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Crohn DiseaseGRELENCT06197334

Gastro-intestinal Biopotential Recorder by Means of Surface ELEctrodes

A study testing Gastro-intestinal biopotentials recording in people with Crohn Disease and Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders, run by Central Hospital, Nancy, France at 2 sites in France.

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Trial summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to compare the gastro-intestinal biopotentials recorded with a homemade device using surface electrodes placed on the abdomen in healthy volunteers, Crohn's disease patients without fibrosis, Crohn's disease patients with fibrosis and in functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGID)… Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 years and olderHealthy volunteers can take part
What is being tested?
Gastro-intestinal biopotentials recording
Type of treatment
Medical device
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
60 participants
Where
2 sitesFrance
Study dates
18 Feb 2025to 1 Sep 2027
Phase
Interventional
Are there results?
Not yet: the study is under way

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 18 years and older
  • All sexes
  • Healthy volunteers accepted
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • Person age > 18 years
  • Person has been fasting for at least 12 hours
  • Person who has received full information on the organization of the research and has not objected to the use of this data.
  • Person affiliated to or beneficiary of a social security plan
  • Person informed about study organization and having signed the informed consent
  • Person has no history of chronic gastro-intestinal disease
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  • Person has no acute of gastro-intestinal disease
  • Inclusion Criteria for Crohn's disease patients without fibrosis :
  • Person is already diagnosed with Crohn's disease
  • Person has underwent during the last 6 months :
  • An MRI showing no fibrosis
  • A blood test for C-reactive protein and fecal calprotectine
  • A questionnaire to asses the Harvey-Bradshaw Index
  • Inclusion Criteria for Crohn's disease patients with fibrosis :
  • Person is already diagnosed with Crohn's disease
  • Person has underwent during the last 6 months :
  • An MRI showing fibrosis
  • A blood test for C-reactive protein and fecal calprotectine
  • A questionnaire to asses the Harvey-Bradshaw Index
  • Inclusion Criteria for functional gastrointestinal disorders patients :
  • Person is already diagnosed with functional gastrointestinal disorders
  • Person has underwent an evaluation of the Rome IV criteria

Who cannot join

  • Person having a pacemaker
  • Person suffering from a sensory disorder making insensitive to pain on the skin
  • Person suffering from a mental or motor disorders creating uncontroled movements
  • Person being allergic to one or more component of the device
  • Person being allergic to : soy, dairy food, peanuts, wheat, nuts
  • Person having an history of gastro-intestinal surgery
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  • Person suffering from injury or erythema on the abdominal skin
  • Person having a contagious potential (bacterial, fungal or viral)
  • Person being in menstruation period
  • Person suffering from urinary incontinence
  • Minor (not emancipated)
  • Person of legal age (subject to a legal protection measure)
  • Adult unable to give consent

Trial locations and contacts

2 sites in 1 country. Contact the study team or a site near you to ask about taking part.

France2 sites, 2 recruiting
  • CHRU Nancy

    Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, CHRU de Nancy, 54511

    DROUOT Guillaume, PhD, 0383157666, g.drouot@chru-nancy.fr

    Bénédicte CARON, MD, PhD

    Recruiting
  • CHRU de Nancy - Brabois

    Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, 54500

    Bénédicte Caron, MD, PhD, +33 3 83 15 50 49, b.caron@chru-nancy.fr

    Guillaume Drouot, PhD, +33 3 83 15 76 66, g.drouot@chru-nancy.fr

    Recruiting

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About this study

The goal of this clinical trial is to compare the gastro-intestinal biopotentials recorded with a homemade device using surface electrodes placed on the abdomen in healthy volunteers, Crohn's disease patients without fibrosis, Crohn's disease patients with fibrosis and in functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGID) patients.

The main question it aims to answer is:

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  • Is there any differences in the gastro-intestinal biopotentials between the different populations under study?

It aims to answer two secondary questions:

  • Are the gastro-intestinal biopotentials comparable to the Harvey-Bradshaw Index, MRI and biological data for patients with Crohn's disease?
  • Are the gastro-intestinal biopotentials comparable to Rome IV criteria for functional gastrointestinal disorders patients?

Participants will undertake two recordings made with the device. The first one will last 1 hour and 30 minutes and will occurs while the participants are fasting. Then, the participants will eat a standardized meal. Finally, the second recording will take place after the meal ingestion and will last 1 hour and 30 minutes while the participants are in postprandial state.

Read the detailed description

Diseases and disorders of the digestive tract affect a large proportion of the world's population. These disorders or diseases degrade patients' quality of life and are costly for healthcare systems. Today, it is difficult to categorize, monitor and/or prognosticate their evolution due to their unknown etiologies, the long duration of the digestion processes and unsuitable (invasive, complex or costly) examinations.

However, electrophysiology holds great promise for the study of these diseases. Indeed, the organs of the digestive tract are made up of longitudinal and circular muscles which contract rhythmically and synchronously to advance the food bolus during digestion, or to cleanse the digestive tract once digestion is complete.

No study has yet demonstrated the feasibility and value of measuring these bio-potentials for Functional Gastro Intestinal Disorders and Inflammatory Bowel Diseases.

