Inflammation and Brain Function - Pilot Study

NCT03551080 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 8

Last updated 2018-06-11

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

In this randomized double blind cross-over study 8 healthy persons were injected with 0.8 ng/kg body weight lipopolysaccharide (LPS) /endotoxin and placebo at two different occasions. The aim was to investigate how pain sensitivity and health perception change in response to an acute immune activation.

Conditions

  • Sickness Behavior

Interventions

BIOLOGICAL

Lipopolysaccharide

Endotoxin at 0.8 ng/kg of body weight administered intravenously (Escherichia Coli, Lot nr G3E0609, United States Pharmacopeia Rockville, MD)

BIOLOGICAL

Placebo

Saline administered intravenously

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of California, San Francisco

    collaborator OTHER
  • The Swedish Society of Medicine

    collaborator OTHER
  • Swedish Heart Lung Foundation

    collaborator OTHER
  • The Swedish Research Council

    collaborator OTHER_GOV
  • Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research

    collaborator OTHER
  • Stockholm University

    collaborator OTHER
  • Karolinska Institutet

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
TRIPLE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
50 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-10-31
Primary Completion
2009-12-31
Completion
2009-12-31

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