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amylin

American  
[am-uh-lin] / ˈæm əˌlɪn /

noun

  1. a hormone produced by the pancreas which regulates the levels of glucose in the blood.


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The obesity market is hungry for medicines that can deliver modest weight loss with a pristine tolerability, which is exactly the profile of so-called amylin drugs like Zealand and Roche’s petrelintide, the analysts say.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 16, 2026

Both novel drugs are meant to be used in patients with obesity, though they have different mechanisms: Eloralintide is a once-weekly amylin receptor agonist, while retatrutide acts on three different hormone receptors.

From Barron's Nov. 10, 2025

It is also testing an experimental once-weekly medication that mimics the hormone amylin and carries fewer side effects than its GLP-1s.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 9, 2025

Wall Street underappreciates the company’s monthly injectable GLP-1, monthly injectable amylin, daily oral peptide, and peptide-manufacturing scale advantages relative to the competition.

From Barron's Sep. 26, 2025

Four of these amylin radicles are grouped centrally round the fifth, thus:—

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various

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