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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
1976-9-1
pubmed:abstractText
Glucose tends to be elevated in situations of stress and an increase in plasma glucagon is an important cause. The rapidity of the glucagon rise in stress suggests a nervous mechanism. Electron microscopy has shown that the alpha and beta cells of the pancreas have, in fact, both an adrenergic and cholinergic innervation. Splanchnic-nerve stimulation has been shown in animals to cause a massive release of glucagon and marked inhibition of insulin. The glucagon response to hypoglycemia, on the other hand, appears to be significantly controlled by the parasympathetic system and, in man, is greatly attenuated after vagotomy. Thus there is a dual influence of the autonomic system on the islets of Langerhans, the sympathetic innervation elevating glucose in stress and the parasympathetic aiding glucose homeostasis.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0018-5043
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
Suppl 6
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
85-90
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1976
pubmed:articleTitle
Blood glucose control by direct islet innervation.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article