The drugs slow the muscular contractions that move food through the digestive system, reduce stomach acid secretion, and alter the signals sent between the gut and brain
Early trials have provided implication of the neuroprotective benefits of pioglitazone, which are potentially mediated by its anti-inflammatory and insulin-sensitizing effects
Earlier this month, (June 2025), Novo inked a deal worth up to $815 million with Deep Apple Therapeutics, a South San Francisco-based company specializing in small-molecule drug discovery to discover, develop, and commercialize oral small-molecule therapeutics directed at a non-incretin G protein-coupled receptors (GPCR) target for cardiometabolic diseases, including obesity, in a deal worth up to $812 million
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Since both glucose and fatty acids could contribute to histone acetylation, we reasoned that this could occur either by two distinct substrate-specific mechanisms or a mechanism in which these substrates can feed into a common precursor acetyl-CoA pool (e.g., in mitochondria) that is then transported to the nuclear-cytosolic compartment (Supplemental Figure 5E)