Article
Recent advances in understanding the role of glucagon-like peptide 1
2020-04-06
Abstract excerpt
The discovery that glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) mediates a significant proportion of the incretin effect during the postprandial period and the subsequent observation that GLP-1 bioactivity is retained in type 2 diabetes (T2D) led to new therapeutic strategies being developed for T2D treatment based on GLP-1 action. Although owing to its short half-life exogenous GLP-1 has no use therapeutically, GLP-1 mimetics...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 625a1895-d27b-551f-b087-ffe5ce2ed0de
- DOI
- 10.12688/f1000research.20602.1
