Can a fruit compound fight kidney disease inflammation?
NCT ID NCT03325322
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study looks at whether a natural substance called fisetin can help people with advanced chronic kidney disease. Researchers will measure changes in inflammation, stem cell health, and physical frailty after 14 days of treatment. The study involves 30 adults aged 40-80 with moderate to severe kidney disease, including some with diabetes.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Phase 2
Tests whether the treatment actually works, and watches for side effects, in a larger group.
- Participants
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About 30 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Jan 2018
- Expected to finish
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Jan 2027
An estimate. End dates often move.
- 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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40 to 80 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Age 40-80 years * Chronic kidney disease estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) 15-60 ml/min/1.73m2 * For the diabetic kidney disease (DKD) subgroup: Diabetes mellitus (on medication) Exclusion Criteria: * Hemoglobin A1c\>11% at screening for the DKD subgroup * Body weight \>150 kg or body mass index\>50 * Pregnancy * Active glomerulonephritis treated with immunosuppressive therapy * Solid organ transplantation (eg. kidney, pancreas, liver, lung, heart) * Active immunosuppression therapy * History of active substance abuse (including alcohol) within the past 2 years, * Current alcohol abuse (\>3 alcoholic beverages/day or \>21 per week), * Human immunodeficiency virus infection * Active hepatitis B or C infection * Total bilirubin \>2x upper limit of normal * Uncontrolled psychiatric disorder * Uncontrolled systemic lupus erythematosus * Uncontrolled pleural/pericardial effusions or ascites * New invasive cancer except non-melanoma skin cancers * Invasive fungal or viral infection * Inability to tolerate oral medications * Known hypersensitivity or allergy to Fisetin * Subjects taking medications that are sensitive to substrates or substrates with a narrow therapeutic range for CYP3A4, CYP2C8, CYP2C9, or CYP2D6CYP2C9, CYP2C19, CYP1A2, Other (OATP1B1) (Unless willing and able to stop or modify the dosing of the drug) or strong inhibitors or inducers of CYP3A4 (e.g. cyclosporine, tacrolimus or sirolimus). * Tyrosine kinase inhibitor therapy * Subjects on therapeutic doses of anticoagulants (e.g., warfarin, heparin, low molecular weight heparin, factor Xa inhibitors, etc.). * Subjects on full-dose 325 mg aspirin or other anti-platelet agents (eg. clopidogrel) daily who are unable or unwilling to reduce or hold therapy prior to and during the 2-day drug dosing. Subjects may continue their previous regimen on day 3. * Baby aspirin (81 mg), if necessary for cardioprotection, will be allowed but encouraged to hold. * Subjects taking proton pump inhibitors who are unable or unwilling to reduce or hold therapy 2 days prior to and during the 2-day drug dosing. Subjects taking H2-antagonists and unwilling to discontinue therapy for 2 weeks before and one week following enrollment. (See Appendix 4) * Subjects taking glimepiride or glyburide for diabetes therapy who are unable or unwilling to reduce or hold therapy prior to and during the 2-day drug dosing. * Subjects taking the following antimicrobial agents: Aminoglycosides, Azole antifungals (fluconazole, miconazole, voriconazole, itraconazole), Macrolides (clarithromycin, erythromycin), Antivirals (nelfinavir, indinavir, saquinavir, ritonavir, elbasvir/grazoprevir), Rifampin * Corrected QT interval (QTc) \>450 msec * Tobacco use (smoking or chewing; Unless subject willing to reduce use by 50% prior to and during the study) - see Behavioral Modification information below. * Inability to give informed consent * Presence of any condition that the Investigator believes would put the subject at risk or would preclude the patient from successfully completing all aspects of the trial
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The places running it
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Mayo Clinic in Rochester
Rochester, Minnesota, 55905, United States
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