Safety, Tolerability and Pharmacokinetics of Single Rising Oral Doses of BI 113823 Powder in Bottle (PiB) and Tablet in Healthy Male Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Healthy males according to the following criteria: Based upon a complete medical history, including the physical examination, vital signs (BP, PR), 12-lead ECG, clinical laboratory tests
• Age ≥18 and Age ≤45 years
• BMI ≥18.5 and BMI ≤29.9 kg/m2 (Body Mass Index)
• Signed and dated written informed consent prior to admission to the study in accordance with GCP and the local legislation

Exclusion criteria

• Any finding of the medical examination (including BP, PR and ECG) deviating from normal and of clinical relevance
• Any evidence of a clinically relevant concomitant disease
• Gastrointestinal, hepatic, renal, respiratory, cardiovascular, metabolic, immunological or hormonal disorders
• Surgery of the gastrointestinal tract (except appendectomy)
• Diseases of the central nervous system (such as epilepsy) or psychiatric disorders or neurological disorders
• History of relevant orthostatic hypotension, fainting spells or blackouts
• Chronic or relevant acute infections
• History of relevant allergy/hypersensitivity (including allergy to drug or its excipients)
• Intake of drugs with a long half-life (> 24 hours) within at least one month or less than 10 half-lives of the respective drug prior to administration
• Use of drugs which might reasonably influence the results of the trial or that prolong the QT/QTc interval based on the knowledge at the time of protocol preparation within 10 days prior to administration
• Participation in another trial with an investigational drug within two months prior to administration or during the trial
• Smoker (> 10 cigarettes or > 3 cigars or > 3 pipes/day)
• Inability to refrain from smoking on trial days
• Alcohol abuse (more than 30 g/day)
• Drug abuse
• Blood donation (more than 100 mL within four weeks prior to administration)
• Excessive physical activities (within one week prior to administration)
• Any laboratory value outside the reference range that is of clinical relevance
• Inability to comply with dietary regimen of trial site
• Bradycardia < 50/min, PR interval > 200 ms, QRS interval > 110 ms, QTcB > 450 ms, or QT (uncorrected) > 470 ms or any other relevant ECG findings at screening
• A history of additional risk factors for Torsades des Pointes (e.g., heart failure, hypokalemia, family history of Long QT Syndrome)