A Study to Assess the Availability of Oral Primaquine and Its Inert Metabolite, Carboxyprimaquine, in the Body

Healthy Clinical Trial

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Official title:

An Open-Label Pharmacokinetic Study to Evaluate the Bioavailability of Oral Primaquine and the Pharmacokinetics of Carboxyprimaquine in Healthy Adult Subjects

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Withdrawn

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05938608
• Other study ID #: MAL22006
• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: Phase 1
• Start date: March 2024
• Est. completion date: March 2025

Study information

• Verified date: January 2024
• Source: University of Oxford
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

An open-label pharmacokinetic study. This study will enroll 20 healthy adult subjects (10 males and 10 females aged 18-60 years) at the Clinical Therapeutics Unit or inpatient ward, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Thailand.

The investigator propose to conduct a definitive bioavailability and pharmacokinetic study in healthy adult volunteers, both male and female, with normal CYP2D6 genotypes to assess oral primaquine bioavailability by the administration of intravenous and oral primaquine on different days and calculate the proportion of drug converted to its inactive metabolite, carboxyprimaquine, in order to estimate the proportion of its active metabolites. The intravenous injection of the known amount of carboxyprimaquine will allow the calculation of carboxyprimaquine's volume of distribution.

Description:

This study will enroll 20 healthy adult subjects (10 males and 10 females aged 18-60 years).

Subjects will be admitted in the hospital and will receive 3 regimens of primaquine and its metabolite as described below. Every subject will have 1 screening and 3 admissions in the hospital.

Regimen 1: Primaquine 15 mg base orally once

Regimen 2: Primaquine 7.5 mg base in normal saline 500 mL infused over 30 minutes intravenously

Regimen 3: Carboxyprimaquine 7.93 mg base in normal saline 500 mL infused over 30 minutes intravenously

Washout period will be at least 2 weeks between each regimen.

The pharmacokinetic blood samples, 2 mL, will be collected at the scheduled times relative to when the subject was dosed for each regimens as follow.

Regimen 1: 16 blood samples collected from day 1 at 0 (pre-dose), 0.25, 0.5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 hours post-dose, day 1 at 24 hours post-dose, day 2 at 48 hours post-dose and only 1 sampling at any time on day 3, 5 and 7.

Regimen 2 and 3: 17 blood samples collected from day 1 at 0 (pre-dose), 0.25 (during), 0.5 (immediately after), 0.75, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 hours post-dose, day 1 at 24 hours post-dose, day 2 at 48 hours post-dose and only 1 sampling at any time on day 3, 5 and 7.

Plasma samples will be assayed by a validated Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometer (LCMS/MS) method developed at Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU), which is specific for the determination of primaquine and its metabolite, carboxyprimaquine.

Individual concentration-time data will be evaluated using a non-compartmental analysis approach. Pharmacokinetic parameters (i.e. Area under the concentration-time curve (AUC0-LAST, AUC0-∞), Maximum concentration (CMAX), Time to maximum concentration (TMAX), elimination clearance (CL/F), apparent volume of distribution (VD/F), and terminal elimination half-life (t1/2)) will be described using means (SD or 95% CI) and medians (range) as appropriate. Bioavailability of oral primaquine will be calculate based on the dose-normalised exposure (AUC0-LAST and AUC0-∞) to primaquine after oral and intravenous administration.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Withdrawn
• Enrollment: 0
• Est. completion date: March 2025
• Est. primary completion date: March 2025
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 60 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Healthy as judged by a responsible physician with no significant abnormality identified on a medical evaluation including medical history and physical examination.

