By 1992 Raufman and Eng had established that the lizard's saliva contained an abundance of a new peptide made up of 39 amino acids that was structurally related to GLP-1
In 1995 she and her colleague Yang Wei reported that they had discovered in tissue samples identical sequences for the human GLP-1 receptor in the brain and the heart as well as the pancreas (Wei, Mojsov)
Back Ferner, H (Oct 1953) 'The A- and B-Cells of the pancreatic islets as sources of the antagonistic hormones glucagon and insulin
What also helped was the invention of a new sequencing technique by Frederick Sanger, a British biochemist at the University of Cambridge, which he used to crack the amino acid structure of insulin in 1955 (Marks 2015)
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