That's why a homemade gastro-intestinal biopotentials recorder was developped. The recorder uses surface electrodes placed on the abdomen to record this biopotentials. The investigators hypothesize that surface gastro-intestinal biopotentials differ between a population of healthy volunteers, Crohn's disease patients and FGID patients.

Being tested
Gastro-intestinal biopotentials recording
Keywords
Medical device, Electrophysiology
Medical subject headings
Crohn Disease, Gastrointestinal Diseases

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • Gastro-intestinal biopotentials recordingDevice

    Participants will undertake two recordings made with the device. The first one will last 1 hour and 30 minutes and will occurs while the participants are fasting. Then, they will eat a standardized meal. Finally, the second recording will take place after the meal ingestion and will last 1 hour and 30 minutes while the participants are in postprandial state.

Study groups in NCT06197334
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Healthy volunteersExperimentalNot described
Receives: Device: Gastro-intestinal biopotentials recording
Crohn's disease patients with fibrosisExperimentalNot described
Receives: Device: Gastro-intestinal biopotentials recording
Crohn's disease patients without fibrosisExperimentalNot described
Receives: Device: Gastro-intestinal biopotentials recording
Functional gastrointestinal disorders patientsExperimentalNot described
Receives: Device: Gastro-intestinal biopotentials recording

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Gastro-intestinal biopotentials pattern as recorded by the homemade recorder

    Gastro-intestinal biopotentials pattern in patients versus healthy volunteers

    Measured: 12 months

Secondary outcomes (5)
  1. Correlation score between gastro-intestinal biopotentials pattern as recorded by the homemade recorder vs Harvey-Bradshaw Index assessed with a questionnaire

    Correlation score in Crohn's disease patients with and without fibrosis for the gastro-intestinal biopotentials pattern vs the Harvey-Bradshaw Index

    Measured: 12 months

  2. Correlation score between gastro-intestinal biopotentials pattern as recorded by the homemade recorder vs the Nancy score assessed by a clinician rating MRI images

    Correlation score in Crohn's disease patients with and without fibrosis for the gastro-intestinal biopotentials pattern vs the Nancy score (MRI score)

    Measured: 12 months

  3. Correlation score between gastro-intestinal biopotentials pattern as recorded by the homemade recorder vs blood fecal calprotectin levels (µg/g)

    Correlation score in Crohn's disease patients with and without fibrosis for the gastro-intestinal biopotentials pattern vs blood fecal calprotectin levels

    Measured: 12 months

  4. Correlation score between gastro-intestinal biopotentials pattern as recorded by the homemade recorder vs C-reactive protein levels (µg/L)

    Correlation score in Crohn's disease patients with and without fibrosis for the gastro-intestinal biopotentials pattern vs C-reactive protein levels

    Measured: 12 months

  5. Correlation score between gastro-intestinal biopotentials pattern as recorded by the homemade recorder vs Rome IV criteria

    Correlation score in functional gastrointestinal disorders patients for the gastro-intestinal biopotentials pattern vs the Rome IV criteria

    Measured: 12 months

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted9 Jan 2024
  2. Study start18 Feb 2025
  3. Primary completion1 Sep 2026 (estimated)
  4. Study completion1 Sep 2027 (estimated)

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase N/A
Primary purpose
Diagnosis
Allocation
Non-randomised
Intervention model
Parallel groups
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
60 participants (estimated)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT06197334
Sponsor's protocol ID
2023-A01618-37
Acronym
GRELE
Status last verified
Jun 2026
First submitted
19 Dec 2023
Last updated
24 Jun 2026
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
No

Publications

  • Alighaleh S, Cheng L, Angeli-Gordon TR, Aghababaie Z, O'Grady G, Paskaranandavadivel N. Design and Validation of a Surface-Contact Electrode for Gastric Pacing and Concurrent Slow-Wave Mapping. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 2021 Aug;68(8):2574-2581. doi: 10.1109/TBME.2021.3063685. Epub 2021 Jul 16.

    PubMed 33656985
  • Axelrod L, Axelrod S, Navalgund A, Triadafilopoulos G. Pilot Validation of a New Wireless Patch System as an Ambulatory, Noninvasive Tool That Measures Gut Myoelectrical Signals: Physiologic and Disease Correlations. Dig Dis Sci. 2021 Oct;66(10):3505-3515. doi: 10.1007/s10620-020-06663-y. Epub 2020 Oct 15.

    PubMed 33063188
  • Bassotti G, Antonelli E, Villanacci V, Salemme M, Coppola M, Annese V. Gastrointestinal motility disorders in inflammatory bowel diseases. World J Gastroenterol. 2014 Jan 7;20(1):37-44. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v20.i1.37.

    PubMed 24415856
  • Calder S, Cheng LK, Andrews CN, Paskaranandavadivel N, Waite S, Alighaleh S, Erickson JC, Gharibans A, O'Grady G, Du P. Validation of noninvasive body-surface gastric mapping for detecting gastric slow-wave spatiotemporal features by simultaneous serosal mapping in porcine. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol. 2022 Oct 1;323(4):G295-G305. doi: 10.1152/ajpgi.00049.2022. Epub 2022 Aug 2.

