Observational cross-sectional study in PD patients and healthy controls (HC) using an investigational medical device consisting of a passive small intestine microbiome aspiration (SIMBA) system (capsule) that is ingested orally and recovered together with the stools (home recovery) together with blood sampling (during the onsite visit).
Participants will be swallowing two SIMBA capsules which allows for minimally-invasive sampling of the microbiome and metabolome deep in the small intestine. Researchers will use the capsule samples to determine the small intestinal microbiome and metabolomic signatures in luminal fluid samples from the small bowel in Parkinson Disease (PD) patients compared to healthy controls (HC).
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
100
Ingestion of two SIMBA capsules
Single dose, Levodopa-Carbidopa Immediate Release
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Difference in microbiome profile of small intestine samples between groups
Functional dysbiosis profile of the small intestinal microbiota of Parkinson's Disease patients compared to age-matched neurotypical controls, as determined by whole metagenome shotgun sequencing based profiling
Time frame: Baseline
Difference in blood metabolome composition between groups
Blood metabolome composition profile of Parkinson's Disease patients as compared to age-matched neurotypical controls, as determined by metabolomics analysis
Time frame: Baseline
Correlation between the observed small intestine microbiome profile and blood metabolome composition, including, in PD subjects, levodopa pharmacodynamics
Small intestinal and blood pharmacodynamics of Levodopa as a function of small intestinal microbiota profiles, as determined by blood and small intestinal metabolomics and small intestinal whole metagenome shotgun profiling and appropriate statistical correlation methods
Time frame: Baseline
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