Healthy
Conditions
Brief summary
Study to investigate safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of BI 44847 in Japanese healthy volunteers
Interventions
Sponsors
Study design
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
* Subjects will be healthy male volunteers who meet the criteria below: * Persons without clinically remarkable findings or clinically evident complications based on their concurrent illness, past medical history, physical examination, vital signs (blood pressure, pulse rate, and body temperature), 12-lead ECG, and laboratory test results * Persons who are 20 or older and 35 or younger * Persons with a BMI 18.5 kg/m2 or more and 25.0 kg/m2 less * Persons who are willing to participate in this trial before study initiation and who give their written consent in accordance with Good Clinical Practice
Exclusion criteria
* Any finding of the medical examination (including BP, Pulse Rate (PR) and ECG) deviating from normal and of clinical relevance * Any evidence of a clinically relevant concomitant disease * Gastrointestinal, hepatic, renal, respiratory, cardiovascular, metabolic, immunological or hormonal disorders * Diseases of the central nervous system (such as epilepsy) or psychiatric disorders or neurological disorders * History of relevant orthostatic hypotension, fainting spells or blackouts * Chronic or relevant acute infections * History of relevant allergy/hypersensitivity (including allergy to drug or its excipients) * Intake of drugs with a long half-life (\>24 hours) within at least one month or less than 10 half-lives of the respective drug prior to administration or during the trial * Use of any drugs within 10 days prior to administration or during the trial * Participation in another trial with an investigational drug within four months prior to administration or during the trial * Smoker (\>10 cigarettes or \>3 cigars or \>3 pipes/day) * Inability to refrain from smoking on trial days * Alcohol abuse (more than 60 g/day) * Drug abuse * Blood donation (more than 100 mL) within four weeks prior to administration or during the trial * Excessive physical activities (within one week prior to administration or during the trial) * Any laboratory value outside the reference range that is of clinical relevance * Inability to comply with dietary regimen of study centre 19. A history of additional risk factors for torsade de pointes (e.g., heart failure, hypokalemia, family history of long QT syndrome) * The use of concomitant medications that prolong the QT/QTc interval * Any ECG value outside of the reference range and of clinical relevance including, but not limited to QRS interval \>120 ms * Elevated urinary glucose levels at screening (\>15 mg/dl)
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Number of patients with clinically relevant changes in vital signs | up to day 7 |
| Number of patients with clinically relevant finding in 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) | up to day 7 |
| Number of patients with clinically relevant changes in laboratory parameters | up to day 7 |
| Number of patients with adverse events | up to 5 weeks |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| AUC0-tz (area under the concentration-time curve of the analyte in plasma over the time interval from 0 to the time of the last quantifiable data point) | up to 48 hours after drug administration |
| λz (terminal rate constant in plasma) | up to 48 hours after drug administration |
| t1/2 (terminal half-life of the analyte in plasma | up to 48 hours after drug administration |
| MRTpo (mean residence time of the analyte in the body after po administration) | up to 48 hours after drug administration |
| CL/F (total clearance of the analyte in the plasma after extravascular administration) | up to 48 hours after drug administration |
| Vz/F (apparent volume of distribution during the terminal phase λz following an extravascular dose) | up to 48 hours after drug administration |
| Cmax (maximum concentration of the analyte in plasma) | up to 48 hours after drug administration |
| fet1-t2 (fraction of analyte eliminated in urine from time point t1 to time point t2) | up to 48 hours after drug administration |
| CLR,t1-t2 (renal clearance of the analyte from the time point t1 until the time point t2) | up to 48 hours after drug administration |
| Area under the plasma glucose concentration time curve | up to 12 hours after drug administration |
| Total amount of glucose excreted in the urine | up to 48 hours after drug administration |
| Maximum glucose concentration in plasma | up to 12 hours after drug administration |
| Maximum glucose concentration in urine | up to 48 hours after drug administration |
| Aet1-t2 (amount of analyte that is eliminated in urine from the time point t1 to time point t2) | up to 48 hours after drug administration |
| tmax (time from dosing to maximum concentration) | up to 48 hours after drug administration |
| AUC0-inf. (area under the concentration-time curve of the analyte in plasma over the time interval from 0 extrapolated to infinity) | up to 48 hours after drug administration |
| %AUCtz-∞ (the percentage of the AUC0-∞ that is obtained by extrapolation) | up to 48 hours after drug administration |