Glucagon can also play a role in how amino acids (compounds that help make up muscles and tissue in your body) make glucose. And it can break down triglycerides, or fat your body stores, into fuel.

"For example", he notes, "some immune cells regulate how the body absorbs fat from food, ... The increase in glucagon then signals the liver to release glucose.

A new study led by Ananda Basu, M.D., used novel non-radioactive, stable glucagon tracers for the first time to characterize glucagon metabolism in humans with and without Type 1 diabetes ...

Figure 3 shows a "glucagon day" for this subject. Thirty minutes after the glucagon injection the arteriovenous difference had risen to 16.9 mg. per 100 ml., and he ate 773 calories (an amount not ...

The team also determined that glucagon-packed micelles stayed intact in mice and didn’t release the hormone unless blood glucose levels fell below the clinical threshold for severe hypoglycemia.