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In gastric L-cells, the bioactive forms of GLP-1, GLP 737 (glycine-extended GLP-1), and GLP 737 amide , are cleaved from its precursor (pre)proglucagon by prohormone convertase (PC)1 and PC3, which co-generates GLP-2 and oxyntomodulin

Habeners postdoc Daniel Drucker, Mojsov and Habener also showed that GLP-1 induced glucose-dependent insulin secretion from a pancreatic islet cell line

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Lately, a GLP-1R agonist, liraglutide, has also been approved by the FDA for the treatment of adolescent obesity [14]

Understanding the mechanistic differences between albuminuric and non-albuminuric DKD enables more tailored therapeutic interventions