Experiment 390730
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| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Pharmacology | |
| Administration route | ORAL |
| Organism | Serenoa repens (ARECACEAE) |
| Citation | ZIEGLER,H: HOLSCHER,U:. (1998). EFFICACY OF SAW PALMETTO FRUIT SPECIAL EXTRACT WS 1473 IN PATIENTS WITH ALKEN STAGE I-II BENIGN PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA - OPEN MULTICENTRE STUDY.. 14() |
| Amount utilized | |
| Compound isolated | |
| Disease | AN OPEN MULTICENTER TRIAL ENROLLED 109 MEN WITH MILD TO MODERATE BPH(ALKEN STAGES I AND II). THERE WAS A 7-DAY RUN-IN PERIOD DURING WHICH THE SUBJECTS WERE NOT TREATED, THEN EACH RECEIVED ONE 160-MG CAPSULE OF WS 1473 TWICE A DAY FOR 12 WEEKS. THE MAJOR RESPONSE VARIABLE ASSESSED WAS AN INCREASE IN MAXIMUM URINARY FLOW RATE. RESULTS DEMONSTRATED THAT OVER THE 12-WEEK PERIOD, THE PATIENTS, 73 OF WHOM FINISHED THE STUDY, HAD AN IMPROVEMENT IN MICTURITION, WITH A STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT INCREASE OF ABOUT 24% IN MAXIMUM URINARY FLOW RATE. ALSO SEEN WERE IMPROVEMENTS IN MEAN FLOW RATE, AN INCREASE IN MICTURITION VOLUME AND A DECREASE IN MICTURITION TIME, AND RESIDUAL VOLUME BY AN AVERAGE OF 33.4 ML. THERE WAS A STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DECREASE IN BOTH DAYTIME AND NIGHTTIME URINARY FREQUENDY OVER THE 12 WEEKS. |
| Dose amount | 320.0 MG |
| Number | 1 |
| Qualitative result | ACTIVE |
| Animal | HUMAN ADULT |
| Per unit | DAY |
| Dose expression | DOSE |
| Extract | ETHER EXT |
| Gender | MALE |