EP2715388A1 - Procédé d'identification de composés neuroprotecteurs et/ou stimulateurs de la repousse neuronale par mesures de fraction d'anisotropie par irm de diffusion - Google Patents
Procédé d'identification de composés neuroprotecteurs et/ou stimulateurs de la repousse neuronale par mesures de fraction d'anisotropie par irm de diffusionInfo
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- the present invention relates to a method for monitoring the efficacy of a treatment on neuroprotection and to a method for identifying neuroprotective candidate compounds and / or stimulating neuronal growth.
- the present invention finds particular application in the pharmaceutical field, in the field of scientific research and in the field of clinical studies and validation of therapeutic substances.
- references in square brackets ([]) refer to the list of references presented at the end of the text.
- drugs for example neuroprotective or neurostimulants
- a simple clinical assessment at 1 or 2 years after head trauma, stroke, aneurysmal meningeal hemorrhage, intracerebral hematoma, circulatory anoxia of cerebral origin or any other etiology of lesions
- the drugs evaluated have no efficacy, which could, for example, be the case of synthetic canabinoids.
- statins in aneurysmal meningeal hemorrhage they are effective on a biomarker, the S100, but their effect is "drowned” by the influence of complications of endovascular or operative procedure and clinical grade. In total, the deleterious effects on the S100, complications and clinical grade weigh much heavier than the positive effect of statins that becomes clinically invisible.
- a value of S greater than or equal to 1 indicating that the treatment is a neuroprotective treatment and / or stimulator of the neuronal shoot
- the present invention relates to a method of monitoring the effectiveness of a treatment on neuroprotection comprising: a) measuring the FAi Anisotropy Fraction in at least one region of interest of the brain on an image obtained by Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of the brain of a patient before said treatment,
- MRI Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- a value of S greater than or equal to 1.08 indicating that the treatment is a neuroprotective treatment and / or stimulator of the neuronal shoot.
- the value of S greater than 1.08 is a value of S greater than 1 plus 2 standard deviations of the fluctuation observed during the same period of time in the same region of interest in control subjects in at least one of the defined regions of interest.
- the fluctuation of AF observed spontaneously in healthy volunteers is 0 + 4% after an average of 2 years.
- This fluctuation of 4% represents 1 standard deviation (measure representing the average measured over all regions of interest in 12 healthy volunteers in two years).
- a drug is effective if the fluctuation is greater than 2 standard deviations of the spontaneous fluctuation ie 8%.
- a value of S greater than or equal to 1.08 in at least one of the regions of interest studied indicates that the treatment is a neuroprotective treatment and / or stimulator of the neuronal shoot.
- MRI Magnetic resonance Imaging
- MRI image is intended to mean any image obtained from an MRI device, for example an MRI 1, 5 Teslas, 3.0 Teslas or 7.0 Tesla device, for example from Philips, General Electric (GE), or Siemens.
- GE General Electric
- the MRI image may be any image obtained by an MRI device, for example an unweighted image, preferably a diffusion weighted image.
- diffusion MRI is meant a sequence sensitive to the local characteristics of the diffusion of water molecules in tissues as described in Basser et al. 1994 [1].
- the diffusion tensor MRI quantifies this anisotropy locally by measuring the local diffusion in the three principal directions ( ⁇ 1, ⁇ 2 and ⁇ 3) of the tensor model from repeated diffusion measurements in different directions of the space as described in Basser and Pierpaoli 1996 [2].
- AD axial diffusivity
- RD radial diffusivity
- MD mean diffusivity
- FA fractional anisotropy
- a decrease in local AF is interpreted as a loss of integrity of the white matter fibers due to the presence of lesions.
- the decrease in AF is associated with an increase in RD due to local loss of myelin and decreased AD due to axonal injury
- any individual likely to have, for example a brain injury, for example acute brain injury, it may be for example a mammal, preferably a human.
- the patient may be a patient who has undergone, for example a brain injury and / or head trauma and / or meningeal hemorrhage, for example aneurysmal meningeal hemorrhage and / or ischemic stroke and / or a hemorrhagic accident, for example a intraparenchymal haemorrhagic injury and / or cerebral anoxia, for example following cardiac or circulatory arrest.
- a brain injury and / or head trauma and / or meningeal hemorrhage for example aneurysmal meningeal hemorrhage and / or ischemic stroke and / or a hemorrhagic accident
- a intraparenchymal haemorrhagic injury and / or cerebral anoxia for example following cardiac or circulatory arrest.
