India's mega-gliptins battle: shifting sands?
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
Brace yourself for more action in India's highly competitive dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitor market. Be it the vildagliptin versus sitagliptin tug-of-war or teneligliptin's price war cry or then second brand successes, there appears to be more in store in the space.
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