The Effect of Length of Adaptation on Threonine Requirement in Healthy Adult Men
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 11
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Determination of threonine requirement in young adult men after 8 hours, 3, and 7 days of adaptation to experimental diets.
研究概览
简要总结
This study aims to determine if the body's needs for threonine (an amino acid which is an essential building block for protein) is different when assessed after 1, 3 or 6 days of adaptation to the level of threonine intake being studied.
详细描述
Our method, the Indicator Amino Acid Oxidation (IAAO) method has been used before to look at amino acid requirements. Over the years, we have changed our method to make our studies on amino acid requirements safer to use in specific vulnerable populations like babies or older adults. For example, we have shown that we only need to collect breath and urine samples instead of collecting blood.
Another feature of our method is that we require subjects to consume personalized diets for 3 days at a time, repeated for up to 7 times. These personalized diets are important as they allow us to study the amount of amino acids needed by the body. The body's metabolism changes with different intakes of amino acids. We measure this change in metabolism by collecting breath and urine samples on the 3rd day of each diet period. However, we do not know if this specific length of time for the personalized diets (i.e. 3 days) is sufficient or whether more time is needed for the body to adjust to the amount of amino acids provided. There is a possibility that 3 days is not enough time and our results (i.e. our estimates of amino acid needs) may be different if we allow more time.
The purpose of this study is to find out if the threonine requirement determined using IAAO in adult men changes if the length of time on the personalized diets increases from 3 days to 5 and 9 days.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Na
- 干预模型
- Single Group
- 主要目的
- Other
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 19 Years 至 35 Years（Adult）
- 性别
- Male
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Healthy adult men, 19 to 35 years of age
- •Willingness to participate in the study and completed the screening procedures (height, weight, fasting blood sample and medical history questionnaire).
- •No recent history of weight loss
- •BMI between 18.5 - 27 kg/m 2
- •Absence of chronic disease or acute illness that could affect protein and AA metabolism (diabetes, cancer, liver or kidney disease, HIV, acute cold or flu, hypo or hyperthyroidism, rheumatoid arthritis treated with anti-inflammatory medications).
- •Non-smoking
- •Willingness to consume the diet provided for 9 days
排除标准
- •Presence of disease known to affect protein and AA metabolism (diabetes, cancer, liver or kidney disease, HIV, acute cold or flu, hypo or hyperthyroidism, rheumatoid arthritis treated with anti-inflammatory medications).
- •On medications known to affect protein and amino acid metabolism (steroids).
- •Recent significant weight loss. ≥ 5% of body with in the last 3 months.
- •Individuals on weight reducing diets.
- •Inability to tolerate the diet
- •Unwilling to have blood drawn from a venous access, or using a ventilated hood indirect calorimeter for the purposes of the study.
- •Significant coffee consumption of more than 2 cups/day
- •Significant alcohol consumption of more than one drink/day
- •Failure to disclose any of the information needed to assess eligibility.
结局指标
主要结局
Determination of threonine requirement in young adult men after 8 hours, 3, and 7 days of adaptation to experimental diets.
时间窗: 3 years
The threonine requirement will be determined using IAAO and breakpoint analysis after 3 different lengths of adaptation to the experimental diet
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Glenda Courtney-Martin
Health Systems Research Scientist
The Hospital for Sick Children