The Haem and Nitrite Study - The Effects of Haemoglobin NO-blockade on Nitrite-induced Forearm Vessel Dilatation

Healthy Volunteers Clinical Trial

Official title: The Effects of Free Haemoglobin NO-blockade on Nitrite Forearm Vessel Dilatation Under Normoxia and Hypoxia in Healthy Volunteers

Status Recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

The study is a pharmacodynamic random order cross-over trial investigating the physiological effects of intra-arterial infusion of nitrite following a haemolysed autologous blood transfusion.

Clinical Trial Description

This is a healthy volunteer study.

Following entry into this cross-over trial, participants will be randomized to undergo experiments under either normoxic followed by hypoxic conditions, or hypoxic followed by normoxic conditions.

Subjects will donate whole blood as an autologous unit at a preselected NHSBT donation site. The unit will transported back to the NNUH blood bank after a minimum of 30 days (maximum 35 days) after donation.

Volunteers will be tested for baseline bloods. Volunteers will be randomised to normoxia or hypoxia. The will then undergo a nitrite infusion, followed by an autologous whole blood transfusion and a second nitrite infusion (which will co-infuse at the end of the transfusion). During the protocol, the participants will undergo repeated FBFR measurements using strain-gauge plethysmography.

After a minimum of 12 weeks rest period after their initial donation, participants will cross-over to the opposite oxygen condition (as per initial randomization) and the above protocol will be repeated. All interventions will be performed by fully trained and competent medical staff. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Healthy Volunteers

• NCT number: NCT03077763
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: University of East Anglia
• Contact: Nicholas D Gollop, MRCP(UK)
• Phone: 01603 591790
• Email: n.gollop@uea.ac.uk
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: Phase 1
• Start date: December 2016
• Completion date: March 2018