The investigators will study and compare how effectively sodium phenylbutyrate, sodium benzoate, and a combination of the two, help excrete nitrogen in healthy volunteers. Subject participation will require three, separate, four-day study periods at least one week apart. During one study period (also called a treatment arm), subjects will take sodium phenylbutyrate; during another they will take sodium benzoate; during another they will take a combination of the two medications. We expect to find that phenylbutyrate is more effective at removing nitrogen than benzoate or a combination of the two.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
7
Subjects will be instructed to take the study medication with meals (08:00 breakfast; 13:00 lunch; 19:00 dinner) for 3 days.
Subjects will be instructed to take the study medication with meals (08:00 breakfast; 13:00 lunch; 19:00 dinner) for 3 days.
Children's Nutrition Research Center/Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas, United States
Urinary Hippuric Acid
The objective of this protocol is to directly compare the efficacy of benzoate, phenylbutyrate and a combination of the two, to conjugate nitrogenous compounds in healthy volunteers. The nitrogenous compound of interest in each arm would be based on the medication used. This would be hippuric acid in the benzoate arm, phenylacetylglutamine in the phenylbutyrate arm, and hippuric acid AND phenylacetylglutamine in the MIX arm. The mean hippuric acid levels in the phenylbutyrate arm would thus be 0.
Time frame: 4 days per arm
Urinary PAGN Excretion
The objective of this protocol is to directly compare the efficacy of benzoate, phenylbutyrate and a combination of the two, to conjugate nitrogenous compounds in healthy volunteers. The nitrogenous compound of interest in each arm would be based on the medication used. This would be hippuric acid in the benzoate arm, phenylacetylglutamine in the phenylbutyrate arm, and hippuric acid AND phenylacetylglutamine in the MIX arm. The mean phenylacetylglutamine levels in the benzoate arm would thus be 0.
Time frame: 4 days per arm
Total Nitrogen as a Conjugate of the Drug
The objective of this protocol is to directly compare the efficacy of benzoate, phenylbutyrate and a combination of the two, to conjugate nitrogenous compounds in healthy volunteers. The nitrogenous compound of interest in each arm would be based on the medication used. This would be hippuric acid in the benzoate arm, phenylacetylglutamine in the phenylbutyrate arm, and hippuric acid AND phenylacetylglutamine in the MIX arm.
Time frame: 4 days per arm
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