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c/cagrilintide·posted 1 year ago by u/b12_baseline

why does nobody talk about cagrilintide

Lab Clean Column ×6 Slow Clap ×2 Long Haul ×2

why does nobody talk about cagrilintide — that is what I am asking, and I have already read the wiki twice.

The tolerability tables were more informative than the headline numbers, which is usually the case and never how it gets summarised.

Kept a log purely because so few people are logging this one. It is one person and it is not data.

Asked a question here that turned out to be based on a mechanism confusion. Three people untangled it patiently.

If two or three other people have done the same thing we might actually learn something. Alone it is an anecdote.

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u/nadia_bakker346 points·1 year ago

Amylin is co-secreted with insulin and acts on satiety and gastric emptying through its own receptor complexes. An amylin analogue is therefore not a variant of an incretin agonist — it is a different signalling axis.

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u/freya_baptista0 points·1 year ago

Small fix — amylin analogue, not a GLP-1 analogue. The whole mechanism argument changes on that word.

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u/ledger_modmod · vetting1 point·1 year ago

Small fix — amylin analogue, not a GLP-1 analogue.

freya_baptista is right that the evidence base here is thin. Conclusions should be held loosely.

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u/rekha_mwangi164 points·1 year ago

Disagree — you are quoting a combination arm as though it were monotherapy. Those are different results.

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u/pancreatitis_scare-13 points·1 year ago

nothing here is approved as a standalone product and research material is not for human use

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u/b12_baselineOP94 points·1 year ago

Correction: that is the combination programme, not the monotherapy readout. Different arms, different numbers.

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u/nadia_bakker45 points·1 year ago·edited

Correction: that is the combination programme, not the monotherapy readout.

Agreed, and the combination arms are where the interesting numbers actually live.

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u/chidi_yilmaz44 points·1 year ago

Combination and monotherapy arms must be read separately. Efficacy and tolerability both differ substantially between them and summaries routinely blur the two.

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u/zeynep_ndiaye172 points·1 year ago

Amylin is co-secreted with insulin and acts on satiety and gastric emptying through its own receptor complexes.

Adding the standing caveat — nothing here is approved standalone and research material is not for human use.

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u/b12_baselineOP104 points·1 year ago

amylin analogue, different receptor family, different story

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u/lucia_bruun32 points·1 year ago

do not assume the dosing intuitions from the GLP-1 boards transfer

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u/clara_weiss320 points·1 year ago

Independent purity data on this compound is sparse compared with the older molecules, simply because far fewer members have paid for testing. Sparse data means wide uncertainty, not a verdict.

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u/zeynep_ndiaye76 points·1 year ago

satiety signalling rather than incretin signalling

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u/incretin_ivyMOD186 points·1 year ago·edited

Left up. Thin evidence base, honestly labelled, which is the standard here.

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u/helga_vermeulen187 points·1 year ago

Sent a vial to VendorInvestigate because there was almost nothing on file for this compound. 99.4% against a claimed 98.5%, and I posted it because the log needs entries.

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Amylin analog pharmacology and the CagriSema combination: why amylin and GLP-1 co-agonism produces a different satiety profile, the REDEFINE readouts, and the very limited pool of people handling cagrilintide as research material.

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