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ReviewNature reviews. Endocrinology2025

Islet hormones at the intersection of glucose and amino acid metabolism.

Phillip J White, Nicolai J Wewer Albrechtsen, Jonathan E Campbell

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Review in Nature reviews. Endocrinology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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6citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  3. Impact of obesity on aromatic amino acids and brain glucose during acute hyperglycemia.American journal of physiology. Endocrinology and metabolism · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Phillip J WhiteDivision of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0957-425X
Nicolai J Wewer AlbrechtsenNovo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Jonathan E CampbellDivision of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. jonathan.campbell@duke.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4358-6331

Funding

Metabolic Actions of GlucagonR01DK141090 · DUKE UNIVERSITY · 2025 to 2025
$804k
Regulation of Adipose Tissue Plasticity by Pericyte GIPRR01DK143978 · DUKE UNIVERSITY · 2025 to 2025
$777k
Alpha- to Beta-Cell Communication in Health and DiseaseR01DK142423 · DUKE UNIVERSITY · 2025 to 2025
$690k
NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK125353NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK141090NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK142423NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK143978
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The pancreatic islets of Langerhans are central to fine-tuning metabolism to ensure metabolic homeostasis during the transition between fasting and feeding. Insulin and glucagon, the principal hormones generated and secreted by islets, exert powerful control in various metabolic tissues to drive nutrient uptake, storage and metabolism. Their canonical actions on glycaemia have positioned these hormones in opposition, however, their metabolic actions extend beyond controlling blood levels of glucose. Indeed, these islet hormones are just as influential in regulating lipid and amino acid metabolism and it is becoming clear that many of these actions involve an interplay between insulin and glucagon, which is contrary to the dogmatic view that these hormones are antagonistic in nature. Finally, we postulate that examining the effects of islet hormones on the metabolism of individual metabolites is overly simplistic. Here, we discuss the actions of each islet hormone alone and in combination with the others in regulating glucose and amino acid metabolism and explore how these signalling networks are closely linked and strongly influence one another.

Indexed as

Amino AcidsGlucagonGlucoseIslets of LangerhansAnimalsHumansInsulinSignal TransductionAmino AcidsGlucagonGlucoseInsulin

Identifiers

PMID40055529
PMCPMC13202363

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