legal incapacity or limited legal capacity
- Participants have participated in any other investigational study within 8 weeks before the screening visit
Sites / Locations
- Ospedale Binaghi, Università di Cagliari,ASL 8
- Ospedale Clinicizzato SS. Annunziata
- Azienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale della Valle Olona (presidio di Gallarate)
- Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria San Martino
- Ospedale P.A.Micone
- Ospedale San Raffaele
- A.O.U. Federico II
- Azienda Ospedaliera di Rilievo Nazionale A. CardarelliAzienda Ospedaliera di Rilievo Nazionale A. Cardarelli
- Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli
- Azienda Ospedaliera di Padova
- I.R.C.C.S. Neuromed-Istituto Neurologico Mediterraneo
- Azienda Ospedaliera San Camillo Forlanini
- Azienda Ospedaliera Sant'Andrea-Università di Roma La Sapienza
- Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli
- Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Policlinico Tor Vergata
- Ospedale S. Paolo
- Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Ospedali Riuniti
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
Placebo Comparator
D-aspartate + IFN beta-1a + Methylprednisolone
Placebo + IFN beta-1a + Methylprednisolone
Participants received D-aspartate 2660 milligrams (mg) once daily in the form of oral solution for 24 weeks along with IFN beta-1a subcutaneously (sc) at a dose of 44 microgram (mcg) three times a week (TIW) in participants without relapse and IFN beta-1a sc TIW plus Methylprednisolone 1000 mg intravenously once daily for 5 consecutive days in participants with relapse.
Participants received placebo matched to D-aspartate once daily in the form of oral solution for 24 weeks along with IFN beta-1a subcutaneously (sc) at a dose of 44 microgram (mcg) three times a week (TIW) in participants without relapse and IFN beta-1a sc TIW plus Methylprednisolone 1000 mg intravenously once daily for 5 consecutive days in participants with relapse.