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Health & biology · 1987

GLP-1 insulin action

Researchers found a gut hormone fragment, GLP-1(7-37), strongly boosts insulin release.

Svetlana Mojsov, Joel Habener and Daniel Drucker showed in 1987 that the truncated GLP-1 stimulates insulin. It led to exenatide in 2005, the first GLP-1 drug, derived from Gila monster venom.

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