Healthy gut study sets baseline for nerve disease research
NCT ID NCT03054415
First seen Jun 26, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This study looked at the gut's own nervous system in 16 healthy adults to understand how it normally works. Researchers took small tissue samples from the colon during an endoscopy and measured how the rectum responds to pressure. The goal is to use this information as a healthy reference for future studies on patients with conditions like spina bifida.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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16 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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May 2017
- Finished
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Sep 2017
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 to 65 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Accepted
You do not need to have the condition being studied to take part.
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Inclusion Criteria: * subject aged between 18 and 65 years old age and sex matched with the first sixteen patients included and evaluated in the ANOSPIN study * subject who gave their written consent to participate to the present study * subject not included in another study * subject covered by social insurance system Exclusion Criteria: * Pregnant or nursing women; * Anticoagulants therapy or coagulation disorders; * Past history of anal or rectal surgery * Crohn disease or ulcerative colitis * Irritable bowel syndrome according to the Rome III criteria; * Past history of pelvic radiotherapy * Pas history of rectal or anal cancer * Anorectal symptoms : faecal incontinence, constipation, anorectal pain, rectal prolapse; * CCIS \>5 (faecal incontinence); * Kess Score \>9 (constipation); * Colonic irrigation; * Use of laxatives; * Abnormal colonic mucosa * Period of exclusion; * Patient under guardianship or unable to give their consent;
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Rennes University Hospital
Rennes, 35033, France
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