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Enhancing Osteoporosis Therapy: Can We Open the Anabolic Window?

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT01166958

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Brief summary

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Current osteoporosis therapies produce a prompt increase in bone mass, followed by only modest or no further subsequent gains. This limitation, known as the "remodeling transient," reflects the "coupling" of bone resorption with formation such that interventions impacting either of these processes lead to compensatory changes of the other. For example, medications which increase bone formation promptly also stimulate bone resorption. Thus, given the need to dramatically increase bone mass in patients with osteoporosis, it is necessary to "uncouple" formation and resorption. The investigators believe this to be possible using currently existing FDA-approved therapeutic agents, by using a novel, sequential approach. This pilot project will obtain preliminary data essential to support future work. In this study, the investigators will begin to explore the use of sequential anabolic treatment with teriparatide followed by antiresorptive therapy with raloxifene. The investigators propose that such sequential treatment will allow opening of the "anabolic window," the brief period of time following initiation of teriparatide therapy in which bone formation exceeds resorption.

Study identification

NCT ID
NCT01166958
Recruitment status
Completed
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase 4
Enrollment
26 participants

Conditions and interventions

Conditions

Interventions

Drug

Eligibility (public fields only)

Age range
60 Years to 89 Years
Sex
Female
Healthy volunteers
Accepts healthy volunteers

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Study timeline

Start date
Aug 31, 2010
Primary completion
Oct 31, 2012
Completion
Oct 31, 2012
Last update posted
Sep 21, 2014

2010 – 2012

United States locations

U.S. sites
1
U.S. states
1
U.S. cities
1
Facility City State ZIP Site status
University of Wisconsin Osteoporosis Clinical Center and Research Program Madison Wisconsin 53705

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