In rats, lixisenatide prevented amyloid β25-35-induced spatial learning and memory impairment.
In plain wordsIn rats, lixisenatide prevented learning and memory impairment compared with amyloid injury without lixisenatide.
- Peptide
- Lixisenatide
- Outcome
- DecreaseSpatial learning and memory impairment
- Study
ratn: not reported in source
Amyloid β25-35-induced impairment- Comparator
- Amyloid β25-35 injury without lixisenatide
- Outcome group
- Cognition and memory · Nervous system and cognition
- Studied dose
- Dose not stated
Source sentences
(1) bilateral intrahippocampal injection of Aβ25-35 resulted in a significant decline in spatial learning and memory of rats, as well as a suppression of in vivo hippocampal long-term potentiation (LTP); (2) lixisenatide treatment effectively prevented the Aβ25-35-induced impairments;
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
In the present study, we report for the first time the effects of lixisenatide on the amyloid β (Aβ) protein-induced impairments in spatial learning and memory of rats, and investigated its electrophysiological and molecular mechanisms.