DOUBLE-BLIND PLACEBO-CONTROLLED RISING DOSE TOXICITY AND ACCEPTABILITY STUDY OF WR-5677 IN HEALTHY ADULT MALE VOLUNTEERS.

Abstract

Sixty healthy adult male volunteers were divided into ten groups of 6 each of whom half received WR-5677 and half its matching placebo in double-blind fashion according to a pre-arranged randomized code. Daily doses of WR-5677 ranged from 6.6 mg for the first group to 390.3 mg for the final group, given in each instance in three equal doses for 3 consecutive days. Nausea and vomiting occurred in almost 2/3 of the subjects who received daily doses of WR-5677 of 111.6 or greater. All three subjects given the highest dose level of WR-5677 had mild reductions in hematocrit values suggesting the possibility that WR-5677 at high doses may produce hematocrit drops by an as yet unidentified mechanism. Otherwise WR-5677 appeared to be non-toxic and well-accepted warranting further clinical trials as an anti-malarial agent. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 29, 1969
Accession Number
AD0692311

Entities

People

  • A. A. Kyriakopoulos
  • D. A. Vloedman
  • John P. Colmore
  • Paul C. Desper

Organizations

  • University of Oklahoma

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acceptability
  • Clinical Trials
  • Hematocrit
  • Toxicity
  • Volunteers

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

Readers

  • Brain and Cognitive Science; Experimental Psychology; Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Parasitology and Pharmacology of Malaria.