In rats given amphetamine for 3 weeks, a single intraperitoneal injection of DSIP at 60 microg/kg normalized brain metabolism that the drug had disturbed.
In plain wordsIn rats given amphetamine for weeks, one DSIP injection brought disturbed brain metabolism back toward normal.
- Outcome
- Direction not reportedBrain metabolism after long-term amphetamine
- Study
ratn: not reported in source
- Outcome group
- Neuroprotection · Nervous system and cognition
- Studied dose
- 60 µg/kg · intraperitoneal · single injectionAs given in this study (rat).
Source sentences
Single intraperitoneal injection of 60 microg/kg of DSIP following a long term amphetamine administration (2.5 mg/kg for 3 weeks) was shown to result in normalization of brain metabolism, that was disturbed by the drug.
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
The aim of this work, that was carried out using Wistar rats, was to characterize the response of neurons of different morphofunctional types to amphetamine administration and to study the possibility of correction of these changes by delta-sleep inducing peptide (DSIP).