Pancreas hormone

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Broader Terms

peptide hormone

Narrower Terms

glucagon, insulin, pancreatic polypeptide

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• Paulescu's most important achievement, of course, was his successful isolation of the pancreas hormone that regulates the blood sugar level.
• Fur 1000 ther, I may mention insulin, familiar to us all, a pancreas hormone, which medical men make use of in the treatment of diabetes.
• For example: Both the pancreas hormone, glucagon and the adrenal medulla hormone, epinephrine use this mechanism to increase the release of glucose from the liver.
• Temporary storage of sugar occurs in the liver: in response to insulin hormone from the pancreas, sugar in the blood is absorbed and stored as the simple starch glycogen; another pancreas hormone, glucagon, causes conversion of glycogen back to sugar and its release into the blood as needed.
• The existence of a pancreas hormone to reduce the blood glucose level was first proposed in 1916 by the English physiologist Edward Sharpey-Schfer.

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