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A venomous desert lizard that rarely eats accidentally providing the blueprint for one of the most widely used diabetes and obesity treatments in the world is the most unexpected scientific origin story of modern medicine So this is where they got the idea for Ozempic from Research on the venom of the Gila monster revealed a molecule called exendin-4 that mimics the human hormone Glucagon-like peptide-1, which regulates insulin, appetite, and digestion
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These areas are critically involved in reward-related pathways, and play an important role in motivation, goal-directed behavior as well as processing of different types of reward (Berridge & Robinson, 1998
Clarifying these aspects will be essential to define the clinical utility of GLP-1RAs in PsA and potentially across other immune-mediated inflammatory diseases