NCT01387919

Time Course and Nature of Nutrient Sensing During Fasting in Humans

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 12 (actual)
• Sponsor: Leiden University Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 19 Years – 29 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Several studies have begun to determine the time course of events sensing energy availability in rodents. In contrast, there is not a single study that has examined this in humans to date. A better understanding of this energy sensing machinery in humans is of utmost importance to give us new insights into developing new therapies for common diseases such as obesity, diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular diseases and cancer. In these diseases, disturbances in the energy-sensing machinery possibly play a role. To determine the time course of energy sensing events in humans, the investigators will measure the concentration of various hormones in plasma, and biochemical changes in skeletal muscle at sequential time points during starvation in humans. The investigators choose to study the molecular machinery in muscle, since muscle is very sensitive to fuel deprivation.

Conditions

• Nutrient Sensing During a Prolonged Fast

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Prolonged fasting	48 hours of fasting

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-02-01
• Primary completion: 2011-03-01
• Completion: 2011-03-01
• First posted: 2011-07-06
• Last updated: 2011-07-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Netherlands