Patent 9169310 was granted and assigned to Zealand Pharma A/S on October, 2015 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The invention provides materials and methods for promoting weight loss or preventing weight gain and for treating diabetes and associated metabolic disorders. In particular, the invention provides novel glucagon analogue peptide compounds effective in such methods. The compounds may mediate their effect by having, for example, increased selectivity for the GLP-1 receptor compared to human glucagon.