Evaluating Effects of Curcumin in Moderate to Severe Asthmatics

Summary

The purpose of this investigator-initiated study is to evaluate the effects of oral curcumin supplementation versus placebo in adult patients with moderate to severe asthma. Curcumin, a derivative of turmeric, has been shown in animal models to inhibit the secretion of pro-inflammatory cytokines and decrease airway constriction and hyperreactivity with only a few observational studies available in humans with discordant results.

Timeline

Start

2021-09

Primary completion

2021-11-09

Completion

2021-11-09

Publications

• Background Reddel HK, Taylor DR, Bateman ED, Boulet LP, Boushey HA, Busse WW, Casale TB, Chanez P, Enright PL, Gibson PG, de Jongste JC, Kerstjens HA, Lazarus SC, Levy ML, O'Byrne PM, Partridge MR, Pavord ID, Sears MR, Sterk PJ, Stoloff SW, Sullivan SD, Szefler SJ, Thomas MD, Wenzel SE; American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society Task Force on Asthma Control and Exacerbations. An official American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society statement: asthma control and exacerbations: standardizing endpoints for clinical asthma trials and clinical practice. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2009 Jul 1;180(1):59-99. doi: 10.1164/rccm.200801-060ST.
• Background Taylor DR, Bateman ED, Boulet LP, Boushey HA, Busse WW, Casale TB, Chanez P, Enright PL, Gibson PG, de Jongste JC, Kerstjens HA, Lazarus SC, Levy ML, O'Byrne PM, Partridge MR, Pavord ID, Sears MR, Sterk PJ, Stoloff SW, Szefler SJ, Sullivan SD, Thomas MD, Wenzel SE, Reddel HK. A new perspective on concepts of asthma severity and control. Eur Respir J. 2008 Sep;32(3):545-54. doi: 10.1183/09031936.00155307.
• Background Aggarwal BB, Surh YJ, Shishodia S (Eds.). Mol. Targets Ther. Uses Curcumin Health Dis, Springer, US. 2007; 1-75.
• Background Baldwin AS Jr. Series introduction: the transcription factor NF-kappaB and human disease. J Clin Invest. 2001 Jan;107(1):3-6. doi: 10.1172/JCI11891. No abstract available.
• Background Oh SW, Cha JY, Jung JE, Chang BC, Kwon HJ, Lee BR, Kim DY. Curcumin attenuates allergic airway inflammation and hyper-responsiveness in mice through NF-kappaB inhibition. J Ethnopharmacol. 2011 Jul 14;136(3):414-21. doi: 10.1016/j.jep.2010.07.026. Epub 2010 Jul 17.
• Background Liu L, Shang Y, Li M, Han X, Wang J, Wang J. Curcumin ameliorates asthmatic airway inflammation by activating nuclear factor-E2-related factor 2/haem oxygenase (HO)-1 signalling pathway. Clin Exp Pharmacol Physiol. 2015 May;42(5):520-9. doi: 10.1111/1440-1681.12384.
• Background Wong CK, Li ML, Wang CB, Ip WK, Tian YP, Lam CW. House dust mite allergen Der p 1 elevates the release of inflammatory cytokines and expression of adhesion molecules in co-culture of human eosinophils and bronchial epithelial cells. Int Immunol. 2006 Aug;18(8):1327-35. doi: 10.1093/intimm/dxl065. Epub 2006 Jun 23.
• Background Wuyts WA, Vanaudenaerde BM, Dupont LJ, Demedts MG, Verleden GM. Involvement of p38 MAPK, JNK, p42/p44 ERK and NF-kappaB in IL-1beta-induced chemokine release in human airway smooth muscle cells. Respir Med. 2003 Jul;97(7):811-7. doi: 10.1016/s0954-6111(03)00036-2.
• Background Kobayashi T, Hashimoto S, Horie T. Curcumin inhibition of Dermatophagoides farinea-induced interleukin-5 (IL-5) and granulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) production by lymphocytes from bronchial asthmatics. Biochem Pharmacol. 1997 Oct 1;54(7):819-24. doi: 10.1016/s0006-2952(97)00220-7.
• Background Ram A, Das M, Ghosh B. Curcumin attenuates allergen-induced airway hyperresponsiveness in sensitized guinea pigs. Biol Pharm Bull. 2003 Jul;26(7):1021-4. doi: 10.1248/bpb.26.1021.
• Background Kim DH, Phillips JF, Lockey RF. Oral curcumin supplementation in patients with atopic asthma. Allergy Rhinol (Providence). 2011 Apr;2(2):e51-3. doi: 10.2500/ar.2011.2.0016.
• Background Abidi A, Gupta S, Agarwal M, Bhalla HL, Saluja M. Evaluation of Efficacy of Curcumin as an Add-on therapy in Patients of Bronchial Asthma. J Clin Diagn Res. 2014 Aug;8(8):HC19-24. doi: 10.7860/JCDR/2014/9273.4705. Epub 2014 Aug 20.
• Background Gupta SC, Patchva S, Aggarwal BB. Therapeutic roles of curcumin: lessons learned from clinical trials. AAPS J. 2013 Jan;15(1):195-218. doi: 10.1208/s12248-012-9432-8. Epub 2012 Nov 10.
• Background Basnet P, Skalko-Basnet N. Curcumin: an anti-inflammatory molecule from a curry spice on the path to cancer treatment. Molecules. 2011 Jun 3;16(6):4567-98. doi: 10.3390/molecules16064567.
• Background Cheng AL, Hsu CH, Lin JK, Hsu MM, Ho YF, Shen TS, Ko JY, Lin JT, Lin BR, Ming-Shiang W, Yu HS, Jee SH, Chen GS, Chen TM, Chen CA, Lai MK, Pu YS, Pan MH, Wang YJ, Tsai CC, Hsieh CY. Phase I clinical trial of curcumin, a chemopreventive agent, in patients with high-risk or pre-malignant lesions. Anticancer Res. 2001 Jul-Aug;21(4B):2895-900.
• Background Lao CD, Ruffin MT 4th, Normolle D, Heath DD, Murray SI, Bailey JM, Boggs ME, Crowell J, Rock CL, Brenner DE. Dose escalation of a curcuminoid formulation. BMC Complement Altern Med. 2006 Mar 17;6:10. doi: 10.1186/1472-6882-6-10.
• Background Schatz M, Kosinski M, Yarlas AS, Hanlon J, Watson ME, Jhingran P. The minimally important difference of the Asthma Control Test. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2009 Oct;124(4):719-23.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2009.06.053. Epub 2009 Sep 19.
• Quan M, Alismail A, Daher N, Cleland D, Chavan S, Tan LD. Randomized, placebo controlled, double blinded pilot superiority phase 2 trial to evaluate the effect of curcumin in moderate to severe asthmatics. BMC Pulm Med. 2021 Aug 17;21(1):268. doi: 10.1186/s12890-021-01619-y.

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