ACY-7 Oral Administration of Acyline

Summary

We propose oral dosing of gastrointestinal permeation enhancement technology \[GIPET\] enhanced oral acyline at 20 mg everyday for one week to determine the steady-state (multiple-dose) pharmacokinetics of oral acyline in four normal, healthy young men.

Timeline

Start

2008-01

Primary completion

2008-02

Completion

2008-02

Publications

• Background Herbst KL, Anawalt BD, Amory JK, Bremner WJ. Acyline: the first study in humans of a potent, new gonadotropin-releasing hormone antagonist. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2002 Jul;87(7):3215-20. doi: 10.1210/jcem.87.7.8675.
• Background Herbst KL, Coviello AD, Page S, Amory JK, Anawalt BD, Bremner WJ. A single dose of the potent gonadotropin-releasing hormone antagonist acyline suppresses gonadotropins and testosterone for 2 weeks in healthy young men. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2004 Dec;89(12):5959-65. doi: 10.1210/jc.2003-032123.
• Background Matthiesson KL, Amory JK, Berger R, Ugoni A, McLachlan RI, Bremner WJ. Novel male hormonal contraceptive combinations: the hormonal and spermatogenic effects of testosterone and levonorgestrel combined with a 5alpha-reductase inhibitor or gonadotropin-releasing hormone antagonist. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2005 Jan;90(1):91-7. doi: 10.1210/jc.2004-1228. Epub 2004 Oct 27.
• Background Amory JK, Bremner WJ. Oral testosterone in oil plus dutasteride in men: a pharmacokinetic study. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2005 May;90(5):2610-7. doi: 10.1210/jc.2004-1221. Epub 2005 Feb 15.
• Background Amory JK, Page ST, Bremner WJ. Oral testosterone in oil: pharmacokinetic effects of 5alpha reduction by finasteride or dutasteride and food intake in men. J Androl. 2006 Jan-Feb;27(1):72-8. doi: 10.2164/jandrol.05058.
• Background Page ST, Lin DW, Mostaghel EA, Hess DL, True LD, Amory JK, Nelson PS, Matsumoto AM, Bremner WJ. Persistent intraprostatic androgen concentrations after medical castration in healthy men. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2006 Oct;91(10):3850-6. doi: 10.1210/jc.2006-0968. Epub 2006 Aug 1.
• Background Page ST, Amory JK, Anawalt BD, Irwig MS, Brockenbrough AT, Matsumoto AM, Bremner WJ. Testosterone gel combined with depomedroxyprogesterone acetate is an effective male hormonal contraceptive regimen and is not enhanced by the addition of a GnRH antagonist. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2006 Nov;91(11):4374-80. doi: 10.1210/jc.2006-1411. Epub 2006 Aug 29.

Drugs

Indications

No indication recorded.