In infants with moderate perinatal CNS damage, adjunctive Cortexin reduced IL-Iß, while standard therapy alone did not correct cytokine levels.
In plain wordsIn infants with moderate perinatal brain damage, added Cortexin reduced IL-Iß, while standard therapy alone did not correct cytokine levels.
- Outcome
- DecreaseSerum IL-Iß in moderate perinatal CNS damage
- Study
n = 58
- Comparator
- standard therapy alone in the same severity group
- Outcome group
- Inflammation markers · Immune and inflammation
- Studied dose
- Dose not stated
Measurements
- IL-Iß decrease
- 1.4 fold
- subgroup 2A by 3 months from baseline
Source sentences
In subgroup 2A, the concentration of IL-Iß decreased by 1.4 times, TNF-α by 1.2 times (p=0.038) by 3 months (p=0.037) from baseline values, whereas in patients of subgroup 2B, no correction of cytokine levels was observed.
4 context sentences(design, population, supporting numbers)
146 children (86 boys, 60 girls) aged from 20 days to 6 months (the average age of boys was 2.7±1.2, and girls 2.9±1.1 months) with CNS PP were examined.
Depending on the severity of CNS PP, patients were divided into 3 groups: the 1st (n=50) included patients with severe CNS PP, the 2nd (n=58) - moderate and the 3rd (n=38) - with mild severity.
By random sampling, each group was divided into 2 subgroups: patients of subgroups 1A, 2A, and 3A were prescribed Cortexin in addition to standard therapy in accordance with current clinical guidelines.
Patients in subgroups 1B, 2B, and 3B received only standard therapy.