Revisiting the Pharmacological Value of Glucagon: An Editorial for the Special Issue "The Biology and Pharmacology of Glucagon"

Int J Mol Sci. 2020 Jan 8;21(2):383. doi: 10.3390/ijms21020383.

Timo D Müller^{1

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3}, Kirk Habegger⁴

¹ Institute for Diabetes and Obesity, Helmholtz Diabetes Center, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), 85764 Neuherberg, Germany.
² German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), 85764 Neuherberg, Germany.
³ Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapy, Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Eberhard Karls University Hospitals and Clinics, 72076 Tübingen, Germany.
⁴ Department of Medicine-Endocrinology and Diabetes and Metabolism, Comprehensive Diabetes Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35899, USA.

Abstract

In 1921, a Canadian research team led by Frederick Banting and John Macleod succeeded in the isolation of insulin from pancreatic homogenate [...].