Status:
COMPLETED
A Relative Bioavailability Study of Valacyclovir Hydrochloride Tablets 1gm Under Fed Condition
Lead Sponsor:
Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited
Conditions:
Healthy
Eligibility:
MALE
18-45 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
The study was conducted as an open-label, balanced, randomized, two-treatment, two-period, two-sequence, single-dose, crossover, bioequivalence study comparing Valacyclovir hydrochloride tablets 1 gra...
Detailed Description
Following an overnight fast of at least 10 hour, a high-fat high-calorie breakfast was served to the study subjects. Thirty minutes after start of this breakfast, a single oral dose of Valacyclovir hy...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Were in the age range of 18-45 years.
- Were neither overweight nor underweight for his height as per the Life Insurance Corporation of India height/weight chart for non-medical cases.
- Had voluntarily given written informed consent to participate in this study.
- Were of normal health as determined by medical history and physical examination of the subjects performed within 21 days prior to the commencement of the study.
- Had non-vegetarian dietary habit.
- There were no deviations in this regard.
Exclusion
- History of known hypersensitivity to Valacyclovir, related drugs like Acyclovir or to any other drug.
- Any evidence of organ dysfunction or any clinically significant deviation from the normal, in physical or clinical determinations.
- Presence of disease markers of HIV 1 or 2, Hepatitis B or C viruses or syphilis infection.
- Presence of values which were out of acceptable limits for hemoglobin, total white blood cells count, differential WBC count or platelet count.
- Positive for urinary screen testing of drugs of abuse (opiates or cannabinoids).
- Presence of values which were out of acceptable limits for serum creatinine, blood urea nitrogen, serum aspartate aminotransferase (AST), serum alanine aminotransferase (ALT), serum alkaline phosphatase, serum bilirubin, plasma glucose or serum cholesterol.
- Clinically abnormal chemical and microscopic examination of urine defined as presence of RBC, WBC (\>4/HPF), glucose (positive) or protein (positive).
- Clinically abnormal ECG or Chest X-ray.
- History of serious gastrointestinal, hepatic, renal, cardiovascular, pulmonary, neurological or hematological disease, diabetes or glaucoma.
- Inability to communicate well (i.e. language problem, poor mental development, psychiatric illness or poor cerebral function) that might impair the ability to provide, written informed consent.
- Regular smokers who smoked more than 10 cigarettes daily or had difficulty abstaining from smoking for the duration of each study period.
- History of drug dependence or excessive alcohol intake on a habitual basis of more than 2 units of alcoholic beverages per day (1 unit equivalent to half pint of beer or 1 glass of wine or 1 measure of spirit) or had difficulty in abstaining for the duration of each study period.
- Used any regular medication (OTC or prescription) with in 14 days or any drug metabolizing enzyme modifying medications within 30 days prior to Day 1 of this study.
- Participated in any clinical trial within 12 weeks preceding Day 1 of this study (except for the subjects who dropout/withdrawn from the previous study prior to period I dosing).
- Subjects who, through completion of this study, had donated and /or lost more than 350 ml of blood in the past 3 months other than study participation.
- There were no deviations in this regard.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
May 1 2009
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
July 1 2009
Estimated Enrollment :
40 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT01222897
Start Date
May 1 2009
End Date
July 1 2009
Last Update
October 18 2010
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Ranbaxy Clinical Pharmacology Unit, Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited
Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India