Exenatide Facilitates Recovery from Oxaliplatin-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy in Rats.

Oxaliplatin has widely been used as a key drug in the treatment of colorectal cancer; however, it causes peripheral neuropathy. Exenatide, a glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) agonist, is an incretin mimetic secreted from ileal L cells, which is clinically used to treat type 2 diabetes mellitus. GLP-1...

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Main Authors: Shunsuke Fujita, Soichiro Ushio, Nana Ozawa, Ken Masuguchi, Takehiro Kawashiri, Ryozo Oishi, Nobuaki Egashira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4633148?pdf=render