NCT03571425

The Impact of Enteral Versus Oral Protein Feeding on Muscle Protein Synthesis in Healthy Young Males and Females

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Exeter · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 40 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The present study will seek to quantify the muscle protein synthetic response to a protein beverage consumed orally or through a nasogastric tube in healthy, young individuals.

Detailed description

Thirty healthy, young volunteers will receive a stable isotope tracer infusion (8.5h) combined with repeated blood and muscle sampling, in order to measure muscle protein synthesis rate in the postabsorptive state, and following oral placebo ingestion (n=10), oral protein ingestion (n=10), or enteral protein administration (n=10).

Conditions

• Healthy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Oral Placebo	A placebo beverage will be consumed orally
OTHER	Oral Protein	A protein beverage will be consumed orally
OTHER	Enteral Protein	A protein beverage will be consumed via a naso-gastric feeding tube

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-06-04
• Primary completion: 2018-12-01
• Completion: 2018-12-01
• First posted: 2018-06-27
• Last updated: 2018-12-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom