Cerebrospinal Fluid Repository

Completed

Conditions studied: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Cerebrospinal Fluid, Neurodegenerative Disease, Motor Neuron Disease

In brief

The purpose of a CSF repository is to collect samples of spinal fluid from controls and patients with neurologic disorders including but not exclusively ALS, Dementia, CRPS, neuropathies, and other neuromuscular diseases. This CSF repository will allow the use of CSF in biochemical studies of various neurologic diseases. It would also provide a supply of the necessary normal and disease control patients. CSF would be obtained from patients who are undergoing spinal taps for other reasons including diagnosis, treatment, or participation in clinical trials. We are proposing to collect an additional \< 3 ml of CSF from a lumbar puncture that is already being performed for diagnostic or therapeutic reasons, in order to store it in our laboratory for use in future research studies. No lumbar punctures will be initiated specifically for this protocol.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00714636

Run by

Drexel University College of Medicine

People needed

11

Starts

2006-10-01

Expected to finish

2008-10-01

Last updated by the study team

2017-03-09

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Any person undergoing a diagnostic lumbar puncture with a neurologic illness
• Any person undergoing a lumbar puncture as part of anesthesia
• Any person who is undergoing a lumbar puncture for other research purposes such as clinical trials and who has already consented to the lumbar puncture for that purpose.

You may not qualify if…

• Anyone who is not undergoing a lumbar puncture for other reasons

Where it is running

• MDA/ALS Center of Hope — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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