Pharmaceutical executives say they are making inroads with the private employer-based insurance plans that cover about half of the US population
Exenatide (shown on the right, PDB 7LLL), which was the first GLP-1 receptor agonist approved by the FDA, shares just over 50% sequence identity with GLP-1, but has a similar structure and is able to activate the GLP-1 receptor, while avoiding rapid proteolytic degradation
10.1002/rcm.7978 Summary Keywords GLP-1, PYY, serotonin, GIP-glucose-dependent insulinotropic peptide, oxyntomodulin, ghrelin, enteroendocine cells, insulin-like peptide 5 (INSL5) Citation Sun EWL, Martin AM, Young RL and Keating DJ (2019) The Regulation of Peripheral Metabolism by Gut-Derived Hormones
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