Tiny study probes muscle oxygen in rare nerve and muscle diseases
NCT ID NCT02789059
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This completed study looked at how muscle oxygen levels change during exercise in people with various neuromuscular diseases compared to healthy volunteers. Seventeen participants did a knee-extension exercise while a device measured muscle oxygen. The goal was to understand differences in muscle oxygen use, especially in diseases linked to a missing protein called dystrophin. Some participants also had a muscle biopsy to study mitochondria, the cell's energy factories.
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Study facts
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- 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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17 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Jul 2015
- Finished
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Dec 2017
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
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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 70 years
- Sex
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Male participants only
- Healthy volunteers
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Accepted
You do not need to have the condition being studied to take part.
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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: * healthy subjects and * subjects affected by one of the fallowing neuromuscular diseases: Becker Muscular dystrophy Facioscapulohumeral dystrophy, Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy , Congenital Myopathy , Spinal Muscular Atrophy Charcot Marie Tooth Disease and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis , * able to walk * presenting a manual muscle testing of at Least 4/5 on the quadriceps according to the Medical research Council Exclusion Criteria: * musculoskeletal pain of the quadriceps * other neurological disorders * Heart failure arrhythmia, uncontrolled hypertension, angina pectoris * dyspnoea \>2 according to the NYHA * Peripheral artery disease * BMI \>30kg.m-2.
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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CHRU de Lille, Hôpital Swyngedhauw
Lille, France
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Hôpital Amiens Nord, Service de Neurologie
Amiens, France
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Hôpital Sébastopol, CHU de Reims
Reims, France
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