Can oral semaglutide be safely used in patients with prediabetes or metabolic syndrome
Importantly, their influence extends to skeletal muscle, where GLP-1 RAs promote glucose uptake via the AMP-activated protein kinase pathway, increase vascular blood flow, and mitigate glucotoxicity, thereby supporting muscle protein synthesis and inhibiting catabolic pathways [14, 15]
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This SGLT1-dependent mechanism is the basis for the early elevation of plasma GLP-1 and GIP levels after carbohydrate intake (Zhu et al., 2022)
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