In mice with vascular injury, exendin‑4 attenuated neointimal hyperplasia four weeks after injury.
In plain wordsIn mice with artery injury, exendin‑4 reduced thickening of the artery's inner layer.
- Peptide
- Exenatide (exendin-4)
- Outcome
- DecreaseNeointimal hyperplasia
- Study
C57BL/6 mousen: not reported in source
Wire-mediated femoral artery injury- Outcome group
- Vascular function · Cardiovascular
- Studied dose
- 24 nmol/kg/day · infusion pump · 4 weeksAs given in this study (C57BL/6 mouse).
Source sentences
Four weeks after the injury, exendin-4 treatment significantly attenuated neointimal hyperplasia of the injured artery, although it did not affect glucose metabolism and lipid profile in wild-type mice.
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
We performed wire-mediated endovascular injury in C57BL/6 mice, followed by administration of exendin-4 24 nmol/kg/day via infusion pump.