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Olfactive Discriminative Ability of Dogs When Confronted With Seizure and Non-seizure Samples // Identification of Potential Biomarkers for Epilepsy in Human Sweat.

NCT04266990 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 31

Last updated 2023-01-04

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Summary

Dogs belonging to MDD will be trained and asked to discriminate between odour sweat samples from epilepsy patients associated with a seizure ("seizure sample") and samples collected when no seizure was close in time ("non-seizure sample").

The same type positive and negative sweat samples will be analysed by Florida International University using solid phase micro extraction (SPME) GC-MS to try to identify volatile organic components (VOC) specific to the samples associated with seizures.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Planned Sweat collection

Four times a day at fixed time points (9:30, 11:30, 13:30, 15:30), a researcher will ask the volunteers to wash their hands with non-scented soap and then place a sterile cotton gauze in the palm of their non-dominant hand. After 10 minutes, the gauze will be retrieved by the researcher.

OTHER

Spontaneous Sweat collection

As the patient will be under continuous monitoring, sweat and saliva samples will be also collected during and/or right after a seizure occurs if the volunteer is not holding a gauze at that time. The sweat samples will be collected by the researcher by applying a sterile gauze to the patients hands, either during or immediately following a seizure during 10 minutes.

OTHER

Healthy volunteers sweat collection

A researcher will ask the volunteers to wash their hands with non-scented soap and then place a sterile cotton gauze in the palm of their non-dominant hand. After 10 minutes, the gauze will be retrieved by the researcher. The healthy samples will be collected on the same floor of Ghent University Hospital and as close as possible to where patients reside

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University Ghent

    collaborator OTHER

  • University Hospital, Ghent

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-01-20
Primary Completion
2020-03-13
Completion
2020-03-13

Countries

  • Belgium

Study Locations

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