Application | Comment | Organism |
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medicine | both sitagliptin and vildagliptin improve metabolic control in type-2 diabetes, both in monotherapy and in combination with metformin and thiazolidinediones. DPP-4 inhibition is safe and well tolerated, the risk of hypoglycaemia is minimal, an DPP-4 inhibition is body-weight neutral. DPP-4 inhibition is suggested to be a first-line treatment of type-2 diabetes, particularly in its early stages in combination with metformin | Homo sapiens |
Inhibitors | Comment | Organism | Structure |
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sitagliptin | - |
Homo sapiens | |
vildagliptin | - |
Homo sapiens |
Organism | UniProt | Comment | Textmining |
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Homo sapiens | - |
- |
- |
Source Tissue | Comment | Organism | Textmining |
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blood plasma | - |
Homo sapiens | - |
Synonyms | Comment | Organism |
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dipeptidyl peptidase 4 | - |
Homo sapiens |
DPP-4 | - |
Homo sapiens |