Mor than 800 million people worldwide are living with diabetes, according to World Health Organization (WHO) estimates, with numbers steadily ...

A precisely tuned secretion of insulin versus glucagon is required to ... alpha cells very closely resembled pancreas-derived alpha cells and secreted comparable levels of glucagon.

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Researchers at the Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine have uncovered a key primary step in the hepatic ERK pathway ...

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Semaglutide belongs to a class of medications called glucagon-like peptide ... When you eat, your gut secretes GLP-1. The hormone triggers a release of insulin, which helps glucose (blood sugar ...

Drugs that both activate and block the GIP receptor reduce weight through different brain mechanisms, offering a new ...

The body tries to make extra insulin to process the excess blood sugar. The pancreas cannot keep up ... inhibitors and glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists. For people with ...

Zealand Pharma has suffered another setback in its bid to bring glucagon receptor ... the beta cells in the pancreas do not function properly and secrete too much insulin, leading to frequent ...