- treatment for example a medical treatment, for example allopathic, involving the taking of molecules, for example chemical molecules, for example molecules obtained by organic synthesis, molecules of biological origins, for example proteins, molecules from living organisms, for example mammals, microorganisms, plants and / or synthesized by living organisms, for example proteins, nucleic acid molecules, or any other non-chemical treatment, for example for example, re-education, or any other treatment based on cell therapy, for example injection of stem cells, injection of dedifferentiated neuronal cells.
- molecules for example chemical molecules, for example molecules obtained by organic synthesis
- molecules of biological origins for example proteins, molecules from living organisms, for example mammals, microorganisms, plants and / or synthesized by living organisms, for example proteins, nucleic acid molecules, or any other non-chemical treatment, for example for example, re-education, or any other treatment based on cell therapy, for example injection of stem cells, injection of dedifferentiated neuronal cells.
- the measurements of the Anisotropy Fraction at steps a) and b) can be performed in identical or different regions of the brain, preferably in identical regions.
- the anisotropic Fraction measurements of steps a) and b) can be performed in at least one of the regions of the brain, also called region of interest, selected from the middle cerebellar peduncle (ICBM # 1), the anterior brain stem (ICBM # 2,7,8), posterior brain stem (ICBM # 9,10,1 1, 12,13,14), knee of the corpus callosum (ICBM # 3), the corpus callosum (ICBM # 4), corpus callosum splenium (ICBM # 5), right cerebral peduncle (ICBM # 15), left cerebral peduncle (ICBM # 16), right sagittal stratum (ICBM # 21, 29,31, 47), the left sagittal stratum (ICBM # 22,30,32,48), the right upper longitudinal bundle (ICBM # 41), the left upper longitudinal bundle (ICBM # 42), the anterior arm
- ICBM #n refers to the nth region of the atlas of 48 white matter regions constructed from dissemination data of 81 healthy subjects (the atlas 'ICBM-DTI-81' (Mori and 2005 [9]) available in FSL software (Smith et al., 2004 [7]).
- the Anisotropy Fraction measurements can be performed, for example in at least one of the skeleton regions of the white matter beams defined from the TBSS approach (for "Tract-Based Spatial Statistics") as described in Smith et al. 2006 [88].
- the measurements are carried out in at least 2, or 3, or 4 or 5 or 6 or 7 or 8 or 9 or 10 or 1 1 or 12 or 13 or 14 or 15 or 16 or 17 or 18 or 19 or 20 regions of the brain, also named region of interest, selected from the middle cerebellar peduncle (ICBM # 1), the anterior brainstem (ICBM # 2,7,8), the posterior brainstem (ICBM # 9, 10.1 1, 12.13,14), the knee of the corpus callosum (ICBM # 3), the trunk of the corpus callosum (ICBM # 4), the splenium of the corpus callosum (ICBM # 5), the right cerebral stalk ( ICBM # 15), left cerebral peduncle (ICBM # 16), right sagittal stratum (ICBM # 21, 29,31, 47), left sagittal stratum (ICBM # 22,30,32,48), longitudinal bundle upper right (ICBM # 41), left superior longitudinal bundle (ICBM # 42), right medial capsule anterior arm (ICBM # 17), left medial
- the measurements are made in several or all regions of the brain, also called region of interest, following the average cerebellar peduncle (ICBM # 1), the anterior brainstem (ICBM # 2,7,8), the posterior brainstem (ICBM # 9,10,1,1,12,13,14), the knee of the corpus callosum (ICBM # 3), the trunk of the corpus callosum (ICBM # 4), the splenium of the corpus callosum (ICBM) # 5), the right cerebral peduncle (ICBM # 15), left cerebral peduncle (ICBM # 16), right sagittal stratum (ICBM # 21, 29,31, 47), left sagittal stratum (ICBM # 22,30,32,48) , the right upper longitudinal bundle (ICBM # 41), the left upper longitudinal bundle (ICBM # 42), the anterior arm of the right internal capsule (ICBM # 17), the anterior arm of the left internal capsule (ICBM # 18), the posterior arm of the right internal capsule (ICBM # 19), the posterior arm of the left
- the value of the FAi and / or FA 2 Anisotropy Fraction can be equal to the average of the FA measured or to the measurement of the FA measured in each region.
