Incretin therapy shows promise
Friday, October 23, 2009 - 19:21
in Health & Medicine
In experiments on rats, the gut hormones increased the number of insulin-producing cells in the pancreas. Physicians who treat diabetes consider incretin therapy one of the most exciting new tools that they've seen in a long time for combating the disease.
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