Clinical trial
Regional Lipolysis and Adipocyte Lipolysis Protein Stimulation
Recruiting now · Early Phase 1 · 1 countries · Registry ID NCT06416969
What this study is about
Adults who gain most of their excess weight in the abdominal area typically do not respond to factors that "turn on" fat cells the same way as people who don't have excessive weight. Researchers are trying to understand why fat tissue responds differently in people with different body types.
Basic eligibility
Full registry criteria
Treatments and study arms
Somatostatin
Intravenous infusion 200 ug/hr for 2 hours, 100 ug/hr for 30 minutes
Epinephrine
Intravenous infusion
Primary outcomes
regional palmitate release rates (micromol/min) will be measured using a combination of leg and splanchnic blood flow combined with stable isotope tracer measurements of palmitate uptake and release across the leg and splanchnic bed. Upper body, non-splanchnic palmitate release will be calculated as: total palmitate release - (splanchnic palmitate release + (leg palmitate release x 2)). Release rates will be measured at baseline (overnight fasting) and in response to the infusion of somatostatin plus epinephrine. This will allow us to understand the factors that may limit maximum lipolysis stimulation in upper body obesity for leg, splanchnic and upper body non-splanchnic adipose tissue palmitate release.
we will measure whether stimulated adipose tissue lipolysis from infusions of somatostatin and epinephrine is impaired in UBO and, if so, if this is related to regional differences in lipolysis and lipolysis-regulating proteins;
Study locations
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