Paracrine regulation of glucagon secretion from pancreatic islets
Diabetes mellitus has been a disease of increasing prevalence for nearly a century and is attributed to a dysregulation of hormones secreted from the pancreatic Islets of Langerhans; insulin from β-cells and glucagon from α-cells. Dysregulated α-cell glucagon secretion is responsible for the chronic...
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VANDERBILT
2014
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| Online Access: | http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-06092014-120543/ |