PGC-1 and Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Diabetes
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Diabetes, Obese
In brief
The purpose of this study is determine if you have too much fat in your body that it will decrease the conversion of food energy into energy that your body can use.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT01724515
- Run by
- Mayo Clinic
- People needed
- 16
- Starts
- 2012-09-01
- Expected to finish
- 2014-03-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2014-05-12
Who can join
Age: 21 and older, up to 55. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Subjects must be able to communicate meaningfully with the investigator and must be legally competent to provide written informed consent.
- Subjects may be of either sex with age as described in each protocol. Female subjects must be non-lactating and will be eligible only if they have a negative pregnancy test throughout the study period.
- Subjects must range in age as described in each specific protocol.
- Subjects must have the following laboratory values:
- Hematocrit ≥ 35 vol%
- Serum creatinine ≤ 1.6 mg/dl
- Aspartate Aminotransferase (AST) (SGOT) < 2 times upper limit of normal
- Alanine Aminotransferase (ALT) (SGPT) < 2 times upper limit of normal
- Alkaline phosphatase < 2 times upper limit of normal
- Triglycerides < 150 mg/dl.
- Prothrombin Time (PT) 11.7 - 14.3 seconds (during Intralipid/heparin infusion, PT will be determined to insure that it is < 1.5-2.0 times the normal value.)
- Partial Thromboplastin Time (PTT) 23.0-37.0 seconds.
You may not qualify if…
- Subjects must not be receiving any of the following medications: thiazide or furosemide diuretics, beta-blockers, or other chronic medications with known adverse effects on glucose tolerance levels unless the patient has been on a stable dose of such agents for the past three months before entry into the study. Subjects may be taking a stable dose of estrogens or other hormonal replacement therapy, if the subject has been on these agents for the prior three months. Subjects taking systemic glucocorticoids are excluded.
- Subjects with a history of clinically significant heart disease (New York Heart Classification greater than grade II; more than non-specific ST-T wave changes on the EKG), peripheral vascular disease (history of claudication), or pulmonary disease (dyspnea on exertion of one flight or less; abnormal breath sounds on auscultation) will not be studied.
- Recent systemic or pulmonary embolus, untreated high-risk proliferative retinopathy, recent retinal hemorrhage, uncontrolled hypertension, systolic BP>180, diastolic BP>105, autonomic neuropathy, resting heart rate >100, electrolyte abnormalities.
Where it is running
- Mayo Clinic in Arizona — Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
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