Is Apraglutide legal in the United Kingdom?

A once-weekly GLP-2 analogue for short bowel syndrome, where teduglutide requires a daily injection. Improved fluid absorption in its phase 2 metabolic balance studies.

GLP-2 is the gut's own repair signal, and it is the one proglucagon product with an approved drug behind it: teduglutide, for short bowel syndrome with intestinal failure. The limitation is that teduglutide is injected daily, in a population already managing parenteral nutrition.

Mechanism: A long-acting analogue of glucagon-like peptide-2, a 33-amino-acid proglucagon product released from intestinal L cells. GLP-2 acts on the intestinal epithelium to increase mucosal growth, villus height and crypt depth, slow gastric emptying and transit, and increase intestinal blood flow, which together raise absorptive capacity.

Regulatory history: Investigational for short bowel syndrome. Not approved at the time of this review.

Licenses medicines for the UK market. A compound without a marketing authorisation is an unlicensed medicine, which can only lawfully be supplied for human use through a prescriber under the specials scheme, not sold as a research product.

The classification above is the The Longevity Archive reading of Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency listings for Apraglutide at the reviewed date, not a legal opinion. Rules change, and importing, prescribing and possessing a compound can each be treated differently. Check the regulator directly before acting on anything here.