Clinical Trial: A New Model of Acute Febrile Disease

Study Status: Not yet recruiting
Recruit Status: Not yet recruiting
Study Type: Interventional




Official Title: A New Model of Acute Febrile Disease - Combining Endotoxemia, Immobilisation and Fasting in Healthy Young Males.

Brief Summary: The investigators want to establish a new model of acute febrile disease by mimicking the conditions seen in hospitalized patients in regards to inflammation, immobilisation and fasting. In this new model of disease, healthy young adults will be given lipopolysaccharide (LPS) to induce endotoxemia and inflammation/fever and then fast and bedrest for 36 hours. Glucose, fat and protein metabolism will be investigated using clamp technique and tracer methodology together with intracellular signalling pathway activation in muscle and fat biopsies. This new model of disease will later be used in another study to investigate different protein supplement´s effect on muscle waste during acute febrile disease.