Why the study?
Does liraglutide improve cardiac function in a diabetic rat model?
Population
24 Sprague-Dawley rats; 18 fed high-fat diet for 4 weeks then injected with streptozotocin to create a…
Comparison
Liraglutide vs Vehicle and normal diet control
Design
Preclinical
Key result
Liraglutide prevented cardiac dysfunction in diabetic rats by activating the PPARα pathway to inhibit Dgat expression and oxidative stress.
Authors
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Hypothesis-generating for liraglutide in diabetic cardiomyopathy; leaves open clinical translation from rat models.
Does liraglutide improve cardiac function in a diabetic rat model?
Liraglutide attenuates cardiac dysfunction in diabetic rats via activation of the PPARα pathway.
Zhang et al. (2018) studied Diabetes-induced cardiac dysfunction (n=24). Liraglutide vs. Vehicle was evaluated on Left ventricular function, metabolic parameters, and whole genome expression. Liraglutide prevented cardiac dysfunction in diabetic rats by activating the PPARα pathway to inhibit Dgat expression and oxidative stress.
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