Collection of Gastrointestinal Tissue Samples for the Characterization and ex Vivo Functional Assessment of Chemoreceptors (ISTAR-T)

AdventHealth Translational Research Institute

Status: Completed

Conditions: Diabetes

Treatments: Procedure: Collection of digestive tissues

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02859116

TRIMD FH 794609

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to help scientists understand how the gut senses ingested nutrients and what kind of processes take place for their absorption in order to establish the association with diabetes and other metabolic diseases Scientists need human specimens to study.

Enrollment: 8 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Men and women age 18 years and older who are having elective gastrointestinal surgery
2. Able to provide written, informed consent

Exclusion criteria

1. Unable to provide written, informed consent
2. Use of antibiotics for more than 5 consecutive days in the three months prior to the study

Trial design

8 participants in 1 patient group

Collection of digestive tissues

Description:

Digestive tissues will be collected from participants undergoing scheduled (non-emergent) gastrointestinal surgery.

Treatment:

Procedure: Collection of digestive tissues