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NCT07012057
Background: Dermatomyositis (DM) and juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM) are diseases that weaken the immune system. DM and JDM can affect the muscles, skin, joints, and lungs and cause skin rashes and muscle inflammation. Symptoms include weakness, pain, fatigue, and rash. Not everyone responds to current treatments. The FDA has approved a drug called deucravacitinib to treat people with plaque psoriasis. Researchers want to find out if this drug can help people with DM or JDM, too. Objective: To test deucravacitinib in people with DM or JDM. Eligibility: People aged 18 years and older with DM or JDM. Design: Participants will have 9 clinic visits over 28 weeks. Participants will be screened. They will have a physical exam with blood and urine tests. They will have a test of their heart function. They will complete a short questionnaire about their daily life, pain level, and ability to walk, eat, and do other activities. Deucravacitinib is a pill taken by mouth twice per day at home. Participants will come to the clinic once every 4 weeks for 24 weeks while they are taking the drug. They will have a final visit 4 weeks after their last dose of the study drug. Blood and urine tests will be repeated during these visits. Each visit may take up to 6 hours. If the drug is helping them, participants may extend their treatment beyond the first 24 weeks. Then they will visit the clinic every 3 months.
NCT02639273
Background: Drugs like nalmefene interfere with opioid receptors. This might reduce drinking. The gene OPRM1 determines opioid receptor functions. Researchers want to see if nalmefene affects people s responses to alcohol cues. They also want to compare how nalmefene affects people with different forms of OPRM1. Objectives: To test nalmefene s effects on alcohol self-infusion and responses to alcohol cues. To test the role of different forms of OPRM1 on these effects. Eligibility: Healthy heavy drinkers ages 21 60: Women: over 15 drinks weekly Men: over 20 drinks weekly Design: Participants will be screened with: Medical history Physical exam Heart, blood, and urine tests Questionnaires Participants will have three 10-hour visits and one 2-hour follow-up visit. They will take a taxi. Visits are about 1 week apart. Before visits, participants cannot drink alcohol for 1 day or take medicine for 3 days. All study visits: Questionnaires Heart monitor Two-hour alcohol session: A needle guides a thin plastic tube into a vein in each arm. One tube receives alcohol. The other draws blood. Participants give themselves alcohol by pressing a button on a computer. Relaxing at the center until breath alcohol falls below 0.02 percent, or for 3 hours. Visits 2 and 3: Swallowing nalmefene or placebo. One-hour brain MRI: Participants lie on a table with a coil on their head. They press buttons in response to computer cues. Follow-up visit: participants will discuss their drinking habits.