In women with amnestic mild cognitive impairment, high-dose davunetide significantly improved digit span versus matched placebo.
In plain wordsIn women with memory impairment, high-dose davunetide improved digit span more than matched placebo.
- Peptide
- Davunetide
- Outcome
- IncreaseDigit span
- Study
n: not reported in source
- Comparator
- Matched placebo
- Outcome group
- Cognition and memory · Nervous system and cognition
- Studied dose
- 15 mg twice daily · intranasalAs given in this study (human).
Source sentences
In a test of semantic working memory and attention (digit span), women showed a significant low-dose placebo effect, ensuing in a high dose significant davunetide improvement, over the matched placebo.
2 context sentences(design, population, supporting numbers)
Extending these findings to prodromal Alzheimer's disease, we submitted a double-blind, placebo-controlled, 12 weeks/16 weeks follow-up, davunetide clinical trial results in amnestic mild cognitive impairment (ClinicalTrials.gov ID NCT00422981), to a sex-dependent analysis.
One hundred forty-four individuals, separated into eight groups (1:2 placebo-and 2 doses, 5 mg davunetide/daily or 15 mg davunetide/twice-daily, with matching placebo intranasal volumes), were evaluated.