School Of Medicine, Tehran University Of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Students' Scientific Research Center, Tehran University Of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther. 2022 Mar;20(3):373-381. doi: 10.1080/14787210.2021.1964955. Epub 2021 Aug 12.
Understanding the pathogenesis and risk factors to control the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is necessary. Due to the importance of the inflammatory pathways in the pathogenesis of COVID-19 patients, evaluating the effects of anti-inflammatory medications is important. Glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonist (GLP-1 RA) is awell-known glucose-lowering agent with anti-inflammatory effects.
Resources were extracted from the PubMed database, using keywords such as glucagon-like peptide-1, GLP-1 RA, SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, inflammation, in April2021. In this review, the effects of GLP-1RA in reducing inflammation and modifying risk factors of COVID-19 severe complications are discussed. However, GLP-1 is degraded by DPP-4 with aplasma half-life of about 2-5 minutes, which makes it difficult to measure GLP-1 plasma level in clinical settings.
Since no definitive treatment is available for COVID-19 so far, determining promising targets to design and/or repurpose effective medications is necessary.
了解新型冠状病毒病 2019(COVID-19)的发病机制和危险因素是必要的。由于炎症途径在 COVID-19 患者发病机制中的重要性,评估抗炎药物的效果很重要。胰高血糖素样肽 1 受体激动剂(GLP-1RA)是一种众所周知的具有抗炎作用的降糖药物。
资源取自 2021 年 4 月的 PubMed 数据库,使用的关键词有胰高血糖素样肽-1、GLP-1RA、严重急性呼吸综合征冠状病毒 2、COVID-19、炎症。在这篇综述中,讨论了 GLP-1RA 对减轻炎症和改变 COVID-19 严重并发症危险因素的作用。然而,GLP-1 会被二肽基肽酶 4(DPP-4)降解,血浆半衰期约为 2-5 分钟,这使得在临床环境中很难测量 GLP-1 血浆水平。
由于目前尚无针对 COVID-19 的明确治疗方法,因此确定有希望的靶点来设计和/或重新利用有效的药物是必要的。