Recent Developments in Glucagon Research

Abstract

SINCE the review on glucagon that appeared in this journal a year ago¹ and recent review articles from the foreign literature^{2 3 4} a considerable number of interesting new findings on the subject have been described. They have established its chemical structure, revealed details of its mechanism of action, helped clarify its morphologicophysiologic relations, uncovered new sites of actions and suggested an important role in carbohydrate metabolism. These developments have strengthened glucagon's claim to the status of a hormone and suggested a variety of possible clinical uses. The purpose of this paper is to summarize the newer findings, not to review the . . .