Optimization of the ex Vivo Challenge: Reproductive Infections and Contraception
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The development of surrogates to predict HIV prevention product safety and efficacy is a high priority. An ex vivo challenge model is one such promising surrogate. Colonic tissue exposed to rectally applied microbicides in vivo and then challenged with HIV in the lab showed significant reduction in HIV replication when compared to tissue exposed to placebo gel. Currently, the ex vivo challenge model for ectocervical and vaginal tissue is under development at the Dezzutti lab at the Magee Womens Research Institute in Pittsburgh, PA. Currently the Reproductive Infectious Disease Research Group is conducting a study designed to answer important questions about the ex vivo challenge model:which HIV virus is the best to use in the laboratory and what is the best indicator of HIV infection. The proposed study delineated here will investigate the effect of BV, HSV and contraceptive use on the model . There will be two arms to the study; the first will investigate the impact of HSV and BV status and the second, contraceptive use. Vaginal and cervical biopsies will be collected from participants for the ex vivo challenge model.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT02375425
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Observational
- Phase
- Not listed
- Enrollment
- 294 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years to 45 Years
- Sex
- Female
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepts healthy volunteers
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Study timeline
- Start date
- May 31, 2015
- Primary completion
- May 31, 2016
- Completion
- May 31, 2016
- Last update posted
- Dec 23, 2018
2015 – 2016
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 1
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Magee Womens Hospital of UPMC | Pittsburgh | Pennsylvania | 15213 | — |
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