ATI-7505, is an engineered analog of the 5-HT4 agent, cisapride. The objectives of this study are to compare effects of ATI-7505 and placebo on gastric, small bowel and colonic transit in healthy human volunteers and evaluate the safety and tolerability of ATI-7505.~This trial is a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study evaluating the gastrointestinal transit effects of ATI-7505 and placebo. Three different doses (3, 10, 30mg) of ATI-7505 and placebo will be administered in parallel to four independent groups of 12 subjects each. The maximum duration of drug exposure for any subject is 9 days.~All participants will undergo a standard 48 hour gastrointestinal transit measurement using scintigraphy with standardized meals during the first 12 hours. The response endpoints (colonic geometric center at 4 h, colonic geometric center at 24 h, colonic geometric center at 48 h, gastric residual at 2 & 4 h, colonic filling at 6 h and ascending colonic emptying t1/2) will be based on abdominal scintigraphic images following the technetium-99m egg meal and methacrylate-coated, delayed-release capsule containing 111In labeled activated charcoal.~Safety and tolerability will be evaluated by serial assessment of vital signs, physical examination, ECG, adverse events, concomitant medications and blood sample analysis.
This is a pharmacodynamic study in healthy volunteers to determine the effects of a new 5-HT4 agonist on gastric, small bowel and colonic transit.