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Last refreshed on: 19 February 2015
Main ID:  NCT00756080
Date of registration: 18/09/2008
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Nantes University Hospital
Public title: "Effects of Oral Citrulline on Protein Metabolism in Healthy Humans: a Prospective, Randomized, Double-blind , Cross-over Study" (Citrugrêle)
Scientific title: "Effects of Oral Citrulline on Protein Metabolism in Healthy Humans: a Prospective, Randomized, Double-blind , Cross-over Study"
Date of first enrolment: September 2008
Target sample size: 12
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00756080
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Crossover Assignment, Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Caregiver, Investigator), Primary Purpose: Treatment  
Phase:  Phase 1
Countries of recruitment
France
Contacts
Name:     Ronan THIBAULD, Doctor
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Affiliation:  CHU Nantes
Name:     Dominique Darmaun, Professor
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Affiliation:  CHU Nantes
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Healthy adult between 18 and 45 years of age

- Absence of any earlier supplementation with citrulline, glutamine, ornithine
a-ketoglutarate, or stimol®

- Absence of any treatment with anabolic agents during the month prior to inclusion in
the study- No current artificial feeding (enteral or parenteral)

- No renal, cardiac, respiratory or hepatic insufficiency

- No chronic inflammatory disease (intestinal or other

- No current corticotherapy

- Fasting blood glucose below 6mmol/L (126 mg/dL)

- Body mass index between 19 and 24.9

- Patient able to understand benefits and risks of protocol

- Not pregnant, taking oral contraceptive measure if able to procreate

- Subject affiliated to French health insurance (Sécurité Sociale)

- Informed consent form signed

- No concomitant participation to another clinical trial, and compliance with the
exclusion period required by law

Exclusion Criteria:

- Subject not fulfilling inclusion criteria

- Subject mentioned in articles L1121-5 to L1121-8 of "code de la santé publique"

- Subject for whom the participation in this clinical trial would result, by cumulating
stipends received for other clinical trials, in earning more than 4500 € within 12
consecutive months



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 45 Years
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Healthy Subjects
Intervention(s)
Drug: placebo
Drug: citrulline
Primary Outcome(s)
To determine whether oral citrulline administration enhances whole body protein synthesis in healthy humans in the psotabsorptive state, as measured using an intravenous infusion of stable isotope labeled leucine [Time Frame: No]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Using a 12-h urine collection, to confirm the positive effect of oral citrulline administration on nitrogen balance observed in preliminary studies (Rougé et al, Am J Physiol 293:G1061, 2007) [Time Frame: No]
To determine whether the putative protein anabolic effect of citrulline is mediated by insulin or insulin-like-growth factor 1 (IGF-1), based on measurement of their plasma concentrations [Time Frame: No]
Secondary ID(s)
BRD 07/12-D
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
Results available:
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Date Completed:
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