PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Vinall, Maria
ED  - Drucker, Daniel J.
TI  - Understanding Incretin Hormone Action and the Treatment of Diabetes
DP  - 2012 Dec 01
TA  - MD Conference Express
PG  - 6--8
VI  - 12
IP  - 16
4099  - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/12/16/6.short
4100  - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/12/16/6.full
AB  - In the 44th Claude Bernard Lecture on diabetes, Daniel J. Drucker, MD, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, discussed his research findings concerning incretin hormone action and the treatment of diabetes. The lecture covered the pharmacological/physiological mechanisms of the glucagon-like peptides GLP-1 and GLP-2, and their relevance to the treatment of human disease.