Concept information
Preferred term
Receptors, Glucagon
Type
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mesh:Descriptor
Definition
- Cell surface receptors that bind glucagon with high affinity and trigger intracellular changes which influence the behavior of cells. Activation of glucagon receptors causes a variety of effects; the best understood is the initiation of a complex enzymatic cascade in the liver which ultimately increases the availability of glucose to body organs.
Broader concept
Synonym(s)
- Glucagon Receptor
- Glucagon Receptors
Allowable Qualifier(s)
- administration & dosage (Qualifier)
- agonists (Qualifier)
- analysis (Qualifier)
- antagonists & inhibitors (Qualifier)
- biosynthesis (Qualifier)
- blood (Qualifier)
- chemistry (Qualifier)
- classification (Qualifier)
- deficiency (Qualifier)
- drug effects (Qualifier)
- genetics (Qualifier)
- history (Qualifier)
- immunology (Qualifier)
- isolation & purification (Qualifier)
- metabolism (Qualifier)
- physiology (Qualifier)
- radiation effects (Qualifier)
- therapeutic use (Qualifier)
- ultrastructure (Qualifier)
In other languages
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French
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Récepteur au glucagon
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Récepteurs du glucagon
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-WJZ2HQ3M-S
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