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Hormone Combination Shows Promise in the Treatment of Obesity and Diabetes

03/20/2013

A new treatment combining two hormones can reduce appetite, according to new research presented today at the Society for Endocrinology annual conference in Harrogate, UK. This early study from an internationally-renowned team at Imperial College London provides 'first in human' evidence that a combined therapy using the hormones glucagon and glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) may form the basis for a new treatment for obesity and diabetes in the future.More »

GLP-1, glucagon, hormones

Targeting Glucagon Pathway May Offer a New Approach to Treating Diabetes

04/16/2012

Maintaining the right level of sugar in the blood is the responsibility not only of insulin, which removes glucose, but also of a hormone called glucagon, which adds glucose. For decades, treatments for type II diabetes have taken aim at insulin, but a new study suggests that a better approach may be to target glucagon's sweetening effect.

The findings were published April 12 in the online edition of Cell Metabolism.More »

blood glucose, diabetes, glucagon
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