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Glucagon

links: Hormones reference: 4-22-2021

Glucagon #

It is the main catabolic hormone of the body. Lowers intracellular Glucose.

Minireview: The Role of the Autonomic Nervous System in Mediating the Glucagon Response to Hypoglycemia
- Type 1 Diabetes isn’t characteized by alpha cell destruction, but the Beta Cell destruction does cause dysfunction in alpha cell regulation. In fact it leads to hyperplasia. Hyperglucagonemia, I think.
  - Postprandial Suppression of Glucagon Secretion Depends on Intact Pulsatile Insulin Secretion: Further Evidence for the Intraislet Insulin Hypothesis