Recent studies have found that increased level of GLP-1 in the hippocampus restores GABA and reverses this neurotoxic effect by reducing oxidative stress through the SIRT1/Nrf2/HO-1 pathway, promoting autophagy through the AMPK/mTOR pathway, and alleviating hippocampal apoptosis by inactivating pro-apoptotic kinase GSK-3 ( The anorectic effects of GLP-1 can also be explained by its GABAergic modulation in the nucleus tractus solitarius (NTS) cells
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Important caveat: the foundational 2014 mechanism paper was formally retracted in April 2025 due to falsified data no approved human clinical trials exist
Funding This work was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (82203377 to Yanwei Lu