Clinical trial NCT03189420: Glioma Microenvironment an Exploratory Study
Official title: Glioma Microenvironment an Exploratory Study
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Conditions: Glioma of Brain
Keywords: glioma
glioblastoma
low grade tumor
Lead sponsor: Hospital Sirio-Libanes
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2017-06-16
Enrollment: 30
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 65
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Patients aged between 18-65 years old diagnosed with glioblastoma or low grade glioma

Brief summary: Diffuse glioms are primary brain tumors characterized by infiltrative growth and high heterogeneity, which render the disease mostly incurable. Advances in genetic analysis revealed that molecular and epigenetic alterations predict patients´s overall survival and clinical outcome. However, glioma tumorigenicity is not exclusively caused by its genetic alterations. The crosstalk between tumor cells and the surrounding microenvironment plays a crucial role in modulating glioma growth and aggressiveness. In this sense, to understand the tumor microenvironment would elucidate potential treatment alternatives. The focus will be to evaluate myeloid cells and cytokines levels.

Detailed description: The proposal is to study gene expression and early epigenetic changes in myeloid cells from brain tumors and co-culture experiments. Tough RNA-seq, ATAC-seg and subsequent analysis to monitor the differential gene expression through different time points followed by stimuli. The study will compare the obtained results with sequencing data from microglia of full-fledged human tumor samples (glioblastoma and low grade gliomas). Additionally it will evaluated the immunologic characteristic of the tumor through cytokines levels analysis (TNF-α, IL-4, IL-6, IL-8, IL-10, IL-13, IFN-γ, TGF-β e IL-1ra).

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* 18 - 65 years old with brain tumor
* Patients that will be submitted to brain tumor ressection

Exclusion Criteria:

* Chronic neurodegenerative and inflamatory diseases

Primary outcomes:
measure: gene expression changes
timeFrame: 2 years
Secondary outcomes:
measure: cytokines expression
timeFrame: 2 years
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: São Paulo
country: Brazil
facility: Hospital Sirio Libanes
state: Sao
Study officials:
References:
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