Glucagon-like immunoreactivity in insect corpus cardiacum

TAGER, H. S. ; MARKESE, J. ; SPIERS, R. D. ; KRAMER, K. J.

[s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
Published 1975
ISSN:
1476-4687
Source:
Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
Topics:
Biology
Chemistry and Pharmacology
Medicine
Natural Sciences in General
Physics
Notes:
[Auszug] In the best studied insects, the hyperglycaemic hormone functions similarly to glucagon in vertebrates: the hormone increases carbohydrate levels in the circulating haemolymph in vivo and stimulates glycogenolysis and the activation of phosphorylase in the fat body in vitro5-6'17〉18. By several ...
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