{"id":184496,"date":"2024-03-09T01:09:25","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T07:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/study-shows-glucagon-is-key-for-kidney-health"},"modified":"2024-03-09T01:09:25","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T07:09:25","slug":"study-shows-glucagon-is-key-for-kidney-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/study-shows-glucagon-is-key-for-kidney-health","title":{"rendered":"Study shows Glucagon is Key for Kidney Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-shows-glucagon-is-key-for-kidney-health3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Study shows #Glucagon is #Key for #Kidney #Health.<\/p>\n<p>When researchers removed receptors for this hormone (best known for promoting blood sugar production in the liver) from mouse kidneys, the animals developed symptoms akin to chronic kidney disease\u2026<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Glucagon, a hormone best known for promoting blood sugar production in the liver, also appears to play a key role in maintaining kidney health. When UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers removed receptors for this hormone from mouse kidneys, the animals developed symptoms akin to chronic kidney disease (CKD).<\/p>\n<p>Their findings, published in Cell Metabolism, shed new light on glucagon\u2019s physiological functions and provide new insights into CKD, a disease that affects hundreds of millions of people around the globe, according to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur study defines important protective effects of glucagon for kidney health and normal systemic metabolic well-being of the entire organism,\u201d said study leader Philipp Scherer, Ph.D., Professor of Internal Medicine and Cell Biology and Director of UTSW\u2019s Touchstone Center for Diabetes Research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Study shows #Glucagon is #Key for #Kidney #Health. When researchers removed receptors for this hormone (best known for promoting blood sugar production in the liver) from mouse kidneys, the animals developed symptoms akin to chronic kidney disease\u2026 Glucagon, a hormone best known for promoting blood sugar production in the liver, also appears to play a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}