Thirty-five minutes (stabilization period) after completion of the surgery, the pylorus was clamped, and the rats received intragastric or intraduodenal load of glucose (2 g/kg BW) or PBS in a volume that did not distend the stomach
Reductions in BMI, adjusted for duration of treatment, dose, baseline BMI, age and sex, were 17.4% with Ozempic, 17.6% with Wegovy and 15.5% with Mounjaro
Using non-bacteriostatic water significantly increases contamination risk
For reconstitution of the gliT strain with a functional gliT copy, a 3.2 kb PCR fragment, amplified using primers ogliT-5 and ogliT-6, was subcloned into pCR2.1-TOPO (Invitrogen)
While this study focused on semaglutide, the metabolic benefits of GLP-1 receptor agonists as a class are well established, and tirzepatides dual-agonist mechanism suggests at least comparable protective effects