Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors in glucagon receptor-deficient mice.

Inhibition of glucagon signaling causes hyperglucagonemia and pancreatic α cell hyperplasia in mice. We have recently demonstrated that a patient with an inactivating glucagon receptor mutation (P86S) also exhibits hyperglucagonemia and pancreatic α cell hyperplasia but further develops pancreatic n...

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Main Authors: Run Yu, Deepti Dhall, Nicholas N Nissen, Cuiqi Zhou, Song-Guang Ren
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3154424?pdf=render