Clinical trialNCT01057576CompletedPhase 1/PHASE2Interventional

Safety and Efficacy Study of Tarragon on Insulin Action in Humans

SponsorPennington Biomedical Research CenterEnrollment28Obesity

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Summary

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Specific compounds in plants have been proposed to enhance human metabolism. The hypothesis of the study was to evaluated the effect of an extract of Russian tarragon and to determine is compounds in the plant can be measured in the serum of human subjects and whether the compound may improve human metabolism as suggested in animal studies.

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Investigators

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William T Cefalu, MD
Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Principal Investigator
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Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States

Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study. It may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start: 31 Mar 2006
Primary completion: 31 Mar 2007
Completion: 31 Oct 2008
Last update posted: 8 Apr 2016
Registered enrollment: 28
Registry id: NCT01057576

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