Dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPP-4) inactivates several key hormones including those that stimulate postprandial insulin secretion, and DPP-4 inhibitors (gliptins) are approved to treat diabetes.
Dipeptidyl peptidase 4 inhibitors are used worldwide in the management of diabetes, but their role in the prevention or treatment of cardiovascular disorders has yet to be defined.
Dipeptidyl peptidase-IV (DPP-IV), an enzyme that degrades incretins-hormones that promote insulin secretion-is a therapeutic target for type 2 diabetes, with a number of its inhibitors having been launched as therapies for diabetes.
DPP4 is the target for a class of enzyme inhibitors used in the treatment of diabetes, and the results from this study suggest that these drugs could be repurposed as an adjunct immunotherapy of patients with TB and MDR-TB.
Dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitor users had a lower risk of ESRD and mortality than did nonusers among patients with diabetes after weaning from dialysis-requiring AKI.
Dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitors not only improve impaired glucose tolerance in diabetes, but also have pleiotropic extra-pancreatic effects such as preconditioning effect for myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury.
DPP-4 (dipeptidyl peptidase-4) inhibitors (or "gliptins") represent a class of oral anti-hyperglycemic agents that inhibit the enzyme DPP-4, thus augmenting the biological activity of the "incretin" hormones (glucagon-like peptide-1 [GLP-1] and glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide [GIP]) and restoring many of the pathophysiological problems of diabetes.
Dipeptidyl peptidase-4 enzyme metabolizes glucagon-like peptide-1 and various dipeptidyl peptidase-4 enzyme inhibitors (DPP-4i) are also used in the management of diabetes.
Dipeptidyl peptidase 4 (DPP-4) inhibitors have been shown to have neuroprotective effects in diabetic patients suffering from stroke, but less research has focused on patients with mild hyperglycemia below the threshold for a diagnosis of diabetes.
Dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitor (DPP-4-Is), a kind of drug used for the treatment of diabetes, is considered to prevent the degradation of substance P that suppresses the occurrence of dysphagia.
A decreased risk of hospitalization for CVDs was found among patients with a history of visit for CVDs (aHR, 0.73; 95% CI, 0.56-0.97) or with >2.5 years' duration of type 2 diabetes (aHR, 0.77; 95% CI, 0.66-0.91) in the DPP-4 inhibitors versus glimepiride group.DPP-4 inhibitors did not increase cardiovascular risk compared with glimepiride regardless of CVD history and diabetes duration.
A novel multi-epitope vaccine based on Dipeptidyl Peptidase 4 prevents streptozotocin-induced diabetes by producing anti-DPP4 antibody and immunomodulatory effect in C57BL/6J mice.
After adjustment of age, gender, comorbidities, drugs used and diabetes duration; the incidence rate per 1000 PYs were 21.70 and 9.88 in DPP-4 inhibitor non-users and users; DPP-4 inhibitor users had lower hazard ratio (HR) of stroke (adjusted HR: 0.59, 95% CI: 0.42-0.83, p value: 0.002) compared with non-users.