Status:

ENROLLING_BY_INVITATION

Defining the Skin and Blood Biomarkers of Ichthyosis

Lead Sponsor:

Northwestern University

Collaborating Sponsors:

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Galderma R&D

Conditions:

Ichthyosis

Netherton Syndrome

Eligibility:

All Genders

1-60 years

Brief Summary

Ichthyosis is a group of genetic skin disorders that present with dry, thickened, scaly, or flaky skin. As of today, there is no cure or treatment. Doctors can only treat the dry skin with different t...

Detailed Description

Objectives: 1. To define a panel of skin and blood biomarkers associated with disease activity and pruritus in Netherton syndrome, lamellar ichthyosis, and other ichthyosis subtypes. 2. To determine ...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Control and ichthyosis subjects may be of either sex and must be between 1-60 years of age at the time of enrollment
  • Ichthyosis subjects include individuals with a diagnosis Netherton syndrome, lamellar ichthyosis, or other ichthyosis subtypes
  • Ichthyosis subjects should not have administered systemic immunosuppressant therapy in the month before the study
  • Ichthyosis subjects should not use topical immunosuppressants in the week before the study
  • Ichthyosis subjects should not have applied emollients to the planned biopsy sites within 12 hours before biopsy, but can be applied elsewhere
  • Controls may have no inflammatory disease, atopy, or obvious xerosis (urticaria, food allergy, allergic rhinitis or conjunctivitis, asthma)
  • Controls for skin sampling may have no observable abnormality in the sampled skin and, to further assure the normality of the "normal" skin edges, must not have evidence of inflammation or epidermal change in the lesion to be surgically removed
  • Subjects and guardians of minors must sign the approved IRB consent form(s) prior to initiation of the study protocol

Exclusion

  • Subjects who are unable to give informed consent or assent
  • Subjects who administered anti-inflammatory systemic and topical therapy or emollients that do not comply with inclusion criteria prior to blood and biopsy sampling
  • Subjects whose main diagnosis is deemed unsafe by the study investigator for study participation

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

January 31 2018

Trial Type :

OBSERVATIONAL

Allocation :

ESTIMATED

End Date :

December 31 2025

Estimated Enrollment :

200 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT03417856

Start Date

January 31 2018

End Date

December 31 2025

Last Update

April 24 2025

Active Locations (4)

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Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60611

2

Northbrook Lurie Children's Outpatient Clinic

Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60611

3

Northwestern University

Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60611

4

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

New York, New York, United States, 10029