URISTEM: Impact of Obesity, Chronic Kidney Disease and Type 2 Diabetes on Human Urinary Stem Cells

Sponsor

Hospices Civils de Lyon (Other)

Overall Status

Not yet recruiting

CT.gov ID

NCT04998461

Collaborator

(none)

Enrollment

Location

Anticipated Duration (Months)

1.1

Patients Per Site Per Month

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

Obesity is at risk for the development of chronic kidney disease but the involved mechanisms are not known (Navarro et al. 2015). Establishing the link between obesity and kidney damage is difficult. Indeed, kidney function measurement lacks precision in obese people (Lemoine et al. 2014) and requires expensive methods such as measurement of 99mTc-DTPA clearance. Biopsies are too invasive for the detection of emerging kidney damage or for the following of the kidney function. Therefore new tools are required for the early identification of at risk individuals for the kidney damage complication.

Mesenchymal stem cells may represent such a relevant tool. These cells are present in a large number of organs, including kidney (Costa et al. 2020).

In addition to be differentiated cells progenitors (Dominici et al. 2006), they also support immunosuppressive, anti-fibrotic and pro-angiogenic functions that have been used for the treatment of kidney fibrosis (Usunier et al. 2014). Therefore, mesenchymal stem cells contribute to tissue homeostasis and their alterations may reflect organ dysfunctions. Indeed, mesenchymal stem cells from obese adipose tissue lose their immunosuppressive (Serena et al. 2016) and differentiation (Gustafson et al. 2009) functions and contribute to fibrosis (Keophiphath et al. 2009) and inflammation (Lee et al. 2010; Gustafson, Nerstedt, et Smith 2019). It is thus probable that kidney dysfunctions are associated with functional alterations of kidney mesenchymal stem cells.

The collection of mesenchymal stem cells from kidney can easily be performed from urine and next cultivated for amplification. They are called urine stem cells (USC).

From our experience with obese mouse adipose stem cells, we observed that functional changes of stem cells preceded adipose tissue dysfunctions. Functional signatures of mesenchymal stem cells are thus representative of changes occuring in the function of the tissue notably in answer to obesity. These features could be used to identify obese people presenting ongoing alterations of kidney function, before clinical manifestations of kidney dysfunction. Because kidney mesenchymal stem cells are easy to isolate from urine, their collection is compatible with the follow up of patients and can be applied to a large number of individuals, including the younger. USC could represent a valuable tool to detect progression towards kidney damage.

In this project we plan to analyse USC alterations induced by obesity and to identify signatures associated with the progression towards kidney damage and type 2 diabetes. The goal is to evaluate USC as potential marker for the non invasive monitoring of patients in answer to a need that is not achieved by the present available approaches.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Chronic Kidney Diseases Obesity Stem Cells Diabetes type2	Biological: urine collection

Study Design

Study Type:

Observational

Anticipated Enrollment :

60 participants

Observational Model:

Cohort

Time Perspective:

Prospective

Official Title:

Impact of Obesity, Chronic Kidney Disease and Type 2 Diabetes on Human Urinary Stem Cells

Anticipated Study Start Date :

Nov 1, 2021

Anticipated Primary Completion Date :

May 1, 2025

Anticipated Study Completion Date :

Jun 1, 2026

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
Obese patients with normal renal function estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate (eDFG) ≥ 60 ml/min/1.73 m2 Body Mass Index (BMI) > 30 kg/m2 Microalbuminuria / creatinuria ≤ 3mg / mmol and / or proteinuria < 0.15 g/24h	Biological: urine collection To isolate urine stem cells, a sample of 30ml minimum an 100ml maximum as a function of the patient, will be collected in a single time in a sterile flask during collection for the nephrologic exams. A transcriptome analysis of USC will be performed.
Obese patients with impaired renal function estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate (eDFG) < 60 ml/min/1.73 m2 Body Mass Index (BMI) > 30 kg/m2 Microalbuminuria / creatinuria ≤ 3mg / mmol and / or proteinuria < 0.15 g/24h	Biological: urine collection To isolate urine stem cells, a sample of 30ml minimum an 100ml maximum as a function of the patient, will be collected in a single time in a sterile flask during collection for the nephrologic exams. A transcriptome analysis of USC will be performed.
Non-obese patients with impaired renal function estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate (eDFG) < 60 ml/min/1.73 m2 Body Mass Index (BMI) between 18 and 30 kg/m2 Microalbuminuria / creatinuria ≤ 3mg / mmol and / or proteinuria < 0.15 g/24h	Biological: urine collection To isolate urine stem cells, a sample of 30ml minimum an 100ml maximum as a function of the patient, will be collected in a single time in a sterile flask during collection for the nephrologic exams. A transcriptome analysis of USC will be performed.
Non-obese patients with normal renal function (control group) estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate (eDFG) ≥ 60 ml/min/1.73 m2 Body Mass Index (BMI) between 18 and 30 kg/m2 Microalbuminuria / creatinuria ≤ 3mg / mmol and / or proteinuria < 0.15 g/24h	Biological: urine collection To isolate urine stem cells, a sample of 30ml minimum an 100ml maximum as a function of the patient, will be collected in a single time in a sterile flask during collection for the nephrologic exams. A transcriptome analysis of USC will be performed.

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

Comparison of gene expression in USC (Urinary Stem Cells) [inclusion day]
High throughput sequencing will be used to compare USC (Urinary Stem Cells) for the differential expression of genes between the 4 populations (obese or lean patients, with or without alteration of the kidney function). A gene set enrichment analysis will be used to identify the main functions supported by USC from each patient, establishing a signature.

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study:

18 Years to 60 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study:

All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers:

Inclusion Criteria - For all participants :

Age between 18 and 60
Non diabetic (fasting blood glucose <1.26 g/L)
Patient not having objected to participating in the research

Inclusion Criteria - For the obese group with normal renal function

eDFG ≥ 60 ml/min/1.73 m2
BMI > 30 kg/m2
Microalbuminuria / creatinuria ≤ 3mg / mmol and / or proteinuria < 0.15 g/24h

Inclusion Criteria - For the obese group with impaired renal function

eDFG < 60 ml/min/1.73 m2
BMI > 30 kg/m2
Microalbuminuria / creatinuria ≤ 3mg / mmol and / or proteinuria < 0.15 g/24h

Inclusion Criteria - For the non-obese group with impaired renal function

eDFG < 60 ml/min/1.73 m2
BMI between 18 and 30 kg/m2
Microalbuminuria / creatinuria ≤ 3mg / mmol and / or proteinuria < 0.15 g/24h

Inclusion Criteria - For the non-obese group with normal renal function (control group)

eDFG ≥ 60 ml/min/1.73 m2
BMI between 18 and 30 kg/m2
Microalbuminuria / creatinuria ≤ 3mg / mmol and / or proteinuria < 0.15 g/24h

Exclusion Criteria - For all participants :

Acute renal failure within 3 months (defined as an increase of more than 50% in usual creatinemia)
Inflammatory, infectious, cardiovascular or progressive neoplastic disease
Urinary pathology (malformation, infection, etc.)
Exclusion period of a previous study or already participating in a clinical research protocol having an impact on the judgment criteria of the study