Effect of BM-MSCs in DCD Kidney Transplantation
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02561767 |
Recruitment Status : Unknown
Verified September 2015 by Changxi Wang, First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University.
Recruitment status was: Not yet recruiting
First Posted : September 28, 2015
Last Update Posted : September 28, 2015
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Kidney Transplantation Acute Kidney Tubular Necrosis | Other: bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells Other: Saline Drug: Induction therapy (ATG or Basiliximab) Drug: Maintenance therapy (Low-dose CNI + MPA + steroids) | Phase 1 Phase 2 |
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Estimated Enrollment : | 120 participants |
Allocation: | Randomized |
Intervention Model: | Parallel Assignment |
Masking: | Single (Participant) |
Primary Purpose: | Treatment |
Official Title: | The Efficacy and Safety of Bone Marrow-derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Kidney Transplantation From Chinese Donation After Citizen Death (DCD): A Multi-center Randomized Controlled Trial |
Study Start Date : | October 2015 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date : | October 2016 |
Estimated Study Completion Date : | October 2017 |

Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Experimental: MSCs group
Allogeneic bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (10^6/kg) from third party donors is intravenously given at day 0 (after renal artery reperfusion), day 7, day 14 and day 21.Induction therapy: ATG or Basiliximab; Maintenance therapy: low-dose Tacrolimus + mycophenolic acid + prednisone. The third-party MSCs have no similar HLA alleles of kidney donors, and have no HLA alleles specific to preformed anti-HLA antibodies in recipients prior to KTx. |
Other: bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells
BM-MSCs is harvested from third-party health volunteer donors.
Other Name: BM-MSCs Drug: Induction therapy (ATG or Basiliximab) ATG, antithymocyte globulin; Basiliximab, anti-CD25 mAb. Recipients receive ATG or Basiliximab as induction therapy in both MSCs group and control group.
Other Name: ATG or Basiliximab Drug: Maintenance therapy (Low-dose CNI + MPA + steroids) Maintenance immunosuppressive therapy consists of low-dose tacrolimus and mycophenolic acid and steroids. Recipients receive the same maintenance therapy in both MSCs group and control group.
Other Name: Low-dose tacrolimus + Mycophenolic acid (MPA) + steroids |
Placebo Comparator: Control group
Placebo (saline) is intravenously given at day 0 (after renal artery reperfusion), day 7, day 14 and day 21. Induction therapy: ATG or Basiliximab; Maintenance therapy: low-dose Tacrolimus + mycophenolic acid + prednisone.
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Other: Saline
Saline as placebo of MSCs Drug: Induction therapy (ATG or Basiliximab) ATG, antithymocyte globulin; Basiliximab, anti-CD25 mAb. Recipients receive ATG or Basiliximab as induction therapy in both MSCs group and control group.
Other Name: ATG or Basiliximab Drug: Maintenance therapy (Low-dose CNI + MPA + steroids) Maintenance immunosuppressive therapy consists of low-dose tacrolimus and mycophenolic acid and steroids. Recipients receive the same maintenance therapy in both MSCs group and control group.
Other Name: Low-dose tacrolimus + Mycophenolic acid (MPA) + steroids |
- Estimated glomerular filtration rate [ Time Frame: 1 month ]eGFR at one month post-transplant
- Incidence of slow graft function [ Time Frame: 12 months ]
- Incidence of delayed graft function [ Time Frame: 12 months ]
- Proportion of normal renal function recovery [ Time Frame: 12 months ]
- Time to renal function recovery [ Time Frame: 12 months ]
- Patient survival [ Time Frame: 12 months ]
- Renal graft survival [ Time Frame: 12 months ]
- Incidence of acute rejection [ Time Frame: 12 months ]
- Severe adverse events [ Time Frame: 12 months ]
- Estimated glomerular filtration rate [ Time Frame: 12 months ]eGFR up to 12 months post-transplant

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years to 65 Years (Adult, Older Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Primary kidney transplantation
- Receiving induction therapy and combined immunosuppressive regimens (CNIs + MPA + steroids)
- Patient is willing and capable of giving written informed consent for study participation and able to participate in the study for 12 months
Exclusion Criteria:
- Secondary kidney transplantation
- Combined or multi-organ transplantation
- Women who are pregnant, intend to become pregnant in the next 1 years, breastfeeding, or have a positive pregnancy test on enrollment or prior to study medication administration
- Panel reactive antibody (PRA)>20%
- CDC crossmatch is positive
- Donors or recipients are known hepatitis C antibody-positive or polymerase chain reaction (PCR) positive for hepatitis C
- Donors or recipients are known hepatitis B surface antigen-positive or PCR positive for hepatitis B
- Donors or recipients are known human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection
- Patients with active infection
- Recipients with a history of substance abuse (drugs or alcohol) within the past 6 months, or psychotic disorders that are not capable with adequate study follow-up.
- Patients with severe cardiovascular dysfunction
- WBC<3*10^9/L or RBC <5g/dL
- Highly allergic constitution or having severe history of allergies.
- Patients with active peptic ulcer disease, chronic diarrhea, or gastrointestinal problem affect absorption
- Patients with a history of cancer within the last 5 years
- Prisoner or patients compulsorily detained (involuntarily incarcerated) for treatment or either a psychiatric or physical (e.g. infectious disease) illness

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT02561767
Contact: Changxi Wang, M.D., Ph.D | 86-20-87333428 | wangchx@mail.sysu.edu.cn | |
Contact: Longshan Liu, M.D., Ph.D | 86-20-87306082 | liulshan@mail.sysu.edu.cn |
China, Guangdong | |
The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University | |
Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, 510080 |
Study Chair: | Changxi Wang, M.D., Ph.D | First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University |
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Responsible Party: | Changxi Wang, Director of Organ Transplant Center, First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT02561767 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
MSCs-KTx-DCD-150924 |
First Posted: | September 28, 2015 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | September 28, 2015 |
Last Verified: | September 2015 |
kidney transplantation mesenchymal stem cell donation after citizen's death ischemia reperfusion injury renal function recovery |
Kidney Tubular Necrosis, Acute Necrosis Pathologic Processes Acute Kidney Injury Renal Insufficiency Kidney Diseases Urologic Diseases Mycophenolic Acid Tacrolimus Basiliximab Immunosuppressive Agents |
Immunologic Factors Physiological Effects of Drugs Calcineurin Inhibitors Enzyme Inhibitors Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action Antibiotics, Antineoplastic Antineoplastic Agents Antibiotics, Antitubercular Antitubercular Agents Anti-Bacterial Agents Anti-Infective Agents |