In Wistar rats, intracerebroventricular thymosin alpha‑1 at 10 ng suppressed open-field motor activity for about 0.5 hour.
In plain wordsIn rats, thymosin alpha‑1 given into the brain ventricles lowered movement for about half an hour.
- Peptide
- Thymosin alpha-1
- Outcome
- DecreaseMotor activity in the open field
- Study
ratn: not reported in source
Wistar rats, open field- Outcome group
- Locomotor and behavioral activity · Nervous system and cognition
- Studied dose
- 10 ng · intracerebroventricularAs given in this study (rat).
Source sentences
at i. c. v. administration of both compounds in a dose of 10 ng the motor activity was suppressed for about 0.5 hour.
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
The effect of thymosin fraction 5 and its synthetic component thymosin-alpha 1 administered i. p. and i. c. v. on the behavior of 219 Wistar rats in the open field was studied to establish the effective dose and time of action of both substances.