Experiment 688652
Details
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Pharmacology | |
| Administration route | ORAL |
| Organism | Urtica dioica (URTICACEAE) |
| Citation | LOWE,FC: FAGELMAN,E:. (1999). PHYTOTHERAPY IN THE TREATMENT OF BENIGN PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA: AN UPDATE.. 53(4) |
| Amount utilized | |
| Compound isolated | |
| Disease | PROSTAGLUTT FORTE WAS ALSO COMPARED WITH FINASTERIDE (PROSCAR) IN A COMPARATIVE TRIAL THAT DID NOT HAVE A PLACEBO CONTROL ARM; 489 PATIENTS WERE RANDOMIZED AND FOLLOWED UP FOR 48 WEEKS. THE IPSS IMPROVED FROM 11.3 TO 6.5 FOR PROSTAGLUTT-TREATED PATIENTS AND FROM 12.6 TO 6.9 IN FINASTERIDE-TREATED PATIENTS. ALTHOUGH THE IMPROVEMENT WAS SLIGHTLY GREATER IN THE FINASTERIDE-TREATED PATIENTS (5.7 VS 4.8), THERE WAS NO STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE BETWEEN THE TREATMENT GROUPS. IN TERMS OF IMPROVEMENT IN PEAK URINARY FLOW, PROSTAGLUTT-TREATED PATIENTS IMPROVED BY 1.9 ML/S AND FINASTERIDE-TREATED PATIENTS BY 2.7 ML/S (P=0.189), ALSO NOT STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT BETWEEN GROUPS. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS STUDY IS OBVIOUSLY QUESTIONABLE WITHOUT A PLACEBO CONTROL ARM. |
| Number | 5 |
| Qualitative result | ACTIVE |
| Animal | HUMAN ADULT |
| Dose expression | DOSE |
| Extract | TYPE EXT NOT STATED |
| Gender | MALE |