    PubMed 35916432
  • Erickson JC, Bruce LE, Taylor A, Richman J, Higgins C, Wells CI, O'Grady G. Electrocolonography: Non-Invasive Detection of Colonic Cyclic Motor Activity From Multielectrode Body Surface Recordings. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 2020 Jun;67(6):1628-1637. doi: 10.1109/TBME.2019.2941851. Epub 2019 Sep 16.

    PubMed 31535980
  • Gharibans AA, Hayes TCL, Carson DA, Calder S, Varghese C, Du P, Yarmut Y, Waite S, Keane C, Woodhead JST, Andrews CN, O'Grady G. A novel scalable electrode array and system for non-invasively assessing gastric function using flexible electronics. Neurogastroenterol Motil. 2023 Feb;35(2):e14418. doi: 10.1111/nmo.14418. Epub 2022 Jun 14.

    PubMed 35699340
  • Huizinga JD, Lammers WJ. Gut peristalsis is governed by a multitude of cooperating mechanisms. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol. 2009 Jan;296(1):G1-8. doi: 10.1152/ajpgi.90380.2008. Epub 2008 Nov 6.

    PubMed 18988693
  • Khan, M.U., Aziz, S., Sohail, M., Shahid, A.A., Samer, S., 2019. Automated Detection and Classification of Gastrointestinal Diseases using surface-EMG Signals, in: 2019 22nd International Multitopic Conference (INMIC). IEEE, pp. 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1109/INMIC48123.2019.9022741

  • Navalgund, A., Axelrod, S., Triadafilopoulos, G., 2015. Feasibility of measuring the contractile electrical complex over 72 hours in a healthy human subject using a wearable, wireless electrode patch.

  • Ng SC, Shi HY, Hamidi N, Underwood FE, Tang W, Benchimol EI, Panaccione R, Ghosh S, Wu JCY, Chan FKL, Sung JJY, Kaplan GG. Worldwide incidence and prevalence of inflammatory bowel disease in the 21st century: a systematic review of population-based studies. Lancet. 2017 Dec 23;390(10114):2769-2778. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32448-0. Epub 2017 Oct 16.

    PubMed 29050646
  • Peery AF, Crockett SD, Murphy CC, Lund JL, Dellon ES, Williams JL, Jensen ET, Shaheen NJ, Barritt AS, Lieber SR, Kochar B, Barnes EL, Fan YC, Pate V, Galanko J, Baron TH, Sandler RS. Burden and Cost of Gastrointestinal, Liver, and Pancreatic Diseases in the United States: Update 2018. Gastroenterology. 2019 Jan;156(1):254-272.e11. doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2018.08.063. Epub 2018 Oct 10.

    PubMed 30315778
  • Riezzo G, Russo F, Indrio F. Electrogastrography in adults and children: the strength, pitfalls, and clinical significance of the cutaneous recording of the gastric electrical activity. Biomed Res Int. 2013;2013:282757. doi: 10.1155/2013/282757. Epub 2013 May 25.

    PubMed 23762836
  • Sperber AD, Bangdiwala SI, Drossman DA, Ghoshal UC, Simren M, Tack J, Whitehead WE, Dumitrascu DL, Fang X, Fukudo S, Kellow J, Okeke E, Quigley EMM, Schmulson M, Whorwell P, Archampong T, Adibi P, Andresen V, Benninga MA, Bonaz B, Bor S, Fernandez LB, Choi SC, Corazziari ES, Francisconi C, Hani A, Lazebnik L, Lee YY, Mulak A, Rahman MM, Santos J, Setshedi M, Syam AF, Vanner S, Wong RK, Lopez-Colombo A, Costa V, Dickman R, Kanazawa M, Keshteli AH, Khatun R, Maleki I, Poitras P, Pratap N, Stefanyuk O, Thomson S, Zeevenhooven J, Palsson OS. Worldwide Prevalence and Burden of Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders, Results of Rome Foundation Global Study. Gastroenterology. 2021 Jan;160(1):99-114.e3. doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2020.04.014. Epub 2020 Apr 12.

    PubMed 32294476
  • Gharibans AA, Coleman TP, Mousa H, Kunkel DC. Spatial Patterns From High-Resolution Electrogastrography Correlate With Severity of Symptoms in Patients With Functional Dyspepsia and Gastroparesis. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2019 Dec;17(13):2668-2677. doi: 10.1016/j.cgh.2019.04.039. Epub 2019 Apr 19.

    PubMed 31009794

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A study testing Gastro-intestinal biopotentials recording in people with Crohn Disease and Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders, run by Central Hospital, Nancy, France at 2 sites in France.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 22 inclusion and 13 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: looking for participants now, as of the sponsor's last update on 24 Jun 2026. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 2 sites in France. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

Are results available for this study?

This study is still under way. Results are not available in the source record yet.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

Each site lists its own contact: choose the nearest one under Trial locations. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Gastro-intestinal biopotentials pattern as recorded by the homemade recorder (time frame: 12 months). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT06197334, which also lists 14 linked publications.

Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 24 Jun 2026.

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