glucagon
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The roles of glucagon and insulin
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A hormone secreted by the islets of Langerhans in the pancreas, which increases the concentration of glucose in the blood by stimulating the metabolic breakdown of glycogen. It is thus antagonistic to the effects of insulin.
Glucagon is a 29 amino acid polypeptide.
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