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  1. The metabolic-brain axis: GLP-1 signaling, insulin resistance, and obesity pharmacotherapy in neurodegeneration 2026-10-30
  2. Beyond Glycemic Control: The Pleiotropic Role of GLP-1RAs and Melatonin in Combating Neuroinflammation and Mitochondrial Dysfunction 2026-10-28
  3. PFKFB3 inhibition restores β-cell responsiveness to acetylcholine in a 3xTg-AD pancreatic tissue-slice model 2026-10-07

Studies

285 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1994 to 2026

Top journals

  • International journal of molecular sciences 10
  • Neuropharmacology 10
  • Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 9
  • European journal of pharmacology 8
  • Neurobiology of aging 6

177 journals in all.

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  1. GLP-1 derivatives with functional sequences transit and migrate through trigeminal neurons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. European journal of pharmaceutics and biopharmaceutics : official journal of Arbeitsgemeinschaft fur Pharmazeutische Verfahrenstechnik e.V 2024-01-06 Drug development

    Patients with dementia are increasing with the aging of the population, and dementia has become a disease with high unmet medical needs.

  2. Pharmacological Approaches Using Diabetic Drugs Repurposed for Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Biomedicines 2024-01-03 Drug development

    Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) are chronic, progressive disorders affecting the elderly, which fosters global healthcare concern with the growing aging population.

  3. Incretin Mimetics as Potential Disease Modifying Treatment for Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2024 Drug development

    Alzheimer's disease is a devastating neurodegenerative condition that exerts a significant global burden.

  4. Targeting immunometabolic pathways for combination therapy in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2023-09-30 Treatments

    The recent success of disease-modifying anti-amyloid monoclonal antibodies in slowing Alzheimer's disease (AD) symptoms has been an exciting step forward for the field.

  5. Semaglutide ameliorates cognition and glucose metabolism dysfunction in the 3xTg mouse model of Alzheimer's disease via the GLP-1R/SIRT1/GLUT4 pathway

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Neuropharmacology 2023-09-18 Drug development

    In this study, we found that SIRT1 is closely related to expression of GLP-1R in hippocampus of 3xTg mice.

  6. Targeting redox imbalance in neurodegeneration: characterizing the role of GLP-1 receptor agonists

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Theranostics 2023-09-04 Drug development

    Reactive oxygen species (ROS) have emerged as essential signaling molecules regulating cell survival, death, inflammation, differentiation, growth, and immune response.

  7. GLP-1 receptor agonists effect on cognitive function in patients with and without type 2 diabetes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Diabetes & metabolism 2023-08-30 Drug development

    Glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) is a hormone of the incretin family, secreted in response to nutrient ingestion, and plays a role in metabolic homeostasis.

  8. Crosstalk between Alzheimer's disease and diabetes: a focus on anti-diabetic drugs

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Metabolic brain disease 2023-06-19 Drug development

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) are two of the most common age-related diseases.

  9. Antidiabetic agents as a novel treatment for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Ageing research reviews 2023-06-14 Drug development

    Epidemiological evidence has revealed a link between AD/PD and type 2 diabetes mellitus, with these disorders sharing some pathological commonalities.

  10. Effects of GLP-1 receptor agonists on neurological complications of diabetes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 77 out of 100. Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders 2023-05-26 Drug development

    Emerging evidence suggests that treatment with glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) could be an interesting treatment strategy to reduce neurological complications such as stroke, cognitive impairment, and peripheral neuropathy.

  11. The potential role of human islet amyloid polypeptide in type 2 diabetes mellitus and Alzheimer's diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Diabetology & metabolic syndrome 2023-05-13 Drug development

    Human Islet amyloid polypeptide (hIAPP) from pancreatic β cells in the islet of Langerhans has different physiological functions including inhibiting the release of insulin and glucagon.

  12. Novel LC-MS/MS analysis of the GLP-1 analog semaglutide with its application to pharmacokinetics and brain distribution studies in rats

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of chromatography. B, Analytical technologies in the biomedical and life sciences 2023-03-22 Drug development

    Semaglutide, one of the most potent glucagon-like peptide (GLP)-1 analogs, has widely been used to treat type II diabetes mellitus and obesity.

  13. Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists to expand the healthy lifespan: Current and future potentials

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Aging cell 2023-03-20 Drug development

    To help ensure an expanded healthy lifespan for as many people as possible worldwide, there is a need to prevent or manage a number of prevalent chronic diseases directly and indirectly closely related to aging, including diabetes and obesity.

  14. Long-term use of metformin and Alzheimer's disease: beneficial or detrimental effects

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Inflammopharmacology 2023-02-28 Drug development

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disease characterized by extracellular deposition of amyloid beta (Aβ) leading to cognitive decline.

