doi:10.1093/cid/ciu065 Dinleyici EC, Eren M, Dogan N, Reyhanioglu S, Yargic ZA, Vandenplas Y
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1 Next Steps and Future Implications These early insights from the COURAGE trial are consistent with recently published pre-clinical data in rodents and non-human primates and clearly establish the principle that blocking GDF8 with or without activin A can preserve muscle and further increase fat loss in patients being treated with GLP-1 therapy, thereby improving the quality of weight loss, continued Yancopoulos, in the press release
Unlike regular medications that go through strict testing and approval by the FDA, compounded drugs are often made in smaller pharmacies with less oversight