This is a randomized (participants will be assigned by chance to study treatments), double-blind (participants and study personnel will not know the identity of the study treatments), placebo (an inactive substance that is compared with a drug to test whether the drug has a real effect in a clinical trial)-controlled study in patients who receive maintenance hemodialysis. Three participants will receive PINTA 745 for every participant that receives placebo. PINTA 745 or placebo will be taken intravenously once per week following dialysis.~The study period will consist of screening, treatment for 12 weeks, and follow up for 8 weeks. Evaluations will be performed to assess the safety, pharmacokinetics (study of what the body does to a drug), pharmacodynamics (study of what a drug does to the body) and effectiveness in treating protein energy wasting (such as increasing muscle size and muscle function) throughout the study.
This is a pilot study to assess the safety, pharmacokinetics and effectiveness of PINTA 745 or placebo in treating protein energy wasting (PEW) in patients receiving maintenance hemodialysis (MHD).