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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 3 August 2015
Main ID:  NCT01100736
Date of registration: 30/03/2010
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: University of Edinburgh
Public title: Role of Endothelin-A (ETA) and Endothelin-B (ETB) Receptors in the Vasodilatory Response to Endothelin-3 (ET-3)
Scientific title: Characterisation of the Role of ETA and ETB Receptors in Regulating Plasma ET-1 and the Vasodilator Response to ET-3 in Man
Date of first enrolment: January 2009
Target sample size: 10
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT01100736
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Crossover Assignment, Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Caregiver, Investigator), Primary Purpose: Basic Science  
Phase:  Phase 0
Countries of recruitment
United Kingdom
Contacts
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Healthy men and post-menopausal women

- Age 18-70 years

- BMI 18-35 kg/m2

Exclusion Criteria:

- Are mentally or legally incapacitated

- Have donated blood within the last 4 weeks

- Have a history of past or present drug or alcohol abuse

- Have participated in another clinical trial within 1 month

- Are considered to be at a high risk of HIV or Hepatitis B

- Are taking routine medicines

- Are women taking hormone replacement therapy

- Have significant medical or psychiatric illness



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 70 Years
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
Vasodilation
Vasoconstriction
Intervention(s)
Biological: Endothelin-3
Drug: Placebo
Drug: Bosentan
Drug: Sitaxsentan
Primary Outcome(s)
Responses to ET-3 (maximum vasodilation after ET-3 administration and area under the curve of vasodilation) after bosentan compared with the results from sitaxsentan and placebo. [Time Frame: 60 mins]
Plasma ET-1 after 7-day administration of bosentan, sitaxsentan and placebo [Time Frame: 7 days]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Secondary ID(s)
2008/W/CRC/01
08/S1102/1
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Encysive Pharmaceuticals
Ethics review
Results
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