In totally gastrectomized rats, BPC‑157 given before cysteamine significantly prevented severe duodenal lesions seen in control rats.
In plain wordsIn rats without a stomach, BPC‑157 given before cysteamine prevented the severe duodenal lesions seen in control rats.
- Peptide
- BPC-157
- Outcome
- DecreaseDuodenal lesions after cysteamine in gastrectomized rats
- Study
ratn: not reported in source
Total gastrectomy plus cysteamine- Comparator
- Gastrectomized cysteamine controls
- Outcome group
- Gastrointestinal protection · Gastrointestinal
- Studied dose
- 10 microg or 10 ng/kg · intraperitonealAs given in this study (rat).
Source sentences
Interestingly, in gastrectomized animals, the application of BPC 157 or the reference agents before cysteamine significantly prevented the otherwise severe duodenal lesion development noted in the control gastrectomized cysteamine rats.
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
In the absence of stomach and gastric acid, the damaging effects of cysteamine (400 mg/kg subcutaneously, death 24 hr thereafter), to date thought to be an acid-related duodenal ulcerogen, and the BPC 157 cytoprotective effect (10 microg or 10 ng/kg intraperitoneally)