Meclizine for Hepatocellular Carcinoma
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Official title
A Window of Opportunity Trial with Meclizine in Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Brief summary
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Meclizine hydrochloride is an antihistamine widely used for treatment of vertigo and motion sickness. In HCC it has been used for anti-emetic effects, but it is used here as a CAR (constitutive androstane receptor) inverse agonist. The hypothesis of this study is that Meclizine, CAR inverse agonist, will have beneficial therapeutic effect in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma who are candidates for surgical resection, ablation, TACE, Y90 or systemic therapy by blocking tumorigenesis and inducing apoptosis. The effects of Meclizine will be analyzed by measuring messenger RNA level of CAR target genes CYP2B6, c-Myc and FoxM1, the downstream effectors of CAR, by real time quantitative PCR.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT03253289
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase 1
- Enrollment
- 13 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Oct 13, 2017 (Actual)
- Primary completion
- Mar 28, 2023 (Actual)
- Completion
- Mar 28, 2023 (Actual)
- Last update posted
- Oct 2, 2024
2017 – 2023
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 5
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baylor College of Medicine -McNair Campus | Houston | Texas | 77030 | — |
| Baylor College of Medicine | Houston | Texas | 77030 | — |
| Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center | Houston | Texas | 77030 | — |
| Ben Taub General Hospital | Houston | Texas | 77030 | — |
| Harris Health System- Smith Clinic | Houston | Texas | 77030 | — |
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- Last update posted Oct 2, 2024 · Synced Oct 18, 2026
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