title: Early milestones in glucagon research.
abstract: As an introduction to the Symposium, we have reviewed the early steps in glucagon research from its discovery in 1923 to the establishment of the basics of the physiology and pathophysiology of the hormone after the description of a sensitive and specific radioimmunoassay by Unger and his co-workers in 1959.
authors.affiliation: Division of Diabetes Nutrition and Metabolic Disorders, Department of Medicine, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium. pierre.lefebvre@ulg.ac.be
authors.forename: P J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Lefèbvre
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000266:history*; D005934:Glucagon / Q000266:history* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D006943:Hyperglycemia / Q000266:history*; D009613:Nobel Prize; D011863:Radioimmunoassay / Q000266:history*
chemical_list: D005934:Glucagon