In a neonatal hypoxic/ischemic brain injury model, intraperitoneal HNG pretreatment decreased infarct volume.
In plain wordsIn newborn animals with brain injury from low oxygen, a humanin derivative given before the injury reduced the damaged brain area.
- Peptide
- Humanin
- Outcome
- DecreaseInfarct volume after H/I, HNG pretreatment
- Study
n: not reported in source
Neonatal hypoxic/ischemic (H/I) brain injury model- Outcome group
- Neuroprotection · Nervous system and cognition
- Studied dose
- Dose not stated · intraperitonealAs given in this study.
Source sentences
Intraperitoneal HNG pre-treatment decreased infarct volume following H/I injury.
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
In this study, we used a 24-amino acid peptide S14G-Humanin (HNG) to examine oligodendrogenesis and neurological functional recovery in a hypoxic/ischemic (H/I) neonatal model.