Peptide encyclopedia
Every compound indexed here carries mechanism, route of administration, half-life, legal status, and the primary sources backing every claim — graded and dated.
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GLP-1 receptor agonists and the obesity / diabetes pharmacology cluster.
12 compounds
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Exenatide
Byetta · Bydureon · et al.
Exenatide is the founding GLP-1 receptor agonist — the molecule that opened the incretin pharmacology era for diabetes and produced the largest Parkinson's-disease randomized-trial body of any peptide, with a Phase 2 positive readout that the Phase 3 confirmatory trial did not replicate.
Half-life·~2.4 hours plasma half-life for the immediate-release (Byett…
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Glucagon
Glucagen · Baqsimi · et al.
Native glucagon is hyperglycemic by design — the engineered glucagon-receptor agonism inside retatrutide and survodutide is the same receptor used in reverse, leveraged for energy expenditure rather than glycemic rescue.
Half-life·~8–18 minutes plasma half-life IV, 26–45 minutes IM, and 32–…
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Insulin
human insulin · regular insulin · et al.
Insulin is the reference peptide therapy — the first hormone purified and given to a patient, the first protein synthesized by recombinant DNA technology, and the molecule against which every subsequent peptide-pharmacology claim is implicitly measured.
Half-life·~4 to 6 minutes plasma half-life for native human insulin on…
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Liraglutide
Saxenda · Victoza · et al.
Liraglutide is the GLP-1-class agent that paved the road for semaglutide and tirzepatide — its 2014 Saxenda approval was the first GLP-1 receptor agonist authorized specifically for chronic weight management.
Half-life·~13 hours plasma half-life — a C16 fatty acid acylation enab…
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Lixisenatide
Adlyxin · Lyxumia · et al.
Lixisenatide is the only GLP-1 receptor agonist to date with a published double-blind randomized Phase 2 trial in Parkinson's disease that returned a positive primary motor endpoint — LIXIPARK 2024 — though the molecule was commercially discontinued in the US in 2023 and the disease-modifying claim awaits Phase 3 confirmation.
Half-life·~three hours mean terminal plasma half-life — sufficient to …
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Mazdutide
LY3305677 · IBI-362 · et al.
Mazdutide is the first dual GLP-1 / glucagon receptor agonist approved for chronic weight management in any major jurisdiction — and that jurisdiction is China. In GLORY-1 (n=610), the 6 mg dose produced 14.8% weight loss at week 48 versus 0.5% on placebo, with 50.6% of participants reaching ≥15% loss.
Half-life·~one week — fatty-acid conjugation to plasma albumin slows r…
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Pancragen
KEDW · Lys-Glu-Asp-Trp · et al.
Pancragen is the pancreatic entry in the Khavinson short-peptide catalog — same single-laboratory evidence base as Epitalon and Vilon, with a tissue-specificity claim that is mechanistically distinctive but unconfirmed by independent Western replication.
Half-life·Plasma half-life is brief (minutes); the proposed effects on…
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Pramlintide
Symlin · AC137 · et al.
Pramlintide is the clinical proof-of-concept that amylin agonism works in humans — a 0.3–0.4% HbA1c reduction and 1–2 kg of weight loss as an insulin adjunct, the foundation on which cagrilintide and the CagriSema program were later built.
Half-life·~48 minutes elimination half-life after subcutaneous adminis…
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Retatrutide
LY3437943
Retatrutide is the first triple-receptor agonist (GLP-1, GIP, glucagon) to reach Phase II in obesity — at the highest dose, mean weight loss reached 24.2% at 48 weeks, the largest published pharmacotherapy result to date.
Half-life·~6 days plasma half-life on weekly subcutaneous dosing; the …
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Semaglutide
Ozempic · Wegovy · et al.
In STEP 1 (n=1,961), once-weekly subcutaneous semaglutide produced a mean 14.9% body-weight reduction at 68 weeks versus 2.4% on placebo.
Half-life·~1 week plasma half-life — the long-chain fatty acid binds a…
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Teduglutide
Gattex · Revestive · et al.
The only FDA-approved peptide on this site for a gastrointestinal indication driven primarily by mucosal-growth pharmacology — and the closest the literature has come to proving GI peptide pharmacology can survive a rigorous Phase III program.
Half-life·~2 hours plasma half-life after subcutaneous administration …
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Tirzepatide
Mounjaro · Zepbound · et al.
Tirzepatide is the first dual GIP / GLP-1 receptor agonist to reach approval — and across the SURMOUNT trials it produced obesity-class weight loss (≥20% at the highest dose) that no monotherapy in the history of pharmacotherapy had reached.
Half-life·~5 days plasma half-life — a C20 fatty diacid chain anchors …
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