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    Incretins are a group of metabolic hormones that stimulate a decrease in blood glucose levels. Incretins are released after eating and augment the secretion...
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    Alongside glucose-dependent insulinotropic peptide (GIP), GLP-1 is an incretin; thus, it has the ability to decrease blood sugar levels in a glucose-dependent...
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    works by inhibiting the action of this enzyme, thereby prolonging incretin effect in vivo. Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus has been found...
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    elicited by intravenous glucose infusions. This difference, termed the incretin effect, is due to the activation of FFAR2-bearing intestinal cells by the...
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    is a weak inhibitor of gastric acid secretion, its main role, being an incretin, is to stimulate insulin secretion. GIP, along with glucagon-like peptide-1...
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  • researcher at Washington University in St. Louis. He discovered the "incretin effect". Kipnis was born in Baltimore in 1927; his parents were immigrants...
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    including diabetes, pituitary function, neuroendocrine tumours, the incretin effect, insulin resistance, and fatty liver disease. He was editor-in-chief...
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    an incretin, which also promotes triglyceride storage. K cells are mostly found in the duodenum. L cells secrete glucagon-like peptide-1, an incretin, peptide...
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    blood glucose levels. The mechanism of DPP-4 inhibitors is to increase incretin levels (GLP-1 and GIP), which inhibit glucagon release, which in turn increases...
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  • incretin starts circulating in response to a high blood glucose level. Incretin effect is a negative feedback loop between glucose and insulin level, it promotes...
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