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Quick answer

What is Retatrutide?

Built from index records dated 2026-10-09 to 2026-10-13 Compiled by an automated pipeline, checked by The Peptide Observer editorial desk. No qualified clinical reviewer. How this site works

Retatrutide is a peptide, grouped on this site under Incretin receptor agonists, and the 12 research records kept here are 4 from studies in rats or mice, 3 from trials in people and 5 that do not state what kind of study it is.

The literature search returned 194 records. This site keeps 12 of them, which is 6.2 per cent of what came back.

What it is

This site puts it in the Incretin receptor agonists group.

Triple agonist at the GIP, glucagon-like peptide-1 and glucagon receptors.[1]

Stated in the title of the cited 2023 Lancet trial report.

What kind of records

No public chemistry record was found under this name, so the entry describes a preparation, a protein or a mixture rather than one defined molecule.

That sentence is produced by counting, not by reading. What was counted: PubChem returned no compound record for this name, so the subject is a preparation, protein or mixture rather than a defined small molecule; identity fields are unsourced.

What this does not settle

Where this comes from

The records cited above, in full.

  1. Retatrutide, a GIP, GLP-1 and glucagon receptor agonist, for people with type 2 diabetes: a randomised, double-blind, placebo and active-controlled, parallel-group, phase 2 trial conducted in the USA. Lancet (2023). pmid:37385280