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Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Proteins > Protein Precursors > Proglucagon > Glucagon
... > Chemical Actions and Uses > Pharmacologic Actions > Physiological Effects of Drugs > Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists > Hormones > Gastrointestinal Hormones > Proglucagon > Glucagon
... > Chemical Actions and Uses > Pharmacologic Actions > Physiological Effects of Drugs > Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists > Hormones > Peptide Hormones > Pancreatic Hormones > Proglucagon > Glucagon
... > Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Peptides > Peptide Hormones > Pancreatic Hormones > Proglucagon > Glucagon

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Glucagon  

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Entry terms

  • Glucagon (1-29)
  • Glukagon
  • HG Factor
  • HG-Factor
  • Hyperglycemic Glycogenolytic Factor
  • Hyperglycemic-Glycogenolytic Factor
  • Proglucagon (33-61)

Note

  • do not confuse with GLUCAGON-LIKE PEPTIDES secreted by the intestine

Scope note

  • 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)

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