- the value of the FAi and / or FA 2 Fraction Anisotropy may be equal to the average of the Fractions of Anisotropies measured independently in each region of interest.
- the value of FA will be equal to the average of the measured values, for example for each voxel of the MRI image of the region.
- each region will have an own FA value corresponding to the average of the values measured for each voxel of the MRI image of each region.
- the measurement of S can be calculated independently for each region of interest.
- the measurement of the Anisotropy Fraction in step a) can be performed on an MRI image taken in a period of 1 to 180 days, for example following brain injury, from 48 hours to 31 days, in a delay less than 31 days.
- the measurement of the Anisotropy Fraction in step b) can be performed on an MRI image taken in a period of about 1 to several months, for example from 1 to 12 months, for example from 1 to 9 months, for example 6 months, from 1 to 6 months, for example 3 months, from 1 to 3 months, from about one year to several years, for example from 1 to 5 years, from 1 to 3 years, from 1 to 2 years following the measurement of Fraction Anisotropy in step a).
- the measurement of the Fraction of Anisotropy in step a) is the first Fraction measurement of Anisotropy.
- the method of the invention may furthermore comprise a step d) of measuring the axial diffusibility, the radial diffusibility, the average diffusibility, the apparent diffusion coefficient
- axial diffusivity means the first eigenvalue ⁇ 1 of the tensor model calculated from diffusion-weighted MRI images corresponding to the main direction of diffusion.
- radiation diffusibility means the mean of the second and third eigenvalues ( ⁇ 2 + ⁇ 3) / 2 of the tensor model calculated from diffusion-weighted MRI images corresponding to the principal direction. of diffusion.
- average diffusibility is meant the average of the three eigenvalues ( ⁇ 1 + ⁇ 2 + ⁇ 3) / 3 of the tensor model calculated from diffusion-weighted MRI images corresponding to the main direction of diffusion.
- the method of the present invention advantageously has an application in the medical field where it can be used, for example in clinical trials to determine and / or validate the effectiveness of a treatment on neuroprotection.
- the subject of the present invention is also a method of identifying a neuroprotective and / or stimulant neuroprotective candidate molecule comprising:
- a value of S greater than or equal to 1 indicating that the molecule is a neuroprotective agent and / or stimulates neuronal growth.
- the subject of the present invention is also a method for identifying a neuroprotective and / or stimulant neuroprotective candidate molecule comprising:
- neuroprotective means the conservation of neural structure and / or the reduction of neurodegeneration, for example a reduction and / or a total cessation of neurodegeneration.
- the reduction and / or total cessation of neurodegeneration can be evaluated, for example by analyzing changes in radial and axial diffusivities.
- neural shoot stimulator means, for example, an increase in neural growth, it may be for example an increase, for example in the value of the measurement of the fraction of anisotropy of at least 8% in a patient after treatment.
- it may be an increase of at least 2 standard deviations of the measurement value of the fraction of anisotropy, ie at least twice the measurement fluctuation observed during the same period. period of time in the same region of interest in control subjects.
- candidate molecule any molecule that one wishes to test. It may be for example chemical and / or biological molecules. It may be, for example therapeutic molecules usable for the treatment of pathologies, for example drug any substance or compound known to those skilled in the art having curative and / or preventive properties with respect to pathologies, lesions, trauma, human or animal diseases. It may be for example a pharmaceutical product for human and / or veterinary use.
- the present invention also relates to the candidate molecule as neuroprotective and / or stimulating the neuronal growth identified by the method of the invention.
- the subject of the present invention is also the candidate compound identified for its use as a neuroprotective drug and / or for stimulating neuronal growth.
- the present invention therefore advantageously makes it possible to evaluate the efficacy of molecules as a neuroprotector by providing a reliable, reproducible and comparable result.
- the method of the invention may advantageously make it possible to validate the efficacy of compounds following a clinical trial.
- the present invention also makes it possible to identify new candidate molecules capable of having a neuroprotective and / or neurostimulatory action, which can, for example be used in neural pathologies, for example Alzheimer's disease and or to be used following a brain injury in order, for example, to preserve the integrity of the neural cortex or to reduce neural degeneration, in particular of the white substance.
- the present invention makes it possible to compare the efficiency of the molecule with respect to one another, for example with respect to molecules already known for the abovementioned applications.
- Other advantages may still appear to those skilled in the art on reading the examples below, illustrated by the appended figures, given for illustrative purposes.
