Burosumab and 1-25 (OH) Vitamin D on Human Osteoblasts

Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot listed
Trial typeObservational
Biological sexAll
Age4-18
SponsorHospices Civils de Lyon

About this trial

FGF23 is the cornerstone of phosphate / calcium / vitamin D metabolism: it is synthesized mainly by osteocytes and acts as a phosphaturizing agent, inhibitor of dihydroxyvitamin D, and inhibitor of synthesis and secretion of PTH in most tissues.

The specific role of FGF23 on bone has yet to be demonstrated. In osteoblasts, overexpression of FGF23 in vitro suppresses not only osteoblastic differentiation but also the synthesis of the mineralized matrix independently of its systemic action on phosphate metabolism. In osteoblasts, FGF23 also regulates the secretion of osteopontin by directly suppressing transcription of alkaline phosphatase.

In some diseases such as hypophosphatemic rickets (HR), the direct role of FGF23 on bone has not yet been studied to our knowledge, whereas these genetic hypophosphatemias are secondary to overexpression of FGF23, whether an activating mutation of FGF23 or inhibitory mutations of its inhibitors (DMP1 and PHEX). However, patients with X-linked hypophosphatemic rickets (XLH) have higher circulating FGF23 levels than healthy controls and these levels are higher in treated patients.

Management of XLH consists primarily of correcting the native vitamin D defect by prescribing active vitamin D analogs as well as phosphate supplementation to improve bone mineralization and decrease dental complications, growth, and bone deformities. Recently, a new therapeutic option has been developed for XLH, burosumab, a human monoclonal antibody that binds and inhibits FGF23 activity. The use of burosumab is currently authorized in France in some pediatric patients with severe forms of XLH.

Independently of the indirect bone effects of phosphate correction and vitamin D levels, the direct role of burosumab on bone cells has never been studied. The objective of this project is to study the osteoblastic biology of patients with RH compared to control patients, and to evaluate the direct impact of the treatments used in this pathology on human osteoblasts.

Eligibility criteria

This trial does not accept healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

Children from 4 months-old to 18 years-old

Patients requiring craniosynostosis surgery followed by reference centers for rare diseases of calcium and phosphate metabolism / craniofacial malformations

Patients and parent / holder of parental authority who have been informed of the study and do not object to participate

Disqualifiers

Patient being treated with oral corticosteroid or having received more than 3 months of corticosteroid treatment before surgery.

Trial population

patients with craniosynostosis, idiopathic (control patients) or due to HR

Trial design

Design model

Case-control

Time perspective

Prospective

Treatments tested in this trial

  • osteoblast biology study

    Biological/Vaccine

    Describe the in-vitro action of burosumab and vitamin D on human osteoblastogenesis from osteoblasts from patients with craniosynostosis due to HR

Treatment groups

20 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups
Group A: control patients1 intervention
Group B: HR patients1 intervention

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

Number of osteoblastic cells obtained at the end of differentiation

The analysis of osteoblastic differentiation obtained from the bone cells from patients with burosumab and/or 1-25 (OH) vitamin D (HR patients vs idiopathic craniosynostosis)

Time frame
Day 0

Secondary outcomes

Other outcomes

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