Conditions: Contraception Hypogonadism
Keywords: Male Contraception Hypogonadism Testosterone
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 16
Healthy volunteers: yes

Brief summary:
We propose a study to determine the single-dose pharmacokinetics of these two novel formulations of testosterone in normal men with experimentally induced hypogonadism.

Detailed description:
This is an 2-3 month open-label, two week pharmacokinetic study of two novel formulations of oral testosterone (T), in normal men whose endogenous T production has been temporarily suppressed by the administration of the potent GnRH antagonist Acyline. We will be determining the relative pharmacokinetics of six different oral formulations of T in both rapid and slow release compared to the immediate release preparation studied previously by our group.

Arms:
arm 1: (Day 1) Acyline 300 mcg/kg once, followed 24 hours later (Day 2) by "immediate release" T 300 mg po once (as a control), followed 24 hours later (Day 3) by "external matrix fast release" T 300 mg once, followed 24 hours later (Day 4) by "external matrix slow release" T 300 mg once, followed 96 hours later (Day 8) by "immediate release" T 600 mg, followed 24 hours later (Day 9) by "external matrix fast release" T 600 mg po once, followed 48 hours later (Day 11) by "external matrix slow release" T 600 mg once. arm 2: (Day -2 to Day 12) 1 mg Finasteride PO once daily for 14 days total. (Day 1) Acyline 300 mcg/kg once, followed 24 hours later (Day 2) by "immediate release" T 300 mg po once (as a control), followed 24 hours later (Day 3) by "external matrix fast release" T 300 mg once, followed 24 hours later (Day 4) by "external matrix slow release" T 300 mg once, followed 96 hours later (Day 8) by "immediate release" T 600 mg, followed 24 hours later (Day 9) by "external matrix fast release" T 600 mg po once, followed 48 hours later (Day 11) by "external matrix slow release" T 600 mg once.

Interventions: intervention 1: Acyline intervention 2: Testosterone intervention 3: Finasteride
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: 300 mcg/kg intervention 2: 24 hours after acyline administration on Day 2 "immediate release" Testosterone (T) 300 mg po once (as a control), followed 24 hours later (Day 3) by "external matrix fast release" T 300 mg once, followed 24 hours later (Day 4) by "external matrix slow release" T 300 mg once, followed 96 hours later (Day 8) by "immediate release" T 600 mg, followed 24 hours later (Day 9) by "external matrix fast release" T 600 mg po once, followed 48 hours later (Day 11) by "external matrix slow release" T 600 mg once. intervention 3: 1 mg PO once daily \[day -2 to day 12) 14 days total

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