Meanings
- not comparableRelating to glucoregulation.
Some of the known glucoregulatory effects of narcotic drugs and endogenous opioid peptides may participate in the proposed role of the opioid system in the adaptation to starvation.
1989, Margo P. Cohen, The Brain as an Endocrine Organ, page 591 more example
Overall, these data suggest that the glucoregulatory benefits for TGR5 agonists in rodents for the treatment of diabetes and metabolic syndrome likely cannot be separated from concurrent pharmacology in the gallbladder.
2015 August 28, “Novel Small Molecule Agonist of TGR5 Possesses Anti-Diabetic Effects but Causes Gallbladder Filling in Mice”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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