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Register: Netherlands Trial Register
Last refreshed on: 28 April 2013
Main ID:  NTR796
Date of registration: 10/08/2006
Primary sponsor: VU University Medical Center, Department of Endocrinology
Public title: The effects of low dose 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 on the polarising of cellular immune reactivity towards type 2 immunity.
Scientific title: The effects of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 on immune reactivity towards type 2 immunity. - N/A
Date of first enrolment: 15/11/2006
Target sample size: 24
Recruitment status: complete
URL:  http://www.trialregister.nl/trialreg/admin/rctview.asp?TC=796
Study type:  intervention
Study design:  Randomised: Yes; Masking: Double; Control: Placebo; Group: Parallel; Type: 2 or more arms, randomized  
Countries of recruitment
The Netherlands
Contacts
Name: E.M.W.  Eekhoff
Address:  VU University Medical Center De Boelelaan 1118 1081 HV Amsterdam The Netherlands
Telephone: +31(0)20 4440533
Email: emw.eekhoff@vumc.nl
Affiliation: 
Name: C.M.  Dinkgreve
Address:  VU University Medical Center, Department of endocrinology De Boelelaan 1118 1081 HV Amsterdam The Netherlands
Telephone: +31(0)20 4440533
Email: cm.dinkgreve@vumc.nl
Affiliation: 
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Written informed consent;

2. women, aged 20-30 years;

3. use of oral contraception with estrogen and progestin;

4. apparently health.


Exclusion criteria: 1. Men;

2. pregnancy;

3. smoking;

4. alcohol abuse: > 3 Units/day;

5. use of drugs, except for incidental analgesic agents;

6. use of diuretic medication or corticosteroids;

7. auto immune diseases;

8. renal impairment (serum creatinine >150
µmol/l);

9. malignant disease;

10. kidney-stones (also when this occurs in the family), urinary tract infections;

11. infectious diseases;

12. use of antibiotics;

13. use of any medication that influence T-
lymphocytes or vitamin D metabolism;

14. disease or use of any medication known to affect Ca metabolism or skeletal physiology;

15. serious mental impairment i.e. preventing to understand the study protocol/aim.




Age minimum:
Age maximum:
Gender:
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Auto-immune diseases

Intervention(s)
Twelve volunteers will receive 10 capsules of 0,5 µg calcitriol, the other twelve volunteers will receive 10 capsules placebo. They have to take the medication twice a day during 5 days.
Primary Outcome(s)
We expect the serum level of 1,25(OH)2D3 to rise and to induce the activity of T lymphocytes and the dendritic cells which regulate the immunity and reduce the activity of type 1 T lymphocytes involved in auto-immune diseases. Their activity will be measured by the decrease of interferon gamma production.
Secondary Outcome(s)
We expect the type 1 cytokines to be decreased and the type 2 cytokines to be upregulated.
Secondary ID(s)
2006/160
ISRCTN12365646
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Medicina Interna
Secondary Sponsor(s)
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