In piglets with jejunostomy, teduglutide 0.2 mg · kg · day increased intestinal fractional protein synthesis versus placebo (P < 0.001).
In plain wordsIn piglets with jejunostomy, the highest teduglutide dose increased intestinal protein synthesis versus placebo.
- Peptide
- Teduglutide
- Outcome
- IncreaseIntestinal fractional protein synthesis
- Study
pign = 15
Neonatal piglet jejunostomy after 50% distal small-intestine resection- Comparator
- Placebo
- Outcome group
- Intestinal adaptation · Gastrointestinal
- Studied dose
- 0.2 mg · kg · day · 7 daysAs given in this study (pig).
Source sentences
and fractional protein synthesis rate in the intestine was increased in the 0.2 mg · kg · day group versus placebo (P < 0.001)
3 context sentences(design, population, supporting numbers)
Our objective was to test the efficacy of the long-acting synthetic human GLP-2 analogue, teduglutide (ALX-0600), in a neonatal piglet jejunostomy model.
Two-day-old pigs were subjected to resection of 50% of the small intestine (distal part), and the remnant intestine was exteriorized on the abdominal wall as a jejunostomy.
All pigs were given total parenteral nutrition for 7 days and a single daily injection of the following doses of teduglutide: 0.01 (n = 6), 0.02 (n = 6), 0.1 (n = 5), or 0.2 mg · kg · day (n = 6), and compared with placebo (n = 9).