icotinamide and innate immunity in patients with bronchiectasis
- Conditions
- BronchiectasisRespiratory - Other respiratory disorders / diseases
- Registration Number
- ACTRN12613000699763
- Lead Sponsor
- Dr Conroy Wong, Middlemore Hospital
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot yet recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 8
Male or female aged between 18 to 80 years old
- able to provide written consent form
- Patients with confirmed bronchiectasis by High resolution
CT scan
- history of at least one pulmonary exacerbation in the
past 12 months
- healthy volunteers should be never smoker with no
underlying acute or chronic medical conditions and not
taking regular medications
- Pregnant or lactating women
- patients with significant medical conditions other than
bronchiectasis
- patients with significant abnormal liver function or with
liver cirrhosis
- patients with a history of non-adherence with medications
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Dose of nicotinamide required to achieve serum level of 1 mM, this will be assessed by collecting blood samples for serum nicotinamide level analysis at each follow up visits from visit 2 to visit 5[two weeks]
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Counts of surviving bacterial colony-forming units after inoculation of the pathogen with nicotinamide treated blood[two weeks];Serum Level of C/EBPe expression [two weeks];serum lactoferrin level[two weeks];serum cathelicidin level[two weeks]