Ex Vivo Test of New Stroke Treatment Using Magnetic Nanorobots

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Thrombosis

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04644653

2020.384

Details and patient eligibility

About

Tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) is the FDA approved thrombolytic drug for patients with acute ischemic stroke. While transcatheter endovascular therapy is widely accepted as an effective method for targeted blood vessels via a catheter to elicit ischemic necrosis.

To improve targeting accuracy administrated tPA and avoiding collateral tissue damage, we developed a magnetic nanorobotic system to active system to active intravenous delivery of tPA for targeted thrombus removal. Here human placenta will be used as an ex vivo model for human cerebral vascular system in our ex vivo thrombolysis study. Our magnetic nanorobotic system encapsulated with tPA overcomes the limitations of passive thrombolytic therapy with tPA alone and will be a promising approach for the treatment of ischemic stroke and other thrombotic diseases

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 20 to 45 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Healthy pregnant women at 20-45 years of age of any ethic origin, giving childbirth with natural delivery or caesarean sections after 37-42 weeks of gestation.
• Healthy singleton pregnancy.
• Participant able to give voluntary, written, informed consent to participate in the study.

Exclusion criteria

• Abnormal prenatal development (e.g intrauterine growth restriction)
• Early preterm birth < 37 weeks
• Verbal Confirmation of hypercholesterolemia
• Family history of stroke or vascular disease
• Type I or Type II diabetes and gestational diabetes
• Cancer, except skin cancers completely excised with no chemotherapy or radiation with a follow up that is negative.
• Clinically significant abnormal laboratory results at screening.
• Any other active or unstable medical condition.
• History of liver disease.
• History of hypertension (including pre-eclampsia)