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ClinicalTrials.gov ID

NCT01320982

Lead Sponsor

Sheba Medical CenterOTHER_GOV

Overall Status

Unknown status

Study Type

Interventional

Phase

Phase 3

Enrollment

400Estimated

Last Update Posted

Mar 23, 2011Estimated

Start Date

Mar 2011

Primary Completion Date

Jun 2012Estimated

Completion Date

Jul 2012Estimated

Official Title

A Randomized Trial Administering Minocycline, Acetylsalicylic Acid or Pramipexole vs Placebo as add-on to Antipsychotics in Patients With Schizophrenia or Schizoaffective Disorder

Brief Summary

The objective of the study is to evaluate the efficacy of Pramipexole, Minocycline and Aspirin compared to placebo, as add-on to anti-psychotics in the treatment of patients with schizophrenia.

Detailed Description

Inflammatory processes have been implicated as a cause of schizophrenia (Fan, Goff et al. 2007), and the COX-2 inhibitor, Celecoxib, has been shown to reduce symptoms of schizophrenia (Muller, Krause et al. 2010). Aspirin, which is also a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug(NSAID), irreversibly inhibits Cyclooxygenase-1 (COX-1) and modifies the enzymatic activity of Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2), thus inhibiting the formation of prostaglandins and reduces inflammatory reaction. In a study funded by the Stanley Medical Research Institute (SMRI) recently published, Laan at all (Laan, Grobbee et al. 2010) administered add-on 1000mg/d of Aspirin to patients with schizophrenia receiving anti-psychotics, and reported reductions in Positive and negative syndrome scale (PANSS) total and PANSS positive scores without substantial side effects.

Minocycline is a second-generation tetracycline that exerts anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial effects while having a distinct neuroprotective profile. Minocycline effects the glutaminergic system, through inhibition of neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) and blocking of nitric oxide (NO)- induced neurotoxicity (Du et al, 1998; Jiang et al., 2005), and thus has been suggested as a potential treatment for schizophrenia. One published study (Levkovitz, Mendlovich et al. 2010), and another, unpublished study by Bill Deakin found that add-on treatment of 200mg/d of Minocycline was beneficial for symptoms and cognition in schizophrenia, and a study by Miayoka et al (Miyaoka, Yasukawa et al. 2008) administered open-label 450 mg/day Minocycline, and found improvement on positive symptoms.

Indirect pharmacological evidence suggests a relative excess of dopaminergic activity as being implicated in the pathogenesis of some of the symptoms of schizophrenia, and all effective antipsychotics effect dopamine D2 receptors. Pramipexole is a pre-synaptic dopamine auto-receptor agonist hypothesized to improve in symptoms in schizophrenia patients. In an open label study, Kasper at all (Kasper, Barnas et al. 1997) showed statistically significant improvement in PANSS scores in patients not stabilized on haloperidol. Other data indicate that add-on Pramipexole improves symptoms of depression and cognition, in patients with affective disorders (Goldberg, Frye et al. 1999; Sporn, Ghaemi et al. 2000; Goldberg, Burdick et al. 2004; Zarate, Payne et al. 2004), and Malhotra et al, unpublished data.

All of these studies were relatively small, and were performed by investigators with an interest in the compound. The objective of this study is to replicate them in large trial by investigators with no specific interest in the compounds. This proposed study is a multi-arm study, in which patients will be randomized to one of the three study drugs: Pramipexole, Minocycline and Aspirin, or placebo as part of the same protocol. A design by which several active compounds are all compared to the same placebo arm has been utilized before for schizophrenia (Meltzer, Arvanitis et al. 2004). This design has several advantages: in addition to reduced costs and time it exposes fewer patients to placebo, and enables direct comparison between the compounds and not only to the placebo.

• Schizophrenia
• Schizoaffective Disorder

• minocycline
• pramipexole
• acetylsalicylic acid
• placebo

Ages Eligible for Study

Adult (18-64)Older Adult (65+)

Sexes Eligible for Study

All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Male or female, 18-65 years of age, inclusive
2. Females who are abstinent or practicing an established method of birth control (oral contraceptive tablets, hormonal implant device, hormone patch, injectable contraceptive, intrauterine device.
3. Willing and able to provide informed consent, after the nature of the study has been fully explained
4. Current DSM-IV-TR diagnosis of schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder as confirmed by modified Structured Clinical Interview for DSM Disorders (SCID) and having had at least 2 prior schizophrenic episodes, or continually ill for at least 6 months.
5. Symptoms: 4 (moderate) or above on Clinical Global Impression scale (CGI-S)and 4 (moderate)or above score on two of the following four Positive and negative syndrome scale (PANSS) items: delusions, hallucinatory behaviors, conceptual disorganization or suspiciousness/ persecution, and/or a total PANSS negative symptoms score of 18.
6. Must be on any antipsychotic drug, for at least 2 weeks prior to the baseline visit, at doses within the Patient Outcome Research Team (PORT) criteria, whenever possible. Patients receiving higher doses will have their records reviewed to insure that their dose is required and, if possible, will be stabilized on a lower dose prior to study entry.
7. Inpatients or outpatients. Inpatients will be randomized 3 days or more after admission

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Unwilling or unable, in the opinion of the Investigator, to comply with study instructions
2. Pregnant or breast-feeding
3. Unstable medical disease (malignancy, poorly controlled diabetes, active ischemic cardiac disease, or cardiomyopathy, serious pulmonary disease, kidney disease, impaired liver functioning. History of hemorrhagic CVA or peptic ulcer disease.
4. Patients treated with: any of the trial medications i.e. pramipexole/minocycline/ acetylsalicylic acid, NSAIDs, anti-coagulants, sucralfate, cimetidine, amantadine, mexiletine.
5. Likely allergy or sensitivity to raloxifene/pramipexole/minocycline/acetylsalicylic acid.
6. At significant risk of committing suicide, or in the opinion of the Investigator, currently is at imminent risk of suicide or harming others.
7. Patients with a current DSM-IV substance or alcohol abuse. Patients with a history of and/or current recreational use of cannabinoids or alcohol, and/or patients who smoke cigarettes can be included.
8. Concurrent delirium, mental retardation, drug-induced psychosis, or history of clinically significant brain trauma documented by CT or MRI.

Primary Purpose

Treatment

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional Model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

Triple

Lead Sponsor

Sheba Medical CenterOTHER_GOV

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