“…We previously demonstrated that the GLP-1R agonists exenatide and liraglutide had neuroprotective and neurotrophic effects in cell and animal models of ischemic stroke, traumatic brain injury, Parkinson's disease (PD), Alzheimer's disease (AD) and ALS (Li et al, 2009, Li et al, 2010a, Li et al, 2012, Salcedo et al, 2012, Eakin et al, 2013, Greig et al, 2014). These data, together with findings by other groups (Bassil et al ., 2014; Holscher 2014; Darsalia et al, 2015; Athauda & Foltynie 2016 and Kuroki et al, 2016), suggest that incretin- based anti-diabetic drugs are neuroprotective and hold promise for repurposing as a treatment strategy for neurodegeneration. Positive pre-clinical data on these compounds has led to several ongoing clinical trials, such as a recent successful open label clinical trial of exenatide in Parkinson's disease patients (Aviles-Olmos et al, 2013).…”