Single Increasing Doses of BIII 890 CL in Healthy Young Male Volunteers and in Healthy Elderly Male and Female Volunteers

A Single Blind, Placebo-controlled, Parallel-group, Single Increasing Dose Tolerance Study in Healthy Young Male Volunteers After Intravenous Administration of BIII 890 CL as Loading Dose (Dosage: 12.5, 25, 50 mg/h, Infusion Time 1 hr; 50 mg/h, Infusion Time 2 Hrs) Followed by Maintenance Dose (Dosage: 6.25, 12.5, 25 mg/h, Infusion Time 5 Hrs; 30 mg/h, Infusion Time 4 Hrs) and in Healthy Elderly Male and Female Volunteers After Intravenous Administration of BIII 890 CL as Loading Dose (Dosage: 50 mg/h, Infusion Time 1 hr) Followed by Maintenance Dose (Dosage: 25 mg/h, Infusion Time 5 Hrs)

Safety, tolerability and pharmacokinetics of BIII 890

Inclusion Criteria:

• Participants in the study should be healthy males, range from 21 to 50 years of age and be within +- 20% of their normal weight (Broca-Index) and healthy elderly males and females, > 60 years of age and be within +-25 % of their normal weight (Broca-Index)
• In accordance with good clinical practice (GCP) and the local legislation all volunteers will have given their written informed consent prior to admission to the study

Exclusion Criteria:

• Volunteers were excluded from the study if the results of the medical examination, laboratory tests or ECG recordings are judged by the investigator to differ significantly from normal clinical values
• Volunteers with known gastrointestinal, hepatic, renal, respiratory, cardiovascular, metabolic, immunological or hormonal disorders
• Volunteers with diseases of the central nervous system (such as epilepsy), central nervous system (CNS) trauma in their medical history or with psychiatric disorders or neurological disorders
• Volunteers with known history of relevant orthostatic hypotension, fainting spells or blackouts
• Volunteers with chronic or relevant acute infections
• Volunteers with history of allergy/hypersensitivity (including drug allergy) which was deemed relevant to the trial as, judged by the investigator
• Volunteers who had taken a drug with a long half-life (≥ 24 hours) within at least one month or less than ten half-lives of the respective drug before enrolment in the study
• Volunteers who received any other drugs which could influence the results of the trial during the week prior to the start of the study
• Volunteers who participated in another study with an investigational drug within the last two months preceding this study
• Volunteers who smoke (> 10 cigarettes or 3 cigars or 3 pipes/day)
• Volunteers who were not able to refrain from smoking on study days
• Volunteers who drunk more than 60 g of alcohol per day
• Volunteers who were dependent on drugs
• Volunteers who participated in excessive physical activities (e.g. competitive sports) during the last week before the study
• Volunteers who donated blood within the last 4 weeks (≥ 100 mL)