- FIG. 1 is an image representing the skeleton of the main FA bundles superimposed on the average FA image on 58 healthy FMRIB58_FA volunteers.
- Figure 2 is an image showing the mask of the regions of interest for the extraction of FA.
- FIG. 3 is a diagram representing the average values of standardized regional AF for both groups of patients, full squares: good prognosis, full rhombus: poor prognosis. For each region the normal value is 1. The regions are ordered by increasing values of the group good prognosis. The abscissa indicates the different regions of the brain, the ordered average values of FA.
- Figure 4 is a diagram showing the difference in FA measured and the abscissa the regions of the brain in which these values were measured.
- the diffusion-weighted image series has been saved in DICOM digital image and medical communication (http: // medical. nema.org/) and exported to an independent workstation.
- the DICOM files to convert were in the ⁇ / DTI_DICOM folder and a terminal was opened, the following command was launched:
- the corrected 4D volume is ⁇ / DTI_NII / corr_dti4D.nii.
- This step consists in removing all non-brain tissue from the volume as described in Smith 2002 [66]. the following command was issued: bet2 ⁇ / DTI_NII / corr_dti4D.nii ⁇ / DTI_NII / brain_corr_dti4D -f 0.2 -m
- the file corresponding to the hidden 4D volume is
- the file corresponding to the mask of the binary brain is ⁇ / DTI_NII / brain_corr_dti4D_mask.nii. ⁇ Calculation of volumes of FA, MD, AD and RD
- the file corresponding to the volume of FA is ⁇ / DTI_NII / dti_corr_dti4D_FA.nii
- the file corresponding to the volume of MD is ⁇ / DTI_NII / dti_corr_dti4D_MD.nii
- the corresponding file volume of AD is ⁇ / DTI_NII / dti_corr_dti4D_L1 .nii
- the corresponding file the volume of RD is ⁇ / DTI_NII / dti_corr_dti4D_Lt.nii.
- each patient was characterized by an image representing a FA card.
- the FA cards were projected into a standard space.
- the individual FA cards were first corrected by a non-linear registration FNIRT ("FMRIB's Non-Linear Image Registration Tool") [Andersson et al. 2007a, 2007b] in a reference space characterized by a reference image calculated on 58 healthy subjects (FMRIB58_FA).
- FMRIB58_FA non-linear registration FNIRT
- these maximum local values were projected onto the backbone of the main FA bundles (see Figure 1) following the TBSS method described in Smith et al. 2006 [8].
- Figure 1 is an image representing the skeleton of the main FA bundles superimposed on the average FA image of 58 healthy volunteers. As shown in this figure, it is clear that this skeleton represents the centers common to the group of the main beams of white matter in the brain.
- the FA volume has been projected into a standard space for allow the extraction of the regional parameters according to the spatial reference of the atlas used to define the regions of interest.
- TBSS trace-based spatial statistics
- the volume of FA was recalibrated by a non-linear registration FNIRT ("FMRIB's Non-linear Image Registration Tool") as described in Andersson et al. 2007a [10], 2007b [1 1] in a reference space characterized by a reference image calculated on 58 healthy subjects (FMRIB58_FA).
- FNIRT non-linear registration FNIRT
- TBSS-3 Nonlinear Registration - Application of the Transformation The previously calculated transformation was applied to the volume of FA. The volume is projected into the space of the MNI152 1 x1 x1 mm. For that the following command was launched:
- the resulting volume file was ⁇ / DT l_N I l / tbss / stats / a I l F A. n i i.
- Nonlinear registration and FA skeleton projection were similarly applied to AD, RD and MD volumes.
- a folder whose path is ⁇ / DTI_NII / tbss / MD was created in which the file corresponding to the MD volume dti_corr_dti4D_MD.nii was copied and renamed to dti_corr_dti4D_FA.nii.
- the following command was issued: tbss_non_FA MD
- the file corresponding to the volume of MD values on the skeleton is ⁇ / DTI_NII / tbss / stats / all_MD_skeletonised.nii.
- regions of interest were defined based on the atlas of 48 white matter regions constructed from dissemination data of 81 healthy subjects (the atlas 'ICBM-DTI-81' available in the fsl software). These 20 ROIs were chosen by a panel of experts (2 neuroradiologists and 1 neuro-scientist) taking into account their size (the small origination ROIs were eliminated or merged) and their potential diagnostic interest. These 20 regions of interest are represented in FIG. 2, they are indicated by a number from 1 to 20 depending on the coloration of the image in correlation with the gradient scale.
