Overview
Jens J. Holst is a incretin hormones specialist with an H-index of 193 at University of Copenhagen (Faculty). Has been published in Nature Reviews Disease Primers, The Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine. Based in Denmark.
Biography
Jens Juul Holst is a Danish physician and physiologist. He is known for discovering and describing the hormone glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), a hormone in the gut that plays an important role in the onset and development of Type 2 diabetes. In collaboration with researcher and author Arne Astrup, he discovered that GLP-1 acts as a satiety hormone in humans.
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5 Publications
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JCI InsightN Engl J MedCardiovasc DiabetolMol MetabDiabetologia
Key Publications
Tirzepatide is an imbalanced and biased dual GIP and GLP-1 receptor agonist.
Healthy Weight Loss Maintenance with Exercise, Liraglutide, or Both Combined.
Combination of exercise and GLP-1 receptor agonist treatment reduces severity of metabolic syndrome, abdominal obesity, and inflammation: a randomized controlled trial.
Glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP).
The expanding incretin universe: from basic biology to clinical translation.
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