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The authors studied the release of glucagon from isolated pancreatic islets using thin section preparations, freeze-fracture techniques and radioimmunoassay. The evidence strongly suggests that exocytosis is a significant mechanism for glucagon release during arginine stimulation, but not for the release induced by calcium deprivation.
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Carpentier, JL., Malaisse-Lagae, F., Müller, W., Orci, L. (1977). Morphologic Study of Glucagon Release. In: Foà , P.P., Bajaj, J.S., Foà , N.L. (eds) GLUCAGON: Its Role in Physiology and Clinical Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-6366-1_2
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