  15. Newer glucose-lowering drugs and risk of dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2023-02-23 Drug development

    Newer GLDs were associated with a decreased risk of all-cause dementia in people with T2D. Because of the observational nature and significant heterogeneity between studies, the results should be interpreted with caution.

  16. Metabolic Syndrome as a Risk Factor for Alzheimer's Disease: A Focus on Insulin Resistance

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2023-02-22 Risk factors

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the main type of dementia and is a disease with a profound socioeconomic burden due to the lack of effective treatment.

  17. Glucagon-Like Peptide 1 Therapy: From Discovery to Type 2 Diabetes and Beyond

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Endocrinology and metabolism (Seoul, Korea) 2023-02-06 Drug development

    The therapeutic benefits of the incretin hormone, glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP1), for people with type 2 diabetes and/or obesity, are now firmly established.

  18. Incretin-based therapy of metabolic disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Danish medical journal 2022-12-21 Drug development

    Recent studies show that incretin hormone analogues effectively control blood glucose while producing major weight losses and reducing the risk of all-cause mortality, myocardial infarction, stroke and kidney function impairment.

  19. Alternative role of glucagon-like Peptide-1 receptor agonists in neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. European journal of pharmacology 2022-12-02 Drug development

    Aging is a crucial risk factor for common neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD).

  20. The mechanism and efficacy of GLP-1 receptor agonists in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Frontiers in endocrinology 2022-11-17 Drug development

    Since type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD) and both have the same pathogenesis (e.g., insulin resistance), drugs used to treat T2DM have been gradually found to reduce the progression of AD in AD models.

  21. Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists and neuroinflammation: Implications for neurodegenerative disease treatment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Pharmacological research 2022-11-11 Drug development

    Chronic, excessive neuroinflammation is a key feature of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD).

  22. Can Alzheimer's Disease Be Secondary to Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Cureus 2022-11-08 Risk factors

    Alzheimer's disease and insulin resistance are prevalent in older adults.

  23. The importance of estradiol for body weight regulation in women

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Frontiers in endocrinology 2022-11-07 Drug development

    Obesity in women of reproductive age has a number of adverse metabolic effects, including Type II Diabetes (T2D), dyslipidemia, and cardiovascular disease.

  24. Incretin and insulin signaling as novel therapeutic targets for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2022-10-18 Drug development

    Despite an ever-growing prevalence and increasing economic burden of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD), recent advances in drug development have only resulted in minimally effective treatment.

  25. A Pathophysiological Intersection of Diabetes and Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2022-09-30 Risk factors

    Diabetes is among the most prevalent diseases of the modern world and is strongly linked to an increased risk of numerous neurodegenerative disorders, although the exact pathophysiological mechanisms are not clear yet.

  26. The neuroprotective effects of glucagon-like peptide 1 in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease: An in-depth review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroscience 2022-09-01 Treatments

    Currently, there is no disease-modifying treatment available for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease (AD and PD) and that includes the highly controversial approval of the Aβ-targeting antibody aducanumab for the treatment of AD.

  27. Anti-Inflammatory Effects of GLP-1 Receptor Activation in the Brain in Neurodegenerative Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2022-08-24 Drug development

    The glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) is a pleiotropic hormone well known for its incretin effect in the glucose-dependent stimulation of insulin secretion.

  28. Liraglutide reduces oxidative stress and improves energy metabolism in methylglyoxal-induced SH-SY5Y cells

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neurotoxicology 2022-08-17 Drug development

    Diabetes mellitus can result in severe complications, such as neurodegenerative diseases including cognitive impairment and dementia.

  29. GLP-1 Receptor Agonists in Neurodegeneration: Neurovascular Unit in the Spotlight

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Cells 2022-06-25 Drug development

    Defects in brain energy metabolism and proteopathic stress are implicated in age-related degenerative neuronopathies, exemplified by Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD).

  30. Therapeutic Potential of Semaglutide, a Newer GLP-1 Receptor Agonist, in Abating Obesity, Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis and Neurodegenerative diseases: A Narrative Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Pharmaceutical research 2022-06-01 Drug development

    Significant weight reduction ability of semaglutide has been demonstrated in various phase-3 clinical trials, for which recently semaglutide became the first long-acting GLP-1 receptor agonist to be approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for management of obesity.

  31. The Role of Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists (GLP-1 RA) in Diabetes-Related Neurodegenerative Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Drug design, development and therapy 2022-03-14 Drug development

    Recent clinical guidelines have emphasized the importance of screening for cognitive impairment in older adults with diabetes, however, there is still a lack of understanding about the drug therapy.

