Bapineuzumab in Patients With Mild to Moderate Alzheimer's Disease (ApoE4 Carrier)
- Conditions
- Alzheimer's Disease
- Interventions
- Registration Number
- NCT00575055
- Brief Summary
This is a multicenter, double-blind, placebo controlled, randomized, outpatient, multiple dose study in male and female patients ages 50 to less than 89 years with mild to moderate AD. Approximately 200 study sites in the US and Canada will be involved. Patients will be randomized to receive either bapineuzumab or placebo. Each patient's participation will last approximately 1.5 years.
Bapineuzumab is a humanized monoclonal antibody, which binds to and clears beta amyloid peptide, and is designed to provide antibodies to beta amyloid directly to the patient.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 1121
- Diagnosis of probable AD
- Age from 50 to less than 89
- Mini-Mental Status Exam score of 16-26 inclusive
- Brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan consistent with the diagnosis of AD
- Stable doses of medications (cholinesterase inhibitors and memantine allowed)
- Caregiver able to attend all clinic visits with patient
- Significant neurological disease other than AD
- Major psychiatric disorder
- Significant systemic illness
- History of stroke or seizure, autoimmune disease, myocardial infarction within the last 2 years
- Smoking greater than 20 cigarettes per day
- Anticonvulsants, anti-Parkinson's, anticoagulant, or narcotic medications
- Prior treatment experimental immunotherapeutics or vaccines for AD
- Women of childbearing potential
- Presence of pacemakers, CSF shunts, or foreign metal objects in the eyes, skin or body
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Bapineuzumab 0.5 mg/kg Bapineuzumab 0.5 mg/kg infusion every 13 weeks for a total of 6 infusions Placebo Dose Placebo Control infusion every 13 weeks for a total of 6 infusions. Bapineuzumab 1.0 m/kg Bapineuzumab 1.0 m/kg infusion every 13 weeks for a total of 6 infusions.
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Cognitive and Functional 18 months
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Imaging and biochemical biomarkers of disease status 18 months Cognitive and Global 18 months
Trial Locations
- Locations (184)
University of Alabama Hospital (UAB)
🇺🇸Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Dedicated Clinical Research, Inc.
🇺🇸Goodyear, Arizona, United States
Banner Alzheimer's Institute
🇺🇸Phoenix, Arizona, United States
HOPE Research Institute, LLC
🇺🇸Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Banner Research Institute
🇺🇸Sun City, Arizona, United States
University of Arizona College of Medicine, Health Sciences Center
🇺🇸Tucson, Arizona, United States
Northwest NeuroSpecialists, PLLC
🇺🇸Tucson, Arizona, United States
Clinical Trials Inc.
🇺🇸Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
East Bay Physicians Medical Group
🇺🇸Berkeley, California, United States
AVI Clinical Research
🇺🇸Carson, California, United States
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