Glucose metabolism in mammalian species and teleost fish is controlled by different metabolic pathways. These include differences in the function of several major hormones, especially insulin and ...

For years, the pancreas has been being taught in biology class as an easy system: insulin lowers blood sugar, and glucagon raises it. But that’s much too simple, new research says.

Glucagon-like peptide-2 (GLP-2) is a gut-derived hormone principally secreted by enteroendocrine L cells in response to nutrient ingestion. It plays a pivotal role in maintaining intestinal integrity ...

New findings raise the possibility of promising therapeutic strategies for the management of hypoglycemia in type 1 diabetes patients. Study: Loss of electrical β-cell to δ-cell coupling underlies ...

Jul. 27—New insights into the underlying mechanisms of Type 2 diabetes and novel potential therapeutic targets for the disease were revealed in a recent study by a team of Texas A&M AgriLife Research ...

Tested on isolated human and mouse pancreatic islets, mouse and rat cell cultures and animal models of both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, the experimental drug significantly improved four detrimental ...

Wanbao Yang, Ph.D., (left) graduate student and the study’s first author, and Shaodong Guo, Ph.D., who served as its principal investigator. (Texas A&M AgriLife photo by Tyler Morales) The study, ...