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. 2021 Aug 23;11:17027. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-96418-0

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Liraglutide, dosed once daily at 25 nmol/kg IP does not slow disease progression in a TDP-43Q331K transgenic mouse model of ALS. (A) Daily average body weight (mean ± SD) of mice dosed with vehicle or liraglutide, once daily, ip from 25 days to 6 months of age. As expected, TDP-43Q331K mice gain weight through to 6 months of age. No significant difference was seen in bodyweight data between the two groups (n = 14 per group, two-way ANOVA with repeated measures P = 0.7442). Average shown by thick line, ± SD shown by thin dashed lines (B) Rotarod data shown as average latency to fall (mean ± SD) from 50 to 180 days of age. Performance on rotarod declined over time as expected from the model but there was no significant difference between the two dose groups (n = 14 per group, two-way ANOVA with repeated measures P = 0.5741). (C) Compound muscle action potential (CMAP) amplitude at 6 weeks, 3 months and 6 months of age shown as individual values with mean ± SD. There is no significant difference in CMAP between groups (n = 14 per group, two-way ANOVA with repeated measures P = 0.5655). (D) Hindlimb base of support (mean ± SD) at 3 and 6 months of age from gait analysis shows no significant difference between dose groups (n = 7 per group, two-way ANOVA P = 0.8974 NS). (E) Percentage of time spent on diagonal walking (mean ± SD) at 3 and 6 months of age (n = 7 per group, two-way ANOVA P = 0.5215 NS). (F) Percentage of time spent on four paws (mean ± SD) at 3 and 6 months of age (n = 7 per group, two-way ANOVA P = 0.3100 NS).