2. Male or female aged between 18 years to 60 years.

3. A female is eligible to enter and participate in this study if she is:

• of non-childbearing potential including pre-menopausal females with documented (medical report verification) hysterectomy or double oophorectomy

OR

• postmenopausal defined as 12 months of spontaneous amenorrhea or 6 months of spontaneous amenorrhea with serum follicle stimulating hormone levels >40 milli-international units per milliliter (mIU/mL) or 6 weeks postsurgical bilateral oophorectomy with or without hysterectomy

OR

• of childbearing potential, has a negative serum pregnancy test at screening and urine pregnancy test prior to start the study drug in each period, and agrees to abstain from sexual intercourse or use effective contraceptive methods (e.g., intrauterine device, tubal ligation or female barrier method with spermicide except hormonal contraceptive) during the study until completion of the follow-up procedures

4. Willingness and ability to comply with the study protocol for the duration of the trial.

5. Subject is willing and able to give written informed consent for full participation in the study

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Females who are pregnant, trying to get pregnant, or are lactating.

2. Known to have any clinically significant disease or to have a clinically significant disease or disorder at this screening time

3. Donated more than 300 mL of whole blood within the previous 3 months

4. Non-smokers and non-tobacco user (i.e. having no past history of smoking and tobacco consuming for at least 3 months prior to study)

5. Consume alcohol or other alcohol containing products within 48 hours prior to the first dose of study drug and throughout the study

6. History or evidence of alcohol or substance abuse or dependence within 6 months before and throughout the study

7. Consume grapefruit and grapefruit containing products within 7 days prior to the first dose of study drug and throughout the study

8. Use of prescription drugs including but not limited to drugs with antimalarial activities and any drug contraindicated with the investigational drugs e.g. quinacrine, mefloquine or non-prescription drug, including, vitamins, herbal and dietary supplements (including St. John's Wort) within 7 days (or 14 days if the drug is a potential enzyme inducer) or 5 half-lives (whichever is longer) prior to the first dose of study medication and for the duration of the trial including follow-up will be prohibited

9. Have taken part in research involving an investigational drug within the past 8 weeks

10. Use of medications known to have a potentially clinically significant interaction with primaquine

11. History of allergy to primaquine

12. Hb < 11 g/dL

13. Having malaria infection

14. Abnormal CYP2D6 genotype

15. Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency by screening test

16. Aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT) > 1.5 times the upper limit of normal (ULN)

17. A serum creatinine (Scr) above the upper limit of normal (> 1.2 mg/dL) and estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) < 70 mL/min/1.73 m2

18. Methaemoglobin (MetHb) level > 3% determined by oximetry

19. Positive for HIV-1, Hepatitis B or C virus infection

20. Subject who is likely to be unable to follow with the study procedures

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Healthy
• Pharmacokinetic

Intervention

Drug:
• Regimen 1 (Oral primaquine)
Primaquine 15 mg base orally once
• Regimen 2 (IV primaquine phosphate)
Primaquine 7.5 mg base in normal saline 500 mL infused over 30 minutes intravenously
• Regimen 3 (IV carboxyprimaquine)
Carboxyprimaquine 7.93 mg base in normal saline 500 mL infused over 30 minutes intravenously

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Thailand	Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University	Bangkok

Sponsors (3)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Oxford	Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University Bangkok, Thailand, Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Thailand, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Area under the concentration-time curve (AUC0-8) of oral and intravenous primaquine.		Approximately 3 months
Primary	Area under the concentration-time curve (AUC0-last) of oral and intravenous primaquine.		Approximately 3 months
Primary	Area under the concentration-time curve (AUC0-8) of primaquine and carboxyprimaquine		Approximately 3 months
Primary	Area under the concentration-time curve (AUC0-last) of primaquine and carboxyprimaquine		Approximately 3 months
Primary	Maximum concentration (Cmax) of primaquine and carboxyprimaquine		Approximately 3 months
Primary	Elimination clearance (CL/F) of primaquine and carboxyprimaquine		Approximately 3 months
Primary	Terminal elimination half-life (t1/2) of primaquine and carboxyprimaquine		Approximately 3 months
Primary	Apparent volume of distribution (Vd) of primaquine and carboxyprimaquine		Approximately 3 months
Secondary	The characteristics of genetic polymorphisms of potential enzymes involved in drug metabolism in the case of unusual metabolizer		Approximately 3 months