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ArticleACS omega2018

Glycosaminoglycan Conjugation for Improving the Duration of Therapeutic Action of Glucagon-Like Peptide-1.

Megumi Ichikawa, Tetsuya Hirayama, Masanobu Fukushima, Ikue Kitazawa, Kazuhiro Kojima, Tokiko Sakai, Yoshihiro Takatsu, Tetsuya Ohtaki

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Article in ACS omega, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors.

Megumi IchikawaCentral Research Laboratories, Seikagaku Corporation, Tateno 3-1253, Higashiyamato-shi, Tokyo 207-0021, Japan.
Tetsuya HirayamaCentral Research Laboratories, Seikagaku Corporation, Tateno 3-1253, Higashiyamato-shi, Tokyo 207-0021, Japan.
Masanobu FukushimaCentral Research Laboratories, Seikagaku Corporation, Tateno 3-1253, Higashiyamato-shi, Tokyo 207-0021, Japan.
Ikue KitazawaCentral Research Laboratories, Seikagaku Corporation, Tateno 3-1253, Higashiyamato-shi, Tokyo 207-0021, Japan.
Kazuhiro KojimaCentral Research Laboratories, Seikagaku Corporation, Tateno 3-1253, Higashiyamato-shi, Tokyo 207-0021, Japan.
Tokiko SakaiCentral Research Laboratories, Seikagaku Corporation, Tateno 3-1253, Higashiyamato-shi, Tokyo 207-0021, Japan.
Yoshihiro TakatsuCentral Research Laboratories, Seikagaku Corporation, Tateno 3-1253, Higashiyamato-shi, Tokyo 207-0021, Japan.
Tetsuya OhtakiCentral Research Laboratories, Seikagaku Corporation, Tateno 3-1253, Higashiyamato-shi, Tokyo 207-0021, Japan.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) is an incretin peptide that plays a crucial role in lowering blood glucose levels and holds promise for treating type II diabetes. In this study, we synthesized GLP-1 derivatives that were conjugated with glycosaminoglycans (GAGs), i.e., chondroitin (CH) or heparosan (HPN), to address the major limitation in their clinical use of GLP-1, which is its short half-life in the body. After exploring a variety of CHs with different molecular sizes and heterobifunctional linkers having different alkyl chains, we obtained CH-conjugated GLP-1 derivatives that stayed in blood circulation much longer (

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PMID30023916
PMCPMC6044901

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