Cell Therapy for IBM by Muscle Injection of ADSVF

Overview

Inclusion Body Myositis is a slowly but disabling myopathy, the most frequent in patients over 50 years old. No treatments (in particular immunosuppressive) are known to be efficient. Autologous uncultured adipose-derived stromal vascular fraction (ADSVF) is recognized as an easily accessible (by a standard liposuction to obtain adipose tissue, from which ADSVF are isolated by centrifugation), safe and well tolerated source of cells with angiogenic, anti-inflammatory, immunomodulatory and regenerative properties. The purpose of our ADSVF in IBM phase I trial is to evaluate, for the first time in human diseased muscle, first the tolerance of autologous ADSVF cells locally injected in affected forearm muscles and second their capability to repair those muscles. With always the goals of tolerance first and second muscle repair, we will recruit in parallel two groups of IBM patients: the first treated by sirolimus since at least 6 months (but still disabled) and the second currently (for at least 3 months) without specific treatment for inclusion myositis.

The main objective of this study is to evaluate the tolerance of escalating doses of ADSVF, one month after intramuscular injection in the finger flexors, in the non-dominant forearm. The second objective of this study is to evaluate the efficacy in term of muscle repair (regenerative properties of ADSVF) and in term of muscle inflammation control, during 6 months, by functional strength tests, quantitative MRI and PBMC monitoring. This research is a phase I trial evaluating first the tolerance and second the efficacy of 3 escalating doses of ADSVF intramuscularly injected in the non-dominant forearm. The volume of injection will be of 1 ml in each of the 5 sites of the finger flexoses, in line at 1 cm apart, for a total dose of 5 millions (low dose) or 10 millions (intermediate dose) or 20 millions (high dose) of viable nucleated cells.These doses are chosen because of the perfect tolerance of intra-muscle injection of (in average) one million ADSVF per millilitre, with a total dose of viable nucleated cells injected between 2.5 and 8.6 millions.The cell treatment will be prepared from autologous uncultured Adipose-Derived Stromal Vascular Fraction (ADSVF) isolated by centrifugation of adipose tissue obtain by liposuction. The study population will be adult patients suffering of an Inclusion Body Myositis (IBM) fulfilling the Lloyd criteria treated by sirolimus since at least 6 months (but still disabled) - who are part of group 1 or currently (for at least 3 months) without specific treatment for inclusion myositis - who are part of group 2. The main inclusion criteria are : Patients: with an age ≥ 45 and ≤ 80 years old, with IBM defined by the Lloyd criteria: muscle weakness of finger flexors or quadriceps, and endomysial inflammatory infiltrates on muscle biopsy, and presence of invaded fibers or rimmed vacuoles on muscle biopsy, who gave their written informed consent, affiliated to a social security regime (expected AME) ; and for: group 1: treated by sirolimus since at least 6 months (but still disabled ) - group 2: currently (for at least 3 months) without specific treatment for inclusion myositis - group 2. The duration of participation of the patients will be 7 months, included one month between maximum the inclusion visit and the injection visit, and 6 month of follow-up periof after ADSVF injection.