In mice after myocardial infarction, exendin‑4 improved cardiac function versus infarcted controls.
In plain wordsIn mice after a heart attack, exendin‑4 improved heart function compared with infarcted controls.
- Peptide
- Exenatide (exendin-4)
- Outcome
- IncreaseCardiac function
- Study
mousen: not reported in source
Myocardial infarction- Comparator
- Saline-treated myocardial infarction controls
- Outcome group
- Heart function · Cardiovascular
- Studied dose
- 0.1 mg/kg · intraperitoneal · 2 weeksAs given in this study (mouse).
Source sentences
Compared with control MI hearts, stimulation of GLP-1R improved cardiac function, which was associated with attenuation of myocardial hypertrophy, the mitigation of interstitial fibrosis, and an increase in survival rate in post-MI hearts.
2 context sentences(design, population, supporting numbers)
3) MI + exendin-4 [infarcted mice that received injections of exendin-4 (0.1 mg/kg ip)].
Two weeks later, cardiac function was assessed by echocardiography and an isovolumetrically perfused heart.