  32. Diabetes: Risk factor and translational therapeutic implications for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The European journal of neuroscience 2022-02-23 Drug development

    Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) commonly co-occur.

  33. Treatment with glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists and incidence of dementia: Data from pooled double-blind randomized controlled trials and nationwide disease and prescription registers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2022-02-23 Drug development

    Treatment with GLP-1 RAs may provide a new opportunity to reduce the incidence of dementia in patients with type 2 diabetes.

  34. Glucagon-Like Peptide 1 Receptor Agonists - Potential Game Changers in the Treatment of Glaucoma?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroscience 2022-02-21 Drug development

    Glaucoma is a common ocular neurodegenerative disease characterized by the progressive loss of retinal ganglion cells and their axons.

  35. Metformin in Alzheimer's disease: An overview of potential mechanisms, preclinical and clinical findings

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Biochemical pharmacology 2022-02-05 Drug development

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disorder worldwide.

  36. Effects of Glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) analogs in the hippocampus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Vitamins and hormones 2022-02-04 Drug development

    The glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) is a pleiotropic hormone very well known for its incretin effect in the glucose-dependent stimulation of insulin secretion.

  37. Deciphering the Roles of Metformin in Alzheimer's Disease: A Snapshot

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in pharmacology 2022-01-27 Drug development

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a prevalent neurodegenerative disease predominantly affecting millions of elderly people.

  38. GLP-1a: Going beyond Traditional Use

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2022-01-10 Drug development

    Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) is a human incretin hormone derived from the proglucagon molecule.

  39. Mechanistic insight into the role of metformin in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Life sciences 2022-01-07 Drug development

    Alzheimer's disease (AD), a type of dementia, is characterized by progressive memory decline and cognition impairment.

  40. Liraglutide Reduces Vascular Damage, Neuronal Loss, and Cognitive Impairment in a Mixed Murine Model of Alzheimer’s Disease and Type 2 Diabetes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience 2021-12-16 Drug development

    Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia, and epidemiological studies support that type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a major contributor.

  41. Brain Imaging of the GLP-1 Receptor in Obesity Using 68Ga-NODAGA-Exendin-4 PET

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Brain sciences 2021-12-15 Drug development

    Stimulation of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptors increases the insulin release in the pancreas during high glucose levels, and also stimulates a feeling of satiety.

  42. Glucagon-like peptide-1 analogs mitigate neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's disease by suppressing NLRP2 activation in astrocytes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Molecular and cellular endocrinology 2021-12-11 Drug development

    Neuroinflammation is closely linked to the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  43. Evaluation of liraglutide in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2021-12-01 Drug development

    Preclinical evidence in transgenic models of Alzheimer’s disease suggests that liraglutide exerts neuroprotective effects by reducing amyloid oligomers, normalising synaptic plasticity and cerebral glucose uptake, and increasing the proliferation of neuronal progenitor cells.

  44. Potential new therapeutic target for Alzheimer's disease: Glucagon-like peptide-1

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The European journal of neuroscience 2021-11-07 Drug development

    Increasing evidence shows a close relationship between Alzheimer's disease (AD) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).

  45. GLP-1 and Underlying Beneficial Actions in Alzheimer's Disease, Hypertension, and NASH

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in endocrinology 2021-09-06 Drug development

    GLP-1 is derived from intestinal L cells, which takes effect through binding to GLP-1R and is inactivated by the enzyme dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4).

  46. Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists and Brain Vascular Function

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Heart, lung & circulation 2021-08-31 Drug development

    Prevention of cardiovascular events and regression of atherosclerotic changes are the primary aims of preventive cardiovascular medicine.

  47. Metformin prevents p-tau and amyloid plaque deposition and memory impairment in diabetic mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Experimental brain research 2021-07-20 Drug development

    Insulin deficiency or resistance can promote dementia and hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  48. Structural Brain Changes Associated with Overweight and Obesity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of obesity 2021-07-16 Risk factors

    Obesity is a global health problem with a broad set of comorbidities, such as malnutrition, metabolic syndrome, diabetes, systemic hypertension, heart failure, and kidney failure.

  49. Activation of Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Ameliorates Cognitive Decline in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Through a Metabolism-Independent Pathway

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Journal of the American Heart Association 2021-07-10 Drug development

    We concluded that liraglutide improves cognitive decline in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.

  50. Protective properties of GLP-1 and associated peptide hormones in neurodegenerative disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. British journal of pharmacology 2021-05-29 Drug development

    Type 2 diabetes mellitus and the associated desensitisation of insulin signalling has been identified as a risk factor for progressive neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and others.

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