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NCT Number: NCT07485751

Safety and Feasibility of Nasal Delivery of Human Dental Follicle Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Derived Exosomes for Negative Symptoms in Treatment-Resistant Schizophrenia: A Pilot Study

The goal of this clinical trial is to determine the safety and feasibility of nasal delivery of human dental follicle mesenchymal stem cell-derived exosomes in the treatment of negative symptoms of treatment-resistant schizophrenia. It will also learn about the preliminary efficacy of the exosomes. The main questions it aims to answer are:

Is the safety of the exosomes enough for participants? Is the feasibility of nasal delivery of exosomes for participants? Do the exosomes exert any benefits on the negative symptoms of treatment-resistant schizophrenia?

Participants will:

Take a nasal spray of exosomes twice weekly for 2 months Take vital sign checks every day, regular visits for an interview, and lab examinations

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Key information

Age range

18 year–60 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Early Phase 1

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Conforms to the ICD-10 diagnosis of schizophrenia; 2) age between 18 and 60 years old; 3) course of more than 5 years of long-term inpatients; 4) the last 6 months without acute aggravating period, and no change in recent two months regimen; 5) to including clozapine, two different antipsychotics enough poor foot therapy treatment response; 6) positive and negative symptoms scale - negative symptom factor (PANSS - FSNS) 24 or more; 7) three core of PANSS negative symptoms (N1, N4 interchange and N6) at least 2 or 4; 6) clinical overall impression scale - illness severity (-s) CGI score of 4 or more points; 7) signed a written informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

  • Has a history of severe allergies; 2) there is a clear brain organic disease; 3) with serious body disease (such as the instability of coronary artery disease, malignant arrhythmia, liver and kidney function is not complete, bronchial asthma, COPD acute aggravating period, autoimmune diseases, etc.); 4) there is accord with the ICD - 10 patients with other psychiatric diagnosis standard sample obstacles (such as schizoaffective disorder, schizophrenia, bipolar I disorder, bipolar type Ⅱ dysfunction, broad developmental disabilities, mental retardation, delirium, dementia, forgotten obstacles or other cognitive impairment, etc.); 5) condition fluctuation, the need to adjust the drug solution; 6) don't cooperate with treatment, 7) with severe rhinitis, nasal allergies; 8) for nearly three months has a history of MECT therapy; 9) suicide risk; 10) during pregnancy or lactation women, female or male subjects and spouse has pregnancy at the time of test plan or over 3 months to test is not willing to use effective contraception (effective contraceptive measures such as birth control pills and condoms or intrauterine device, etc.); 11) other unfavorable into groups.

Treatment and study plan

hDFSCs-Exo

Biological

Nasal delivery of exosomes derived from human dental follicle mesenchymal stem cells (1×10^9, 2×10^9, 4×10^9, 8×10^9, 16×10^9) twice weekly for eight weeks

Primary outcomes

  1. The incidence and severity of adverse events (AE) and serious adverse events (SAE).

    Time frame: week 0, 2, 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, and 24

  2. Incidence of dose-limiting toxicity (DLT)

    Time frame: The observation period for DLT is within 28 days after a single administration

    Specific toxic reactions related to the investigational drug that occur during the DLT observation period (within 28 days after a single administration)

  3. The incidence rate of abnormal laboratory tests

    Time frame: Week 0, 2, 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, and 24

    Blood routine, liver and kidney function (elevated ALT/AST, elevated creatinine, etc.), myocardial enzyme spectrum, inflammatory factors, allergic indicators (IgE)

  4. The incidence of abnormal vital signs and electrocardiogram (ECG)

    Time frame: Week 0, 2, 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, and 24

  5. Drug administration completion rate

    Time frame: week 8

Secondary outcomes

  1. Changes in the total score and negative symptom factor score of the PANSS scale

    Time frame: week 0, 4, 8, 12, and 24

  2. Changes in the total score and subscale scores of SANS (Negative Symptom Rating Scale)

    Time frame: week 0, 4, 8, 12, and 24

  3. Changes in the Clinical General Impression Scale - Severity (CGI-S) score

    Time frame: Week 0, 4, 8, 12, 24

  4. Changes in the Calgary Schizophrenia and Depression Scale (CDSS) score

    Time frame: Week 0, 4, 8, 12, 24

  5. Changes in the Montreal Cognitive Assessment Scale (MoCA) score

    Time frame: week 0, 4, 8, 12, 24

  6. Changes in the completion time of connection test A/B (TMT-A/B)

    Time frame: week 0, 4, 8, 12, 24

  7. Score changes of the Digit Span Test

    Time frame: week 0, 4, 8, 12, 24

  8. Changes in Language Learning and Memory Test (VLMT) scores

    Time frame: week 0, 4, 8, 12, 24

Other outcomes

  1. Changes in the functional connections of brain networks in MRI

    Time frame: week 0, 8

  2. The change in the concentration of oxygenated hemoglobin (Oxy-Hb) in fNIRS

    Time frame: week 0, 8

Study contacts

Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.

Zigong Mental Health Center

CONTACT

[email protected]

+86 15881342476

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Zigong Mental Health Center

Other

Collaborators

  • Chengdu Celincare Biotechnology Co., Ltd.

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2026
Primary completion
2026
Study completion
2026
First posted
Mar 20, 2026
Registry last updated
Mar 20, 2026

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