The purpose of this study was to assess the single dose bioequivalence of Ondansetron OSF
8mg (Manufactured by MonoSol Rx, USA) with Zofran ODT® (Containing Ondansetron 8 mg)
(Manufactured by Cardinal Heasth Blagrove, Swindon, Wiltshire, UK, SN58RU for Glaxo
SmithKline, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, Made in England) in healthy, male and female
adult, human study participants under fasting conditions.
• To monitor clinical status, adverse events, laboratory investigations and to assess
relative safety and tolerance of ondansetron formulations under fasting conditions.
Minimum age: 18 Years.
Maximum age: 45 Years.
Gender(s): Both.
Inclusion Criteria:
- Inclusion Criteria
The criteria for the inclusion were:
- Study volunteer should provide written informed consent.
- Study volunteer must be a healthy adult within 18-45 years of age (inclusive).
- Study volunteer should have a Body mass index of ³ 18. 5 kg/m2 and £ 25 kg/m2, with
body weight not less than 50 kg.
- Study volunteer should have a systolic blood pressure with upper limit of less than
140 mmHg and lower limit of more than or equal to 90 mm Hg. Similarly diastolic blood
pressure with upper limit less than 90 mm Hg and lower limit more than or equal to 60
mmHg.
- Study volunteer must be of normal health as determined by medical history and
physical examination performed within 15 days prior to the dosing of period 1.
- Study volunteer should have a normal ECG, chest X-ray and vital signs.
- Availability of a study volunteer for the entire study period and willingness to
adhere to protocol requirements as evidenced by written informed consent.
- If study volunteer is a female and is of child bearing potential practicing an
acceptable method of birth control for the duration of the study as judged by the
investigator(s), such as condoms, foams, jellies, diaphragm, intrauterine
device(IUD), or abstinence. or is in full menopause, i. e., postmenopausal for at
least 1 year. or is surgically sterile (bilateral tubal ligation, bilateral
oophorectomy, or hysterectomy has been performed on the study volunteers)
- Each female study volunteer will be given a urine pregnancy test at screening,
check-in for period-1, period-2 and post study.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Exclusion Criteria
The study participants were excluded based on the following criteria:
- Study volunteer incapable of understanding the informed consent.
- Study volunteer with a history of hypersensitivity or idiosyncratic reaction to study
drug or any other related drug.
- Study volunteer having any evidence of impairment of renal, hepatic, cardiac, lung or
gastrointestinal function, by standard laboratory, imaging or monitoring procedures
{The normal ranges of laboratory test-values will be followed as per the clinical
reference laboratory, VIMTA VHS Research Centre, Chennai (A unit of Vimta Labs Ltd.,
Hyderabad)}. Study volunteers with a history of tuberculosis, epilepsy, asthma
(during past 5 years), diabetes, psychosis or glaucoma will not be eligible for the
study.
- Study volunteer who smokes regularly more than ten cigarettes daily and has
difficulty in abstaining from smoking for the duration of each study period.
- Study volunteer who has taken over the counter or prescribed medications, including
any enzyme modifying drugs such as Phenytoin, Carbamazepine, barbiturates, St. John
wort, glucocorticoids, ketoconazole, itraconazole, erythromycin, clarithromycin and
calcium channel blockers or any systemic medication within the past 30 days prior to
dosing in first period or any systemic medication within the past 30 days prior to
dosing in first period.
- Study volunteer with a history of any psychiatric illness, which may impair the
ability to provide written, informed consent or full participation and cooperation
with the study protocol.
- Study volunteer who has a history of alcohol or substance abuse within the last 5
years.
- Study volunteer with clinically significant abnormal values of laboratory parameters.
- Study volunteer who has participated in any other clinical investigation using
experimental drug or had bled more than 350 mL in the past 3 months.
- Study volunteer who is unable to or likely to be non-compliant with protocol
requirements or restrictions.
- Study volunteer in whom study drug is contraindicated for medical reasons
- Study volunteer who is intolerant to venipuncture.
- Female volunteer who has used implanted or injected hormonal contraceptives anytime
during the 6 months prior to study or used hormonal contraceptives within 14 days
before dosing.
- Female volunteer demonstrating a positive pregnancy screen with urine pregnancy test
(strip method). Ondansetron 8 mg ODFS BE Fasting Study Study No.: 01905/08-09;
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24 of 49 Each female study volunteer will be screened for pregnancy at screening,
check-in each study period. Study volunteer with a positive or inconclusive result
will be withdrawn from the study.
- Female volunteer who is currently breast feeding. Female study volunteer who is
pregnant, breast-feeding or who is likely to become pregnant during the study will
not be allowed to participate. Female study volunteer of child bearing potential must
either abstain from sexual intercourse or use a reliable barrier method (e. g. condom,
IUD) of contraception during the course of the study (first dosing until last blood
collection) or she will not be allowed to participate. Study volunteer with a
positive urine screen for drugs of abuse at the time of admission check-in for each
period were excluded from the study. Study volunteer meeting the inclusion and
exclusion criteria was verified by the medical investigator as per source documents
duly authenticated by them reflecting clinical judgment as and when required.