- ICBM # 1 the average cerebellar peduncle indicated 1 (ICBM # 1), the indicated anterior brainstem 2 (ICBM # 2,7,8), the posterior brainstem indicated 3 (ICBM # 9,10,1 1, 12, 13,14), the knee of the corpus callosum indicated 4 (ICBM # 3), the trunk of the corpus callosum indicated ((ICBM # 4), the splenium of the corpus callosum indicated 6 (ICBM # 5), the right cerebral stalk indicated 7 (ICBM # 15), left cerebral peduncle 8 (ICBM # 16), right sagittal stratum indicated 9 (ICBM # 21, 29,31, 47), left sagittal stratum indicated (ICBM # 22,30,32,48 ), of the indicated upper right longitudinal bundle 1 1 (ICBM # 41), of the indicated upper left longitudinal bundle 12 (ICBM # 42), of the anterior arm of the indicated right internal capsule 13 (ICBM # 17), of the anterior arm of the indicated left internal capsule 14 (ICBM # 18), right posterior internal capsule posterior arm 15 (ICBM # 19), right
- the 20 AF parameters of each patient are the averages in each ROI of the FA on the skeleton as obtained from the file whose path is
- the inventors have surprisingly shown that the use of these ROIs, that is to say the measurement of AF in these regions, allows, on the one hand, a local assessment of the lesions and, on the other hand, a comparison. robust between acquisitions and / or subjects.
- Each patient was therefore characterized by more than 20 AF parameters (mean skeletal AF in each ROI) reflecting the regional integrity of the white matter bundles. These parameters were extracted by masking the FA maps projected on the skeleton with the mask of 20 ROIs. In order for these parameters to be interpretable with respect to a normal reference level, the value of FA measured in each ROI is normalized with respect to an average value calculated on a population of healthy subjects, namely 10 individuals, from the same machine and the same protocols MRI acquisition. This standardization also makes it possible to compare measurements from one MRI machine to another.
- Table 1 shows the details of the 18 patients reviewed at the consolidated phase, for the time 1 examination, only the 24-way DTI acquisition was performed on all 41 patients: Table 1
- Figure 3 depicts the mean values of standardized regional AF for both groups of patients (good and poor prognosis). For each region the normal value is 1. The regions are ordered by increasing values of the group good prognosis.
- the 20 regional AF measurements made it possible to quantify the severity of the white matter lesions; the more severe the lesions are in the sense of AF, the worse the neurological prognosis of the patient.
- FIG. 4 represents the different values obtained as a function of the different regions, namely: average cerebellar peduncle (MCP), anterior brainstem (antBS), posterior brain stem (postBS), knee of the corpus callosum (CCG), corpus callosum (CCB), corpus callosum (CCS), right cerebral peduncle (CP_R), left cerebral peduncle (CP_L), stratum right sagittal (SS_R), left sagittal stratum (SS_L), right upper longitudinal bundle (SLF_R), left upper longitudinal bundle (SLF_L), right capsule inner anterior arm (ALIC_R), anterior arm of the left internal capsule (ALIC_L), posterior arm of the right internal capsule (PLIC_R), posterior arm of the left internal capsule (PLIC_L), right external capsule (EC_R), left external capsule
- Standardized AF measurements in the 20 selected regions are relevant biomarkers of the neurological severity of lesions after severe head trauma.
- Standardized AF measurements in the 20 selected regions remain stable between two remote acquisitions, that is to say at different times, one in the acute phase, the other in the consolidated phase.
- a method comprising the measurement of FA makes it possible to measure the efficacy of drugs, for example neuroprotectants administered in the context of acute cerebral pathology.
- the method of the invention makes it possible to evaluate the effects of different treatments, for example neuroprotective or activator of neuronal regrowth or non-chemical process. It is useful, for example, in phase Mb clinical studies (validation of proof of concept proof).
- the method of the invention therefore advantageously allows a drastic reduction in the number of subjects to include to affirm or deny the effectiveness of a drug compared to traditional clinical studies.
- a phase III study will only be implemented if an efficacy on the MRI biomarker has been demonstrated in Mb phase.
- the method of the invention therefore makes it possible to test many more molecules at a lower cost. It also helps to avoid exposing patients to ineffective treatments and reducing the number of patients receiving placebo.
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