Diet/Growth Factor Mechanisms of Gut Adaptation

Completed · Phase 2

Conditions studied: Short Bowel Syndrome

In brief

This is a double-blind randomized controlled study on the clinical and metabolic effects and underlying gut mucosal mechanisms of modified diet, with or without recombinant human growth hormone, in adults with severe short bowel syndrome dependent upon parenteral nutrition. Clinical endpoints include ability to wean patients from parenteral feeding, metabolic endpoints include gut nutrient absorptive function and molecular endpoints include expression of growth factors and nutrient transporters in small bowel and colonic mucosa. The 6-month study is performed, in part, in the General Clinical Research Center for inpatient stays and outpatient visits.

Key facts

Study ID
NCT00067860
Run by
Emory University
People needed
27
Starts
1996-10-01
Expected to finish
2006-12-01
Last updated by the study team
2016-05-16

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 80. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

Where it is running

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

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