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If maintained properly, this patent would have expired in March 2026, but it expired in 2020 instead
It's part of a class of medications known as GLP-1 receptor agonists, which simulate the action of naturally occurring hormones in the body to regulate appetite and blood sugar
Approximately 90% of GLP-1 is metabolized by DPP-4 before reaching the central venous circulation (Holst and Deacon, 2005), and the peak circulating concentration of active GLP-1 (7-36)NH 2 after a meal in healthy subjects is usually less than 10 pmol/L due to the rapid degradation of DPP-4 ( In order to solve the problem of rapid inactivation of GLP-1 by DPP-4 degradation, GLP-1RAs and DPP-4 inhibitors have been developed to treat T2DM (Kim and Jang, 2015
Some community protocols describe drawing the day's dose into a syringe before travel, capping the syringe, and transporting the syringe rather than the vial