PaiNT: A Clinical Trial to Investigate Efficacy and Safety of NT 201 Injections Compared With Placebo Injections in Participants Aged 18 Years and Older With Chronic Nerve Pain After Shingles or Nerve Injury

Sponsor

Merz Therapeutics GmbH (Industry)

Overall Status

Not yet recruiting

CT.gov ID

NCT06091020

Collaborator

(none)

120

Enrollment

Arms

Anticipated Duration (Months)

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

In this clinical trial, participants with nerve pain after shingles or nerve injury will receive injections with NT 201 or placebo. The purpose is to measure the decrease of nerve pain with NT 201 compared to placebo.

Trial details include:

Trial duration: 22-23 weeks;
Treatment duration: 1 injection visit with a 20-week follow-up period;
Visit frequency: 2 remote visits by phone/video call (1 week and 12 weeks after the injection); 2 on-site visits (6 weeks and 20 weeks after the injection).

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Moderate to Severe Chronic Peripheral Neuropathic Pain (PNP) Due to Postherpetic Neuralgia (PHN) or Peripheral Nerve Injury	Biological: IncobotulinumtoxinA Biological: Placebo	Phase 2

Study Design

Study Type:

Interventional

Anticipated Enrollment :

120 participants

Allocation:

Randomized

Intervention Model:

Parallel Assignment

Masking:

Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)

Primary Purpose:

Treatment

Official Title:

A Parallel-group Treatment, Proof-of-concept Phase 2, Multicenter, Double-blind, Randomized Two-arm Clinical Trial to Investigate the Efficacy and Safety of Subcutaneous NT 201 Injections Compared With Placebo Injections in Decreasing Pain Intensity in Male and Female Participants Aged 18 Years and Older With Moderate to Severe Chronic Peripheral Neuropathic Pain Due to Postherpetic Neuralgia or Peripheral Nerve Injury

Anticipated Study Start Date :

Nov 1, 2023

Anticipated Primary Completion Date :

Jan 1, 2025

Anticipated Study Completion Date :

Apr 1, 2025

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
Experimental: NT 201 Subcutaneous injections of up to 300 units NT 201 into the peripheral neuropathic pain area	Biological: IncobotulinumtoxinA Solution for injection prepared by reconstitution of powder with 0.9% Sodium Chloride (NaCl) Other Names: Xeomin Botulinum toxin type A (150 kiloDalton), free from complexing proteins NT 201
Placebo Comparator: Placebo Subcutaneous injections of placebo into the peripheral neuropathic area	Biological: Placebo Solution for injection prepared by reconstitution of powder with 0.9% Sodium Chloride (NaCl).

Arm

Intervention/Treatment

Experimental: NT 201

Subcutaneous injections of up to 300 units NT 201 into the peripheral neuropathic pain area

Biological: IncobotulinumtoxinA

Solution for injection prepared by reconstitution of powder with 0.9% Sodium Chloride (NaCl)

Other Names:

Xeomin

Botulinum toxin type A (150 kiloDalton), free from complexing proteins

NT 201

Placebo Comparator: Placebo

Subcutaneous injections of placebo into the peripheral neuropathic area

Biological: Placebo

Solution for injection prepared by reconstitution of powder with 0.9% Sodium Chloride (NaCl).

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

Weekly averages of changes from baseline in Average Daily Pain (ADP) intensity at Weeks 2 to 12. [Baseline to week 2 to 12]

Secondary Outcome Measures

Changes from baseline in Neuropathic Pain Symptom Inventory (NPSI) total score at Weeks 2 to 12 [Baseline to week 2 to 12]
Incidence of treatment-emergent adverse events (TEAEs) related to study intervention as assessed by the investigator from intervention to end of study. [Baseline to week 20]

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study:

18 Years and Older

Sexes Eligible for Study:

All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers:

Inclusion Criteria:

Chronic peripheral neuropathic pain that persists for at least 6 months by the time of the screening visit and is plausibly related to either an episode of herpes zoster or a peripheral nerve injury (caused by surgery or mechanical trauma).
Documented diagnosis of either chronic neuropathic pain after peripheral nerve injury (i.e., postsurgical/post-traumatic neuropathic pain) or postherpetic neuralgia with at least probable level of certainty according to the NeuPSIG/IASP (Neuropathic Pain Special Interest Group / International Association on the Study of Pain) grading system.
A score of at least 4 out of 10 points on the Neuropathic Pain 4 Questions (DN4) questionnaire.

Exclusion Criteria:

Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Type 1 and Type 2.
Any other painful condition or disease that requires treatment (only mild to moderate episodic migraine treated with triptans and/or non-steroidal anti- inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), if any, is acceptable).
Postsurgical/post-traumatic neuropathic pain due to amputation and/or phantom limb pain.