Pharmacokinetics of Amiloride Nasal Spray in Healthy Volunteers

• Status: Recruiting
• Trial end date: 2022-01-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This study is a single-center, open-label study of the plasma pharmacokinetics of amiloride nasal spray at three different doses in healthy volunteers.

• Phase: Early Phase 1
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of Utah; Venkata Yellepeddi
• Collaborator: Center for Addiction and Mental Health
• Treatments: Amiloride

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Males between 18 to 30 years of age.

• Females between 18 to 30 years of age.

• Provide written informed consent and authorization.

• Study participants must be able to complete consent, all study evaluations, olfactory testing, and study-related health questionnaires written in the English language.

Exclusion Criteria:

• History of chronic drug, or narcotic abuse.

• Chronic use of tranquilizers, sedatives, aspirin, antibiotics, or other medications.

• Non-English speaking / English translation services required

• Unwilling or unable to provide informed, written consent.

• History or presence of major organ dysfunction.

• History of malignancy, stroke, or diabetes; cardiac, renal, liver, or severe gastrointestinal disease; or other serious illness.

• History of conditions which might contraindicate or require caution be used in the administration of amiloride including hyperkalemia with elevated serum potassium levels (greater than 5.5 mEq per liter), currently receiving other potassium-conserving agents such as spironolactone or triamterene, currently receiving potassium supplementation in the form of medication, potassium-containing salt substitutes or a potassium-rich diet, history or diagnosis of hypersensitivity to Amiloride.

• Subjects with abnormal kidney function tests [estimated glomerular filtration (eGFR) - < 60, and albumin to creatinine ratio (ACR) - > 30]

• Female subjects who are pregnant or nursing at the time of screening.

• Subjects who underwent any kind of surgery of nose and septum within the past one year.

• Subjects diagnosed with chronic rhinosinusitis.

• Treatment with any other investigational drug during the 30 days prior to enrollment into the study.

• Subjects who smoke, have a history of smoking or use nicotine-containing products.

• Subjects who have donated blood within 30 days prior to study entry, including that withdrawn during the conduct of any other clinical study.

• Subjects presenting with acute illness.