Healthy men test new oral edaravone combo for safety

Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

Inclusion Criteria: * Healthy adult male volunteers * Cohort 1: Japanese, Cohort 2: Japanese or Caucasian * Subjects aged between 20 and 45 years at the time of informed consent * Subjects who have thoroughly understood the contents of the study and voluntarily provided written informed consent to participate in the study Exclusion Criteria: Additional screening criteria check may apply for qualification: * Subjects with a current or previous history of cardiac, hepatic, renal, gastrointestinal, respiratory, psychiatric/nervous, hematopoietic, or endocrine diseases, and those whom the investigator (or subinvestigator) deems unsuitable for the study * Body mass index (BMI) of \<18.0 or \>30.0, or body weight of \<50 kg (BMI formula: body weight \[kg\]/height \[m\]2, rounded to one decimal place) * Subjects who have undergone any surgery known to affect the gastrointestinal absorption of drugs * Subjects who do not agree to use an effective method of contraception from initiation of study drug administration to 14 days after completion (discontinuation) of study drug administration * Subjects who have previously received edaravone * Subjects who have participated in another clinical study and received a study drug within 12 weeks before providing informed consent * Use of any drug(s) other than the study drug or as-needed use of acetylsalicylic acid within 7 days before the initiation of study drug or victim drug administration * Use of any alcohol, xanthine, or caffeine-containing product(s) within 24 hours before screening and Day -1 visiting * Use of any supplement(s) within 7 days before the initiation of study drug or victim drug administration * Use of grapefruit, grapefruit juice, or any processed food(s) containing these substances during the following periods (Cohort 1: within 7 days before the initiation of victim drug administration, Cohort 2: within 24 hours before each Day -1 visiting) * Use of any tobacco or nicotine-containing product(s) (Cohort 1: within 12 weeks before the initiation of victim drug administration during the following periods, Cohort 2: within 24 hours before each Day -1 visiting) * Use of any health food(s) containing St John's Wort (Hypericum perforatum) within 2 weeks before the initiation of victim drug administration (only in Cohort 1)