International Journal of Preclinical and Clinical Research
Year: 2020, Volume: 1, Issue: 1, Pages: 26-34
Review Article
B Dharmaraj1*
1 Department of Pharmacology, Basaveshwara Medical College & Hospital, Chitradurga, Karnataka, India
*Corresponding author
Email: [email protected]
Received Date:25 November 2020, Accepted Date:15 December 2020, Published Date:21 December 2020
GLP-1 (Glucagon like Peptide-1) receptor agonists have been shown to be effective in the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Although the first GLP-1 receptor agonist, Exenatide, was approved in the year 2000, other agents with a longer duration of action that do not require twice-daily dosing are now being developed. Indeed, Liraglutide, a once-daily GLP-1 receptor agonist, was approved in 2010, a once-weekly extended-release formulation of Exenatide (Exenatide ER) was approved in 2011 and now more recently Semaglutide, an oral GLP 1 receptor agonist was approved for medical use in the United States in September 2019 and in the European Union in April 2020. The importance of GLP-1 itself and the use of GLP-1 receptor agonists in T2DM are discussed. An overview of the clinical development of the GLP-1 receptor agonists (Exenatide ER, Liraglutide, Lixisenatide, Albiglutide, Taspoglutide and Semaglutide) is provided and their mechanism of action, efficacy in terms of glycaemic control, weight loss and tolerability are reviewed.
Keywords: GLP1 receptor agonist; Liraglutide; Exenatide ER; Lixisenatide; Semaglutide
© 2020 Dharmaraj. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Published By Basaveshwara Medical College & Hospital, Chitradurga, Karnataka.
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