To help you keep the level steady and healthy, your body makes a hormone called glucagon while you sleep and after you eat. It's made in your pancreas, a small organ above your liver, and it can ...

Patients with type 1 diabetes have to regularly inject themselves with insulin, a hormone that helps ... A new study from MIT reveals the structure of these glucagon fibrils and suggests possible ...

The reason is that the hormone tends to form clumps called amyloid fibrils if it is stored as a liquid. A new study from MIT has revealed the structure of those glucagon fibrils and suggests ...

Glucagon, a hormone involved in regulating appetite, loses its ability to help obese people feel full after a meal, but it continues to suppress hunger pangs in people with type 1 diabetes ...

Figure 2: Structure of glucagon-based peptides using circular ... fine-tuned combination of these two particular gut hormones in a single molecule represents the only or optimal pharmacological ...

- Complex structure of a class B GPCR bound to an analogue of its endogenous ligand ignites new excitement in GPCR research SHANGHAI, Jan. 3, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Class B G protein-coupled ...

Glucagon, a hormone best known for promoting blood sugar production in the liver, also appears to play a key role in maintaining kidney health. When UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers ...

Glucagon is a hormone that prevents blood glucose levels from dropping ... Wewer Albrechtsen, senior author in the study, published in Molecular Metabolism. These findings could explain the phenomena ...