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Abstract
Pharmacological modulation of the glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) system has emerged as a new therapeutic option for treatment of diabetes mellitus. In addition to the glucose lowering potential GLP-1 was found to have a variety of cardioprotective effects. GLP-1 reduced the size of myocardial infarction during acute ischemia by activation of prosurvival pathways including PI3-kinase, Akt und ERK1/2. In addition, GLP-1 prevented atherosclerotic lesion formation in experimental models and improved endothelial function while acting anti-inflammatory. Furthermore GLP-1 was found to improve chronic heart failure by increasing insulin independent cellular glucose transport. Consequently GLP-1 based therapies might reduce cardiovascular events in diabetic patients which is currently evaluated in clinical endpoint studies.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 22430284 DOI: 10.1007/s00059-012-3599-8
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Herz ISSN: 0340-9937 Impact factor: 1.443