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Is There a Difference Between a Peptide and a Drug?
In other words, peptides are based off of signaling compounds that we already have in the body. Is this what makes them different than drugs? Like what's the difference between a drug that agonizes a receptor or antagonizes a receptor versus a peptide? Well, yeah. I mean, so we've had insulin, oxytocin, vasopressin, we've had all of these peptides around for 80 years. And it's exploded into hundreds, if not thousands of peptides that we're familiar with right now that have clinical relevance.