| Metabolic
Solutions has developed and validated an easy to prepare,
low-fat muffin meal along with a simple breath collection
system that provides an accurate assessment of solid
phase gastric emptying (delayed gastric emptying) called
the “Gastric Motility Breath Test”
(GMBT). This test has been widely used by medical/pharmaceutical
researchers seeking an easy, reliable, without radiation,
inexpensive alternative to scintigraphy to assess gastric
motility in clinical studies of gastroparesis. In addition,
this breath test technique works well with both human
and animal protocols.
The standardized meal in the GMBT test is a muffin.
Muffins are made by adding water and isotope to dry
powder ingredients. After mixing the ingredients
in the supplied cooking bowl, the ingredients are baked
for 2 minutes in a microwave oven. The muffin
is made from the combination of two commercially available
products. There are no safety concerns with the
ingredients. The ingredients of the muffin are
kosher certified.
Metabolic Solutions provides the following full services
that makes it easy to for researchers to employ a breath
test to monitor gastric emptying rates in clinical studies:
- Assistance with experimental design / protocols.
- Providing standard and custom test kits containing
all the components necessary to
administer a gastric motility breath test. These test
kits are ideal for use at contract research
organizations.
- Analysis of the 13CO2
at our laboratory.
- Complete report of gastric emptying parameters.
Bioanalytical reports are available
upon request (summary of study data, description of
analytical and Quality Control (QC) methods, QC data,
and certification of results by an independent QA auditor
and the Analytical Project Manger) suitable for FDA
submissions.
Contact us at info@metsol.com
or by telephone 603-598-6960 to order kits and for assistance
during the planning stages of your clinical trial to
best utilize our time and money saving advice.
Protected by US Patent # 6,548,043 |
