Efficacy of Motilitone on Gastric Accommodation in Healthy Adult Patients: Evaluation Using MRI Method

Summary

Functional dyspepsia (FD) is a disorder characterized by chronic or recurrent upper abdominal pain or discomfort in the absence of a specific structural cause. Improving gastric accommodation and prokinetic effect seem to be an attractive physiological target in patients with FD. Motilitone (Dong-A ST, Yongin, Korea) is a new herbal drug that was launched in December 2011 in Korea for treating patients with FD. The current study aims to evaluate effects of motilitone on gastric accommodation and emptying after a meal in a group of healthy volunteers using three-dimensional gastric volume measurements by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Healthy volunteers are randomly allocated to receive either motilitone or placebo in a double blinded manner. After 5 days of treatment, subjects undergo gastric MRI. The primary endpoint is gastric accommodation.

Timeline

Start

2013-08

Primary completion

2013-10

Completion

2013-12

Publications

• Min YW, Min BH, Kim S, Choi D, Rhee PL. Effect of DA-9701 on Gastric Motor Function Assessed by Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Healthy Volunteers: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial. PLoS One. 2015 Sep 24;10(9):e0138927. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0138927. eCollection 2015.

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