Safety, Tolerability and Pharmacokinetics of Single Rising Oral Doses of BI 137882 in Healthy Male Volunteers

Safety, Tolerability and Pharmacokinetics of Single Rising Oral Doses of BI 137882 in Healthy Male Volunteers (A Randomised, Single-blind, Placebo-controlled Phase I Study)

Safety, Tolerability and Pharmacokinetics of Single Rising Oral Doses of BI 137882 in Healthy Male Volunteers

As a transition from preclinical investigations to clinical development in this first-in-man trial, safety, tolerability, and pharmacokinetics of BI 137882 will be assessed in healthy male volunteers using single rising oral doses in order to provide the basis for a potential ongoing clinical development of BI 137882 in the indication of COPD.

Healthy male subjects aged 21 - 50 years will be recruited for this study. They provide a relatively stable physiological, biochemical and hormonal basis (steady state) for studying drug effects, they show no disease-related variation and they are not taking concomitant medication.

Within each dose group, all actively treated individuals will receive the same BI 137882 dose. The next higher dose will only be administered if the treatment in the preceding dose group was safe and well tolerated.

Inclusion criteria:

1. Healthy males according to the following criteria: Based upon a complete medical history, including the physical examination, vital signs (blood pressure (BP), pulse rate (PR)), 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG), clinical laboratory tests
2. Age 21 to 50 years
3. BMI 18.5 to 29.9 kg/m2 (Body Mass Index)
4. Signed and dated written informed consent prior to admission to the study in accordance with GCP and the local legislation.

Exclusion criteria:

1. Any finding of the medical examination (including BP, PR and ECG) deviating from normal and of clinical relevance
2. Any evidence of a clinically relevant concomitant disease
3. Gastrointestinal, hepatic, renal, respiratory, cardiovascular, metabolic, immunological or hormonal disorders
4. Surgery of the gastrointestinal tract (except appendectomy)
5. Diseases of the central nervous system (such as epilepsy) or psychiatric disorders or neurological disorders
6. History of relevant orthostatic hypotension, fainting spells or blackouts.
7. Chronic or relevant acute infections
8. History of relevant allergy/hypersensitivity (including allergy to drug or its excipients)
9. Intake of drugs with a long half-life (> 24 hours) within at least one month or less than 10 half-lives of the respective drug prior to administration or during the trial
10. Use of drugs which might reasonably influence the results of the trial or that prolong the QT/QTc interval based on the knowledge at the time of protocol preparation within 10 days prior to administration or during the trial
11. Participation in another trial with an investigational drug within two months prior to administration or during the trial
12. Smoker (more than 10 cigarettes /day)
13. Inability to refrain from smoking on trial days
14. Alcohol abuse (more than 20 g/day)
15. Drug abuse
16. Blood donation (more than 100 mL within four weeks prior to administration or during the trial)
17. Excessive physical activities (within one week prior to administration or during the trial)
18. Any laboratory value outside the reference range that is of clinical relevance
19. Inability to comply with dietary regimen of trial site
20. A marked baseline prolongation of QT/QTc interval (e.g., repeated demonstration of a QTc interval >450 ms);
21. A history of additional risk factors for Torsades de points (TdP) (e.g., heart failure, hypokalemia, family history of Long QT Syndrome)