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Glucagon

"Glucagon" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

A 29-amino acid pancreatic peptide derived from proglucagon which is also the precursor of intestinal GLUCAGON-LIKE PEPTIDES. Glucagon is secreted by PANCREATIC ALPHA CELLS and plays an important role in regulation of BLOOD GLUCOSE concentration, ketone metabolism, and several other biochemical and physiological processes. (From Gilman et al., Goodman and Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, 9th ed, p1511)


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Glucagon" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Glucagon" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 218 publications over 30 distinct years, with a maximum of 14 publications in 2000 and 2002
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