AIM2-NLRP3 Inflammasome Dual Inhibitor on hsCRP
Key facts
- Who runs it
- Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
- Where
- China1 site in 1 countryChoose a country to see its sites
- Trial code
- Status
- Not yet recruiting
- People taking part
- 250 people, planned
- Started
- 10 Nov 2026
- Expected to end
- 10 Nov 2027
- Type of study
- Interventional, 5 groupsOne group gets no study treatment, for comparison.
- Treatments tested
- Colchicine
- Eplerenone
- Leflunomide
- Artesunate
- Record updated
- 12 November 2026
Who can take part
- Age
- 18 years and older
- Sex
- Women and men
- Healthy volunteers
- Cannot take part
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- Volunteer to participate, understand and sign an informed consent form
- Age ≥ 18 years old, regardless of gender
- Patient diagnosed with coronary heart disease requiring percutaneous coronary intervention
- Complete all planned percutaneous coronary intervention during hospitalization
- Patient must be treated according to national guidelines for standard treatment of coronary heart disease
Who cannot take part
- Use of colchicine, eplerenone, leflunomide, or artesunate within 30 days before screening
- Current treatment with potent CYP3A4 inhibitors, including ketoconazole, itraconazole, clarithromycin, etc
- Current or planned use of medications outside the study protocol that may affect immune or inflammatory responses, including nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), systemic corticosteroids, immunomodulatory agents, chemotherapeutic agents, etc
- Known hypersensitivity or allergy to colchicine, eplerenone, leflunomide, or artesunate
- Uncontrolled infectious diseases
- Known immune diseases or immune-related diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus, asthma, inflammatory bowel disease, gout, malignant tumor, etc
- Hepatic dysfunction, defined as alanine aminotransferase (ALT) levels greater than 3 times the upper limit of normal (ULN)
- Renal dysfunction, defined as an estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) of less than 60 mL/min/1.73 m²
- Hyperkalemia, defined as a serum potassium level greater than 5.0 mmol/L
- Thrombocytopenia, defined as a platelet count of less than 100 × 10⁹/L
- Leukopenia, defined as a white blood cell count of less than 3.0 × 10⁹/L
- Anemia, defined as a hemoglobin level of less than 90 g/L
- Requirement for potassium supplementation or potassium-sparing diuretics, including amiloride, spironolactone, triamterene, etc
- Pregnant women, lactating women or women of childbearing age who do not use effective contraceptives
- Any other circumstances in which the investigator judges that the patient is not suitable to participate in the study
This trial has no sites in United States.
It has sites in one country. Choose a country to see its sites.
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
Residual inflammatory risk remains a major contributor to adverse cardiovascular outcomes despite guideline-directed therapy. Although colchicine reduces cardiovascular events, its anti-inflammatory effects may extend beyond NLRP3 inhibition to involve AIM2 inflammasome suppression. We hypothesized that dual NLRP3/AIM2 inhibition may provide an effective strategy for targeting residual inflammatory risk. Using molecular docking and a THP-1 cell-based dual-inflammasome model, we screened approved drugs and identified leflunomide, eplerenone, and artesunate as candidate agents with greater IL-1β inhibitory activity than colchicine at clinically relevant concentrations. These findings highlight dual inflammasome inhibition as a potential therapeutic strategy for coronary heart disease.
The 5 groups in the trial
- Control groupNo study treatment, for comparison
Standard treatment for coronary heart disease
- Colchicine groupTreatment being tested
Colchicine+standard treatment for coronary heart disease
Treatment: Colchicine
- Eplerenone groupTreatment being tested
Eplerenone+standard treatment for coronary heart disease
Treatment: Eplerenone
- Leflunomide groupTreatment being tested
Leflunomide+standard treatment for coronary heart disease
Treatment: Leflunomide
- Artesunate groupTreatment being tested
Artesunate+standard treatment for coronary heart disease
Treatment: Artesunate
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations
Print a page for my doctorData and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- The Effect of AIM2-NLRP3 Inflammasome Dual Inhibitor on hsCRP in Patients After Coronary Intervention Therapy
- Record updated
- 12 November 2026