Both dramatically lower blood sugar
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C3G increased the expression of PG to enhance GLP-1 expression in high glucose-induced STC-1 cells The intracellular expression of PG, a key precursor of GLP-1, is a critical determinant of GLP-1 secretion from intestinal L cells, as previously established in the literature 17
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A companion mechanistic paper, Chang et al., Molecules 2014, found that the peptide up-regulated growth-hormone-receptor expression in tendon fibroblasts at both mRNA and protein levels, potentially sensitising these cells to growth hormone during repair
Chatelain PG, Sanchez P, Saez JM