LY2811376

Animal experiment:

Sprague Dawley [Crl:CD(SD)] rats (10 per sex per group), appr 7 weeks of age, are given 0 (vehicle only), 10, 30, or 100 mg/kg LY2811376 by daily oral gavage. Vehicle consists of 1% (w/v) hydroxyethylcellulose, 0.25% (v/v) polysorbate 80, and 0.05% (v/v) Dow Corning Antifoam 1510-US in reverse osmosis water. At necropsy after 3 months of treatment, tissues are immersion fixed in 10% neutral-buffered formalin (brain) or modified Davidson's solution (eyes) and then processed by routine methods to paraffin block and hematoxylin-eosin (H&E)-stained histologic slides. From selected animals given 100 mg/kg on a subsequent investigative study, eyes are fixed in modified Karnovsky's solution, processed routinely into epoxy resin, and then ultrathin sections stained with uranyl acetate and Sato's lead citrate are examined in a transmission electron microscope. In a separate study, BACE1 knock-out mice (B6.129-Bace1tm1Pcw/J) are given 0 or 100 mg/kg LY2811376 by daily oral gavage for 9 weeks, and then necropsied tissues are collected and examined by light microscopy as described above for the rat toxicology study.

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