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For example, a study involving healthy individuals found that glucagon-like peptide-1 administration increased glucose effectiveness, which refers to the capacity of glucose to promote its own disposal independently of insulin
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DPP-4 is widely expressed in multiple tissues and cell types and exists in both a membrane-anchored and soluble circulating form
3,4 This is why GLP-1 RAs were initially studied exclusively for diabetes management
Long-Acting GLP-1 RAs Exenatide (Bydureon) In 1987, scientists discovered that GLP-1 promotes insulin secretion, and five years later, an entero-insulin analogue, Exendin-4, which is 53% homologous to GLP-1, was isolated from the saliva of the Mexican giant lizard, later known as exenatide, which has GLP-1 receptor agonist activity and a half-life of 2.4 hours