Status:

COMPLETED

7 Day Continuous Parathyroid Hormone IV Infusion

Lead Sponsor:

University of Pittsburgh

Collaborating Sponsors:

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)

Conditions:

Osteoporosis

Bone Diseases, Endocrine

Eligibility:

All Genders

24-35 years

Phase:

EARLY_PHASE1

Brief Summary

Study consists of an eight day inpatient visit on the General Clinical Research Center. The investigators' specific aims are to: 1. To define the maximum safe dose of a seven day continuous administr...

Detailed Description

This study will expand upon earlier infusions studies that demonstrated: 1) There is a dose-related increase in 1,25 (OH)2 vitamin D in response to PTHrP and PTH over multiple days. 2) There is a mark...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Healthy Caucasian, Hispanic or Asian subjects
  • Males and Females
  • Non-smoker
  • Ages 24 - 35 years old
  • Subjects will be recruited either from the employee pool of the University of Pittsburgh or the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), or the general population living in the vicinity.
  • Participation in this study by an employee or a potential employee at the University of Pittsburgh or UPMC has no effect on their employment or potential employment.
  • Participants in the study will be required to discontinue all vitamins and health food supplements two weeks prior to the study.

Exclusion

  • Cardiac, hypertensive, vascular, renal (serum creatinine of \>1.5), pulmonary, endocrine, musculoskeletal, hepatic, hematologic or malignant or rheumatologic disease
  • Body Mass Index (BMI) \> 30,
  • Anemia (hematocrit less than 36% in women, less than 40% in men),
  • Pregnancy (all women will have a urine pregnancy test performed immediately before starting the study and must not be pregnant)
  • Significant alcohol or drug abuse or
  • Baseline hypotension (systolic blood pressure less than 90 mm/Hg).
  • Subjects will be excluded for abnormal levels of any of the screening labs including: ionized and total serum calcium, phosphorus, creatinine, albumin, 25-hydroxyvitamin D, and PTH. Pregnancy
  • Subjects taking any chronic medications except oral contraceptives and stable doses of thyroid hormone, or those who have received any investigational drug in past 90 days will be excluded from the study.
  • Subjects may not participate in this study more than once.
  • Any subject who has previously received PTH or PTHrP, a related peptide, may not participate in this study.
  • Minority Inclusion/Exclusion Statement: We will not include African-Americans because this group has been demonstrated by a number of investigators to display resistance to PTH, and may create wider statistical variation and a need for larger numbers of study subjects per group.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

September 1 2006

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

December 1 2007

Estimated Enrollment :

11 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT00377312

Start Date

September 1 2006

End Date

December 1 2007

Last Update

March 22 2016

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University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, 15213