Insulin and glucagon are hormones that help regulate the levels of blood glucose — aka sugar — in your body. Glucose comes from the food you eat and moves through your bloodstream to help fuel ...

Appetite hormone misfires in obese people Date: August 20, 2013 Source: Endocrine Society Summary: Glucagon, a hormone involved in regulating appetite, loses its ability to help obese people feel ...

To prevent and treat this condition, researchers in ACS Central Science report encapsulating the hormone glucagon. In mouse trials, the nanocapsules activated when blood sugar levels dropped ...

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 ...

Researchers in Sweden have shown that the cells that produce glucagon are stimulated by the hormone itself. A previous study by the same group demonstrated that this principle also applies to insulin.

The treatment consists primarily of weight loss, which will limit the amount of fat in the liver, but may also include drugs that go in and inhibit the hormone glucagon. 'We know that the ...

In healthy individuals, a drop in blood glucose leads to the release of glucagon, a hormone that helps the liver produce glucose, which normalizes blood glucose levels. Glucagon has the opposite ...

Often, type 2 diabetics also have elevated levels of glucagon, another hormone that is released by the pancreas. Glucagon counteracts the effects of insulin by instructing the liver to release ...

Emergency treatment with the hormone glucagon (GCG) may be needed. Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have now developed a method to encapsulate glucagon in glucose ...

Incretins are hormones secreted by intestinal cells that regulate pancreatic insulin and glucagon to control sugar metabolism in mammals. Although counterparts of insulin and glucagon have been ...