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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 17 October 2012
Main ID:  NCT00455962
Date of registration: 02/04/2007
Primary sponsor: Massachusetts General Hospital
Public title: Effect of Race on Gonadotropin Responses
Scientific title: Effect of Race on Gonadotropin Responses to Short Term Negative and Positive Feedback Effects of Gonadal Steroids
Date of first enrolment: January 2005
Target sample size: 60
Recruitment status: Active, not recruiting
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00455962
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Non-Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label  
Countries of recruitment
United States
Contacts
Name:   Janet E Hall, M.D.
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Affiliation:  Massachusetts General Hospital
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Premenopausal Women

- Will be non-smokers or smoke less than 10 cigarettes/day

- African-American women aged 18 to 35 years and Caucasian women aged 18 to 45 years

- BMI <30

- In good general health with normal TSH, prolactin and hemoglobin

- Normal BUN and Creatinine (< 2 times the upper limit of normal)

- On no medications for > 2 months before the study

- Regular menstrual cycles every 25 to 35 days and ovulation documented by a luteal
phase progesterone > 3 ng/ml

- With no evidence of androgen excess.

- Subjects must have no known sensitivity to any medications used in the relevant
protocol and be willing to use abstinence or barrier methods of contraception for the
duration of the study.

Subjects will be asked to volunteer information on ethnicity (self classification). Only
African-American and Caucasian subjects will be included in this aim to address the
specific hypotheses.



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 45 Years
Gender: Female
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Healthy
Premenopause
Intervention(s)
Drug: Estradiol steroid infusion
Drug: Progesterone steroid infusion
Primary Outcome(s)
LH response to estrogen positive feedback [Time Frame: 5 days of estradiol and progesterone infusion]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Secondary ID(s)
2003P-001397
Sundry Department Fund
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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