doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2025.1601602 Received 28 March 2025 Accepted 03 July 2025 Published 24 July 2025 Volume 17 - 2025 Edited by Rita Machado De Olivera, New University of Lisbon, Portugal Reviewed by Venkateswarlu Kanamarlapudi, Swansea University Medical School, United Kingdom Joon W Shim, Marshall University, United States Updates Copyright 2025 Li, Huang, Wang, Huang, Shi, Luo and Huang
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If all goes according to plan, Bydureon may be approved in the US by mid-2012 (for more information on Bydureon, please see the Learning Curve in diaTribe issue # 26)
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