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Find work by the two scientists most central to GLP-1 biology: Lotte Bjerre Knudsen (Novo Nordisk, designed semaglutide) and Daniel Drucker (Toronto, discovered GLP-1's incretin effect).

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GET https://api.amass.tech/api/v1/cores/biomedcore/records?query=GLP-1%20receptor%20agonist%20obesity&include=authorsMetadata&minPublicationDate=2018-01-01&authorNames=Lotte%20Bjerre%20Knudsen&authorNames=Daniel%20Drucker
query=GLP-1 receptor agonist obesityinclude=authorsMetadataminPublicationDate=2018-01-01authorNames=Lotte Bjerre Knudsen, Daniel Drucker
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{
  "data": [
    {
      "amassId": "AMBC_RwzeOtqYiRA2S523v1jL81OgndQ",
      "pmid": "34626851",
      "pmcid": "PMC8859548",
      "doi": "10.1016/j.molmet.2021.101351",
      "title": "GLP-1 physiology informs the pharmacotherapy of obesity",
      "abstract": "BACKGROUND: 
Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP1RA) augment glucose-dependent insulin release and reduce glucagon secretion and gastric emptying, enabling their successful development for the treatment of type 2 diabetes (T2D).…",
      "authors": ["Daniel J. Drucker"],
      "journal": "Molecular metabolism",
      "issn": "2212-8778",
      "volumeIssue": "57",
      "language": "eng",
      "publicationDate": "2022-03-01",
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      "keywords": ["Brain", "Diabetes", "G protein-coupled receptor", "Hunger", "Obesity", …],
      "substances": ["Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor", "Liraglutide", "Glucagon-Like Peptide 1"],
      "hasFulltext": false,
      "authorsMetadata": [
        {
          "name": "Daniel J. Drucker",
          "orcid": "0000-0001-6688-8127",
          "affiliations": [{ "name": "Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute", "ror": "01s5axj25", "countryCode": "CA" }]
        }
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    { "pmid": "35907261", "title": "Glucagon-like Peptide-1 Receptor-based Therapeutics for Metabolic Liver Disease", "citationCount": 113, … },
    { "pmid": "41654015", "title": "Ectopic, hepatic GLP-1R agonism enhances the weight loss efficacy of GLP-1 analogues", "citationCount": 0, … },
    { "pmid": "29317623", "title": "GLP-1 release and vagal afferent activation mediate the beneficial metabolic and chronotherapeutic effects of D-allulose", "citationCount": 181, … }
  ]
}
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