A Pilot Pediatric/Adult Study of Gene Expression Profiling and Clinical Characterization of Phototoxicity
Background:
- Phototoxicity is a sunburn-like response associated with certain medications and is a
phenomenon which is not completely understood. Although clinically similar to a typical
sunburn reaction, the gene expression changes in phototoxic skin reactions may differ
from those in typical sunburn.
- Doxycycline is a relatively well-tolerated and known phototoxic antimicrobial which can
be used in healthy volunteers to increase susceptibility to phototoxicity.
- Characterizing potential risk factors to phototoxicity secondary to voriconazole, a
broad-spectrum antifungal agent associated with potentially treatment-limiting
phototoxicity, may allow identification of subjects at risk for the adverse reaction
via pharmacogenetic evaluation and medical record review.
- Subjects at risk of phototoxicity may benefit from application of effective sunscreens.
Objectives:
- (Primary) To determine the global gene expression profiles in skin exhibiting
phototoxic reactions in healthy volunteers treated with doxycycline, and compare
expression profiles in skin exposed to ultraviolet (UV) radiation occurring in the
absence of doxycycline.
- To investigate the effects of the doxycycline alone in the skin of phototoxic and
non-phototoxic healthy volunteers.
- (Primary) To characterize voriconazole-related phototoxicity reactions in subjects with
the use of phototesting and to determine if these subjects may receive reasonable
phototoxic protection from the use of sunblock.
- (Secondary) To determine the relationship (if any) between voriconazole phototoxicity
and pharmacogenomics (cytochrome P450 isoenzyme CYP2C19).
- (Secondary) To determine the role of UVA and visible light in phototoxicity reactions
associated with doxycycline and voriconazole.
Eligibility:
- I & II) Healthy volunteers with skin phototype II.
- III) Subjects scheduled to begin voriconazole therapy.
- IV) Subjects on chronic voriconazole with or without a history of phototoxicity
reaction.
- Previously treated healthy volunteers (I & II) who were evaluated to be either
phototoxic
OR non-phototoxic.
Design:
- I) For the Screening visit arm, forty healthy volunteers will undergo screening with
pertinent skin exam and blood work to evaluate ANA/ENA and liver function profile.
- II) For the Study visit arm, eligible healthy volunteers will undergo phototesting and
will have skin biopsies prior to initiating a 3-day course of oral doxycycline 100 mg
twice daily.
- After the last dose of doxycycline, healthy volunteers will undergo on-treatment MED
testing.
- In those demonstrating phototoxicity, skin biopsies will be performed and submitted for
processing for microarray analysis.
- III) Thirty-five subjects scheduled to begin voriconazole will undergo CYP450
genotyping and baseline phototesting prior to initiation of voriconazole.
- Adult subjects will be invited to undergo optional skin biopsies pre-drug and on-drug.
- Repeat phototesting will be performed in subjects after at least 7 days of voriconazole
to determine if voriconazole predisposes to phototoxicity.
- Subjects with voriconazole phototoxicity will be invited to undergo sunscreen testing.
- IV) Seventy subjects with prior clinical history of voriconazole phototoxicity as well
as known voriconazole phototoxicity non-reactors will undergo CYP450 genotyping and
potential phototesting.
- To investigate the effects of the doxycycline alone in the skin of healthy volunteers
previously categorized as phototoxic and non-phototoxic
Observational
N/A
Heidi H Kong, M.D.
Principal Investigator
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
United States: Federal Government
060198
NCT00353158
July 2006
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National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, 9000 Rockville Pike | Bethesda, Maryland 20892 |