In gerbils with brain ischaemia, rhEGF plus GHRP‑6 given up to 4 hours after injury improved survival versus vehicle.
In plain wordsIn gerbils with brain ischaemia, rhEGF plus GHRP‑6 improved survival compared with vehicle.
- Peptide
- GHRP-6
- Outcome
- IncreaseSurvival
- Study
Mongolian gerbiln: not reported in source
global brain ischaemia- Comparator
- vehicle treatment
- Outcome group
- Mortality · Whole body
Source sentences
The coadministration of rhEGF and GHRP-6 at doses of 100 and 600 μg/kg, respectively, administered up to 4 hours following the ischaemic insult, significantly improved survival and neurological outcome, and reduced infarct volume compared with vehicle treatment.
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
Mongolian gerbils underwent 15 minutes occlusion of both common carotid arteries.
In this study, GHRP-6 was a lab tool or a carrier, part of a mix, or the subject of a lab method. This result is not evidence about taking GHRP-6.