NCT01152047

The Effect of Oxytocin on Gastric Emptying

The Effect of Oxytocin on Satiety in Patients With Dyspepsia

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 14 (actual)
• Sponsor: Skane University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The investigators have seen that oxytocin lowers satiety in healthy subjects. Patients with dyspepsia suffers from decreased accommodation and increased satiety postprandially. The investigators now want to examine whether oxytocin may diminish symptoms in these patients.

Detailed description

Patients will come twice for a slow satiety drinking test. Once they will get saline infusion and once oxytocin 40 mU/min. At the same time they register satiety on a VAS scale.

Conditions

• Dyspepsia
• Lack of Satiety

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	oxytocin	40mU/min as infusion of oxytocin

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-05-01
• Primary completion: 2015-04-01
• Completion: 2015-04-01
• First posted: 2010-06-29
• Last updated: 2015-04-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Sweden