weight loss surgery vs glp-1 Unique and Shared Effects of Bariatric and GLP-1RA Bariatric surgery vs GLP1: WVU

Inoue T, Inoguchi T, Sonoda N, Hendarto H, Makimura H, Sasaki S, Yokomizo H, Fujimura Y, Miura D, Takayanagi R

Brains were snap-frozen in isopentane and the OB ( n = 10) or LH ( n = 8) was cut into 18 or 30 m-thick sections respectively, using a cryostat (Leica Biosystems)

Characteristics of therapeutic GLP-1R agonists Endogenous GLP-1 is characterized by a very short half-life of only few minutes, as it is quickly degraded by dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP4), an enzyme expressed in many different types of tissues

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Liraglutide (as Victoza) and semaglutide (as Ozempic) are both approved diabetes medications