In diabetic mice, oral exenatide reduced body weight gain versus DDM alone.
In plain wordsIn mice, oral exenatide reduced weight gain compared with DDM alone.
- Peptide
- Exenatide (exendin-4)
- Outcome
- DecreaseBody weight gain
- Study
mousen: not reported in source
insulin-resistant male C57BLK/6-m db/db mice- Comparator
- DDM alone
- Outcome group
- Body weight · Metabolic and weight
- Studied dose
- Dose not stated · oral gavage · 14 daysAs given in this study (mouse).
Measurements
- Weight gain
- 13.9%
- exenatide
- Weight gain
- 19.7%
- DDM alone
Source sentences
Mice given DDM alone for 14 days were 19.7% heavier than they were at the beginning of the study, while oral delivery of exenatide or [D-Leu-4]-OB3 in DDM reduced body weight gain to only 13.9% and 11.5%, respectively, of initial body weight.
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
Exenatide or pramlintide acetate was reconstituted in dodecyl maltoside (DDM) in the absence or presence of [D-Leu-4]-OB3, and delivered orally by gavage to insulin-resistant male C57BLK/6-m db/db mice twice daily for 14 days.