Own stem cells tested to fight liver scarring in 700 patients
NCT ID NCT05080465
First seen Jun 25, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This completed phase 3 study followed 700 people with liver cirrhosis caused by hepatitis B, C, or fatty liver disease. Researchers took a small amount of bone marrow from each patient, processed it to collect stem cells, and infused those cells back into the patient. The goal was to check safety and see if the treatment could improve liver stiffness and blood markers of liver function over the long term.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- autologous bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could offer a way to slow or improve liver cirrhosis using a patient's own stem cells, potentially reducing the need for a liver transplant.
- What could go wrong
- This is a follow-up study, not a new treatment test, and results may not confirm lasting benefit. Stem cell therapy carries risks like infection or immune reactions, and cirrhosis is a complex disease that may not respond.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Phase 3
Large-scale testing in a bigger group. Usually the last step before a treatment can be approved.
- Participants
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700 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Dec 2018
- Finished
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Jan 2025
- 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 69 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: Provision of written informed consent for this study by subject or as applicable legal guardians Able to comply with study requirements Еру rates with RVR defined as serum HCV RNA undetectable after 12 month after antiviral therapy. Subject must have documented compensated cirrhosis and no current or past clinical evidence of decompensated liver disease Subject must have documented history Screening laboratory result indicating hepatitis C virus (HCV) Genotype 1, 2, 4, 5 or 6 (GT1,2,4,5,6) infection Exclusion Criteria: Positive test result at screening for Hepatitis B surface antigen or anti-human immunodeficiency virus (anti-HIV) antibody HCV genotype performed during screening indicating co-infection with more than 1 HCV genotype.
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.
Contacts and locations
Locations
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Institute of Bio-Stem Cell Rehabilitation
Kharkiv, Ukraine
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