In adult female rats, 12 weeks of GHRP‑6 increased body weight compared with vehicle.
In plain wordsIn female rats, 12 weeks of GHRP‑6 raised body weight compared with vehicle.
- Peptide
- GHRP-6
- Outcome
- IncreaseBody weight
- Study
ratn = 8
young adult female Sprague-Dawley rats- Comparator
- Vehicle
- Outcome group
- Body weight · Metabolic and weight
- Studied dose
- 0.5 mg/kg per day · subcutaneous (osmotic minipump) · 12 weeksAs given in this study (rat).
Source sentences
All treatments increased body weight and total tibial and vertebral BMC measured by DXA in vivo compared with vehicle-treated controls.
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
Thirteen-week-old female Sprague-Dawley rats were given IPA (0.5 mg/kg per day; n=7), GHRP-6 (0.5 mg/kg per day; n=8), GH (3.5 mg/kg per day; n=7), or vehicle administered continuously s.c. via osmotic minipumps for 12 weeks.