“…GLP-1 receptors were first identified by a combination of radioligand binding experiments and measurements of cyclic AMP accumulation using rat insulinoma-derived RIN1046-38 cells (Drucker et al, 1987;Goke and Conlon, 1988) followed by localization on additional rodent insulinoma cell lines (Fehmann et al, 1995a) as well as on rat (Moens et al, 1996) and human (Fehmann et al, 1995b) pancreatic islet -cells and somatostatinsecreting cells (Fehmann and Habener, 1991;Gros et al, 1992). GLP-1 binding sites have also been identified on isolated rat gastric parietal cells (Uttenthal and Blazquez, 1990;Schmidtler et al, 1994), human gastric cancer cells (HGT-1) (Hansen et al, 1988), solubilized membranes of rat epididymal adipose tissue (Valverde et al, 1993), 3T3-L1 adipocytes (Montrose-Rafizadeh et al, 1997), membranes from the rodent thyrotrope cell line ␣-TSH , and in rat lung (Richter et al, 1990(Richter et al, , 1991 and brain (Shimizu et al, 1987;Uttenthal and Blazquez, 1990;Goke et al, 1995;Wei and Mojsov, 1995).…”