In mice, preinjury or postinjury exendin‑4 reduced blast-induced neurodegeneration at 72 hours.
In plain wordsIn mice, exendin‑4 before or after blast injury reduced nerve degeneration at 72 hours.
- Peptide
- Exenatide (exendin-4)
- Outcome
- DecreaseNeurodegeneration
- Study
mousen: not reported in source
blast traumatic brain injury- Outcome group
- Neuroprotection · Nervous system and cognition
- Studied dose
- Dose not stated · subcutaneousAs given in this study (mouse).
Source sentences
Ex-4, administered preinjury or postinjury, ameliorated B-TBI-induced neurodegeneration at 72 hours, memory deficits from days 7-14, and attenuated genes regulated by blast at day 14 postinjury.
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
Exendin-4 (Ex-4), administered subcutaneously, was evaluated as a pretreatment (48 hours) and postinjury treatment (2 hours) on neurodegeneration, behaviors, and gene expressions in a murine open field model of blast injury.