The purpose of this trial is to study the brain response using functional MRI (fMRI) before and after varying doses of insulin given through the nose. The magnetic resonance imaging uses a very strong magnet to produce images of participant's brain. It becomes a functional MRI when the study team looks at the activity within the brain (blood flow / change in metabolism).
If cardiac arrest is not treated immediately, it causes sudden death. Intranasal insulin may be a way to prevent the brain injury that occurs after a cardiac arrest or other brain injury. Even when immediate treatment gets the heart beating again, many victims remain comatose and die later from brain injury. Nasal insulin reduces brain injury in animal experiments and has been used to try to improve brain degeneration in patients with Alzheimer's disease in doses up to 160 units.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
6
Enrolled Participants for this trial will come for 3 study visits. The doses will be administered in varying order: participants will be randomized to one six possible permutations of the intranasal study doses (0, 500, 1000 U) of intranasal insulin at each visit. Participants will undergo a fMRI scan before and after receiving intranasal doses. Additionally, participants will have blood samples taken.
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Change in Signal response using fMRI after administration of intranasal insulin
Values of regions of interest in the fMRI will be calculated for all measures, including cerebral blood flow (CBF), at different used dosages and compared directly as well as with baseline-corrected CBF maps. The study team will determine if a significant difference at different dosages exists.
Time frame: Baseline fMRI (approximately 30 minutes), fMRI Approximately 30 minutes (after insulin dose administration)
Change in Blood Glucose (serum or point of care capillary)
Time frame: Baseline (Immediately before drug administration), up to approximately 90 minutes (after drug dose)
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