a single period investigation to assess the tolerability of healthy subjects to oral sinemet® (levodopa/carbidopa)

Conditions: Parkinson's Disease

Summary: a single period investigation to assess the tolerability of healthy subjects to oral sinemet® (levodopa/carbidopa) doses administered using a divided dose approach

this is a single centre, open-label, single period study in healthy subjects. each subject will receive the following regimen: on day -2, 10 mg domperidone administered every 8 hours 3 times a day (for illustrative purposes, dosing at 07:30, 15:30 and 23:30) on day -1, 3 doses of 100 mg sinemet® (every 8 hours) administered as 2 × sinemet® 12.5 mg/50 mg tablets containing 13.5 mg carbidopa (equivalent to 12.5 mg anhydrous carbidopa) and 50 mg levodopa. subjects will receive concomitant 10 mg domperidone 30 minutes before every sinemet® dose. on day 1, sinemet® 12.5 mg/50 mg containing 13.5 mg carbidopa (equivalent to 12.5 mg of anhydrous carbidopa) and 50 mg levodopa administered every hour for 16 consecutive doses (total dose of 800 mg). subjects will also receive concomitant domperidone up to 20 mg 30 minutes before the first sinemet® 50 mg dose and every 8 hours (total of 3 doses) after treatment initiation. it is planned to enrol 6 subjects to ensure there are 6 evaluable subjects. a subject is considered to be evaluable if they have received all 16 sinemet® 50 mg doses.

Eligibility criteria:
inclusion criteria: 1. healthy males or non-pregnant, non-lactating healthy females 2. age 40 to 65 years of age 3. body mass index of 18.0 to 35.0 kg/m2 or, if outside the range, considered not clinically significant by the investigator 4. must be willing and able to communicate and participate in the whole study 5. must provide written informed consent 6. must agree to use an adequate method of contraception exclusion criteria: 1. participation in a clinical research study within the previous 3 months 2. subjects who are study site employees, or immediate family members of a study site or sponsor employee 3. subjects who have previously been enrolled in this study 4. history of any drug or alcohol abuse in the past 2 years 5. regular alcohol consumption in males \>21 units per week and females \>14 units per week (1 unit = ½ pint beer, 25 ml of 40% spirit or a 125 ml glass of wine) 6. current smokers and those who have smoked within the last 12 months. a breath carbon monoxide reading of greater than 10 ppm at screening 7. females of childbearing potential who are pregnant or lactating (female subjects must have a negative urine pregnancy test at admission) 8. clinically significant abnormal biochemistry, haematology or urinalysis as judged by the investigator (laboratory parameters are listed in appendix 1) 9. positive drugs of abuse test result (drugs of abuse tests are listed in appendix 1) 10. positive hepatitis b surface antigen (hbsag), hepatitis c virus antibody (hcv ab) or human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) results 11. history of cardiovascular, renal, hepatic, chronic respiratory or gi disease as judged by the investigator 12. serious adverse reaction or serious hypersensitivity to any drug or the formulation excipients 13. presence or history of clinically significant allergy requiring treatment, as judged by the investigator. hayfever is allowed unless it is active 14. donation or loss of greater than 400 ml of blood within the previous 3 months 15. subjects who are taking, or have taken, any prescribed or over-the-counter drug (other than 4 g per day paracetamol, hormone replacement therapy and hormonal contraception) or herbal remedies in the 14 days before imp administration (see section 11.4) 16. use of any non-selective monoamine oxidase (mao) inhibitors within 2 weeks of screening 17. history or presence of glaucoma 18. history or presence of suspicious undiagnosed skin lesions or a history of melanoma 19. any history of psychoses or seizure 20. known hypersensitivity to sinemet® or domperidone or any of the excipients 21. any history or presence of prolactin-releasing pituitary tumour (prolactinoma) 22. any medical history of gi haemorrhage, mechanical obstruction or perforation 23. any history of moderate or severe hepatic impairment 24. subjects with clinically significant liver function tests 25. subjects with qtc \> 450 ms at screening sponsor/quotient clinical confidential protocol nd0612-013 (qcl117546) version 1.0 02 feb 2015 page 23 of 42 26. subjects with significant electrolyte disturbances 27. subjects with any underlying cardiac disease 28. subjects who have received qt-prolonging drugs or potent cytochrome p450 (cyp) 3a4 inhibitors within 4 weeks of screening 29. failure to satisfy the investigator of fitness to participate for any other reason