title: [The history of incretin hormones].
abstract: 'Incretin' hormones has lately attracted considerable attention as new strategy improving insulin secretion of type 2 diabetes mellitus. Spending many years for study of incretin hormones, GIP (glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide) and GLP-1 (glucagon-like peptide-1), we can use incretin mimetics as new drugs for type 2 diabetes clinically today in Japan. In this section, we describe the concept and the history of incretin hormones.
authors: Division of Diabetes, Clinical Nutrition and Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kansai Electric Power Hospital.
authors: Takanori
authors: T
authors: Hyo
authors: Yutaka
authors: Y
authors: Seino